Graphics lesson, 28th November

In today's lesson you will be presenting one of your designs to the rest of the class, as was set last week.

After this, you will all be working on Illustrator to experiment with the composition of your logo designs.  You will need to use the pen, pencil or paintbrush tools to create paths, and use the pathfinder tool to construct your basic shapes with those paths.  You will then need to try shifting your shapes around in order to experiment with composition.  Look at your logo research for inspiration!

At home you will need to create a presentation for your blog of at least 10 alternatives of one of your initial logo designs.  Try making the following changes:

• Colour - Use a range of colour schemes across your design work
• Composition/layout - change the positioning of your typography, change scale of design elements
• Typography - Use alternative typefaces to give your designs a different feel

The emphasis should be on improving existing designs, not starting afresh, so make sure you are keeping elements of your previous designs.