Overview
Logo Locker gives students the opportunity to investigate the creation and meaning of logos. It also introduces graphic design as a career choice. Students begin to understand the significance of visual marketing. This lesson is best applied in the middle grades.
Activity
Introduction
Logo Locker gives students the opportunity to investigate the creation and meaning of logos. It also introduces graphic design as a career choice. Students begin to understand the significance of visual marketing.
Outcomes
- Students will investigate the career of graphic design.
- Students will recognize and understand the significance of logos.
Process
Tips: This lesson is a good companion lesson to Media Literacy: Advertising Campaign and to Advantageous Advertising.
- Students identify the given logos.
- Students discuss the questions presented.
- Students create their own logos or recreate a favorite one.
- Students explain why they chose the colors, shapes, size, symbols for their logos.
Tasks
- Design a logo for a product that is not selling well.
- Redesign an old logo (Tootsie Roll™, Chevrolet’s Bow Tie, etc.)
- Work in cooperation with another class to design logos for the school, grade levels, clubs, etc.
Assessment
Students may be assessed on their abilities to discuss the questions. They may display their logos for the class.
Resources
- Nike Corporation
- Sun Microsystems
- Texas Instruments Corporation
- Great Seal and National Mottos of the United States of America
- American Red Cross
- Jaguar Racing
- UNICEF
- Scottish Clans and Tartans
- Apple Computer Company
- Sinclair Oil Corporation
- Flags of the World
- Mitsubishi Motors
Downloading & Printing Files
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Microsoft Word (.doc)
Acrobat Reader (.pdf)
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Standards
- Career Readiness
- 3) Students will demonstrate the technological knowledge and skills required for future careers.