INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER GRAPHICS ART 125 | Professor Groat
Commemorative
Stamp Design This project will require you to create one original stamp design that commemorates a subject with social significance that has personal meaning to you. The stamp that you create must be based a design style from the past, and include distinguishing design characteristics reflective of the chosen style. The stamp will be designed and composed within a philatelic page layout that includes both an actual scale and oversized rendition of the stamp design, accompanied by descriptive text.
DESIGN CONCEPT
Stamp Theme: Commemorative design subject with social significance that has personal meaning to you.
Possible subjects: Important
inventions, Iconic people from history, Popular culture possessing essential
social substance, Social and political movements in history, Historic
architecture.
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
Ø Creative an original
commemorative stamp design.
Ø Articulate how the
design principles emphasis, contrast, balance, flow, alignment and repetition
have been used to create a unified and balanced design.
Ø Articulate how
distinguishing design elements from a historic design movement have been
applied to the stamp design.
3/6 Collage
of 20-30 of your favorite stamp designs: Step #1
3/11 Analysis
of your favorite three stamps: Step #2
3/13 Stamp
examples in each of the seven (7) design styles Step #3
3/18 Central
Image Design/Illustration Step #4
3/20 10 Thumbnails – FIRST ROUND Step #5
3/25 5 Thumbnails – SECOND
ROUND Step #6
3/27 Philatelic Page Layout with all required information
4/10 Full Size
comprehensive (final digital rendition posted
on blog with essay)
4/15 Final digital comp. printed and mounted on
black foam board
Bauhaus (1920’s)
Constructivism (1913-1920's)
Art Deco (1920-1930)
International Typographic Style (Also referred to as the Swiss School of Design 1950-1970)
Modernism / Modern Movement/New York School (1940’s)
Post-Modern Design (Current)
2. Choose your three (3) favorite designs. Make a descriptive list (in bullet form) referencing the specific informational elements and design elements/principles that are contained within the three chosen stamps. Both the informational stamp elements, along with the design elements and principles are outlined below.
3. Collect three to five (3-5) examples of the historic design style that your stamp will be based upon. Make a descriptive list (in bullet form) outlining the distinguishing design characteristics of each stamp example.
The design characteristics should be unique to the historic style.
4. Create Illustration that presents your subject, using a traditional medium such as, watercolor, acrylic or oil paint, colored pencil, graphite, etc. The illustration can either be completed from direct observation or from a digital image. If you chose not to create an illustration you may create an original stylized facsimile (or tracing) in Photoshop of a digital image. You may also integrate two or more original digital photographs together into an inventive montage. However, the digital images must be taken with your own camera.
Size: 11”x8-1/2” | Media: digital | Color: Full color | Printed: on gloss or matt photo paper
§ Denomination of stamp (Example: 37 cents, $1)
§ Country of Origin (Example: USA)
§ Reference to subject/theme
§ Date of subject/theme
§ Date (year) Stamp was Designed (The year ―2011 must be typeset in 7 or 8 points)
§ Other information that you feel is appropriate (and represented on stamp designs that you have researched)
§ Shape of Postage Stamp: Proportion of Stamp / Horizontal or vertical
§ Colors: Colors that enhance both the message and design.
§ Type of Central Image: Original illustration, photography or Photoshop artwork
§ Line Detailing: Borders
§ Interpretive Dimension of Type: Type style that expresses
both the subject and historic design style
§ Typographical Layout: Vertical Type, Horizontal Type, Type on a curve
§ Hierarchical arrangement of elements, visual and informational flow from the
most to least important.
§ Position (proximity) of all informational elements / Symmetrical/Asymmetrical
§ Compositional Devices: Use of alignment within the grid
§ Type of Visual Balance: Symmetrical or Asymmetrical
§ Illusion of Space and Depth
§ Relationship of Positive
and Negative Space
PHILATELIC PAGE LAYOUT DESIGN
The stamp will be both designed and composed within a
philatelic page layout that includes both an actual scale and oversized
rendition of the stamp design, accompanied by descriptive text.
What to include:
1. Your name and Title Design
2. Name of Software Used and Date of design.
3. Paragraph
specifically describing how your stamp visually communicates the subject that
you have chosen to commemorate and historic style you had chosen to model your
design after.
1. Contrasting
Scale of Images
2. Contrasting
Scale of Type
3. Typographical
Variation: a.) Upper Case / Lower Case b.) Weight of Text / Bold / Italic
c.) Varied Letter
Spacing
4. Considering the amount of Negative Space left in
design
5. Clustering of
Text Into Units Based On Content
6. Nesting Text
7. Overlapping of
Images and Text To Create Unity
8. Typographical
Harmony – Family of Font, Style of Font
9. Color Harmony –
Relationship of Text Color with Image Color
United States
Postal Service commemorative stamps
United States Postal Museum
History
http://www.usps.com/history/anrpt04/stamps.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamp#History
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