Yr 8 Photoshop Skills Rock Star Project
This is an exemplar piece of work by Jamie Lam in 8D. She has developed a love for design and photoshop. She has been spending hours researching the tool and has documented her process over and beyond. Her end result is original and creative; this has been a excellent model for your classmates. You are all set for the IE Award Jamie. Great Job. Mrs Burrough
Mr R’s Designer of the Week
It has been a while since I have identified someone who I wanted to celebrate as my designer of the week so it good to have the opportunity now. This week I would like to celebrate Wenxi. We have been working on the creative process in the design of our clocks. Wenxi has come up with a really nice idea and modelled it extremely well in preparation for he lesson where we start to take this into Adobe Illistrator for development. I look forward to seeing the result.
IS Masterchef – Juniors Round 1
Well done to Jenny Wang and Valerie Lee from Rutherford who were the first rounf winners of this years Masterchef. they were challenged to make a coffee shop prtoduct in 45mins and managed ro make a red velvet cake and ice-cream.
Well done to all the students involved as it was a very close competition. Also making it through to the next round is:
2nd Place – Pippa Yu and Audrey Lai (R)
3rd – Marie Brendal & Janice Chin. (F)
J4th – Alessandro Lucchini and Yash Anand (W)/Janice Fok & Rachel Zhou (N)
6th – Jason Qiu & Jordyn Dubinsky (D
Year 8 Creativity Techniques
For their clock designs year 8’s have been using a number of ideas generating strategies to generate more abstract and unusual shape ideas. Scrafitti and jackstaws modelling are two shown here. The range and diversity of ideas created by this group in a little under a hour was impressive.
Year 8 Digital Citizenship Infographics
This year we tried a new way of addressing aspects of Digital Literacy with Year 8’s and asked them to research a topic and present their understanding in the form of an infographic. The students used a tool called Canva to help them with this task. There were many good examples coming out from the students. Here are a few…please click to see larger images of the work.
![Claire LEE [08R]_1729996_assignsubmission_file_Project 2- Online Relationships and social media](https://i2.wp.com/designtech.island.edu.hk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Claire-LEE-08R_1729996_assignsubmission_file_Project-2-Online-Relationships-and-social-media.png)
![Deven GANGWANI [08W]_1755423_assignsubmission_file_Online Secuurity(Deven, Stephen, Alessandro)](https://i0.wp.com/designtech.island.edu.hk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Deven-GANGWANI-08W_1755423_assignsubmission_file_Online-SecuurityDeven-Stephen-Alessandro.png)
![Evan WU [08R]_1729258_assignsubmission_file_Security Threats (Evan, Andre Travis)](https://i0.wp.com/designtech.island.edu.hk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Evan-WU-08R_1729258_assignsubmission_file_Security-Threats-Evan-Andre-Travis.png)
![Jaimie LAU [08W]_1758123_assignsubmission_file_Social Media Info-graphic (Jaimie, Sophia, Skye)](https://i2.wp.com/designtech.island.edu.hk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Jaimie-LAU-08W_1758123_assignsubmission_file_Social-Media-Info-graphic-Jaimie-Sophia-Skye.png)
![Jim KONG [08W]_1757586_assignsubmission_file_unnamed](https://i1.wp.com/designtech.island.edu.hk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Jim-KONG-08W_1757586_assignsubmission_file_unnamed.png)
![Nicole TAM [08W]_1761368_assignsubmission_file_Social media and relationships infographic](https://i0.wp.com/designtech.island.edu.hk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Nicole-TAM-08W_1761368_assignsubmission_file_Social-media-and-relationships-infographic.png)
![Rachael ADAMS [08W]_1749774_assignsubmission_file_digital footprint and online identity](https://i0.wp.com/designtech.island.edu.hk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Rachael-ADAMS-08W_1749774_assignsubmission_file_digital-footprint-and-online-identity.png)
![Ringo TEAHAN [08R]_1730359_assignsubmission_file_1](https://i0.wp.com/designtech.island.edu.hk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Ringo-TEAHAN-08R_1730359_assignsubmission_file_1.png)
Mr Roper’s 1st Rotation Year 8 Clocks
Well done to my cohort of Year 8N who completed their clocks over the last 2 weeks. They worked hard to apply the creativity strategies we looked at in this unit. All of the class managed to complete their practical and get through the portfolio work associated with this unit well. Congratulations and happy christmas!!
Ranen – featured student designer
I wanted to post this picture to celebrate Ranen’s work. We have been trying in year 8 to develop creative approaches to design and Ranen really responded with his clock numbers. I love the interlinked typography he has come up with. Additionally a happy accident with the laser cutter meant that he had to cut one part twice. He plans to use this unexpected extra piece to cheat a bit more 3 dimensionality to his outcome. Good stuff!
Photoshop Album Art Work from Year 8
A part of their Digital Literacy course in Year 8 students explore Photoshop and in particular are asked to create a piece of album art in the style of a particular music genre such as punk, rock, reggae, classical, RnB, disco etc. Students research the genre and try to draw out the codes and conventions of the graphics that align with that genre. Part of the creative brief is that they have to include an image of themselves in the design somewhere but it is up to them to what extent they appear. Here are just some of the results from this year’s work which have been picked because of their attention to detail, reflection of the intended genre and imaginative use of the designers own image..
![Priya BROWN [08E]_1614023_assignsubmission_file_Priya Album Cover](http://designtech.island.edu.hk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Priya-BROWN-08E_1614023_assignsubmission_file_Priya-Album-Cover.png)
