Geometric Modernism with High School

In my High school level Digital Art and Photography class we Learned about trends in graphic design. The beauty of being a graphic designer is that you will never be doing the same thing. Even f you work for the same company doing a similar tasks, the nature of aesthetics is change and trend.

Every Graphic design should be in a constant state of flexibility and learning; they need to research current interests and media to keep up with the needs of their clients.

Below is a little colorful diagram borrowed from https://venngage.com/blog/graphic-design-trends/.

This is great time to have student reflect back on the past year, and what is expected to change with the coming year. You might learn something from your students, that they have seen in current social media trends that may have slipped past you unnoticed. 

Skills it teaches: 
- Learning the communication between Illustrator and PhotoShop by creating a shape in illustrator and bringing it into PhotoShop
- Understanding the what aesthetic elements go into creating a successful geometric design
- Using the Wand, Copy, Paste, tools as well as layer naming. (It is hard to even convince professional artists to name their Layers, this project has serious consciences for not doing so.)


We focused on the Authentic photos, and minimalism with Geometric design meshed with photos. The students had to create their own Geometric creation in Illustrator then copied it into PhotoShop.

Here is the video that I put on the google classroom, after I taught the lesson so students could have something to look back to for help on the steps. 

And here are some examples of final work created by my incredible HIgh school students.