CREATIVE EVENTS
P13 - Trading Cards Graphic Project
Graphics - Photoshop
Essential Standard - 203.01 & 203.02
Essential Question:
How is depth used in graphic design?
How do you produce a professional newscast?
Objective:
Discuss elements of depth and design in graphic production.
Create newscasts with packages
Assignment:
You have been hired as a graphic designer by From the Sidelines Productions. They want you to design trading cards for their clients. You are to follow the directions given by the project manager for the target audience to complete the project. Once complete then you should review the checklist for grading criteria before turning in your work.
Quality graphic designers understand depth and product relationship. Depth provides that extra pop to your design. Somewhere you often find creative depth design is in trading cards. Create 5 trading cards for a sports team, athlete, car, band, television show, or movie that use image within image depth or product relationship depth. Create a name for your card company (i.e. Upper Deck), and design a logo and look (i.e. borders or symbols) that will appear on each card the same way in the same place. Remember to make use of company or product colors.
Each card must have the same look and feel. You must cut the objects out cleanly and use multiple layers. You cannot use a plain photograph with background as your image. Experiment with different font styles until you find the one that fits just right with your product. You can use dafont.com to download fonts if you like. Look at examples online to get ideas. Have fun with this project. Experiment with opacity and layer styles to give your design that extra pop. Look up tutorials online for creating different text effects in Photoshop for even more creative work.
For this project we will work in inches, not pixels. Your image size should be the actual size of a trading card - Width 2.5 inches, Height 3.5 inches. Make sure to change from pixels to inches! You will also have to change your resolution to 300! You can flip the dimensions to make horizontal if you like. Save the images as lastname+firstinitial+card1 and lastname+firstinitial+card2, etc.
Save as a PSD and JPEG. Submit only the JPEG version. Add the final JPEGs to your Portfolio folder.
Grading Criteria Checklist
1 - Used Internet to find high resolution images online for the project (NO blurry, pixelated, or copyright info)
2 - Cards are designed in INCHES 2.5 x 3.5 with 300 Resolution
3 - Cards designed in a manner that is visually pleasing, balanced, and creates an interest in the topic
4 - All images cut out cleanly using layer masks
5 - Original name for card company created and a logo designed for the company
6 - Font used that is appropriate for the target audience and easy to read
7 - Logo is in same place on every card
8 - 5 cards designed with same look and feel
9 - Graphic file is saved as a PSD file and exported as a JPEG format as instructed
10 - Final graphic file is submitted as a JPEG format with the instructed name for the project
When you complete all work, work on the Extra Credit projects
