MHS Desktop Publishing

Desktop Publishing & Yearbook Production

Mendocino High School

Kathy Wylie

All Students will:

¨ think critically, creatively, reflectively, and logically;

¨ exercise imagination, initiative, and flexibility;

¨ identify, describe, and redefine a problem;

¨ analyze problems from a variety of different perspectives;

¨ make connections and establish relationships;

¨ inquire and research, and explore, generate, and develop ideas;

¨ try out innovative and original ideas;

¨ design and make;

¨ test ideas and solutions, and make decisions on the basis of experience and supporting evidence;

¨ evaluate processes and solutions.

Students will explore two-dimensional industry-standard graphical software applications of design, and become familiar with digital photography techniques along with basic principals of publishing and ethics. Students will learn photography, Adobe Photoshop and online desktop publishing and production. After acquiring a historical context of graphic design, students will develop skills in artistic perception, critiquing, and application of design strategies through experiences that emphasize solving visual art problems, in order to design, create, produce, advertise, sell and distribute the 2009 copy of the MHS Yearbook, THE BOOM.

Students will perform and assume the tasks of production and design in professional layouts, journalism, captioning, and editing pages and will perform regular self and peer-evaluations of class work.

The art elements are the building blocks that artists use to create their compositions. The elements are line, shape, form, color, value, texture and space.

Artists create compositions by arranging these basic elements. By following the principle of art & design an artist can influence the viewer's experience.

The principles of art & design are guidelines for planning and composing a visual image. Artists use the principles for many purposes. The principles govern the way the art elements are arranged to guide the eye, evoke a mood, tell a story or achieve other goals.

The principles of art/design are: balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, pattern/repetition, rhythm, proportion, unity/harmony, and variety.