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GRA 200 Project Guidelines and Rubric
Competency
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:
Explain the various types of design software
Practice navigating the interface of different design software
Use software to revise basic designs
Overview
The number of tools available in any profession can be overwhelming. For this reason, professionals often create a toolkit, which contains a core set of tools they find useful and rely on most.
Consider carpenters and their tool belts. Because only a certain number of tools will fit in their belt, they include the tools they know they’ll use most often and like the best.
In the graphic arts, where there are almost limitless resources and options, it is helpful to create a Design Toolkit
Design Toolkit that includes a core set of tools you know can be used in nearly any design
situation. For this project, you will start building your Design Toolkit with a focus on three primary software tools: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. Your Design Toolkit will include a
description of the types of design problems each of these software tools can be applied to (just like a carpenter has to learn which situations require the use of pliers, and which are better
addressed with a crowbar). You will also include additional information, such as your software feature preferences.
You will use your Design Toolkit in other courses in the Graphic Design and Media Arts program, and will add to it throughout your career, as you identify useful examples, shortcuts, and other
helpful reference material.
Directions
Part 1: Design Software Overview
Part 1: Design Software Overview
Your Design Toolkit must include an overview of each software application
overview of each software application, for quick reference when you need to complete specific design tasks. To build this portion of your Design
Toolkit:
1. Complete the Design Software Overview
Complete the Design Software Overview section to:
Describe the purpose and primary uses of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
Explain the advantages and drawbacks of each software application
Identify the different types of file formats and how they are used within each software application
2. Use the resources provided in the course and the software applications themselves to complete the Design Software Overview section. Sources should be cited according to MLA style.
Part 2: Comparing Tools and Features
Part 2: Comparing Tools and Features
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Your Design Toolkit must include information about the specific tools and features available in each software application
specific tools and features available in each software application, the design tasks they are most applicable to
design tasks they are most applicable to, and
how they compare
how they compare. To build this portion of your Design Toolkit, you will use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to complete six specific design tasks
complete six specific design tasks, capture your results, and
then explain your experience.
1. Complete the following six basic design tasks on each of the sample posters provided in the Supporting Materials section, using the software application each poster was created in. The
three sample posters are identical, but each was created in a different software application (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign). Download the Photoshop and Illustrator poster files
and the InDesign folder so all the items are on your computer before you make any design changes. Then, complete the following tasks for each of the posters. Be sure to save your work
after completing each task, so you do not lose work if the application or computer should freeze and need to be restarted while you are working.
1.1. Change the background color to one you believe is more appealing.
1.2. Remove the last “Sponsored by:” item (mouse with cheese in bottom right corner).
1.3. Move the remaining three “Sponsored by:” items so they are evenly spaced across the bottom.
1.4. Add a drop shadow to the circle with text.
1.5. Add a text box above the picture of cheese using the following content: “Thousands of different varieties of cheese: cow, goat, sheep, yak, camel—even reindeer and horse.”
1.6. Replace the picture of cheese with any cheese-related image of your choosing.
2. Identify which tool in each software application you used to complete each of the six design tasks, and where the tool is located (i.e., name the menu or tab you used to find the tool).
a. Save each of the three changed posters as an image file after completing all of the tasks
and insert the images in a Word document.
Title each poster image with the software application it was created and modified in.
Under each poster image, name the tool or feature you used to complete each of the six design tasks and where the tool/feature is located. (i.e., 1.1. Change Color, Color
Replacement Tool, flyout menu of the Brush Tool in the Tools panel).
3. For each of the six design tasks, explain which tool/software application you found easiest to use in accomplishing the task and why.
Explain your perspective in paragraph format.
4. For each of the six design tasks, explain which tool/software application you think had the best result and why.
Explain your perspective in paragraph format.
Part 3: Analyzing and Improving Designs
Part 3: Analyzing and Improving Designs
You will analyze an existing design
analyze an existing design and use your Design Toolkit to support your work in making needed improvements
use your Design Toolkit to support your work in making needed improvements. You will also analyze and improve three of your
improve three of your
own designs
own designs: the artifacts that you drafted for the Module Six Practice Activity: Communicating Visually.
1. Download the InDesign Sample Newsletter folder from the Supporting Materials section so all the items are on your computer before you make any design changes.
2. Analyze the sample newsletter contained within the InDesign Sample Newsletter folder from the Supporting Materials section:
a. Identify effective graphic design elements, based on the five elements and the six principles of design defined in Chapter 2 your textbook, Graphic Design: Learn It, Do It
.
Capture the newsletter as an image and use one of the software applications to circle/highlight 2 to 3 effective design elements.
Insert the captured newsletter image with your highlighting into a Word document. Name each highlighted graphic design element (i.e., “White space”) and explain how the
newsletter effectively applied this design element.
b. Identify ineffective graphic design elements, based on the five elements and the six principles of design defined in Chapter 2 of Graphic Design: Learn It, Do It
.
Capture the newsletter as an image and use one of the software applications to circle/highlight 2 to 3 ineffective design elements.
Insert the captured newsletter image with your highlighting into a Word document. Name each highlighted graphic design element (i.e., “font”) and explain how the design
element was ineffectively used in the newsletter.
3. Determine which combination of software applications and tools (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign) you will use to make needed improvements to the newsletter design, based
on your work in step 2b.
a. Name the design element needing improvement and then list the software/tool you will use to make that improvement. Explain why you made this selection, using your earlier work
on the Design Toolkit as a guide.
4. Use the software/tools you selected to make needed improvements to the newsletter design.
a. Be sure to save your file.
b. Export the newsletter as a PDF file for submission.
5. Refine the artifacts that you drafted from the Module Six Practice Activity: Communicating Visually.
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a. Incorporate feedback you received from the instructor on the 6-1 Communicating Visually activity.
b. Analyze and refine the design, based on what you’ve learned about industry standards for design (design principles and elements).
c. Save the image file and insert it in your Design Toolkit, after your corrected Design Software Overview section.
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit the following:
Your Design Toolkit
Your Design Toolkit
A Word document that includes the following sections and contents:
1. Design Software Overview
Design Software Overview
In this section of your Design Toolkit, you will complete the Design Software Overview section, with any needed correction based on instructor feedback. Sources you used to complete
the section should be cited according to MLA style.
2. Comparing Tools and Features
Comparing Tools and Features
In this section of your Design Toolkit, you will insert the labeled images of the posters with the six different design changes you made using each of the three software applications, and
include related descriptions of your experience using the software tools using double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins.
3. Analyzing and Improving Designs
Analyzing and Improving Designs
In this section of your Design Toolkit, you will insert the images of the newsletter that contain your highlighting
images of the newsletter that contain your highlighting to identify:
At least two and no more than three effective design elements
You will write a one- or two-paragraph description of what each highlighted graphic design element is (i.e., “white space”) and how the design element was effectively used in
the newsletter.
At least two and no more than three ineffective design elements
You will write a one- or two-paragraph explanation of what each highlighted graphic design element is (i.e., “font”) and how the design element was ineffectively used in the
newsletter.
You will indicate which software/feature you will use to make each improvement, and write a one- or two-paragraph explanation of why you made this selection, using your
Design Toolkit as a guide.
You will also submit your revised newsletter
your revised newsletter (the end result of using the software tools to make needed improvements you identified) as a separate .pdf file.
Finally, you will insert your improved artifacts
improved artifacts (from the Module Six Practice Activity: Communicating Visually), after the corrected worksheet.
Supporting Materials
The following resources support your work on the project:
Design Samples
Design Samples: Photoshop Sample Poster
, Illustrator Sample Poster
, InDesign Sample Poster Folder
Use the sample posters (three identical posters, each created in one of the software applications) to experiment with the various tools/features of the software applications.
Design Sample
Design Sample: Sample Newsletter Folder
Analyze the design effectiveness of the sample newsletter and use the various tools/features of the software applications to make needed improvements.
Website
Website: MLA Citations
Use this resource for information on how to properly format your citations.
Project Template
Project Template: Design Toolkit
Use this template to complete the Final Project for this course.
Project Rubric
Criteria
Criteria
Exemplary (100%)
Exemplary (100%)
Proficient (85%)
Proficient (85%)
Needs Improvement (55%)
Needs Improvement (55%)
Not Evident (0%)
Not Evident (0%)
Value
Value
Purpose and uses of
Purpose and uses of
software applications
software applications
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Provides an accurate
description of each software
application including the
general purpose and primary
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors or
omissions
Does not attempt criterion
10
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uses
Strengths and
Strengths and
drawbacks of software
drawbacks of software
applications
applications
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Provides clear explanation of
the strengths and drawbacks of
each of the three software
applications
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors or
omissions
Does not attempt criterion
10
Different file formats
Different file formats
and uses
and uses
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Accurately identifies the
different types of file formats
and how they are used in each
software application
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors or
omissions
Does not attempt criterion
10
Purpose and location of
Purpose and location of
tools
tools
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Determines which software
tool is appropriate for a given
design task and why and its
location within the software
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors or
omissions
Does not attempt criterion
10
Uses software tools for
Uses software tools for
basic design tasks
basic design tasks
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Successfully completes basic
design tasks using software
application tools
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors or
omissions
Does not attempt criterion
10
Similarities and
Similarities and
differences between
differences between
tools
tools
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Compares the functionality and
ease of use of various tools in
the three software applications
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors or
omissions
Does not attempt criterion
10
Analyzes designs
Analyzes designs
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Accurately identifies effective
and ineffective design
elements, with supporting
rationale
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors or
omissions
Does not attempt criterion
10
Identifies best software
Identifies best software
to revise a design
to revise a design
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Determines software/tools
appropriate for accomplishing
basic design tasks, with
supporting rationale
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors or
omissions
Does not attempt criterion
10
Uses software tools to
Uses software tools to
improve designs
improve designs
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Uses a combination of software
applications/tools to make
needed improvements to a
design
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors or
omissions
Does not attempt criterion
10
Articulation of Response
Articulation of Response
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Clearly conveys meaning with
correct grammar, sentence
structure, and spelling,
demonstrating an
understanding of audience and
purpose
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors in
grammar, sentence structure,
and spelling, negatively
impacting readability
Submission has critical errors in
grammar, sentence structure,
and spelling, preventing
understanding of ideas
5
Citations and
Citations and
Attributions
Attributions
Uses citations for ideas
requiring attribution, with few
or no minor errors
Uses citations for ideas
requiring attribution, with
consistent minor errors
Uses citations for ideas
requiring attribution, with
major errors
Does not use citations for ideas
requiring attribution
5
Total:
Total:
100%