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The Art of Bringing Pictures and Words Together
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Created by Lucy McHugh and Jolene Walker January
2009
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Cave paintings Lascaux, France 15,000 years ago
When people first started telling stories or
communicating messages to each other, drawings
were very important. There was no written
language!
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When people first started to write what is now
our alphabet, they began with pictures. Can you
believe that the letter A started out as the
head of a cow-like animal called an ox!
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Over a period of time (hundreds of years), people
started drawing letters in a very fancy
way--illuminated! The artists who drew the
letters would often add pictures of animals,
plants and people in the letters!
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Pretty soon lots of books were made with both
pictures and words. Artists took special care to
match the letterforms to the illustrations.
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LETTERFORM is the shape or style of drawing a
letter. In computer class letterform is usually
called FONT.
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The art of matching letterforms and illustrations
to communicate a message became known as GRAPHIC
DESIGN. Today most graphic designers use the
computer as an art tool to create their work! We
see the artworks of graphic designers everywhere!
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GRAPHIC DESIGNERS create the logos or trademark
pictures for businesses.
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GRAPHIC DESIGNERS create the posters for movies.
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GRAPHIC DESIGNERS create billboard advertisements.
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GRAPHIC DESIGNERS create comics and manga stories.
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GRAPHIC DESIGNERS create graphic novels and comic
books.
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GRAPHIC DESIGNERS create the packaging for video
games and design websites.
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GRAPHIC DESIGNERS put the words and illustrations
together in childrens picture books.
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GRAPHIC DESIGNERS create the greeting cards we
send to each other for birthdays and other
special occasions.
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IN ART We are making illustrations that tell
stories of winter days. We are learning to work
with MIXED MEDIA--using more than one art tool to
add color.
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IN COMPUTER We will learn how to use a digital
camera and a tripod to take pictures of our
illustrations. We will import our pictures to
PowerPoint.
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IN COMPUTER We will also learn how to use the
crop tool to find the picture within the picture.
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Layout How to decide where to put words and
pictures together.
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IN COMPUTER We will learn how to use PowerPoint
to match letterforms to our illustrations. We
will be making greeting cards. Some will be
vertical in layout.
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Layout How to decide where to put words and
pictures together.
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Some will be horizontal in layout. We hope to
have some cards to send to our new president,
Barak Obama!
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IN COMPUTER We will also have the opportunity to
explore these winter scene related websites. Have
Fun!
http//www.popularfront.com/snowdays/index.html?sk
ipDetecttrue http//www.zefrank.com/snowflake/
http//snowflakes.barkleyus.com/index.html
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Bibliography
http//www.bls.gov/oco/ocos090.htmnature http//
www.davidairey.com/alphabet-photo-art-gallery/ ht
tp//www.letterasimage.com/laiimage.jpg http//ww
w.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/ http
//historymedren.about.com/library/gallery/blpxkin
itial.htm http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_des
ign
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