School: Shawnee Mission South High School
Class: Graphic Design
Instructor: Cortney Dougherty
Client: SM Education Science Laboratory members, Midtown Sign, and Leigh Anne Neal (District Administrator)
Problem: Students were asked to utilize their knowledge of typography to create signage for the SM Education Science Laboratory (SMESL)
Summary of Project
Students will meet with various community stakeholders, district personnel, and members of the design and printing industry to identify the signage requirements for the SMESL. They will explore typography, complete necessary research, prepare proposals, and present ideas to members of the SMESL committee for consideration. Once approved, students will have to install signage for visitors.
Key Takeaways or Advice
We are just getting started with this. It is our final project for the semester and also has been pushed back due to committee issues.
Learning Standards
- Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors
- Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design
- Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
- Collaboratively develop a proposal for an installation, artwork, or space design that transforms the perception and experience of a particular place
- Analyze, select, and curate artifacts and/or artworks for presentation and preservation.
- Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
- Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate the acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
- Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.
- Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, reengage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
- Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.
- Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.