Cliche - Project 2
Introduction
If you’re a black sheep, you get cold feet, or you think love is a highway, then you’re probably thinking metaphorically. These are metaphors because a word or phrase is applied to something figuratively. Your goal is to communicate visually, so you’re going to depict a cliché using imagery.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the project a successful student will be able to:
Produce design artifacts consistent with project specifications
Identify a situation that is analogous to a cliché
Communicate an idiomatic concept visually
Use the elements and principles of design to focus the viewers attention
Use color to create emphasis
Process
Choose several of the cliché idioms from the list below and make at least 50 thumbnail sketches that identify imagery that is consistent with the meaning of the idiom. Get feedback from your instructor and peers. Push your strongest ideas into roughs, tight roughs, and then create a final drawing that illustrates your chosen cliché. Do not simply draw the cliché itself. Draw a scene where the cliché would be an appropriate comment on the situation. (e.g. a drawing of a group of several dandelions in an otherwise pristine lawn could be considered a depiction of an “enemy at the gate”)
- A tempest in a teacup
- Calm before the storm
- Curiosity killed the cat
- Beat a dead horse
- Enemy at the Gate
- Every dog has his day
- Fit as a fiddle
- Go down in flames
- Sitting on the fence
- It is always darkest before the dawn
- It takes two to tango
- Jump on the bandwagon
- Know which way the wind is blowing
- Let sleeping dogs lie
- Like two peas in a pod
- Out of the frying pan and into the fire
- That ship has sailed
- The pot calling the kettle black
- Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
- When it rains it pours
- You can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs
- Calm before the storm
- Curiosity killed the cat
- Beat a dead horse
- Enemy at the Gate
- Every dog has his day
- Fit as a fiddle
- Go down in flames
- Sitting on the fence
- It is always darkest before the dawn
- It takes two to tango
- Jump on the bandwagon
- Know which way the wind is blowing
- Let sleeping dogs lie
- Like two peas in a pod
- Out of the frying pan and into the fire
- That ship has sailed
- The pot calling the kettle black
- Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
- When it rains it pours
- You can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs
Specifications
Size: 11 x 14 inches with 1” margins. Flapped and mounted on black presentation board with 1” borders
Color: black, white, and red
Medium: black ink with red ink used for emphasis on bristol
Value - 100pts
- Process (20%)
- Level of craft on the final (20%)
- Composition (40%)
- Professionalism (20%)
Detailed Specification
Demo
Student Examples
These examples are from digital portfolios. Yours will be mounted and flapped as detailed above
