G9+MYP4+-+Signage

Non Verbal Communication

Key Concept: Connections

Related Concepts: Audience / Visual Culture

Statement of Inquiry: The significance of art forms as an integral part of life, as seen in signage, become connections across the globe.

Inquiry Questions: Conceptual - Can we communicate when we don't speak the same language ? Debatable - Can colour alter the feel of an image? How? Factual - What colours are the warning signs on the roads? Advisory signs? Informative signs?

Students will: • Understand how to communicate in more than one way • To be aware of the power simple patterns and flat colour can hold in design • To plan for design constraints • Develop the use of application of studies to interpret illustrative concepts • Develop systematic drawing • Develop equipment manipulation skills • Develop the use of colour to communicate • Develop and elaborate ideas, themes and composition to a point of realization • Develop knowledge of subject reproduction

Process Journal and Creative out-put ~ Signage Task Intro to unit hook - 4 coloured mugs exercise. Week one: Process Journal - Criteria A knowledge and understanding research task (4 pages). Download the Non-Verbal Communication Resource document from my website or managebac and read through it, using this document and its links as your primary and secondary resources, create 4 pages in your process journal. To structure this you may select 10 facts / aspects of interest, to focus your research pages on. Note: All information presented in the process journal must be a creative combination of written formats, printed images and drawings. Week two: - Continuing and completeing research pages. - Collect images of topics of interest to you to begin brainstorming ideas for signage. With these images create an attractive 'collage' (1page) in your process journal. What does effective mean? Create a list of answers... - Present your work (research & collage = 5 pages) amongest each other, which images are more effective and why? Week three: - Make some small observational drawings relevant to the kind of sign you are thinking of creating. (This is continued research gathering). - Create a page of thumbnail sketches in your process journal of some ideas for signage. (Use the correct tools, e.g. compass, ruler etc). - How do I know if my sign easily communicates the idea I want? Is it transferable across countries – does it need language? Will it be an effective print? (Questions to be answered in a peer discussion and self evaluation, answers to be written in PJ). Week four: - Continue design ideas & observational drawings linked to sign – plan your final sign and where its location would be. - Transfer print to lino, begin linocut and printmaking process.