Students enrolled in commercial arts program design and publish their school's yearbook. For the 2010-2011 school year, the students applied Quick Response (QR) code technology to include links to events that occurred after the yearbook's print deadline, including graduation. The technology has many applications in the school setting, and the…

Every graphic design course has a unit of instruction that focuses on logo design. It is an interesting exercise to have students relate why they recognize certain trademarks or symbols. In this article, the author describes an assignment that examines logos. For this assignment, students were asked to make a visual inventory of at least five…

Art education in the United States has never been on a firmer footing than at the present time. It faces a future secure in the knowledge that during the past 10 years its social, economic, and educational values have been demonstrated and acknowledged and generally put into practice. Educational leaders no longer ignore it; rather one finds an…