Taking design in small bites

An art group I participate in has been working on creating “artist trading cards” which are small decorated cards that artists trade, like baseball cards.  Here’s a sample: It struck me that there is an assignment there for helping students with image design. As Anne Lamott reminds us, breaking things into short assignments allows them to be tackled more easily. So I wondered about the idea of having students make ONE powerpoint slide (or image) as “art,”  creating a collage, mixing different textures and fonts, […]