Graphic Design Lesson 2: Design Your Name

Design Your Name

Learning Objective: Demonstrate the ability to use design thinking strategies in a design process.

Your assignment is to type your first and last name in a variety of ways, arriving finally at one design that visually convey your personality:

• Using Microsoft Word, on one page create a layout in which your name (first and last, with middle name optional) is displayed 5 times, each time using a different typeface (font), sizing each at 16-24 points. Label each example with the name of the typeface, and the size.

              Example:         Sally Jones (Georgia 22)

• Using Microsoft Word, along the top edge of another page record three to five adjectives that describe your personality. Using the rest of the same page, make two designs for your name using typefaces that express your personality or spirit especially well.
• Give careful consideration to the positive and negative shapes within and between the letters. Make the proportions, textures, values, and directions of the letters important to each design. You are free to alter the look of your name by varying typefaces, weights, color, pattern, background color or texture, direction of the letters, and different sizes -- within any line of text.
• Save your work and submit using your Electronic Journal at www.learning.com



Sample Name ( You may choose to use your middle initial if you want)