THE DESIGN PROCESS

What is GOOD design and what are the Elements and Principles of Art and Design?
Just because everyone can do it (access to computer software), doesn’t mean everyone can do it effectively. Learning basic graphic design skills will enable you to become more confident communicators and create effective design solutions.

Video:  
https://www.pbs.org/video/-book-universal-arts-graphic-design/​

EXERCISES TO LEARN THE BASICS OF GRAPHIC DESIGN:
1. THE DESIGN PROCESS
2. THE ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
2. IMAGE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

INTRODUCTION TO THE DESIGN PROCESS

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As graphic designers are expected to explore many ideas in order to find the best solution to a problem, they use thumbnail sketches (thumbnails—small, quick sketches) to quickly get many ideas down on paper. These thumbnail sketches are then evaluated and further developed into mock-ups of the concept, or rough sketches (roughs). It is these rough sketches that are often presented to the client as a way of ensuring that the designs are on track. Once the rough sketches are approved, they are developed into a finished, neatly executed comprehensive design (comps). By learning and working through this process, generating multiple ideas will be ingrained as part of the design
process as you move through the course.

objective: Introduce students to a traditional, multi-step design and development process (thumbnails, roughs, and comps), while utilizing the elements and principles of two-dimensional design to solve visual problems.

Drawing using LINE only!
  1. Thumbnail SKETCHES x16
  2. Do a class gallery walk and choose the top 3 strongest thumbnails for each person (put a check next to the top 3 sketches)
  3. Develop those into 3 larger ROUGHS 
  4. Choose the strongest to develop it into a neat COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN using black fine liners
This lesson is adapted from:  https://www.aiga.org/graphic-design-training-curriculum-for-high-school-teacher