Custom Symbol Library & Icon Sprite

The following (4) items are due:

1) -a04-01.ai:  (4) Custom Symbols – don’t forget to save…
Use directions from Week 04 AI Custom Shapes to Create at least (4) Custom Symbols including (but not limited to):

1. menu
2. user
3. download
4. form

Full credit for the creation of all steps shown to completion.

2) -a04-02.ai:  Select Web & Custom Icons in Grid Layout

Use directions from Week 04 AI Custom Shapes to Create a 4×4 Grid with Select Icons from the Web Icons Library and the Custom Library from -a04-01.

A) Include the following (8) icons from the Web Icons Library:

1. Email
2. Home
3. Comments
4. Search
5. RSS
6. Plus
7. Minus
8. Delete

B) Add the (4) icons from your Custom Library -a04-01:

1. Menu
2. User
3. Download
4. Form

C) Create up to an additional (4) icons to complete the 4×4 Grid.

• All Icons are to have a Black fill
• There is not to be any use of  White as a fill. Use the Pathfinder panel to “Minus Front from Back” to eliminate the White fill and create “negative space”
• All icons are to maintain a common style, look and feel of the existing icons
• There should not be any strokes applied to Black filled objects
• All strokes used must be “expanded” Object > Expand (as done in -a03-01)
• Do not use any existing icons (aside from those required) from the Symbols Libraries
• Do not use any symbols acquired from the web

Below is a list of suggested options:

• Cloud Upload
• Log-in/out
• Settings
• Volumn
• Mute
• Photos
• Analytics
• Cart

3)  Image folder containing -a04-sprite.png (Sliced icon sprite)

4) UI-icons-01.ai: A Custom Symbols Library containing all (16) sixteen of the Custom Symbols created and/or added to -a04-02.ai

Assignment Submission

Full credit for fulfilling the following correctly:

• Proper use of the naming convention
• Submitted before due time (12:00 midnight Friday)
• Full credit for the creation of all steps shown to completion
• Consistent style, look and feel of iconography
• Use of black only – no other color will be accepted
• All White fills have been converted to “negative space”
• Proper use of Guides and an assigned Guide Layer
• Shapes correctly constructed, sized and aligned
• Proper hierarchy of design elements in the Layers panel
• All objects named accordingly
• Logically grouped items
• Correctly expanded strokes (if used)
• No strokes applied to Black filled objects
• Objects properly converted to Symbols
• Symbols Library that can be imported by a third party
• Icon Sprite properly sliced and exported

Before final submission make sure all files are named properly and are being placed in a properly labeled assignment folder.

You should be sending me a ZIP’d folder containing the appropriate file(s):

• images (folder) with -a04-sprite.png
• -a04-01.ai
• -a04-02.ai
• UI-icons-01.ai (custom Symbols Library) containing all 16 icons

• Save your files using proper naming conventions noted below
  
  • LastName-web114-a04-0*(assignment part).ai
    • (replace * with appropriate value)

• Place the assignment file(s) in (1) one folder named properly.
  
  • LastName-web114–a04
    • (replace * with appropriate value)
• Right-click on the assignment folder and select Compress”…”
  A Zip’d copy of the folder will now appear

Submitting your assignment

1. You are sending the URL to your ZiP’d assignment via an eMail app of choice
   Send to : Martin.McCann@seattlecolleges.edu
2. The Subject line should contain the following:
   Web114 – a0(assignment number) – 0(section)
3. In the body of the message should be a direct URL to this week’s assignment. If you are using the Edison server the URL should look somewhat like this:
   http://edison.seattlecentral.edu/~Your.Name/web114/LastName-web114-a0*.zip

Due Friday – Week 04