UCO Design Foundations - One Black Square

One Black Square - Exercise 1

Assignment

Use rubber cement to mount a 2” x 2” black Artagain paper square (provided in class) in the correct position on a 10” x 6 3/16” piece of Bristol board. Then mount your rectangle and square composition on a piece of black presentation board that creates a 1 inch “frame” around your work. We will flap the final piece with tracing paper in the next class period.

Ask me no questions! Just think, and do the best you can.

Learning Objectives

To explore the relationship between objects and format in two dimensional compositions and to continue to create works that have no unintended visual information (e.g. smudges, extraneous marks and other indications of poor craft).

Craft

Make your lines perfectly straight, sharp crisp and clean, and take the time to clean up all stray pencil marks, smudges, and excess rubber cement.

Deliverables

- a single composition with a single black square
(10" x 6 3/16")

- mounted on presentation board with 1" borders on all sides
(12" x 8 3/16")

- flapped with tracing paper and protective paper

- a hand lettered 2" x 2" identification label with your name, the project name, and your instructor's name as shown below

Value - 25pts

Points are earned by completing every step shown in the videos below with a high degree of craft.

Specification Detail, Tools, and Media