UCO Design Foundations - Origami Herd

Origami Herd - Project 2

Assignment

Image making is not limited to drawing alone. In fact, for most designers photography and photo-editing is a more common form of image creation than illustration. In the five black squares project we explored the aesthetic potential of layout. With this project we will explore the aesthetic potential of photography while still using it to document a subject. Remember the principles of design when choosing the placement and scale of your images. As with the Concrete Jungle project, hierarchy is critical for having the viewer see the images in the order that you want to have them seen. While the grid will be specified, the way you choose to combine modules to create images large and small is up to you.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the project students will be able to:

-Use the library and other resources to gain technical expertise on a specific subject (origami)

-Follow step-by-step instructions on how to construct a complex object

-Use the photo studio lights, camera, and computer

-Frame and photograph objects in a way that uses the camera to create specific aesthetics

-Use basic value (levels) and color correction (hue and saturation) tools in Photoshop

-Set up a specified grid structure and place images using InDesign software.

-Typeset captions and titles using specific fonts (typeface, weight, and scale) using InDesign

Process

Find templates for origami creatures in the library or online, choose your favorite one, fold up a herd of five of them, photograph them in a way that creates five distinct aesthetics, and then create a single page layout that show all of your work. The five aesthetics are: confused, tense, playful, independent, and heroic. We will use the school of design photo studio for the photographs. There will be a lot of people trying to photograph at the same time. Be prepared. Do not procrastinate. You may NOT use your phone or any other camera for the final imagery. You MUST use the photo studio and the lighting set up in it!!

Materials

- Origami Paper. You should use neutral colors for the herd plus one sheet of colored paper for emphasis. Use what you learned from the Cliche project in DF3 to guide you. There are papers that are specifically designed for origami, but the most important thing is that it is more difficult to create origami creatures if the paper is too heavy. Choose a paper that is easy to fold and holds its shape. Some papers have different colors on the front and back. Often they have a color on one side and are white on the other. Too much color can overwhelm the hierarchy, so choose wisely.

-Your packaged layout (InDesign) file and photographs uploaded to Dropbox, ready for print

-Final print (12” x 18”) printed by the instructor. Use a 3 x 6 Modular Grid with .75 margins on top and sides and a 1" margin on bottom. Gutters are .375" or .25" (based on your instructor's requirements)

Typefaces

Baskerville, Garamond, Bodoni 72, Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, Franklin Gothic, Futura, Gill Sans, Helvetica Neue, and Myriad Pro

Deliverables

- images posted to Slack of your process work

- five physical origami creatures

- all necessary files uploaded to Dropbox

- 12” x 18” print of your layout (provided by instructor)

Value - 100pts

- Process work (20%)

- Photography (20%)

- Layout and typesetting (20%)

- Craft (20%)