DM/IS 14C – Artist Poster Essay.

Size - you can use anything from 8.5/ 11 inch or 11/14 or 11/17 - I have larger printer we can use to print out.

ESSAY: Choose an artist, designer, or artistic period, or genre. Research and write a one page review (+500 words) including some biography and background information. Include relevent information and influences that help explain the person’s work or the period. Why do you find it interesting? discuss and give examples. Include two examples (small thumbnails) of the work in your essay. Create a layout including text, thumbnails, headline... Look at double page editorial layouts in various magazines to get some ideas as to how to layout your visual essay. The best artwork from other classes design a style from that period.

VISUAL: Choose one work from the artist, period or genre, and reinterpret it visually using Illustrator. Choose one work, and then try and adapt some parts of its style; use of color, shapes, composition, mood, theme... You must reinterpret not merely copy the example. See previous class examples. *do not choose an artist that is difficult to emulate in Illustrator. You can use some of the bitmaps from the artist, but make some vectors, you can convert or redraw the art to vectors. I will demo live trace.

I like to see printout by April 10. I will have printer in CR6. I will like to see your project before printing.
Be prepared to:
Present your visual essay in front of the class. In your presentation you need to cover the
following:
1. Concept: Your choice of artist/designer/genre. What do you find interesting about the visual
language/style of this particular artist? Why you chose these specific images and not others.
What features of that style you’ve adapted for your illustration?
2. Layout: Talk about the decision making behind the layout of your essay. The choice of fonts,
colors, columns of text, treatment of headline, scale, proportions, etc.)
3. Illustration: Your stylistic interpretation of chosen artist work(s). You can concentrate on
a theme, mood, composition, shapes, color, texture, line, etc.. Why your illustration is an
“original” interpretation and not a copy.