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Composition for Alignment and Space: Middle School

In this two day activity, students will create a composition to demonstrate principles of alignment and space.

Principles of Design Basics: Middle School

A two day lesson about the basic principles used in arranging elements.

Typical Type: Middle School

A lesson about different types of fonts and typography terms.

Using Negative Space in Design: Middle School

A lesson to guide students through creating a more aesthetically pleasing layout using negative space.

Design Foundations Assessment

This is day 20 of a four-week unit plan that helps students learn the basic terminology, functions and foundations of design.

Dissecting Design

This is day one of a four-week unit plan that helps students learn the basic terminology, functions and foundations of design.

InDesign basics, Part 1

This is day three of a four-week unit plan that helps students learn the basic terminology, functions and foundations of design.

InDesign Basics, Part 2

This is day four of a four-week unit plan that helps students learn the basic terminology, functions and foundations of design.

Understanding Color, Part 1

This is day five of a four-week unit plan that helps students learn the basic terminology, functions and foundations of design.

Understanding Color, part 2

This is day six of a four-week unit plan that helps students learn the basic terminology, functions and foundations of design.

InDesign Tutorial, Part 1

This is days 1-7 of a four-week unit plan that helps students learn the basic terminology, functions and foundations of design.

InDesign Tutorial, Part 2

These are days 8-12 of a four-week unit plan that helps students learn the basic terminology, functions and foundations of design.

InDesign Tutorial, Part 3

These are days 13-19 of a four-week unit plan that helps students learn the basic terminology, functions and foundations of design.

Digging into typography

This is day two of a four-week unit plan that helps students learn the basic terminology, functions and foundations of design.

Creating your own fonts

Students will create their own font, following the anatomy of a font to make sure all the letters work together.

Design review

This lesson provides options for reviewing key ideas individually or as a class to address the main skills and concepts in measurement, design principles, type, color, space and packaging of verbal content.

Principles of design analysis

A lesson measuring design principles by quiz and hands-on application.

Designing with reverse type

Student will look at fonts printed on dark background colors and how to use reverse type effectively.

Design capstone project

Students will demonstrate skills by creating a single page for a newspaper or double-page spread for a yearbook or magazine.

Principles of design production

Students will create their own advertisement product utilizing the principles of design.

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