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A Guide to Transparent Assignment Design
February 6, 2024 • Brier Anderson
Students might find themselves grappling with the mysteries of an assignment, wondering what an instructor’s directions mean, the assignment’s purpose, and its role in the larger context of a course.
Instructors should design assignments to ensure students actively engage with course content and develop essential skills. Transparent assignment design is a framework for structuring assignments to promote and encourage student learning. Many of these strategies might seem straightforward, and probably include practices you do often, but transparent assignment design is about intentionality and considering what you are asking your students to do and how it can lead to their success.
Based on research from Dr. Mary Ann Winkelmes (University of Nevada Las Vegas, Brandeis University) and the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) Higher Ed Project , transparent assignment design is a way of communicating expectations to learners. The framework includes three components for assignment design: purpose, tasks, and criteria. Each of these components creates accessibility by removing barriers or the unwritten rules of what it means to be a college student. Instructors create transparency by describing how students will learn content, why learning experiences were planned in a particular way, and how students will use their learning in the course and beyond.
Research has demonstrated that this type of explicit instruction and construction of assignments supports all students, but it is particularly beneficial for underrepresented students, first generation college students, and low income students. And these aren’t major shifts. Winkelmes found that transparency in just two assignments per course significantly improved student learning, boosted academic confidence and sense of belonging, and encouraged students’ metacognitive awareness of skill development toward future professions.
Transparent assignment design is also beneficial to instructors. Assignments are more likely to be turned in on time, students participate in meaningful discussion at higher rates, and there are fewer questions from students about assignment logistics.
So, exactly how do you design a transparent assignment?
- Reflect on the learning objectives of the assignment and your course.
- Articulate the purpose of the assignment. Explain its relevance to the course objectives and any broader academic and real-world contexts. Describe the skills students will practice and what knowledge they will gain.
- Break down the tasks. Divide complex tasks into smaller, manageable tasks. Provide step-by-step instructions and resources to guide students through each stage of an assignment as a checklist using student-friendly language.
- Define success. Explicitly outline what a successful assignment looks like (consider sharing a rubric or exemplar). This builds student confidence and allows them to self-evaluate.
- Seek student feedback. Although your assignment might seem clear, remember you are an expert in your field and prone to potential blind spots. Student insights can help you refine future assignments.
Transparent assignment design doesn’t require you to redesign your course; rather, it improves existing assignments. This is one small step toward creating a more inclusive learning environment. Interested in learning more about transparent assignment design? Check out STLI’s microcourse – Designing for Learners: Supporting Student Writers .
© 2024 Brier Anderson. The text of this work is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License.
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Brier designs online professional micro-learning courses and consults with faculty on course design. Brier’s focus areas include inclusive pedagogy, digital learning, and human-centered instructional design.
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Dispel Your Hidden Curriculum with Transparent Assignment Design
Identify easy ways to incorporate Transparent Assignment Design in your course.
Thinking back on my first online courses I developed in Blackboard over a decade ago, the assignment instructions and other context that I provided were fairly minimal. I didn’t recognize that my learners needed more. I was primarily focused on the content. As a new instructor teaching gender studies courses, I wanted to convey my excitement and expertise on the topic—that I was a trustworthy guide for my students’ learning journey.
As I honed my teaching practice over the years, I found that being a trustworthy guide extends beyond content expertise. It’s also important that I share with students the purpose for each assignment. As faculty, we crave transparency in similar ways. Knowing the rationale of a task or how our labor will benefit us or our students can go a long way in cultivating trust.
Sharing the purpose of an assignment is a key component of transparent assignment design (TAD). In this blog, I outline easy ways to incorporate TAD in your course. Transparent assignment design especially supports our underserved and busy working learners at Ball State, who benefit from explicit assignment rationale, instructions, and success criteria.
What is Transparent Assignment Design?
When courses are developed using transparent assignment design , an assignment’s purpose and instructions are made explicit to the learner. Start with the rationale for the assignment. There are a few ways you can share the “why.”
One easy way to share the assignment rationale is to prominently include the module objectives that align with the assignment. For example, the objective may be to: “Identify how qualitative researchers ensure credibility,” and the assessment is a discussion board whereas learners examine a journal article that outlines key ways to ensure credibility and trustworthiness in research. This assessment (the discussion board) will help your learners achieve the objective. (I include an example of how to prominently include the objectives with the assignment in a Canvas page at the conclusion of this article.)
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Next, explain the task, or the instructions for the assignment. Consider creating a video to talk them through each step. Hearing the instructions in addition to reading them can help students fully grasp what you are asking them to do. Adding helpful assignment context also aligns with a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approach, which provides multiple means of representation. Presenting content, including assignment instructions, in multiple modalities can support all learners in your course. Some students, for example, will grasp the instructions for the assignment more efficiently if they are presented as multimedia.
The third component of Transparent assignment design is success criteria. Your learners want to know what a successful assignment looks like. Providing success criteria helps dispel hidden curriculum about your expectations. This is an important step because students cannot read our minds—they want to know what you expect in a strong submission. There are three ways you can provide success criteria for assignments: provide an example(s) and consider adding annotations as to why this is an instructive example via written text or a screen-capture video; share a checklist of the components you’re explicitly looking for in their submissions; and provide a rubric when you post the assignment so students can both design their assignment with the rubric in mind and evaluate their work before submission.
TAD in Your Course
Our Teaching Innovation team has developed a Canvas course template to help Ball State faculty easily incorporate transparent assignment design for their course assignments. For example, the Assignment Template allows instructors to add clear instructions and success criteria, as well as an overview (which can also be a video or a podcast) and the module learning objectives—or what students should be able to do by the end of each week. Using this template will help alleviate the labor or designing a structure in Canvas that facilitates a Transparent assignment design approach. You can easily add text, graphics, videos, and podcasts to demystify your assignment expectations.
How do you work to make your assignments clear and transparent to students? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Cheri is the director of instructional consultation on the Teaching Innovation Team. Prior to joining the Division of Online and Strategic Learning, she was a faculty member for the Ball State Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Cheri’s background is in instructional design and technologies and leading international gender and LGBTQ grant projects.
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Getting Started with Creative Assignments
Creative teaching and learning can be cultivated in any course context to increase student engagement and motivation, and promote thinking skills that are critical to problem-solving and innovation. This resource features examples of Columbia faculty who teach creatively and have reimagined their course assessments to allow students to demonstrate their learning in creative ways. Drawing on these examples, this resource provides suggestions for creating a classroom environment that supports student engagement in creative activities and assignments.
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- The What and Why of Creative Assignments
Examples of Creative Teaching and Learning at Columbia
- How To Get Started
The What and Why of Creative Assignments
Creative assignments encourage students to think in innovative ways as they demonstrate their learning. Thinking creatively involves combining or synthesizing information or course materials in new ways and is characterized by “a high degree of innovation, divergent thinking, and risk-taking” (AAC&U). It is associated with imagination and originality, and additional characteristics include: being open to new ideas and perspectives, believing alternatives exist, withholding judgment, generating multiple approaches to problems, and trying new ways to generate ideas (DiYanni, 2015: 41). Creative thinking is considered an important skill alongside critical thinking in tackling contemporary problems. Critical thinking allows students to evaluate the information presented to them while creative thinking is a process that allows students to generate new ideas and innovate.
Creative assignments can be integrated into any course regardless of discipline. Examples include the use of infographic assignments in Nursing (Chicca and Chunta, 2020) and Chemistry (Kothari, Castañeda, and McNeil, 2019); podcasting assignments in Social Work (Hitchcock, Sage & Sage, 2021); digital storytelling assignments in Psychology (Sheafer, 2017) and Sociology (Vaughn and Leon, 2021); and incorporating creative writing in the economics classroom (Davis, 2019) or reflective writing into Calculus assignment ( Gerstle, 2017) just to name a few. In a 2014 study, organic chemistry students who elected to begin their lab reports with a creative narrative were more excited to learn and earned better grades (Henry, Owens, and Tawney, 2015). In a public policy course, students who engaged in additional creative problem-solving exercises that included imaginative scenarios and alternative solution-finding showed greater interest in government reform and attentiveness to civic issues (Wukich and Siciliano, 2014).
The benefits of creative assignments include increased student engagement, motivation, and satisfaction (Snyder et al., 2013: 165); and furthered student learning of course content (Reynolds, Stevens, and West, 2013). These types of assignments promote innovation, academic integrity, student self-awareness/ metacognition (e.g., when students engage in reflection through journal assignments), and can be made authentic as students develop and apply skills to real-world situations.
When instructors give students open-ended assignments, they provide opportunities for students to think creatively as they work on a deliverable. They “unlock potential” (Ranjan & Gabora and Beghetto in Gregerson et al., 2013) for students to synthesize their knowledge and propose novel solutions. This promotes higher-level thinking as outlined in the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy’s “create” cognitive process category: “putting elements together to form a novel coherent whole or make an original product,” this involves generating ideas, planning, and producing something new.
The examples that follow highlight creative assignments in the Columbia University classroom. The featured Columbia faculty taught creatively – they tried new strategies, purposefully varied classroom activities and assessment modalities, and encouraged their students to take control of what and how they were learning (James & Brookfield, 2014: 66).
Dr. Cruz changed her course assessment by “moving away from high stakes assessments like a final paper or a final exam, to more open-ended and creative models of assessments.” Students were given the opportunity to synthesize their course learning, with options on topic and format of how to demonstrate their learning and to do so individually or in groups. They explored topics that were meaningful to them and related to the course material. Dr. Cruz noted that “This emphasis on playfulness and creativity led to fantastic final projects including a graphic novel interpretation, a video essay that applied critical theory to multiple texts, and an interactive virtual museum.” Students “took the opportunity to use their creative skills, or the skills they were interested in exploring because some of them had to develop new skills to produce these projects.” (Dr. Cruz; Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning , Season 3, Episode 6). Along with their projects, students submitted an artist’s statement, where they had to explain and justify their choices.
Dr. Cruz noted that grading creative assignments require advanced planning. In her case, she worked closely with her TAs to develop a rubric that was shared with students in advance for full transparency and emphasized the importance of students connecting ideas to analytical arguments discussed in the class.
Watch Dr. Cruz’s 2021 Symposium presentation. Listen to Dr. Cruz talk about The Power of Blended Classrooms in Season 3, Episode 6 of the Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning podcast. Get a glimpse into Dr. Cruz’s online classroom and her creative teaching and the design of learning experiences that enhanced critical thinking, creativity, curiosity, and community by viewing her Voices of Hybrid and Online Teaching and Learning submission.
As part of his standard practice, Dr. Yesilevskiy scaffolds assignments – from less complex to more complex – to ensure students integrate the concepts they learn in the class into their projects or new experiments. For example, in Laboratory 1, Dr. Yesilevskiy slowly increases the amount of independence in each experiment over the semester: students are given a full procedure in the first experiment and by course end, students are submitting new experiment proposals to Dr. Yesilevskiy for approval. This is creative thinking in action. Students not only learned how to “replicate existing experiments, but also to formulate and conduct new ones.”
Watch Dr. Yesilevskiy’s 2021 Symposium presentation.
How Do I Get Started?: Strategies to Support Creative Assignments
The previous section showcases examples of creative assignments in action at Columbia. To help you support such creative assignments in your classroom, this section details three strategies to support creative assignments and creative thinking. Firstly, re-consider the design of your assignments to optimize students’ creative output. Secondly, scaffold creative assignments using low-stakes classroom activities that build creative capacity. Finally, cultivate a classroom environment that supports creative thinking.
Design Considerations for Creative Assignments
Thoughtfully designed open-ended assignments and evaluation plans encourage students to demonstrate their learning in authentic ways. When designing creative assignments, consider the following suggestions for structuring and communicating to your students about the assignment.
Set clear expectations . Students may feel lost in the ambiguity and complexity of an open-ended assignment that requires them to create something new. Communicate the creative outcomes and learning objectives for the assignments (Ranjan & Gabora, 2013), and how students will be expected to draw on their learning in the course. Articulare how much flexibility and choice students have in determining what they work on and how they work on it. Share the criteria or a rubric that will be used to evaluate student deliverables. See the CTL’s resource Incorporating Rubrics Into Your Feedback and Grading Practices . If planning to evaluate creative thinking, consider adapting the American Association of Colleges and Universities’ creative thinking VALUE rubric .
Structure the project to sustain engagement and promote integrity. Consider how the project might be broken into smaller assignments that build upon each other and culminate in a synthesis project. The example presented above from Dr. Yesilevskiy’s teaching highlights how he scaffolded lab complexity, progressing from structured to student-driven. See the section below “Activities to Prepare Students for Creative Assignments” for sample activities to scaffold this work.
Create opportunities for ongoing feedback . Provide feedback at all phases of the assignment from idea inception through milestones to completion. Leverage office hours for individual or group conversations and feedback on project proposals, progress, and issues. See the CTL’s resource on Feedback for Learning . Consider creating opportunities for structured peer review for students to give each other feedback on their work. Students benefit from learning about their peers’ projects, and seeing different perspectives and approaches to accomplishing the open-ended assignment. See the CTL’s resource Peer Review: Intentional Design for Any Course Context .
Share resources to support students in their work. Ensure all students have access to the resources they will need to be successful on the assigned project. Connect students with campus resources that can help them accomplish the project’s objectives. For instance, if students are working on a research project – connect them to the Library instruction modules “ From Books to Bytes: Navigating the Research Ecosystem ,” encourage them to schedule a consultation with a specialist for research support through Columbia Libraries , or seek out writing support. If students will need equipment to complete their project, remind them of campus resources such as makerspaces (e.g., The Makerspace @ Columbia in Room 254 Engineering Terrace/Mudd; Design Center at Barnard College); borrowing equipment (e.g., Instructional Media and Technology Services (IMATS) at Barnard; Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library ).
Ask students to submit a self-reflection with their project. Encourage students to reflect on their process and the decisions they made in order to complete the project. Provide guiding questions that have students reflect on their learning, make meaning, and engage their metacognitive thinking skills (see the CTL’s resource of Metacognition ). Students can be asked to apply the rubric to their work or to submit a creative statement along with their work that describes their intent and ownership of the project.
Collect feedback from students and iterate. Invite students to give feedback on the assigned creative project, as well as the classroom environment and creative activities used. Tell students how you will use their suggestions to make improvements to activities and assignments, and make adjustments to the classroom environment. See the CTL’s resource on Early and Mid-Semester Student Feedback .
Low-Stakes Activities to Prepare Students for Creative Assignments
The activities described below are meant to be scaffolded opportunities leading to a larger creative project. They are low-stakes, non-graded activities that make time in the classroom for students to think, brainstorm, and create (Desrochers and Zell, 2012) and prepare them to do the creative thinking needed to complete course assignments. The activities can be adapted for any course context, with or without the use of technology, and can be done individually or collaboratively (see the CTL’s resource on Collaborative Learning to explore digital tools that are available for group work).
Brainstorming
Brainstorming is a process that students can engage in to generate as many ideas as possible related to a topic of study or an assignment topic (Sweet et al., 2013: 87). As they engage in this messy and jugement-free work, students explore a range of possibilities. Brainstorming reveals students’ prior knowledge (Ambrose et al., 2010: 29). Brainstorm activities are useful early on to help create a classroom culture rooted in creativity while also serving as a potential icebreaker activity that helps instructors learn more about what prior knowledge and experiences students are bringing to the course or unit of study. This activity can be done individually or in groups, and in class or asynchronously. Components may include:
- Prompt students to list off (individually or collaboratively) their ideas on a whiteboard, free write in a Google Doc or some other digital space.
- Provide formative feedback to assist students to further develop their ideas.
- Invite students to reflect on the brainstorm process, look over their ideas and determine which idea to explore further.
Mind mapping
A mind map, also known as a cognitive or concept map, allows students to visually display their thinking and knowledge organization, through lines connecting concepts, arrows showing relationships, and other visual cues (Sweet et al., 2013: 89; Ambrose et al. 2010: 63). This challenges students to synthesize and be creative as they display words, ideas, tasks or principles (Barkley, 2010: 219-225). A mind mapping activity can be done individually or in groups, and in class or asynchronously. This activity can be an extension of a brainstorming session, whereby students take an idea from their brainstormed list and further develop it.
Components of a mind mapping activity may include:
- Prompt students to create a map of their thinking on a topic, concept, or question. This can be done on paper, on a whiteboard, or with digital mind mapping or whiteboard tools such as Google Drawing.
- Provide formative feedback on the mind maps.
- Invite students to reflect on their mind map, and determine where to go next.
Digital storytelling
Digital storytelling involves integrating multimedia (images, text, video, audio, etc.) and narrative to produce immersive stories that connect with course content. Student-produced stories can promote engagement and learning in a way that is both personal and universal (McLellan, 2007). Digital storytelling contributes to learning through student voice and creativity in constructing meaning (Rossiter and Garcia, 2010).
Tools such as the CTL-developed Mediathread as well as EdDiscussion support collaborative annotation of media objects. These annotations can be used in writing and discussions, which can involve creating a story. For freeform formats, digital whiteboards allow students to drop in different text and media and make connections between these elements. Such storytelling can be done collaboratively or simply shared during class. Finally, EdBlogs can be used for a blog format, or Google Slides if a presentation format is better suited for the learning objective.
Asking questions to explore new possibilities
Tap into student imagination, stimulate curiosity, and create memorable learning experiences by asking students to pose “What if?” “why” and “how” questions – how might things be done differently; what will a situation look like if it is viewed from a new perspective?; or what could a new approach to solving a problem look like? (James & Brookfield, 2014: 163). Powerful questions are open-ended ones where the answer is not immediately apparent; such questions encourage students to think about a topic in new ways, and they promote learning as students work to answer them (James & Brookfield, 2014: 163). Setting aside time for students to ask lots of questions in the classroom and bringing in questions posed on CourseWorks Discussions or EdDiscussion sends the message to students that their questions matter and play a role in learning.
Cultivate Creative Thinking in the Classroom Environment
Create a classroom environment that encourages experimentation and thinking from new and diverse perspectives. This type of environment encourages students to share their ideas without inhibition and personalize the meaning-making process. “Creative environments facilitate intentional acts of divergent (idea generation, collaboration, and design thinking) and convergent (analysis of ideas, products, and content created) thinking processes.” (Sweet et al., 2013: 20)
Encourage risk-taking and learning from mistakes . Taking risks in the classroom can be anxiety inducing so students will benefit from reassurance that their creativity and all ideas are welcome. When students bring up unexpected ideas, rather than redirecting or dismissing, seize it as an opportunity for a conversation in which students can share, challenge, and affirm ideas (Beghetto, 2013). Let students know that they can make mistakes, “think outside of the box” without penalty (Desrochers and Zell, 2012), and embrace failure seeing it as a learning opportunity.
Model creative thinking . Model curiosity and how to ask powerful questions, and encourage students to be curious about everything (Synder et al., 2013, DiYanni, 2015). Give students a glimpse into your own creative thinking process – how you would approach an open-ended question, problem, or assignment? Turn your own mistakes into teachable moments. By modeling creative thinking, you are giving students permission to engage in this type of thinking.
Build a community that supports the creative classroom environment. Have students get to know and interact with each other so that they become comfortable asking questions and taking risks in front of and with their peers. See the CTL’s resource on Community Building in the Classroom . This is especially important if you are planning to have students collaborate on creative activities and assignments and/or engage in peer review of each other’s work.
Plan for play. Play is integral to learning (Cavanagh, 2021; Eyler, 2018; Tatter, 2019). Play cultivates a low stress, high trust, inclusive environment, as students build relationships with each. This allows students to feel more comfortable in the classroom and motivates them to tackle more difficult content (Forbes, 2021). Set aside time for play (Ranjan & Gabora, 2013; Sinfield, Burns, & Abegglen, 2018). Design for play with purpose grounded in learning goals. Create a structured play session during which students experiment with a new topic, idea, or tool and connect it to curricular content or their learning experience. Play can be facilitated through educational games such as puzzles, video games, trivia competitions, scavenger hunts or role-playing activities in which students actively apply knowledge and skills as they act out their role (Eyler, 2018; Barkley, 2010). For an example of role-playing games explore Reacting to the Past , an active learning pedagogy of role-playing games developed by Mark Carnes at Barnard College.
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72 Assignments: The Foundation Course in Art & Design
Your Assignment is to spend your life figuring out what your assignment is. -Kevin Kelly, TED conference, 2005
In November 2013, PCA press published, 72 Assignments: The Foundation Course in Art and Design Today edited by Chloe Briggs. The book brought together exercises related to a two-part conference called, A History Uncovered; A Future Imagined: The Foundation Course in Art and Design Today, a collaboration between ‘Art School Educated’, Tate Research and Paris College of Art held in London and Paris in June 2013.
72 Assignments is intended as a practical source book for teachers, students and anyone curious to try. We have selected three assignments from the project that you can download and that we invite you to respond to.
1. Heart Drawing Exercise, by Chloe Briggs (Head of Foundation, PCA ) 2. A Booklet of Diptychs: Images Making Each Other Sing, by Cathrine Winsnes (Artist, Designer and Instructor in the Foundation Course and the Communication Design Program at PCA ) 3. Psychological Tool, by Jude Lewis (Sculptor and Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Art and Design)
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Art class should be about more than just making art! Art lessons should introduce students to a variety of works of art and allow them to explore the process, the history, and their own personal connections to the artworks they encounter.
Keeping a class full of students engaged while looking at art takes practice, confidence, inventive activities , and a variety of approaches. But most of us weren’t taught how to talk about art with kids . That’s why I’ve gathered some of my best printable art worksheets and downloads in one place! Most of these art lesson plans can be used for any grade level and there’s enough variety to keep elementary, middle, and high school students interested and intrigued.
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December 23, 2021 (Updated: May 4, 2023)
Marketers have a unique role, where they get to be both creative and analytical on the job. The creative side is fun until you come across a project that causes a creative block. Having tactics to break through the brain fog and develop new ideas is a helpful resource for your marketing toolbox. Today, we’re looking at different design movements and art techniques to give you new graphic design ideas with topics like:
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An artistic movement is a design style with distinct characteristics, followed by a group of artists during a specific time period. Many art movements also share a common goal or philosophy to influence how viewers see and experience the world. Designs from these eras and periods may help spark new ideas you can use in your marketing materials today. Here are examples to help inspire your next graphic design project:
1. Abstract
The abstract art movement takes real-world objects but makes them look different from how they look in real life. For example, an abstract drawing of a tree may not show it growing upward, but side to side, or in pieces. Artists like Pablo Picasso popularized this style in the 19th century. The elements that make a design abstract vary by the designer and their view of the object, not as it is, but how it could be. Characteristics of this style include the use of ambiguous shapes, unexpected element placement, inversion, and unexpected color usage.
2. American Kitsch
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American Kitsch became popular in the United States from the 1940s to the 1960s. Art déco, another artistic movement, served as its inspiration. Today, people associate this style with movie posters from the era, especially ones from the science fiction genre. Characteristics of American Kitsch include bold colors, cartoon-like illustrations, contrasting fonts and images, dramatic poses, and aerodynamic shapes.
3. Anti-Design
Anti-design is an artistic movement that had a philosophy to prove to its viewers: everything that was once revolutionary eventually becomes commonplace. Instead of accepting this philosophy, anti-design artists choose to go against commonly held standards. The movement rejects principles like usability, homogeneity, or anything considered “the norm” in society or design. The current wave of this movement focuses on characteristics such as clashing colors, illegible typography, crowding of elements, and the illogical use of white space.
4. Art Déco
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During the 1920s and World War I era, art déco was a symbol of sophistication, wealth, and luxury. We often associate it with architecture and visual arts. In its heyday and modern revivals, this design movement is one of the most popular in marketing and advertising. Characteristics of the style include geometric shapes, vertical lines, capitalized type, high-contrast tones, bold colors, and flat depth.
5. Art Nouveau
Art nouveau was a popular architecture and decorative art design movement, but can also apply to graphic design. The style became popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States and Western Europe. Characteristics of the style include bold outlines, illustrative style, the use of natural forms, and features of female-presenting subjects.
6. Arts and Crafts
Arts and crafts isn’t just a day camp activity name. This international art movement focused on craftsmanship and traditional imagery. It often features folk or medieval figures and type. The movement started in Britain and moved through Europe and North America from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. It reemerged in Japan in the 1920s. Characteristics include lots of texture, illustrated typography, simple fonts, and historical themes. Popular color schemes include neutrals, like browns and creams.
7. Bauhaus
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The primary goal of the Bauhaus movement is to bring function, design, innovation, and craftsmanship together in art design. The unusual name comes from its founding location, the Staatliches Bauhaus art school in Germany, where students popularized these designs in 1919. Characteristics include simplicity, grid organization, geometric shapes, contrasting colors, and visual hierarchy.
8. Brutalism
The Brutalism movement began in the 1950s and was most commonly used in architecture but also made the jump to digital design. This style has some similarities to minimalist design but its own hallmarks, including influences from industrial or building materials and design. Characteristics of the movement include monochromatic color, lack of ornamentation, modular designs, repeated patterns, lack of editing, and layered pieces.
9. Early Modern
Modernism is the idea of rebelling against anything traditional, like previous styles. Early modernism is the first phase of that movement. Designers used it for everything from art to architecture, and even furniture. Characteristics include geometric shapes, photos instead of illustrations, clean fonts, and minimalistic layouts.
10. Futurism
Futurism was an art and social movement that started in the early 20th century in Italy with parallel movements worldwide. Its focus was fitting for the time of the Industrial Revolution, with an emphasis on technology, speed, objects, and transportation. Characteristics include eclectic styles, neutral or muted colors, new technology, and offset text.
Like other art movements in this list, the grunge era also coincided with the popular music of its time. It originated from the 90s subculture movement of the American northwest, in areas like Seattle. The style embodies an urban feel combined with elements of the punk era, which came before it. Characteristics include dirty texture, crooked elements, stains, torn elements, and hand-written or hand-drawn pieces.
12. Hero Realism
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Hero Realism rose to prominence during the time of Socialist and Communist regimes in Europe and Asia. Designs featured a human figure that was the “hero” of the piece. The supplemental text acted as a call to action (CTA) and encouraged people to do something, such as sign up for a draft or buy a war bond. The Uncle Sam and Rosie the Riveter posters from WWI and WWII are popular American examples of this style. Characteristics include one focal human subject, realistic imagery, bold and clear fonts, and a poster style.
13. Late Modern
Late modernism was another phase of the modernist movement that came after World War II. It became popular in the contemporary art of the 1950s. This movement followed many of the same principles as early modernism, but with an anti-design twist. Characteristics include non-decorative typeface, distorted geometric shapes, and informal or unplanned structural layouts.
14. Maximalism
Maximalism aims to fill the empty space of a design. Artists use a variety of colors, shapes, and objects to meet that goal. It’s the opposite of the minimalist movement. To understand maximalism , think of a hidden-picture puzzle. Each time you look at the puzzle, you find a new object stashed throughout the entire design because it takes up all the available space on the page. In maximalism, the graphic designer has the freedom to decide just what elements to use to take up that space, as long as it fits the project’s theme.
15. Minimalist
The minimalist movement has been around for years, but it most recently became popular again in the 2010s for interior design. The name suggests exactly what sets this style apart from others: sparse use of elements. Another hallmark of minimalism is not using any more elements than necessary to make your point. Characteristics include neutral tones or secondary colors, the use of negative space, no field depth, and linear elements.
16. Post-Modern
Post-modernism is a stylistic phase that followed modernism. It became trendy in the 1970s and 1980s. You may recognize post-modern art for its lack of rules or structure, like anti-design, and its combination of elements from a variety of other distinct movements. Characteristics include collage illustrations, clashing colors, a tilted axis perspective, and overlapping elements.
17. Psychedelic
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The psychedelic movement influenced art and music associated with the 1960s and 1970s decades in the United States. Its origins came through inspiration from clothing, literature, philosophy, and the culture of the era, especially the hippie counterculture of the western part of the country, such as in California. Characteristics of the style include bold and clashing colors, images and type in art nouveau style, hand-drawn and illegible fonts, and curvaceous forms.
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The punk movement originated in the 1970s in collaboration with the rise of the music scene by the same name. Many designers of the period didn’t train in art or design. These creators worked with bands and volunteered to help make their posters, flyers, and cover art. Most pieces have a do-it-yourself feel, like something anyone could create. Characteristics include collage style, photographic imagery, low-quality images, grainy effects, and rough texture.
19. Retro-Futurism
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Retro-futurism may sound like a contradiction, but it’s actually a combination of other design movements. It takes inspiration from nostalgic and retro designs and how those eras viewed the future. Then it combines those principles with current trending subjects. For example, take any merchandise today that uses the Friends TV series font but not for products promoting the show. This is an example of Retro-Futurism because it combines the nostalgic feel of the font from the 90s TV show with trending subjects of today.
20. Social Consciousness
Socially conscious design has become more popular as the world focuses on social responsibility and topic issues like climate change and human rights. Key focus points within socially conscious design include:
- Authentic representation: This segment focuses on preventing misrepresentation of a person, group, or culture in designs. It also avoids using cultural or religious symbols or images in an insensitive or defamatory way.
- Diversity: The segment helps represent all segments of a target audience or geographic location in a design, not just one group or subsection.
- Sustainability: This segment focuses on how graphic design ideas reflect a company’s or client’s views on environmental issues and helping the planet.
21. Steampunk
The steampunk movement became a subculture trend in the 1980s. It used inspiration from the 19th century, such as the Victorian era or the Industrial Revolution, to inspire its fashion, design, and overall aesthetic. Characteristics include vintage inspiration; neutral brown, gold, and black colors; and industrial objects, such as gears or gaslights.
22. Swiss International
The Swiss International movement earned its name from its origins in Switzerland in the 1940s. It’s mostly used for poster design because it combines typography, photographic images, and grids. Characteristics include simple design, matte color palettes, asymmetrical layouts, sans serif fonts, and the use of negative space.
23. Victorian
The Victorian movement references the period of Queen Victoria’s reign in Britain from 1837 to 1901. This period extended longer in the United States. We commonly associate the style with architectural homes of the era, but it also influences clothing and both interior and graphic design. Typical elements of Victorian style include elaborate decorative borders and fonts, symmetry, ornate imagery, banners, and minimal straight lines or edges.
Artistic techniques are the procedures or processes used to make designs. Most techniques get their distinctions from the ways they use the seven basic elements of design: line, color, shape, value, texture, space, and form. Combining multiple styles into one design helps create unique logos or projects that could help your brand stand out from the competition. Consider these art techniques and principles when searching for graphic design inspiration:
With all the computer programs available to designers today, it’s easier to create 3D designs for graphic projects. The biggest hallmark of this technique is that the images aren’t flat. This means they use principles of perspective and shading to make them look like they have depth. Areas of focus include lighting effects, shadow, and the illusion of volume.
2. Calligraphy
Calligraphy is a lettering practice that dates back to ancient dynasties across Asia and Europe. It’s a visual art related to writing that forms ornate letters with a pen or ink brush. The lettering in calligraphy often includes many bends, curves, and curls. It can also have geometric shapes or designs.
3. Charcoal
Charcoal drawing and painting combine the color aesthetic of monochrome with the hand-drawn qualities of illustration. These types of designs rely on visual tones and exploring shading and contrast to create a full image using just one type of drawing tool. You can replicate this style using computer design programs.
4. Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro is a painting technique that focuses heavily on the contrast of light and dark within the piece. The name itself comes from the Italian words that mean light and dark. Works in this style help you understand the elements of value, light source, and shadow to inspire your projects.
Collage comes from the French word “ cooler ,” which means “to glue.” Traditional collage arts include taking scraps of paper, objects, or other materials from different original sources and pasting them together to create one new project. You can also create digital collages using photo editing software to snip and snag elements to create one digital document. This style is a popular influence on artistic movements like punk and post-modernism.
6. Conceptual
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The terms conceptual design or concept art are most commonly used in fields like film or video game design. This technique often indicates a pre-production phase where you’re just coming up with ideas, but they’re not polished or finished yet. Concept designs often have a cartoonish or illustrative style. They may mimic reality but look like a fictional version of settings or objects rather than something you’d experience in real life.
7. Dissonance
Dissonance in design occurs when two or more elements send opposing messages. This can happen in any area, such as between the words and images or the colors and the background. The most important point is that there is a visible level of contrast among the elements. Using blur, opposing colors, and images or fonts with different aesthetics can help you achieve this technique.
Doodling is a more informal type of illustration with a less refined finish. Doodles may not look like they come from a graphic designer at all, but a student or amateur artist. Incorporating doodles into your projects may give them a more childlike or relaxed quality. Doodles can be highly personal to each designer thanks to their hand-drawn elements.
9. Embossing
Embossing is an artistic process of creating an impression on an existing surface. You can do it on paper, cloth, metal, or glass. Words and logos receive embossing effects to help them stand out and be more visible to the human eye than flat techniques like etching. This technique teaches you about depth, perspective, and shadows. Many photo and design editing programs have an embossing tool that lets you add this effect to different elements in your project.
10. Embroidery
Embroidery is a type of textile technique that uses a needle and yarn or thread to create a design on another object. It’s common in fashion and housewares for ornamental design. Because embroidery uses stitching, it creates a different type of pattern than you’d see in other types of artistic mediums.
11. Escapism
The definition of escapism is the desire to look for distractions from an unpleasant reality by engaging in fantasy. This is a broad term that each designer can interpret differently. This technique doesn’t have a distinct set of characteristics. If you intend to incorporate escapism into your designs, consider themes like vacationing, outer space, or fantasy worlds with characters, like wizards and dragons.
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Flat style relates to minimalism in its design because it often focuses on one main visual element accompanied by nonintrusive text. Designers initially created this technique for graphical user interfaces like websites and apps, but it’s common in graphic design now, as well. Areas of attention include lack of depth, neutral tones, straight lines, and the use of negative space.
13. Foreshortening
Foreshortening is an artistic perspective technique that focuses heavily on angles and light sources. It often depicts human figures, though you can do it with any subject. The focus of the piece often appears at an unexpected or unusual angle to create a different view than you’re used to seeing. Like other perspective styles, this type can create an optical illusion to make a flat subject look like it has depth.
14. Geometric
Geometric design is an old principle, dating back to B.C. historical periods and locations, like those of ancient Greece. This technique is based on the rules of geometry and has a focus on shapes, often squares, circles, rectangles, and triangles. Areas of attention for this technique include straight lines and symmetry.
15. Glassmorphism
Glassmorphism is a practice typically used in web or app design. This technique uses frames, buttons, and backgrounds to look like there’s glass on the screen. Use blurring, shapes, light, depth, shadowing, and color to achieve this effect. If using glassmorphism , keep inclusion to a minimum to make it the focal point of a project and draw the viewer’s eye to it.
16. Graffiti
Graffiti is a cousin of street art because it takes place in a public setting. It’s different in that graffiti is technically illegal if the artist doesn’t have permission to display their work where it appears. This style uses handwritten or typographic elements like words or phrases rather than images to convey the message. Use this technique for inspiration for lettering lines and curves.
17. Illustration
You can spot illustrations by their hand-drawn, or replicated-hand-drawn style. There are subcategories of illustrations that fall into this broad category, like conceptual art. These designs are interesting because each artist creates them differently with their own style and flair. Even if you get your inspiration from illustrations, you may add your own individuality to your creations.
18. Impasto
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Impasto is a painting technique that uses thick, repeated layers to make the brush strokes visible in the final project. While not 3D, the image may appear to be because the lines and shapes are thick and seem to rise off the page, screen, or canvas. Areas of focus include light, texture, and tone.
19. Ink Wash
Ink wash painting is a historic East Asia brush painting practice. Using materials similar to calligraphy, this technique requires the artist to apply black ink to paper or silk to create the designs. Areas of focus include the thickness of lines, types of brush strokes, and color gradients.
20. Kinetic
Kinetic art gets its name from its subjects, those with movement. It often focuses on machines with working parts, mobiles, or light that can change with time or manipulation. You can incorporate kinetic movement and design into both 2D and 3D pieces. Focus areas include joints, lines, and patterns of movement.
Mosaic is a design technique that comes from arranging small colored tiles on a flat surface. It’s an old practice that dates back to Mayan and other ancient civilizations. The small tiles are often opaque fragments of glass or other materials like gems, stones, or shells. The background surface is typically industrial, such as concrete. Mosaics can form just a pattern or a larger image.
Op art is an abbreviation for the term “optical art.” This type of design aims to show and understand the illusions and optical effects of perception. It was a popular technique in the 1960s and 1970s. Characteristics include a focus on contrasting colors, depth, shading, and the movement of lines.
23. Panorama
Panorama is both a painting technique and a photographic style. It’s formed by putting a sequence of images side by side to show a longer, larger view than what you could see in one canvas or photo frame. Panoramas can help you understand layout and framing for graphic design projects.
24. Parametric Patterns
Parametric patterns differ from other backgrounds or shapes because they use intricate geometric structures to make the design. Each line moves and morphs based on its position relative to another. This technique gets its name and its construction from mathematical parametric equations, a type of high-level math function rooted in geometry. Areas of focus include fluidity, 3D depth, and a sense of movement.
25. Personification
Personification is the concept of taking an inanimate object and giving it human qualities and characteristics. Personified objects in writing, film, or TV often keep some of their “object” qualities. For example, in the Disney version of Beauty and the Beast , the enchanted objects can walk, talk, and act like humans. But Mrs. Potts, the tea kettle, comes to a boil when she’s angry. You can use the concept of personification in your designs to help sell your products or services.
26. Photorealism
Photorealism is a subtype of illustration where the designer uses hand-drawn methods to replicate an original photo image. The finished product looks realistic, but the artist created it with their hands and tools. You can replicate this style with design programs on your electronic devices.
27. Pointillism
Pointillism is a painting technique first used in Paris in the 1880s. The artist uses individual dots of paint, ink, or other materials to create an entire image from smaller particles. With this technique, you can use different colors, create a variety of shapes, and even include shading, depth, and gradient. Up close, you can see all the individual dots, but when you step back, you see one cohesive picture. You can replicate this style on the computer using a design software program.
28. Pop Art
Pop art was a new and exciting style in the 1950s and 60s, which focused on representing American popular culture in iconography. It used themes of famous products, pastimes, and celebrities to tell the “American Story,” or sometimes to mock it. Focus areas include bold colors, grainy texture, and heavy typeface.
29. Quilting
Quilting is a textile art form that involves stitching together two or more layers of fabric, with padding in between, in unique patterns. It’s a common tool to make blankets, pillowcases, clothing, or wall hangings. Patterns include the nine-patch, log cabin, pinwheel, and eight-point star. Each pattern uses a series of geometric shapes—like squares, rectangles, and triangles—but the arrangement makes each one unique.
30. Sand Painting
Sand painting is a precise art form associated with some North American and Indian indigenous cultures. It involves using crushed, colored sandstone, pollen, charcoal, or other dry materials to create a design. Because of its cultural origins, common subjects include Mandalas or other designs with intricate, repeating patterns.
31. Splatter Paint
Splatter paint originated in New York in the 1940s and was a derivative of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Jackson Pollock is one of the most famous splatter artists. You can use this technique with almost any type of paint on any surface or canvas. It’s often chaotic because there’s no easy way to control where the drops fall. Characteristics of this style include a lack of uniformity, gravity, and circular shapes.
32. Spray Paint
Spray paint is the most commonly used tool for graffiti and some types of street art. It comes in aerosol cans, with a nozzle that allows you to spray liquid near or far from the canvas. This can affect the color, saturation, and design pattern.
33. Stained Glass
Stained glass style is most often associated with windows and religious institutions, but you can use it for many artistic projects, including graphic design ideas. The glass gets its color from a metallic oxide coating during manufacturing. Then those pieces get placed in a frame and melded together with materials like stone, lead, or metal. In design inspiration, focus on characteristics like vibrant colors, use of heavy lines, fractured layouts, and opaqueness.
34. Stop Animation
Stop animation is a common term in moviemaking , but it can also influence your static and dynamic graphic designs. This animation technique films a subject by repeatedly stopping and starting each frame. It gives inanimate objects or figures the impression of moving. It may use 2D or 3D subjects, such as paper cutouts, clay figures, or live-action people or items. This style may be popular for graphic designers who work in GIFs , social media, or other types of clips.
35. Surrealism
Surrealism is an artistic style closely related to escapism but preceded that technique. In 1924, writer André Breton discussed the concept of bypassing consciousness to understand how thought functions. This style shows things that may not make sense in the conscious world. For example, consider dreams. Sometimes you know you’re supposed to be looking at an object you know well and your conscious mind understands that, but in the dream, that thing doesn’t look like it normally does when you’re awake. This understanding, paired with confusion, is the guiding principle of surrealism.
36. Tactile
Image via Behance by Natalia Kuzmina
Tactile designs are most common in real-world images and graphics. They’re a type of adaptive image for those with blindness or visual impairments. Similar to how braille is a series of raised bumps for reading, a tactile graphic has raised or textured parts so people can experience it with a sense of touch rather than just seeing it with their eyes. Though it’s not possible yet to do this with a digital image, you can mimic the way one looks on the computer. Pay attention to color, shading, depth, and texture.
37. Tie-Dye
The earliest evidence of tie-dye goes back to the 6th century in China, Japan, and India. In the United States, tie-dye became popular in the 1920s. The concept of using colored dye to create patterns on clothing and accessories is most often associated with the 1960s and 1970s counterculture movements and rock music of the hippie era. Characteristics of tie-dye include bold colors, blending, bleeding, use of negative space, and circular patterns.
38. Trompe L’oeil
The phrase trompe l’oeil is French for “deceives the eye.” This technique encourages optical illusions to trick your eyes and brain into thinking the image is three-dimensional. Subjects often include people or everyday objects. Designers may use the border of the piece and layering to enhance the illusion. Focal characteristics include framing, depth, shading, and perspective.
39. Typography
Image via 99designs by @ stevenmink
Typography focuses mainly, sometimes only, on turning your word and font choice into the entire focus of a design. The words themselves may form shapes, or the fonts may be the primary subject of the pieces. This is a common design choice for logos, posters, and other branding materials.
40. Ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e is a type of Japanese printed or painted artwork that uses hand-carved woodblock to make scenes and designs. The style may be something familiar to vector graphic designers because it uses some of the same elements. Characteristics of ukiyo-e design include flat colors, bold outlines, and limited perspective.
Voxel is a digital art that uses 3D pixels, called volumetric pixels, to create an illustration or animation. Similar to 3D art, areas of focus include shading, depth, geometric shapes, and lines. The video game Minecraft and the 2015 movie Pixels both incorporate this style.
42. Watercolor
Watercolor design is as simple as incorporating the look and feel, or actual watercolor painting, into your project. You can create anything in the watercolor image, from geometric shapes to backgrounds. Characteristics of this technique include bleeding and blending color, gradient, texture, and imperfect edges.
43. Wood Carving
Wood carving is exactly what it sounds like: creating an image, object, or sculpture with wood. Like other sculptors, woodcarvers often start with a log or plant of wood and cut, chip, and carve away negative space until they’re left with the desired result. Looking at these designs can help you understand positive and negative space in a work.
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- AA Cr10h Investigate: Engage in critical thinking, problem solving, and research through elements and principles of art and design studio practices and processes. (aesthetics / problem solving)
- AA Cr11h Plan: Formulate original concepts by practice, experimentation, and revision. (planning/experimentation)
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what will you learn?
The elements and principles of design are the building blocks used to create a work of art.
Elements of Art are the visual "tools" that artists use to create an art work - they are what makes up an image or an art object: line, shape/form, value, color, space, and texture.
Principles of Design are the ways artists use the Elements of Art in an artwork - this is "what we do with the Elements" - how we arrange them, how we balance them, what is being emphasized, etc. The principles are: balance, contrast, repetition, emphasis, and unity.
elements of art
Elements of Art are the visual "tools" that artists use to create an art work
Artists manipulate these elements, mix them in with principles of design and compose a piece of art. Not every work has every last one of these elements contained within it, but there are always at least two present.
For example, a sculptor, by default, has to have both form and space in a sculpture, because these elements are three-dimensional. They can also be made to appear in two-dimensional works through the use of perspective and shading.
There are six Elements of Art:
- Shape / Form
principles of design
Principles of Design are the ways artists use and arrange the Elements of Art in a composition.
The Principles of design is what we do to the elements of art. How we apply the Principles of design determines how successful we are in creating a work of art.
ASSIGNMENTS
Strange noise...
Imagination drawings
Limited drawing
Popcorn factory
About me Mind Map
formative assignments (practice)
Line Repetition Design
Drawing with lines
Lines & Emotions
summative assignment
Focal point line drawing
Tangram basics
Tangram images
Name design
Hand study 1
Hand study 2
Flower study
Colored pencils
summative assignments
Tessellations
Value scale
Form construction & shading
Observational drawing
Grid drawing
White on Black
Half picture
Cutout shading
Pointillism
Layers and holes
Scratch art
Photorealism
Ribbon design
semester 1 evaluation
focus on value
focus on coloring skills
portfolio assessment
Landscape coloring
Color wheel practice
Color wheel
Color schemes
Practice color scheme
Color scheme designs
Color scheme triptych
color cubes
obscure color wheel
Monochromatic painting
Complementary painting
color scheme painting
color scheme portrait
1 point perspective
1 pt. perspective
additional w/s
Checkerboard
Post in perspective
1 pt grid plan
Name in perspective
Room in perspective
Buildings in 1 pt. perspective
2 point perspective
2 pt perspective
2 pt grid plan
3 point perspective
3 pt perspective
city block with a story
Texture Study
Textured apples
Texture patterns
Textured cylinder
Creative patterns
Optical design
Textured circles
semester 2 evaluation
skills assessment
focus on 3 elements
Balances design
Printmaking
pattern problem
patterns experiment
Pattern design
Subway train
Double drawing
Linoleum printing
Oil pastels
Wisconsin essential standards rubric
1. All assignments must be completed on or before the due date. 2. Unfinished artwork is graded as such. 3. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to make up all work. You can sign out art supplies if needed. 4. If your project requires extra time to be completed, you have to make arrangements with me prior the due date. This is your responsibility. 5. Each project has a rubric with specific requirements and guidelines. Follow them. 6. Unless an assignment specifically requires copying, it will be interpreted in the same manner as plagiarism. 7. You are also graded for your in-class studio work.
CLASSROOM RULES
1. Food, drinks, candy, gum are not allowed in the Art rooms. A bottle of WATER is permitted in room 206 (only). 2. Cell phones are not allowed at any time. Phones should be turned off and put away. 3. Be in the room before the bell rings. Dropping your stuff and leaving does not qualify you as being on time. 4. Sit at your assigned seat unless I give you OK to move. That means you do not walk around the room during the class. 5. Talk quietly with students at your table. Do not talk during the instructional time. 6. Draw, paint, etc. on your artwork only! 7. Use materials from your tote-tray only... don't go into other people's trays. 8. You can bring your work home anytime. You are responsible for having it back next day. 9. If you must swear, please do it elsewhere... Thanks. 10. You are responsible for cleaning your work area and the tools that you used. 11. If you are in the Graphics lab, use the printers for the current ART assignments only!!! 12. Encourage your fellow classmates in a positive way... treat them fairly and nicely. This room should be a fun and comfortable place for everyone.
7 Engaging Ways to Teach the Elements and Principles of Art and 3 Fun Ways to Review Them
There’s a reason the Elements of Art and Principles of Design are called “elements” and “principles;” they are the building blocks of art and the foundation of most art classes! Because of their importance, art educators teach their students about them, plan lessons around them, and review them over and over again. To keep you excited about teaching and reviewing these essential terms and concepts day in and day out, switch it up with the ideas below!
Let’s take a look at seven innovative ways to teach the Elements of Art and Principles of Design.
Check out FLEX Curriculum for tons of lessons to teach your students all about the elements and principles. A great one to start with is the Basics Collection, which features lessons on color, line, and shape. FLEX also offers hundreds of student-facing resources, including handy overviews, like the ones in the image above, and short, animated videos. If you’re interested in getting FLEX for your students, fill out this quick contact form .
1. Use technology.
Design an interactive Google Slides presentation to teach the Elements of Art and Principles of Design like elementary art teacher, Melinda Nguyen . Students drag and drop elements onto the slides to demonstrate their understanding of the designated principle. It’s a fun way to incorporate technology and it’s perfect for virtual learning.
2. Create an escape room.
Up the interest level and have students review the Elements of Art through a digital escape room, like secondary art teacher, Sabrina Wingren . Students complete several activities to move through the digital environment. Allow students to work alone or in teams. Either way, they’ll enjoy the mystery and intrigue of escaping!
3. Incorporate them into a project.
Combine sculpture and the Principles of Design with cardboard attachment techniques. High school art teacher, Suzanneh Fee , requires students to select two principles to demonstrate with cardboard. For an inspiring drawing assignment, sketch sign language hands where each hand represents a different Element of Art. Ashley Mills’ students learn to draw realistic hands from observation while also gaining exposure to the sign language alphabet.
4. Make explosion booklets.
Create Elements of Art explosion booklets. Mrs. Lundgren’s high school students use the elements to create an abstract painting. Break this down more by teaching one element or principle at a time. After each element or principle, students illustrate it and glue it into their explosion booklets. This is a fun creation students will want to keep playing with!
5. Sketch a visual organizer.
Compose an elements and principles visual organizer like high school art teacher, Mrs. Stesch . Students create rectangles for each element and principle with the name, a student-created example, and a found example. This allows students to review the definitions “at-a-glance” whenever they need to.
6. Incorporate social-emotional elements.
Jonathan Juravich , an elementary art teacher, not only taught his students about the elements and principles, but he also made the lessons into social-emotional learning opportunities. His students discussed how to make good decisions while creating lines and how to be more self-aware through shape. Check out more in the article, 7 Lesson Ideas to Engage Kindergarteners in SEL Through the Elements of Art .
7. Create an interactive wheel.
Make an elements and principles wheel, like middle school art teacher, Jessica Hamilton . On the outside, students decorate the wheel to demonstrate the elements and principles. On the inside, they write the definitions and any key notes.
Here are three ways to make reviewing the elements and principles fun.
Once you’ve taught your students all about the elements and principles, it helps to continually review them, especially if coming back after a long break. Keep students on their toes and reinforce their learning through fun and interaction.
1. Turn it into a game.
Create a game to make review fun! Cheryl created a memory game with objects related to the elements and principles. This activity requires attention and concentration, which is a winner for any review game! Another game idea is Andrew Kiczek’s BINGO boards. Each board has different pictures to illustrate the Elements of Art.
If you were at a previous NOW Conference and received the fun playing cards from the swag box, try out the Elements & Principles Card Games in FLEX Curriculum with your students. Don’t miss out on the next conference and swag box! Fill out this contact form to learn more.
2. Make it a short-term project.
Turn the elements and principles into a short-term project. Make a Mark Studios divides a leaf into seven parts for students to demonstrate the different elements in each section. Another small project is to create little flowers like Glittertalesartroom . Each petal is a small strip of paper illustrating the elements.
3. Come up with memory tricks.
Asking students to memorize another set of terms and concepts on top of their other classes can be challenging. Come up with clever ways to kickstart their memory with ice cream! See how Debi West did this in her article, 10 Concepts Every Intro to Art Course Should Cover .
The Elements of Art and the Principles of Design are integral to art and are often a part of state and district standards. They may be a mandatory part of the curriculum but teaching them doesn’t have to be boring! Increase the excitement using technology or a digital escape room. Alternatively, make an explosion booklet or visual organizer. You can even use this as an opportunity to incorporate social-emotional learning. After you’ve introduced these foundational terms to your students, keep the interest alive by reviewing them with a game, short-term project, or memory tricks. Whatever route you choose, have fun teaching and reviewing the elements and principles. Your intentionality will set your students up for success for the rest of the year and beyond.
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Chelsea Solano, a secondary art educator, is a former AOEU Writer. She is passionate about choice-based art education, fiber arts, and amplifying students’ voices in the classroom.
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High School Drawing Curriculum: 12 Lessons
HIGH SCHOOL DRAWING
In my teaching career I have taught a wide range of high school art courses: Introduction to Art, Drawing, Painting, Advanced 2D Design, AP Art, 3D Design, 3D Design II, and 3D Design III. I have loved teaching such a variety because it has given me the opportunity to develop and test a breadth of lesson plans. The past two years I have been working on compiling my favorite lessons into curriculum packs to sell on my TPT store. The most recent posting on my store is my semester-long high school drawing curriculum pack. I have taught every single one of these lessons (plus more that I tested, failed, and left out so you don’t have to) and these are my top twelve.
This high school drawing curriculum includes information and resources to fill every single day of the semester in your drawing class. Other than making copies of worksheets and doing a handful of demos, you don’t have to plan a thing for the semester. Each project includes a detailed lesson plan (including big ideas, essential questions, national standards, vocabulary, and step-by-step instructions), rubrics, critique information, and handouts. In addition to the project packs I have included my syllabus, get-to-know-you worksheets, a timeline, breaking down the semester into days and weeks, and supply list.
12 PROJECTS
The first project of the semester is learning the Belgian bookbinding technique and using it to create your own sketchbook. This not only saves money on purchasing sketchbooks, but it also introduces the students to book cover design and bookbinding techniques. In addition to a PowerPoint, lesson plan, and rubric, this also includes a how to worksheet and how to video. This product is sold individually here .
In every class I teach I include a weekly focus on visual journals. Each Friday students have the option to work in their visual journal, have free art time, or catch up on an assignment. By the end of the semester they must have at least 12 pages completed in their book. The PowerPoint to introduce this project, lesson plan, and rubric are included in this pack.
Before the students start longer drawing projects, they complete a shading review. Seven worksheets are included that cover graphite pencils, hatching, cross-hatching, scribbling, stippling, and a general shading worksheet. The front of the worksheets include information and the students must complete the activities on the back. This product can be purchased individually here .
The first true drawing assignment is a still life drawing. However, I put a twist on it by requiring the students to bring in objects to create the still life. Before starting the drawing, the students learn about still lifes at various periods in art history. at both traditional and modern versions of still lifes. They must apply their understanding of various shading techniques by including at least three of them in their drawing. Check out the individual link for this product here .
Once the class has a few drawing projects under their belt, we look at combining technology and art by creating their own GIFs. They must draw the majority of the design, then use various computer programs to compile their drawings, add to them, then create an animated version of them. You can read more about this project in my blog post here .
Once the students have a handle on using pencils, we move onto charcoal drawings. One of the best ways I have found to teach how to shade using charcoal is through the traditional charcoal drapery drawing lesson. A PowerPoint about charcoal, in depth lesson plan, rubric, and critique are included. You can purchase this lesson individually here .
After learning about charcoal, the students apply their knowledge to a mixed media work of art that includes shading with charcoal. For this assignment, the students must select an object and redraw it on a background layered with color and text. The object is meant to serve as a metaphor for who they are, a part of their personality, or interests. I love any cross disciplinary lessons, and this does a great job combining English and art. Check out specifics of this project here .
After completing a metaphorical self portrait, the students are asked to create an actual self portrait drawing, with a twist. The students must select a current event that interests them and reflect it through their portrait. In addition, they have to scan their faces using a copier or scanner to create an unusual and ethereal look to their portrait. They then re-draw their scanned image using pencil. This project pack includes multiple PowerPoints to introduce the project and show examples of current artists who create social and politically driven artwork. In addition to the PowerPoints are an in depth lesson plan, rubric, critique sheet, and brainstorm worksheet. Check out more here .
After working mostly in black and white, students have the chance to do a full color drawing using colored pencils. They are asked to think outside of the box and take a photograph that reflects the topic, “unexpected beauty.” They then turn the photograph into a colored pencil drawing. Colored pencil techniques are covered in the introduction PowerPoint. Check out more information about it here .
After learning about colored pencils, we start moving towards different media that still use traditional drawing techniques, such as scratchboard. Social media is the focus of the lesson and students create a scratchboard image that reflects a snapshot of their day. History of scratchboard, as well as techniques, are in the PowerPoint. In depth instructions on how to teach the lesson are included in the lesson plan, as well as the rubric and critique sheet. This lesson can be purchased individually here .
Printmaking is a natural next step after learning about scratchboard. The basic concepts are similar, removing highlighted areas and leaving dark areas. For this assignment, students create a portrait out of a linoleum block. They use traditional relief printmaking techniques to create at least 5 quality prints and one print must be colored in using colored pencils. In addition to a PowerPoint, lesson plan, rubric, and critique sheet, this also includes a handout on which colors to use to create a range of skin tones and a worksheet to test various color combinations. An in-depth look at this lesson will be coming soon. In the meantime, check out the product listing here .
The final lesson in the curriculum is to design your own project. The students can try out a technique or material they didn’t get a chance to or redo a project they liked or could improve on.
It took me years to develop this curriculum and it is very gratifying to see it all compiled in one place. Check out the individual product links above or check out the entire curriculum here . You save $16.00 by purchasing it as a bundle pack. Thanks for taking the time to check out my blog and my latest TPT product. Help me spread the word about art education, lessons, and art in general by sharing with others.
Check out more visual journal blog posts here . Shop my education resources here . Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and TikTok for weekly visual journal demos. Until next time!
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A Look at the $10 Billion Design for a New Port Authority Bus Terminal
The Port Authority unveiled a revised design for a replacement of the much-reviled transit hub, which opened in 1950.
By Patrick McGeehan
It has taken a full decade to conceive, but a $10 billion transformation of New York City’s dreary main bus terminal may get rolling in the next few months.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the terminal, unveiled an updated design for its replacement on Thursday. Instead of the dismal, brick hulk that has darkened two full blocks of Midtown Manhattan for more than 70 years, there would be a bright, modern transit hub topped by two office towers.
“The bus terminal has become a poster child for a failed infrastructure facility that desperately needs to be replaced,” said Rick Cotton, executive director of the Port Authority. “It’s going to be an extraordinary transformation from a rundown, 1950s-era, outdated facility to one that will be intended to be state of the art.”
Construction is expected to take eight years, he said, meaning the project could be completed by 2032. Planning was delayed at least a year by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Port Authority is seeking financial help from the federal and city governments but is pressing ahead to get the plan approved by the Federal Transit Administration, Mr. Cotton said. The public will have 45 days to comment on the plan the agency released on Thursday and there will be four public hearings about it, he said.
Community leaders in Midtown have already exerted significant influence on the design of the project, Mr. Cotton said. They had objected to the condemnation of property for expansion of the terminal and insisted that the project cater to the needs of local residents as well as commuters and travelers, he said.
Jessica Chait, the chair of Manhattan Community Board 4, said at a news conference in the old terminal that “there remain many issues that still need to be worked out” before her board votes on whether to approve the plan. But she said she was hopeful that a modern terminal would play a role in “restitching” the community and “bringing us back together.”
Several elected officials attended the event, not to praise the old terminal but to bury it, in progressively more hyperbolic ways. Erik Bottcher, a city councilman whose district includes the terminal, called it “one of the most aesthetically unpleasing” buildings constructed in New York in the last 100 years. He said he thought New Yorkers would be very excited about the planned overhaul.
A previous design that had included building towers on Port Authority property near the terminal has been scaled back. The revised plan eliminates those structures but includes a pair of office towers that could be more than 60 stories tall on Eighth Avenue at the corners of 40th and 42nd Streets. Payments from the developers of those buildings would help cover the cost of the project, Mr. Cotton said.
“We’re moving forward with somewhat reduced ambitions,” Mr. Cotton said, though he added that the Port Authority was confident there would be ample demand for office space in Midtown in the 2030s to fill those towers.
The new design, from the architectural firm Foster + Partners, assumes that the block of West 41st Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues would be closed off to make room for a multistory glass atrium that would serve as the main entrance to the new terminal. Mr. Cotton said the Port Authority was still working out the details with the city’s planning department.
The agency also is negotiating with city officials for tax breaks similar to those that helped pay for the transformation of the old post office near Pennsylvania Station into the Moynihan Train Hall, Mr. Cotton said. The agency is also seeking a $1 billion loan from the federal government, he said.
But the Port Authority would have to come up with the bulk of the estimated $10 billion cost. So far, it has earmarked $3 billion in its long-term budget for improvement projects.
The project would be built in two four-year phases.
The first would involve constructing a separate building west of the terminal to serve as a storage and staging area for buses, as well as ramps to connect the terminal directly to the Lincoln Tunnel. The second phase would consist of building the new terminal where the old one now stands without disrupting the flow of buses that stream in and out of the city at rush hours.
“This community is going to endure the vicissitudes of construction for eight years,” Mr. Cotton cautioned. The project, he added, would inevitably heap “serious inconvenience on the neighborhood. We’re trying to do what we can to make up for it.”
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Choosing the right font can make a significant impact on the visual appeal of your project. As we step into 2024, let’s explore 30 outstanding free fonts that can add creativity and style to your designs.
In this post, we’re excited to share a collection of free fonts for the year 2024. However, it’s crucial to note that a significant portion of these fonts may be free only for trial versions or personal use.
It’s essential for users to be aware of the licensing terms associated with each font they choose to download and utilize. Fonts often come with specific licensing agreements that dictate the acceptable usage scenarios. Some fonts are free for personal use but may require a license for commercial projects. Additionally, trial versions may have limitations on usage.
1. Brenat — Layered Sans Serif Font
Introducing Brenat , a modern and versatile Layered Sans Serif Font that effortlessly combines sophistication with a touch of contemporary flair. Crafted with precision and attention to detail, Brenat is designed to elevate your creative projects to new heights. Its clean lines, balanced proportions, and unique layering options make it a standout choice for a wide range of applications.
2. KRICO — Retro Bubble Font
Krico is a font with an attractive bubble style from ViactionType . Available in 6 style options, perfect for designs with retro, fun and children’s themes.
3. Enchanted Tales — Outstanding Font.
Enchanted Tales” is a captivating serif font that offers a blend of classic elegance and modern versatility, making it an ideal choice for a wide range of creative projects. This font boasts an impressive support for 87 languages, ensuring global accessibility and inclusivity in your designs. One of the standout features of Enchanted Tales is its extensive collection of over 150 ligature glyphs, each meticulously crafted to add a unique touch of sophistication and flair to your text.
4. Quakers Retro Bold Script Typeface
Quakers is the evolution of the font, ‘Cuanky,’ in its italic version,transformed into a captivating script typeface. Embracing the essence of retro design, Quakers exudes an aura of vintage elegance combined with modern boldness and elegance.
5. Anti Design Endeavour
The manifestation of how we define balance is Anti Design. We believe that balance should not be fixed, having the same size or worth. Balance can be achieved through contrast, colour, or anything else, and it can also be asymmetrical. By combining several types of fonts, such as italic, serif, script, and vintage, we may establish an asymmetrical balance while maintaining harmony.
6. Lokanova — Modern Bold Font
Lokanova is a display font with a sans serif type designed in a bold and unique style to give the impression of a firm but still playful design. Lokanova is available with uppercase, lowercase, number, symbol and multilingual
7. Keyute — Fun Display Font
Introducing Keyute Typeface — a font from Dryy.type that embodies all the playful charm and whimsy of the current K-POP trend. Created with versatility in mind, this font is the perfect choice for elevating your designs to the next level.
8. Angel Club Font — Retro Vintage
Angel Club font is a retro serif and bold display font. You will get four types of fonts in this pack, Regular, slanted and Shadow version. Use this display font to add that special retro touch to any design idea you can think of!
9. Super Vibes Font — Retro Font!
Super Vibes font is a retro groovy display font. Use this display font to add that special retro touch to any design idea you can think of!. Masterfully designed to become a true favorite, this font has the potential to bring each of your creative ideas to the highest level!
10. Katherine Thompson
Say hello to Katherine Thompson! Monoline signature script font. Stylish casual charm makes it appear readable, and, ultimately, incredibly versatile for branding, logo, blog headline, photography, watermark, social media posts, advertisements, product designs, labels, stationery, wedding designs, product packaging, special events, or anything that need a stylish casual taste.
11. Tropi Land Font — Monoline Handwritten
Tropi Land font is a wavy, playful and natural handwritten sans serif font. You will find many ligatures and alternate character in it. This font is perfect for creating logo, watermark, branding, wedding invitation, quote, tagline, or anything else. Let’s make something beautiful project with this.
12. Binlay — Freestyle Script Font
This font inspired by freestyles that are trending at the moment such as urban style and several other styles.
This font is perfect for professional touch makes this font more elegant and suitable for all types of projects you are working on. But this font is also suitable for logos, branding, greeting cards, invitation cards, advertisements, titles, healines, book titles, stickers, packaging, quotes, posters, t-shirts/apparel, billboards and others.
13. Holingston Brush Font
Holingston is a Handwritten brush script that is written casual and naturaly. the letters are made with brushes on paper and then scanned carefully drawn into vector format. This typeface is ideal for use in any professional project, such as blog titles, posters, wedding elements, t-shirts, clothing, book covers, business cards, greeting cards, branding, merchandise etc. It has 4 styles, regular, regular slant, clean and clean slant variations, this package is also has many alternatives underlines that make your text and design more interesting.
14. Elf Type
Elf Type is a whimsical and playful font designed with a touch of fantasy.
Its characters have a unique and enchanting style, making it suitable for creative and lighthearted projects.
This font is not only visually appealing but also comes with the added bonus of being fully free for both personal and commercial use. However, it’s important to note that the font is prohibited for resale . This ensures that it remains accessible to a wide audience without any commercial restrictions.
15. Stara Sans Serif Font
Stara Sans Serif Font is a sans serif font family that combines simplicity with elegance. With its clean design and balanced proportions, this font gives off a modern and professional feel. Each letter is carefully designed to ensure optimal clarity and legibility.
16. Atleigh Typeface
Atleigh Typeface, an Art Deco typeface that combines elegance and modernity. With six weights, twelve styles, and OpenType features, it offers versatility for various design needs. Atleigh provides two optical choices — Display and Headline. Additionally, it’s available as a variable font for ultimate customization.
17. Shine Coasty Font
Shine Coasty font is a retro serif and bold display font. You will get alternate characters such as swash on some characters. Use this display font to add that special retro touch to any design idea you can think of!.
18. Scalone — Psychedelic Display Font
Introducing Scalone — Psychedelic Display Font, a vibrant and mesmerizing typeface that effortlessly blends the retro charm of psychedelic art with a modern twist. This font is a celebration of creativity, individuality, and the bold spirit of the unconventional.
19. Bulbis — Bubble Graffiti Font
This unique bubble font is inspired by graffiti and street art, infused with a modern layout that is sure to stand out. The font also incorporates a mix of y2k culture and streetwear visuals, which are currently trending in design identities.
20. New Roshelyn Script
Introducing New Roshelyn (Extra Light Version ) Free Font, a new carefully crafted and nicely balanced curve on script typefaces with personality. Also with Extrude Version and Swash Tail make it look Retro. You can use it as a logo, badge, insignia, packaging, headline, poster, t-shirt/apparel, greeting card, wedding invitation, etc.
21. Smothy Font
Smothy is a cute and fun display font with bubble style. You will get three types of fonts in this pack, Regular, Bubble and Shadow version. Use this display font to add that special bubble touch to any design idea you can think of!
22. Meqanor — Unique Display Serif
Meqanor, a typeface in a league of its own, belongs to the distinguished category of display serifs, designed to make a statement and capture attention. Crafted with precision and creativity, Meqanor stands out as a unique and distinctive font that brings a touch of sophistication to any design.
23. Zealandia
Zealandia stands out in the world of typography as a humanist sans serif font, renowned for its versatility and adaptability. This font’s journey began as a unique request from the creator’s spouse, who needed a font suitable for map-making. Embracing this challenge, the creator expanded the scope of Zealandia, crafting it into a font that not only excels in cartographic applications but also shines in various other contexts.
24. Neue Regrade
Neue Regrade is a free to use sophisticated variable sans serif typeface, which combines the smooth curves of gothic typography and the slight inktraps in modern typefaces. It started as a university project, but due to my obsession to the beauty of typography I made them 6 weights with matching slant, some ligatures and some styles including the letter a, g, o, f, t and k.
25. Dream Sparks Shiny Font
Dream Spark Font is a bubble font with a lively appearance that will fill your designs with cheerfulness! It’s great for covers, posters, spring designs, marketing materials, and anything that needs to stand out!
26. Romancelia — Romantic Display Condensed Font
Introducing Romancelia — a stunning display condensed font designed to bring an air of Romance and Valentines movie . Romancelia Romantic Condensed Font is an exquisite typeface that effortlessly captures the essence of romance and elegance. This condensed font is meticulously crafted to convey a sense of intimacy and sophistication, making it an ideal choice for projects that require a touch of love and charm.
27. Enjoy Forest Font
Enjoy Forest font is a retro serif and bold display font. You will get three types of fonts in this pack, Regular, Outline and Shadow version. Use this display font to add that special retro touch to any design idea you can think of!
28. Uphoria Endeavour
Uphoria is a modern serif display with a distinct curve that retains a serif sense along with each glyph. Experimental design, on the other hand, disregards design standards while retaining balance. Carefully created and developed, and appropriate for all design requirements.
29. Cutie Kitty — Cute Handwriting
Cutie Kitty Font is a simple, modern and natural handwritten font. This font is perfect for creating logo, watermark, branding, wedding invitation, quote, tagline, or anything else. Let’s make something beautiful project with this.
30. Giyaste Font
Giyaste Font is an elegant serif font combined with a classy and modern style. This type of font is very suitable for your various needs such as branding projects, logos, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, labels,
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Assignments — The Art Assignment Assignments An open resource for all, these prompts can be classroom activities or creative exercises to call upon when you are stuck, bored, or in need of inspiration. They can spur collaborative projects between you and family and friends, or play a role in the evolution of your own artistic practice.
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Here are examples to help inspire your next graphic design project: 1. Abstract. The abstract art movement takes real-world objects but makes them look different from how they look in real life. For example, an abstract drawing of a tree may not show it growing upward, but side to side, or in pieces.
Elements of Art are the visual "tools" that artists use to create an art work. Artists manipulate these elements, mix them in with principles of design and compose a piece of art. Not every work has every last one of these elements contained within it, but there are always at least two present. For example, a sculptor, by default, has to have ...
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