Building a Logo

Objective - Develop a digital logo based on a storyboard
You will be producing your logo, based on your storyboard created yesterday in class.

Activity steps
1. Look through your storyboards as a guide or plan for creating your logo
2. Select canvas size for logo. Typical sizes are 79 × 51 pixels (very small), 150 × 25 pixels, 125 × 144 pixels, and 243 × 203 pixels (fairly large for web purposes)
3. Build your logos.
4. Post your logo to share with each other.

Logo Storyboard

Create a storyboard for a logo that represents you as an individual. You may use grid paper or plain paper.The storyboard can be in black and white, with colors labeled. If you create your storyboard with colored pens or pencils, use colors that match the design.

Post your responses, thoughts, and ideas for the following regarding your logo storyboard
• Indicate the intended focus, purpose, and audience of your design.
• Indicate whether your design illustrates horizontal symmetry, vertical symmetry, diagonal symmetry, radial symmetry, or asymmetry. Explain why you selected one style over another.
• Indicate the scale you are using. In other words, if your paper design is larger or smaller than the final product, say what size the finished product will be. Professional designers usually illustrate logos larger than the finished product so details are easy to see.
• Indicate any other design decisions you made and state why.

10/14 GIF, JPEG, & PNG Post Discussion & Sample Images

Review the postings of your classmates assigned yesterday to define, describe characteristics as well as the pros and cons of the three file types for graphics. In your own blog, create a new post discussing how the file types differ and when it is appropriate to use each type of file.

Search the internet to find and save at least one sample of each type of graphic: GIF, JPEG, and PNG. Each student should have different images. You will need to save all of your work in two ways, as a set of individual graphic files for later use and in a blog posting that will include notes about the graphics. The graphics need to be from three different websites and should not come from image collections on websites such as photobucket and google images. You will need to get the following information for each image:
1. Filename-what is the name of the file that you have selected
2. File type-JPEG, GIF, PNG
3. File size
4. Website address-copy the complete URL of the website of where you found the image
5. Describtion of the image
6. Date of image or copyright year
7. Copyright holder-who would you need to contact in order to request permission to use the image

Post the image and the information about each image in one new posting before class tomorrow.

10/5 Have Fun Composit

Selecting the images of your choice, create a fun composite image in class today and post you "recreation" on your blog.