New Graphic Design Course a Success!

As we continue with the Graphic Design course offered to our AP Art students, we feel confident that students are gaining valuable information to advance in their career choices for areas such as marketing, communications, public relations and art. Since the course is mainly dealing with artwork online, it is a co-teaching effort between the art teacher and technology specialist to help students get both the artistic and technical perspectives of the program.
Students have been creating wonderful projects that truly show their artistic ability as well as being able to handle 21st century skills with advanced technology programs.

Criminology students research "Cereal Killers!"

Students completed their latest project on Serial Killer Research. After investigating a specific person, they designed a "cereal" box that displayed all of their information. In this creative assignment, students presented all of the facts, dates, victims, evidence found and statistics related to their crimes. Detailed background information highlighted the psychological profile of their killer, while an included "prize in the box" showed an example of the killers personal trademark. The result was not only entertaining, but beneficial to students to learn about the serial killer profile and types of criminals in society.

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Criminology & Law Class

Another exciting year for Fontbonne students to share their ideas on crime and laws! Starting with Ethics, we have been covering all sorts of crimes in our current events sessions as well as some well known cases throughout history. After studying about our dual court system, this year's class will take a jail tour at the House of Corrections for Suffolk County in Boston. Should prove to be an eventful experience with tours of detainees daily life and some selected interviews with women who turned to a life of crime. Lots going on in this class and always more to come!

New Graphic Design Course

The Graphic Design course is an introduction to design principles using Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop to create materials for print media such as brochures, trademarks, logos, packaging, publication layouts and other marketing promotional literature.

This course will collaborate with the Fine Arts Department to help prepare artwork and digital files for production. Throughout the year, design, color and visual concepts will be discussed, sketched, and applied to online work. Students will also learn key elements of the three software applications to complete their work in a professional manner. Participation in online discussions through the use of a course Wiki along with hands-on and computer generated projects is expected. This class, which is offered both semester 1 and 2 and meets four times during the eight-day cycle, can be taken in addition to six major classes.

Objective
This course is intended to give students a background in what being a graphic designer means, how to complete some basic graphic design projects using sketching and online tools, and an overview of the three programs commonly used to design and create graphics online.