texture assignment

Materials Directions CD Package Any medium or combination of media, Bristol board, pencil, eraser, x-acto knife, ruler, CD case. 1. Exercise care when taking the plastic CD case apart. 2. Create an exciting design for the case, including both the front and back covers (don’t forget the spine!) 3. Don’t be overly concerned with minutia details like song titles, production credits, etc. If you choose to use text it must work on a visual level. 4. Ideas? Your design can be based on a favorite genre of music (classical, jazz, reggae, rap, hip-hop, blues, a sound track, etc). You cannot recreate an existing design or use an existing band logo. 5. It is extremely important that you measure carefully to insure that both the front and back cover fit into the CD case properly. 6. Don’t neglect the thin little spine space. What can be creatively squeezed into that space? 7. Media? You may use anything, but concentrate and focus on pattern and texture. What kind of texture can be created through image? Use textures you create, find existing textures in a magazine or use found objects. 8. If you choose to use collage, the final product should be a Xerox color copy of your work. This way the design will fit nice and flat into the CD case. 9. Put your name in pencil on the inside cover.

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Materials

Directions

CD Package

Any medium or combination of media, Bristol board, pencil, eraser, x-acto knife, ruler, CD case.

1. Exercise care when taking the plastic CD case apart.

2. Create an exciting design for the case, including both the front and back covers (don’t forget the spine!)

3. Don’t be overly concerned with minutia details like song titles, production credits, etc. If you choose to use text it must work on a visual level.

4. Ideas? Your design can be based on a favorite genre of music (classical, jazz, reggae, rap, hip-hop, blues, a sound track, etc). You cannot recreate an existing design or use an existing band logo.

5. It is extremely important that you measure carefully to insure that both the front and back cover fit into the CD case properly.

6. Don’t neglect the thin little spine space. What can be creatively squeezed into that space?

7. Media? You may use anything, but concentrate and focus on pattern and texture. What kind of texture can be created through image? Use textures you create, find existing textures in a magazine or use found objects.

8. If you choose to use collage, the final product should be a Xerox color copy of your work. This way the design will fit nice and flat into the CD case.

9. Put your name in pencil on the inside cover.

Texture Assignment

In design, texture is both physical and virtual. Tex-tures include the literal surface employed in the mak-ing of a printed piece or physical object as well as the optical appearance of that surface. Physical textures effect how a piece feels to thehand, while virtual tex-tures are optical effects or representations of textures. In may cases, two-dimensional form uses texture as a visual element that adds richness and dimension to work. Texture can also refer to pattern, which can be used as a background or as a more prominent role.

The goal of this assignment is to create patterns or textures through the interpretation of music and use those textures to communicate the genre. Think about the physical elements of music you choose (piano, b&w keys, guitars, strings, ribs, hammers, wires, etc.) as well as how the music makes you feel. If you were to show what your favorite genre of music looks like, what would it be? What kind of line weight would you use? What kind of materials would you use to create that line? Explore the use of repetition, contrast, balance (symmetrical & asymmetrical) and rhythm. Texture and pattern can create an incredible sense of movement and activity which should reflect your chosen genre.