Graphic Communications (Embroidery) CPU
Objectives
Activity 1
1-1. Recognize when communication has and hasn’t
occurred.
1-2. Discover the various forms of communication.
1-3. Identify the five forms of communication.
1-4. Define the communication process.
1-5. Identify feedback.
1-6. Consider a situation you have experienced
involving unsuccessful communication.
Activity 2
2-1. Identify the components of graphic communications and their
effect.
2-2. Discover the earliest form of graphic communications.
2-3. Recognize the importance of graphics throughout history.
2-4. Define graphic communications.
2-5. Define embroidery and some of its stitches.
2-6. Wind the bobbin and install it into the embroidery machine.
2-7. Thread the embroidery machine.
2-8. Secure the felt in the embroidery frame.
2-9. Embroider three to four letters.
2-10. Compare advantages and disadvantages of
mechanical embroidery and embroidery by hand.
Activity 3
3-1. Recognize the first uses for computer graphics.
3-2. Identify characteristics of the oscilloscope.
3-3. Discover what people used to print their
technical drawings.
3-4. Digitize an existing image to prepare it for
embroidery.
3-5. Manipulate stitch angles to create a more
interesting design.
3-6. Locate advertisements that use descriptive
fonts to help sell products or services.
3-7. Compare printed images to
embroidered images.
Activity 4
4-1. Identify the computer platform that most CADD
work was done with between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s.
4-2. Discover the company that first produced a
computer with a processor powerful enough to run micro-based CADD
programs.
4-3. Recognize the first simple computer game using
graphics.
4-4. Add several circles to the existing fish image.
4-5. Reduce the stitch spacing.
4-6. Add text to the design
4-7. Begin working on the Multinational Sign
Worksheet.
4-8. Describe advantages and
disadvantages of computer-based drawing.
Activity 5
5-1. Identify the widespread use of layout and
design.
5-2. Compare elements of layout and
design.
5-3. Recognize the difference between formal and
informal balance.
5-4. Consolidate thread colors.
5-5. Complete the Multinational Sign Worksheet.
5-6. Reflect on your experience
creating different multinational signs.
Activity 6
6-1. Identify the characteristics of proportion.
6-2. Recognize examples of contrast.
6-3. Define proportion, rhythm, unity, and logo.
6-4. Review the parameters that must be followed to
create an original logo that will be embroidered in Activity 10.
6-5. Begin sketching ideas for the aforementioned
logo.
6-6. Discuss your attitudes toward
embroidery.
Activity 7
7-1. Embroider the fish logo.
7-2. Continue working on your sketch and design of
the logo to be embroidered in Activity 10.
7-3. Review the process of the fish
logo creation.
Activity 8
8-1. Understand what piracy means and what acts violate
copyright laws.
8-2. Complete your sketch and design of the logo to be
embroidered in Activity 10.
8-3. Describe your chosen logo.
Activity 9
9-1. Complete digitizing and designing the logo so it can
be embroidered in Activity 10.
9-2. Explain the process of re-creating your logo
design with the software.
Activity 10
10-1. Embroider your logo.
10-2. Begin challenges to meet several high-level
problem-solving objectives.
10-3. Identify the design elements
in an advertisement.
Activity 11
11-1. Begin challenges to meet
several high-level problem-solving objectives.
11-2. Explain your reasons for
selecting your challenge.
Activity 12
12-1. Continue working on challenges
to meet several high-level problem-solving objectives.
12-2. Explain how your challenge
relates to the field of graphic communications.
Activity 13
13-1. Continue working on challenges
to meet several high-level problem-solving objectives.
13-2. Describe advantages and
disadvantages of a graphic communications career.
Activity 14
14-1. Continue working on challenges
to meet several high-level problem-solving objectives.
14-2. Reevaluate the challenge
completion process.
Activity 15
15-1. Select appropriate vocabulary
terms based on the definitions provided.
15-2.Test your comprehension of
concepts gained during this course.
15-3. State and explain your opinion
of the Embroidery CPU.
The objectives for the challenges in
Activity 11 through Activity 15 of this CPU include:
Challenge 1
You will conduct research on a career of your choice
in the embroidery field. Share your findings in a
presentation.
Challenge 2
You will create an image to embroider that exceeds
the dimensions the machine can stitch at one time, forcing you to
remove the fabric from the frame, move it, then replace it in the
frame.
Challenge 3
You will embroider a design directly from a
photograph.
Challenge 4
You will create an embroidery project using only the
machine, and surround your image with a border.
Challenge 5
You will interview someone who embroiders shirts,
hats, etc. for a living to see how cost and a sale price are
determined. |