Project Two

Make a refined, well-designed, and conceptually appropriate visualization for your Marilyn Monroe and synesthesia page layout.

Learn about synesthesia. Know the who, what, where, how, why, and when of it all. Also learn about Marilyn Monroe since the visual you create for this project must be used in your Project One layout. Apply your design thinking from Exercise 2, creating a more refined and finished visual to include as a feature/spot illustration for your Project One magazine layout.

Reading:

• Graphic Design Thinking, 22-25, 88-91, 108-11
  
• Stop, Think, Go, Do! chapters 3 & 5

Procedure(s):

• know the content by learning as much as possible about the message and concept, and topics in your article
• research outside of your article, reading about synesthesia
• make visuals, using denotation and connotation, among other methods
• consider how style can impact message, because the way something is made can impact how it is perceived, for better and for worse (so use style wisely and appropriately)

Elements that will be important for your single illustration:

• look and feel, making it look like it fits into your magazine, but also fresh and new
• not staying too close to what is already in use 
• using an image of Marilyn, or another image, that is relevant to your article's text
• making sure the image is readable and communicates the concept
• fitting the single illustration into your Project 1 layout

Specs:

1. Size will vary depending on magazine and student’s concept
2. Color is open

 Evaluation: worth 100 points total

• 15 Craft: effectively and precisely meeting project requirements, use of media and software to complete project, reproduction and image quality
• 30 Composition, Aesthetics: ability to create a visualization that is unique and appropriate, visually on brand for your publication, and also evocative
• 30 Concept, Research, Appropriateness of Message: effectively communicating content, delivering necessary information
• 25 Professionalism, Presentation: presentation of ideas, class participation, following directions

Due Tue. Sept. 26 beginning of class: PDF to Turnstile_2
Incremental reviews will take place prior to that deadline

Goals:

• to explore rhetoric, metaphor, simile
• to put your design thinking from Exercise 2 to use
• to create a unique 2D visual for your Project One magazine
• to design an entire page layout, including the illustration from Project Two and the layout from Project One, all on your own