Design Brief
Design three (3) rough drafts of the currency obverse (front) for a denomination of your fictional currency system using your Tracing Paper Money Remixes 💵 💶 💷 and Grid Form Studies ▦ 🌐 as reference.
Use this Adobe Illustrator template file below to mark-up your compositions with labels and specifications about dimensions, color swatches, and typefaces (feel free to change the grids that are provided in the file, if you like);
Your three (3) rough drafts, or “comps”, should demostrate effective execution of the strategies that we discussed during Student Project Precedent Study: Project 3: Money Makin’ 💰 🤑 💸.
Communication Design Requirements: The Three ‘Graphics’
- Graphic Form (5-10 graphic forms)
- Form generated from grid (Grid Form Studies ▦ 🌐 )
- Other geometry (squares, circles, lines, etc.)
- “Page Furniture”
- Stamps/Icons/Symbols/Badges (shields, eagles, pyramids, etc.)
- Typographic Form (10-20 type boxes)
- Country name
- Numeral value (“100 Dollars“)
- Written value (“One Hundred Dollars”)
- “This note is legal tender…” statements
- Signatures
- Serial numbers, series numbers
- Barcodes, scanner symbols, QR codes
- Photographic Form (2-3 photographic/illustrative forms)
- Photo, illustrations, or other “appropriated” visuals are allowed
- You might also choose to use vector illustrations (like our portrait project) instead of photographic material
- Use legitimate image databases (Public Domain Image Archive, Wikimedia Commons) and provide a citation and link on your artboard
Technical Requirements
- Adobe Illustrator file (AI)
- Letter landscape (11" wide × 8.5" tall)
- Three (3) artboards
- Marked-up:
- Dimension labels (width and height)
- Grid labels (coordinate, diagonal, radial, or combinations)
- Color swatches (CMYK value, or HKS N or K spot color)
- Typefaces (three)
Assignment Submission 📥 📥 📥
📤 UPLOAD your PDF file to the Google Drive folder “Phase 4: Dollar Bill Rough Drafts 💵 💵 💵”
- 26FA_DSGN100_Pr3_Ph4_Lastname_Firstname_Dollar_Bill_Rough_Drafts.pdf