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Project 2: Flipbooks & The Future

For this project, students will create two flipbooks, one that is hand-drawn with pencil and

index cards and another that has been created with the vector drawing program, Illustrator.

This project will provide students with opportunities to develop the following skills: observation,

coordination, concentration, drawing with pencils and computers, brainstorming, focusing

on discrete units of time.

Theme: The Future

We may have some sense of where have been, and where we are now, but how can we predict

where we will be in the future and what it will be like? While we cannot know for certain what our

futures hold, we can imagine what our world will be like, whether it be in the next hour or the next

millenium. This project takes future time as its starting point, a theme taken up by many artists

throughout history.

Project 2 Brainstorming

1. Write down ten ideas about the future. Answer this question: What do I see in the future?

This can be your own personal future, the future of humankind, or other futures.

(20 minutes)

2. Talk with your partner about these ideas. Choose one of the ideas your have generated.

(10 minutes)

3. Now write down ten more ideas about this one that you choose. What does it look like?

What kinds of colors, shapes, people, or events are involved with this idea?

(20 minutes)

4. Choose two ideas from this list, and think about how to represent these with flipbooks -

30 pictures that communicate movement over time.

(10 minutes)

Project 2 Requirements

1. One 30 - 50 page flipbook made from index cards.

2. One 30 - 50 page flipbook drawn in Illustrator.

-On one 8.5" x 11" page in Illustrator, draw several boxes of the same size, 2.5" x 5."

-Carefully draw your images in these boxes and when you are finished, print the pages

out, cut the cards out, and create a flipbook. Feel free to use color.