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Lori Cullen
Media Arts Teacher

Creativity with Cereal Project

Project Published 9/12/12 Last updated on 5/5/19
This project provides step by step directions for students to create their own cereal box in Adobe Illustrator. Project Goals: 1. For students to be able to apply their Adobe Illustrator skills onto a creative project piece. 2. Students will focus on design principles such as: alignment, contrast, proximity and typography. 3. Students will learn how to use already created pieces as an influence rather than copying- make a piece of their own!
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Subjects
Graphic Design
Age Levels
15-16, 17-18
Duration
1+ Week
Content Standards
Massachusetts
Custom Standards

Basic Operations, Gr. 9-12: 1.1, 1.2, 1.5 & 1.6

Desktop Publishing, Gr. 9-12: 1.8 & 1.9

Ethics, Gr. 9-12: 2.6

ISTE NETS-S
Digital Citizenship, Creativity and Innovation, Technology Operations and Concepts, Critical Thinking Problem Solving and Decision Making
Expertise
Rookie
Materials

Adobe Illustrator, Camera

CC License
Attribution
Keywords
cereal box graphic design illustrator
Ratings
3 / 5 • 10 Ratings

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Paula Droddy

Posted on 4/2/15 1:14:35 PM Permalink

Great idea. I may add this next year for my first semester Graphics students. What did you use to actually create the assignment instructions themselves?

Willie Moore

Posted on 3/27/14 2:00:50 PM Permalink

Creating a cereal box design is a fun project!

Eli Infante

Posted on 3/11/13 1:46:57 PM Permalink

<p>Fantastic project Lori. Thanks!</p>

Janet Russeau

Posted on 9/26/12 1:24:24 PM Permalink

With this project, students don't need to be Olympic athletes to get their faces on a box of "Wheaties". This is great and a wonderful way to engage students. I would love to try this with my Fireworks and Photoshop classes also.

John Doherty

Posted on 9/14/12 2:18:56 PM Permalink

Kids can easily relate to a fun project such as this.