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Milwaukee Art Museum: You Can't Sell This Thing
Introduce students to new product trademarks, logos, packaging, and advertising. Teams of students will design and create a logo or trademark, packaging box, and poster for original products.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Graphic Design Course
This site from Artlex is a lesson plan for a secondary level graphic design class designed by Michael Delahunt. There are many projects including: Designing a poster; Altering a photo; Photoshop Tricks; studying Logos; Designing logos;...
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Web Reference: Rough It Up: Production Graphics
An article about using abstract shapes and positions of images to create interesting effects. Includes a tutorial.
Curated OER
[The Gimp in Action]
This website explains how gimp is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Some may find it extremely useful in creating logos and other graphics for web...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I'm Lovin' It: Finding Areas Between Curves
Students will best fit equations to a curve to find the area of a logo or image. Images will include McDonalds, Nike, and the Motorola logo. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science, GEMS Project...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: It Is Easy Being "Green" Part Iii of Iii
In this third and final installment of the "Green" series, the students will work in their ability groups to create a commercial to advertise their green cleaning product. Students will create a logo and a name brand and market their...
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Elated Communications: Photoshop Tutorials
These tutorials will help you produce great looking graphics using Adobe Photoshop. Whether you're an absolute beginner or Photoshop expert, you'll find loads of useful Photoshop tips here.