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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Business: Designing Business Cards

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design and create business cards using Adobe Photoshop. Once they have applied techniques of typography and layout design, students identify redesign aspects and its importance in the design process. In a slide show, completed...
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Handout
Other

Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles

For Students 9th - 10th
An online manual for Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites. Includes links to Philosophy, Interface Design, Site Design, Page Design, Web Graphics, and Web Multimedia and Animation chapters, with Appendices.
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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Web Design: Module 7: Web Development

For Students 9th - 10th
In Module 7 of this course on web design, students learn how to use CSS style rules to create the page layout, color scheme, and typography for a web site's design. From this, they learn how to create a template that can be used over and...
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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Web Design: Module 5: Design Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
In Module 5 of this course on web design, students learn about the design elements of web page design. They learn about page layout, color schemes, typography, and site navigation.
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Website
Other

Wpr: Designing for Multiple Browsers Without Being Bland

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on Web design that addresses multiple browser design techniques. A great site for learning how to make an effective web page.
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Article
Other

Wizhat: How to Design a Great Web Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on Web designing. Includes learning HTML, write what you're good at, color and design are important, and using tables. Includes example pages of techniques.
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Website
Other

Typography for Lawyers

For Students 9th - 10th
Typographer-turned-lawyer blogs about the nature of typography, why it is important, and elements of basic, intermediate, and advanced typographical design.
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Unit Plan
Get It Write

Get It Write: One Space of Two After Periods? (And Other Typography Issues)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read some rules about typography that have changed because of the use of word processing rather than typewriters. This tutorial explains spacing after all punctuation, the use of em dashes and en dashes, and the use of italics.
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Interactive
Goodwill

Gcf Global: Beginning Graphic Design

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how color, layout, images, composition, typography, branding, and more relate to graphic design.
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Article
Other

Family Classifications of Type: Sans Serif

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes the development of the Sans Serif type family and provides an example of the font.
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Website
Other

Abc Typography: A Virtual Museum of Typography

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from ABC Typography provides a historical look at the (main) different typefaces since the late 1400s. The site covers history and designers.
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Handout
Other

Web Developer: Neon Text in Photoshop

For Students 9th - 10th
Step-by-step instructions on creating neon text in Adobe Photoshop, just like the neon signs in store windows.