all the pretty colors

2. TODAY
1) Icebreaker
2) Color
3) Some Things to Think About
4) Looking at sites you love: colors
5) A little Typography talk
6) Homework

3. Icebreaker…
What’s your name and your favorite item of
clothing?

4. Research blog
Any questions remain about the research
blog?

5. Color: good palettes
mean…
…good design. Look at the following famous
logos and the color choices. Think about
what the audiences and contexts are for
each, and ask yourself: are these colors the
optimal choice? Why or why not?

18. Two sites to look at
http://colorfilter.wickline.org/

19. Activity
I want you to go to sites you use regularly, or Google
images/ads for products you use regularly. Look at how
they use color.
Are they using color well or poorly? What do the colors
they use communicate to you? How might they be more
savvy?
I will ask for people to offer examples, so email images
or have a URL ready to offer up.

20. With the rest of class…
I want to spend some time in
Photoshop. Please ask questions
so that you can learn what you
need to finish your projects.

21. Activity
Dr. Phill needs a new door sign, so I’m going to make
that here in class, talking you through the process. As
I do it, you can learn some Photoshop skills/ask
questions/etc.
If you are comfortable in Photoshop, use this time to
work on your project.

22. Before we go…
… I want you to take a few minutes to think about
issues relating to digital rhetoric and writing that
you’d like to discuss in class.
Go to my blog at http://phill224.tumblr.com/
click on the “ask me anything” button in the right
margin, and offer up your ideas. I will use those
to guide our readings for the remainder of the
semester.

23. Homework
For Tuesday:
Read for class: Wysocki “With Eyes that Think and
Compose and Think” (on Niihka) and Wysocki “The
Multiple Media of Texts”
Come in with a rough draft of your typography project