This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Learning Graphic Design & Illustration helps students explore the different career paths available to them while learning key graphic design and illustration concepts, skills, and applications. Students will come away with a deeper understanding of the industry with a focus on fundamental elements and principles of visual art and design. Each chapter is presented through lessons that introduce a number of application features. Students will learn and practice these features as they complete real-world projects such as preparing advertising and marketing materials, or readying files for various types of output.

In-depth and personal interviews with 17 of the Masters of Heavy Metal, including: David Ellefson - Megadeth Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth - Overkill Kurdt Vanderhoof - Metal Church Phil Rind - Sacred Reich Jon Oliva - Savatage Joey Vera - Fates Warning Perry Strickland - Vio-Lence Frank Aresti - Fates Warning Denis "Away" Bélanger - Voivod Parris Mayhew - Cro-Mags Greg Hall - Sacred Reich Glenn Evans - Nuclear Assault Eric "AK" Knutson - Flotsam and Jetsam Tommy Christ - Ludichrist/Scatterbrain Gary Meskil - Crumbsuckers/Pro-Pain Dan Lilker - Nuclear Assault Joey Belladonna - Anthrax Find out what they had to say about who got them into music, what they would teach you about metal music if they were instructing a class, what was their craziest concert memory, how they handle adversity, and what they are currently working on. Get to know your musical idols like you never have before!

Offering a contemporary overview of how visual art teachers assess learning in their classrooms, this book provides an outline of the role of assessment in reporting not only student achievement but also how student assessment ties to the intrinsic and external assessments of teacher performance. Compiled using stories from the classrooms of 19 visual art high school teachers who share their approaches to benchmarking student success, the text encourages teachers to consider assessment both for guiding their students to achieve artistic goals and for re-envisioning their own curriculum and instruction. The featured assessment snapshots fall along four strands: Visual Narratives and Visual Literacy; Capturing Empathic Understandings and Social Engagement; Measuring Risk-taking and Ingenuity; and Assessing Collaborative and Integrated Learning Outcomes. Across these sections, teacher contributors offer different perspectives for student assessment, capturing a snapshot of the work of skilled practitioners and focusing on various aspects of what can be evidenced and analyzed through formative and summative evaluation. The voices of university level art educators are also included to expand the range of context from curriculum and instruction content that is covered in pre-service art methods courses. All sections also conclude with a summary, questions, and discussion points. Including diverse teacher voices as well as presenting assessment perspectives with an eye to the National Core Art Standards (NCAS), this book is ideal for pre-service and in-service secondary art educators, as well as for use in art education teacher certification courses that focus on secondary methods, and art education graduate classes in assessment.