Practice Peer-graded Assignment:

Brief 1.2: Making Images, Making Meaning (Optional)

You will find instructions below to submit.

1. Instructions
2. My submission
3. Review classmates
4. Discussions
In this optional assignment I'd like you to create 3 additional images of your selected household object.
These images will take you longer to make because you'll have to think about what they are
communicating, as well as what they look like. You'll need to think of an idea as well as a technique that
works with your object.
Make 3 more images of your household object.
Add other visual elements to your object to give it some additional meaning or make it work as a
metaphor: in other words, make each image communicate connotatively!
Your images may convey a single message, or several.
Make each image with different techniques, and in a different way. Make all three approximately the
same size, 5 x 5 inches, each in the middle of an 8.5 x 11 inch or A4 sheet of paper, oriented vertically. If
you make your images by hand, please scan them at 300ppi at 100% of size.
Bundle your images into a single PDF document and upload.
In addition, to help your peers, please include a short statement (one or two sentences) on the
connotative message(s) you are trying to convey in your images. Your images should speak for
themselves, but this statement is a little hint to determine just how effective your message is getting
across.
Please include a title for your assignment, and submit!
Review criterialess
This assignment is optional, but recommended. It’s a chance to start to work with making meaning and
communication alongside form. The best way to learn graphic design is by making graphic design! Take
advantage of this opportunity to get written feedback from your peers, and give your peers some
feedback in return.
Tips for Completionless
As before, to create your images, here are some materials you can consider:
 Pencil
 Crayon Charcoal
 Photograph
 Watercolor
 Colored pencil
 Marker
 Collage
 Flat
 Illustrator drawing
 Scanned objects
  Clay
 Chalk
 Sculpture
 Found trash
 Scraperboard
 Lino cut
 Monoprint
 Blind drawing
 Potato print
 3-d model
 Photoshop manipulation
 Ballpoint pen in one continuous line
Also think about what kind of imagemaking aesthetics or strategies you might employ:
 Any historical design or art movement
 Cartoon
 Realistic
 Surreal
 Symbol/icon
 Impressionistic
 Abstract
 Historical
 Complex
 Minimal
 Cubist
 Decorative