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Table of Contents

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Slide Contents Slide Number I am done!

Learning Intentions 3

Explain - Essential Question 4

Explore - Description of a Graphic Designer 5-12

Check For Understanding - Notecard 13

What is the Work Activity? 14-15

Topics To Explore 16-17

Vocabulary 18-21

Planning the Work Activity 22

Success Criteria 23

Reflection 24

Drag check to the “I am done” box, when you have completed that section.

Learning Intentions

● I will know what a graphic designer does.

● I will be able to find logos and images that show an understanding of a product or service.

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Introduction: Graphic Designers

What Do Graphic Designers Do?

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Graphic Designers

LINK To WorkBC Page on Graphic Designers

What does Self-Sufficient mean? Turn and talk!

Explain

Essential Question: Why is it important for people to become self-sufficient?

Write a couple sentences exploring this question.

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What is a Logo? These logos are successful because __________.

Vocabulary

Logo: A symbol or other design adopted by an organization to identify its products.

Explore: Description of a Graphic Designer

Designing images for packaging, displays, or logos. They use different methods to produce artistic or decorative effects.

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Graphic designers create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs. Some of their work activities include:

LINK to Free Logo Maker where you can design your own logo

Explore: Description of a Graphic Designer

Developing the message, layout and production design for advertisements.

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Graphic designers create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs. Some of their work activities include:

LINK to examples of Advertising Graphic Design at PRINT Magazine

Explore: Description of a Graphic Designer

Determining size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy, and select style and size of type.

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Graphic designers create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs. Some of their work activities include:

Explore: Description of a Graphic Designer

Using computer software to generate new images.

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Graphic designers create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs. Some of their work activities include:

LINK to Vectr: Online Interactive Graphic Design and TutorialLink to PIXLR

What do graphic designers do?

Write down 3 facts!

Vocabulary

Freelance:Working for different companies at different times rather than being permanently employed by one company.

Graphics: Visual images produced by computers.

What is the Work Activity?

Work Activity: You are a freelance graphic designer. A new shopping area is being

developed in town. The area is going to be filled with many stores that are already established: Target, Macy’s, McDonald’s, Apple, Nike, etc. It is also going to be filled with several stores that are unknown: Slick Bottom Shoes, Wiggly Piggly’s Corn Dog Shack, Big Store of Stuff, Video Game Dungeon, and Bags of Candy. Your job is to choose one of these unknown companies, and create a logo for the store you chose. You can also make up your own company name, and decide what that company sells in the store. You will then pitch your logo to the class as if you were pitching it to the owners of the company. You may use any visual format you would like for your presentation (i.e. Google Slides, WeVideo, Powtoon, etc).

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Topics To Explore Before Starting Your Task

6 Absolute Rules for Effective Print Advertisements LINK by Mediaspace Solutions

Topics To Explore Before Starting Your Task

Design Concepts

Graphic Designer: Essential VocabularyDirections:1. You will read each of these

sentences and determine which vocabulary word best fits the sentence.

2. You will then explain your thinking in the box directly under the sentence. Be sure to indicate which clues you used to make your choice.

3. There is an example to your right.

Margin

Definition: The blank space that surrounds the text on a page.

“I thought the poster looked nice but I didn’t like the two-inch _________________________ surrounding the image. It was way too much white space on what should have been an epic picture.”

“I thought the poster looked nice but I didn’t like the two-inch margin surrounding the image. It was way too much white space on what should have been an epic picture.”

I chose margin because the word white space reminds me of blank space. It also said it was surrounding an image and margins surround something on a page.

Graphic Designer: Essential Vocabulary“These two shirts are exactly the same. However, one of them costs twenty dollars more simply

because it has the Nike _____________________________ on it.”

Explain: I chose the word ________ because _________________.

Graphic Designer: Essential Vocabulary

“I don’t want to hire someone full time to work on a three month project. Let’s just hire a

_____________________________ artist. We could probably find someone who is just out of college.

That should save us a lot on our budget.”

Explain: I chose the word ________ because _________________.

Graphic Designer: Essential Vocabulary

“When I started playing video games on Playstation 4, I was blown away by the _________________

of each game. The human characters felt so life like and the scenery was incredibly detailed. It

was like walking through an actual photograph.”

Explain: I chose the word ________ because _________________.

Graphic Designer: Planning the Work Activity

Which of the shared resources would best help you design your logo?

Is your presentation going to be digital? If so, will you be using PowerPoint, Google Slides, Prezi, or some other presentation medium?

Which of the fake businesses are you going to choose or are you going to create your own business?

Can you create an ad pitch that will convince clients to choose your design? Look at this LINK to see someone give an expert pitch to a client.

Success CriteriaYES NOT YET

I can identify key information about being a graphic designer. (RI.7.2)

I can draw on several sources to conduct research in order to come up with the right design elements. (W.7.7)

I can present claims and findings in a clear way to present my logo ideas. (SL.7.4)

I introduced my topic.

I organized my presentation to make it easy to understand.

I provided facts, definitions, concrete details, and quotations about my topic.

I included a concluding section connected to the information in my presentation.

Did I spell correctly?

Did I use capital letters correctly?

Did I use punctuation correctly?

I can use visual elements in my logo design to show the audience that I understand the product or service. (SL.7.5)

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Graphic Designer: ReflectionAfter completing your research and task, do you think being a Graphic Designer would interest you as a career?Why or why not? Please write a paragraph that explains your thinking in the space below.

Graphic Designer: Your Products or Presentations

You can use this slide to link to your artifacts.