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Project 1: Bitmap and Vector Imagery

For Project 1, we are tasked with creating two images, a book cover which uses bitmap technology (Adobe Photoshop) and a logo which uses vector technology (Adobe Illustrator).

Book Cover. I constructed the book cover, shown in Figure 1 below, as a promotion for my calculus course, BC Calculus – Series. I used Adobe Photoshop to create this cover, placing a title line and an assortment of angel fish onto a dark blue background. In brief, the single orange angel fish distinguishes students who take my course.

Why this cover?

Officially, my company name is CitePrep Guides (Florida fictious name), my product set is CitePrep Guides for Math, and my particular course is BC Calculus – Series. I have a registered mark for CITEPREP (Registration Number 6038216).

I placed all of the angel fish against a dark blue ocean background in assorted locations, sizes, and arrangements. In particular, I placed a single orange angle fish pointing in the opposite direction. The contrast in color, orientation, and count for the orange angel fish symbolizes the distinction of any student who takes my course. The tag line, “Stand out in BC Calculus,” describes this distinction explicitly.

Figure 1. Assignment - Book Cover

Logo. I constructed the logo, shown in Figure 2 below, using Adobe Illustrator. I constructed this logo to include three primary parts: three black disks, a solid placeholder for five disks, and a box with a checkmark plus. In brief, each disk denotes a topic in my course. The fact that there are two disks missing symbolizes that a student may customize their own lesson plan, covering a topic or not.

Why this logo?

In my course (BC Calculus), I have hundreds of educational assets, such as images, graphics, questions, examples, problems,and solutions. Each educational asset aligns directly with a black disk. In the logo above, I show three educational assets, one each in slots 1, 2, and 4.

The placeholder denotes a fixed sequence of five slots from to left to right, which denotes a learning path for a student. Namely, when a student accomplishes an educational goal aligned with a disk, that disk is then set in place along its sequence to denote a goal completed. After a student has completed five goals, setting in place five disks, they can expect measured success (✓+) in the end. However, with my course, a student may choose NOT to complete each of the five goals, and yet still achieve measured success. As noted in the logo above, they may choose to complete only goals 1, 2, and 4 as a sufficient condition to achieve marked success (✓+).

In short, this logo illustrates a set of education assets, a sequence of possible goals (from start-left to finish-right), a set of goals completed, a set of goals skipped, a sequence of goals completed, a learning path that tracts these assets, the flexibility to choose one’s goals, and measured success at completion (the finale – far right side). Btw, I can play games with this logo in assorted combinations, from showing any combination (count) of disks to applying different color schemes. And finally, these disks align with my registered mark, missing only my tagline CITE at their center (Registration Number 4696426).

Figure 2. Assignment - Logo