the sketchbook

Your sketchbook will become an extension of you while in this class. It will be the most important aspect of your time spent in this course. This book will become your “think tank.” It will be used to document your process for each project—and you cannot get close to an A if you don’t have any proof of process. All of your thumbnail sketches will go into your sketchbook.

Each week you will be expected to collect a minimum of 5 type specimens. What constitutes a specimen? Anything you see that knocks your socks off! Anything you look at and say, “wow, that’s really engaging/interesting.” Tear things out of magazines; collect business cards; take pictures of exhibits, cars, posters, anything that has been designed! Collect website url’s, books you’re looked at—xerox things from the library—BE CREATIVE! Write about it if you want. Do some sketches along side your specimens for thumbnail/idea-generation practice. The more you do, the more ideas you’ll have.

Make sure to record suggestions given at critiques in your sketch books! Documenting and applying suggestions will improve your work.