Designing with Simple Shapes

We started off the year in both Graphic Design and Advanced Digital Design Lab looking at shapes and lines using a watercolor print plate method. In Graphic Design students chose an animal or plant or natural object to represent who they are. Then then found reference images to trace or draw, looking at simplifying the animal or object to it's most simple of shapes, much like what we do in creating logos.  Using cereal box cardboard and tinfoil, they made printing plates which then then applied water color pens.  They then pressed water primed water color paper on the plate to showcase their designs. 

We used the same process in my Advance class, but instead explored the theme of protest art through history. Students then chose their own cause or social issue that they wanted to represent and designed a more advanced image to print in the same water color print plate process.  Below are a few examples of student work. It was a great hands on way to start the year in Digital Design!