11. Graphic Design: Creative Typography

Year 7 Graphics Lesson 1: Draw Squares & circles freehand – needs changing in the website

Power point:
The high end, attractive and informative power point has detailed instructions and notes, step-by-step animations, with starter, main and plenary activities, as well as home learning included.
A lesson plan is also included (MS Publisher file).

Learning Outcomes:

In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of:

• The history of typography
• The key aspects of what goes into typeface, lettering, font, including serif, sans serif, spacing and kerning
• How to use visual combinations to create creative and original typography
• How to annotate an design, communicating design decisions and aesthetic.
• How to develop an idea, improving and refining the design to make it better.
• Literacy: Students will also learn a range of subject specific key words

Worksheets:
The worksheets are differentiated into two categories:

• ‘LA’ worksheets having additional support in terms of the outcomes as well as sentence stems, word banks, etc.
• The second category of worksheet has differentiation in the form of more open ended tasks as well as ‘Super Challenges’.