Lesson #5: Creating Thumbnail Compositions
Part of the unit: Designing Environmental Awareness Posters |
LESSON
Materials
Rectangles, square, and circles of different sizes and colors of construction pape; gluesticks, design sketchbooks; camera
Resources
Arthur Hawkins book cover Red Smoke; reproductions of Russian Constructivist posters (El Lissitzky & Malevich); By Its Cover by Ned Drew
In your sketchbooks, create three thumbnail compositions by cutting out the shapes and text you will need and gluing them down.
Be sure to experiment before gluing the pieces down.
Ask students at each table to share their collaged compositions with each other. Then ask:
- How are your posters similar to the posters you saw at the beginning of the class?
- How are they different?
- Why are everyone's compositions different?
- Why is it more fun to have different lettering than all the same?
Write a short, one-stanza poem about the topic you have chosen. Everyone's poems will be put together to create a larger poem about Planet Earth.