4 sessions; 45 minutes per session

1. SWBAT accurately measure a box or can.
2. SWBAT brainstorm ideas for an imaginary product that is not available in a box or a can.
3. SWBAT plan and create a digital layout that will work when assembled 3 dimensionally.
4. SWBAT use color choices and typography to create an appealing design.

1. Collection of clean food cans and/or small food boxes
2. Rulers
3. Adobe Photoshop or similar software
4. Glue

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1. Introduction
-explain that product design is a pretty common task for graphic designers
-challenge: use food containers (boxes or cans) as a base and design a new label or box for a product that is not available in a box or can
-doesn’t have to be food, could be something like happiness in a can
2. Demonstration
-measuring can label and layout of flattened box
-creating new document with proportions to match box, 300 poi resolution
-demonstrate how to use rulers in photoshop to plan layout, use text boxes/color/font, layer styles, selection and transformation tools
3. Student work
-choose can or label to measure
-create new document
-brainstorm
-design
-print label, trim, and glue to box or can (if you have big pieces of card stock you can fold that as a stand alone box instead of glueing onto box)

I have students the option of working with a partner or alone.

[9-12 Advanced] Students communicate ideas regularly at a high level of effectiveness in at least one visual arts medium

[9-12 Proficient] Students apply media, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that their intentions are carried out in their artworks

[9-12 Proficient] Students conceive and create works of visual art that demonstrate an understanding of how the communication of their ideas relates to the media, techniques, and processes they use

[9-12 Proficient] Students create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems

[9-12 Proficient] Students evaluate the effectiveness of artworks in terms of organizational structures and functions

Color/Value, Form

Digital

Technology