Class:MFA Illustration 2023/Week 20

Last Week

• Group review for revised postcards
• Business card assignment

This Week

• Group review for business cards
• Overview on setting up a proper domain email account
• Stamp design exploration assignment

Notes

This week in class, we reviewed your business cards and updated postcards.

• Your identity might be about typography on or with your illustration.
• Your identity might be the logotype or script of your name or website domain.
• Your identity might incorporate a mark, symbol, or logo.
• As illustrators, you can create your own identity rules, leverage your style, and invent any narrative.

Please don't design blind, look at examples and learn from others/history:

• Graphic Design Best Practices

Assignment

Your assignment for next week is:

• Refine your postcard designs to reflect the feedback from the review.
• Refine your business card design to reflect the feedback from the review.
• Explore a minimum of 6 different identity stamp options "mock-ups"
  • These should be printouts or drawings
  • Actual size!
  • They can be brand marks, or type or a combination of both.

You are exploring brand/stamp options that you will have produced or made by hand!

Assignment Sheet: Mfa_2024_03_Stamps.pdf

Presentation

• You will be presenting your work to the group, open crit.