Today, in the morning class, I referenced this mid-century science illustration style. If anyone’s not sure what that looks like, here are some examples:
Paul Rand children’s illustrations
Mid-Century Modern Science Illustrations
Category: Project (page 2 of 5)
Turn in your WHO project post-break work
This is optional. For people who want to submit their projects to the WHO/UN competition.
The deadline for submission is this Thursday 2/9.
Follow this link and click the green “Participate” button. They’ll ask you to sign up for an account and submit your images.
UN Global Call to Help Stop the Spread of Coronavirus
Note that you need to upload your files as Illustrator or Photoshop files. So, if you’re using Illustrator and you have external images, make sure you Package your files. (that link is how to package files)
That also means you should clean up your files. Don’t leave extra artboards or a bunch of things hanging out off the artboards.
Again, this is optional. It means you need to finish or nearly finish your next round of this project a few days early.
Refine two of your sketches/comps to create two polished digital posters (social media sized)
We got a question last week about replicating an effect from a Pinterest post where someone had integrated type and an image. So, I made a video for it.
It’s split into two videos (partially because a baby needed my attention). The first one covers isolating the image and making it black and white. The second video covers adding type and combining it with the image.
Isolating the image
Combining the image and type
Since in this project, our final product is for screen, we should size it in units made for screens.
By choosing the Web tab in the Illustrator New Document dialog, it sets the units to pixels (px) and the color mode to RGB (red green blue) which will each give you more reliable output than other options.
Simply choosing the Web tab should do a lot. Then you can add your actual pixel dimensions. And you can, if you want, double check to make sure you’re using pixels (as opposed to another set of units).
Screenshots for illustration:
In Part 2 of this project, we’re looking at your sketches and giving feedback on ideas to move forward with. Then we’re creating digital comps or sketches that move our ideas forward.
I know “coronavirus inspiration” is a weird phrase, and it’s one I didn’t think I’d ever have to use. But here we are.
I’ve found a couple things recently that might spur us on to keep on being good about all the virus prevention things we’re doing and to make work about it.
- The web comic xkcd recently had a comic about it and about how all us humans are pulling together to beat this. The title to it is “We’re not trapped in here with the coronavirus. The coronavirus is trapped in here with us.”
Excerpt (click to go to the whole thing):
2. The episode This is Chance from 99 Percent Invisible. It’s about an earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska (more Alaska content!!) in the 1960s and how people pulled together – especially a newscaster named Genie Chance – to communicate, reassure each other, and come together despite their city being demolished. It’s a couple years old, and it was already great, but they just added an interview with the writer of it (at the end of the episode) that talks about its similarities to know.
It’s kind of amazing audio (this episode is a recording of a live show with live music), and it’s just overall inspiring about what people can do.
Listen to it at 99percentinvisible.org