Calendar

Thursday 1/15

In class: Welcome!

Assignment for next class: Read White Space Chapter 1 and “Designing Compositions Rhetorically” by Wysocki and Lynch (PDF posted on Blackboard). Create an account on Tumblr or Pinterest. Share the link to your Tumblr site or Pinterest board (the one you will use for class) on your section’s Google doc: Section 01 doc and Section 03 doc

Friday 1/16

In class: What is design? What is visual rhetoric? Introduction to Adobe Illustrator.

Assignment for next class: Read White Space Chapter 2. In Foundations, read the introduction and pgs. 1-9. Complete Foundations Chapter 1 exercise (time to complete estimated 30-45 minutes). Upload the final exercise 5 .ai file to Blackboard (click “course content” to access the submissions area).

Monday 1/19

No class (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)

Wednesday 1/21

In class: introduce Badges mini project, look at case studies

Assignment for next class: Read White Space Chapter 5 (“Mini design school”) and complete Foundations Chapter 2. Upload the final exercise 7 .ai file to Blackboard. (Time to complete estimated 45-75 minutes)

Friday 1/23

In class: discuss White Space Chapter 5 (Design school) and create practice designs in Illustrator.

Assignment for next class: Read White Space Chapter 7 (“Type”). Complete Foundations Chapter 3. Upload the final exercise 7 .ai file to Blackboard. (Time to complete estimated 45-75 minutes)

Monday 1/26

Last day to drop or add a course

In class: Typography

Assignment for next class: Read White Space Chapter 8 (“Color”)

Wednesday 1/28

Due: Foundations Chapter 1 (dot, path, pixel), Chapter 2 (expressive lines), and Chapter 3 (modify shapes)

In class: Color

Assignment for next class: Finish badges mini project

Friday 1/30

Due: Badges mini project

In class: introduction to InDesign

Assignment for next class: Read White Space Chapters 3 and 4. Create a mock business card by working through the last three videos of the Adobe InDesign tutorial here. (estimated time to complete: 20-30 minutes)  You do not need to create the logo shown. You can download the completed .ai logo by clicking “Get files” near the top of the page. You can use your own name and address. Go to Blackboard to upload your final business card as a PDF file following the instructions in the final video. 

Monday 2/2

Due: Mock business card homework (see link and instructions by clicking the week above)

In class: Layout

Assignment for next class: Read White Space Chapter 6

Wednesday 2/4

In class: Work on visual resumes and logos

Assignment for next class: Complete a first draft of your visual resume

Friday 2/6

Due: Project 1 (visual resume) first draft

In class: Peer critiques

Assignment for next class: Read “Introduction to Digital Art” by Christiane Paul (PDF posted on Blackboard) and work on Project 1

Monday 2/9

In class: guest speaker Mary Claire Dismukes, Assistant Director of the Career Development Center at SJU. We will discuss the reading for the second part of class.

Wednesday 2/11

In class: Watch film Helvetica

Friday 2/13

Due: Project 1 (includes first draft, peer critique, all project files, final .PDF version, and project narrative)

In class: Finish watching Helvetica, discussion

Assignment for next class: Read White Space chapter 9 (working with photos and illustrations). Complete Foundations Chapter 4 only through exercise 7 on page 82 (so stop when you get to exercise 8).  Also complete Foundations Chapter 5. In the correct Blackboard dropbox, submit the .psd file you create for exercise 3 ending on page 102. You should work through the whole Chapter 5, but only submit the .psd file you create at the end of exercise 3. Be sure to also read the introduction to Section 2 on pages 59-62.

Estimated time to complete Chapter 4 is 20-30 minutes. For Chapter 5, I estimate 60 minutes.

Monday 2/16

Due: Foundations Chapters 4 and 5 (creating digital photographs). See special instructions above.

Bring your Foundations textbook to class today. If you did not complete Chapter 5, bring all the project files that you started for that chapter.

In class: Starting out with Photoshop

Assignment for next class: Complete Foundations Chapter 6 (color models). Only upload the harmony-final.psd and contrast-final.psd files to Blackboard.

Wednesday 2/18

Due:  Foundations Chapter 6 (color models). See special instructions above.

In class: Continuing with Photoshop

Assignment for next class: Read “Little History of Photography” by Walter Benjamin (pronounced “Ben-ya-meen”) (posted on Blackboard). You will find “The New Vision of Photography” to be helpful context for Benjamin’s essay.

Friday 2/20

In class: Discuss Walter Benjamin reading

Assignment for next class: Complete Triptych mini project for Monday. Also read excerpt from Photomontage by Dawn Ades (posted on Blackboard, approx. 12 pgs. of text) and “Hannah Hoch and the Dada Montage – Before Digital” by Meghan Maloney.

Monday 2/23

Due: Triptych mini project and reading assignment

In class: discuss Dawn Ades reading; share Triptych projects

Assignment for next class: Begin working on Foundations Chapter 8 (estimated time to complete is 2-4 hours) and read “Collage Artist Darrel Rees Shares His Top Tips on Mastering the Craft”

Wednesday 2/25

In class: Work on Foundations Chapter 8 and talk about “Collage Artist Darrel Rees Shares His Top Tips on Mastering the Craft”

Assignment for next class: Complete Foundations Chapter 8 (submit your final collage to Blackboard) and work on Project 2

Friday 2/27

Due: Foundations (select, copy, paste, collage) Chapter 8 

In class: Work on project 2

Assignment for next class: Complete first draft of project 2 (Dada photomontage)

Monday 3/2

Due: Project 2 (Dada photomontage) first draft

In class: Critiques

Assignment for next class: Complete written peer critique on Blackboard discussion forum.

Wednesday 3/4

Due: Written peer critique

In class: Introduction to Audacity and sound design mini project.

Assignment  for next class: Complete final draft of project 2.

Friday 3/6

Due: Project 2 final draft (includes first draft, peer critique, final .jpg version, and project narrative with list of sources)

Assignment  for next class: Read interview with Walter Murch, “An Introduction to Film Sound” (more about production), and excerpt from “Sound Matters” (more about interpretation).

Monday 3/16

In class, discuss reading: interview with Walter Murch, “An Introduction to Film Sound,” and excerpt from “Sound Matters”

Wednesday 3/18

Watch Press Pause Play on your own (no class meeting today, Rachael out of town)

Work on sound design mini project, e.g. go through video editing tutorials on your own.

Thursday 3/19

Mid-term grades posted

Friday 3/20

Discuss Press Pause Play on Blackboard (no class meeting today, Rachael out of town)

Assignment  for next class: Read White Space Chapter 11 (Storyboarding) and storyboard the “example of good sound design” clip you brought to class on 3/16.

Monday 3/23

In class: working with sound and moving images, work on soundscape mini project, discuss White Space Chapter 11 (storyboarding). For today, storyboard the “example of good sound design” clip you brought to class on 3/16.

Assignment  for next class: Read Yale Guide to Film Analysis

Wednesday 3/25

In class: discuss storyboarding and Yale Guide to Film Analysis

Assignment  for next class: work on Project 3 and read “Good video editing techniques to consider”

Friday 3/27

Due: Sound design mini project

Please also bring a storyboard for Project 3 to class today.

In class: work on Project 3. For today, read “Good video editing techniques to consider”

Monday 3/30

Editing in-class work day / troubleshooting

Wednesday 4/1

Due: Project 3 first draft

Friday 4/3

No class (Easter)

Monday 4/6

No class (Easter)

Wednesday 4/8

Due: Post your project pitch on Blackboard

In class: 2-minute lightning talks. Vote for your top three project choices by Thursday at noon.

Assignment  for next class: Read 9-page excerpt from Wysocki and Lynch [PDF] on advocacy.

Friday 4/10

In class: Discuss Wysocki and Lynch [PDF] .  Website groups assigned today, and we will hold group meetings and look at case studies/inspiration for Project 4.

Assignment for next class: Finish project 3 and complete a Director’s Commentary video OR write a project narrative.

Monday 4/13

Due: Project 3 final version

Assignment for next class: read White Space Chapter 13 (designing for the web)

Wednesday 4/15

Due: Project milestone 1 (statement of purpose)

In class: planning a project and making a site map. Be sure that you have read Wysocki and Lynch Chapter 8 and White Space Chapter 13 by today.

Friday 4/17

Due: Project milestone 2 (Site map)

MEET IN BRONSTEIN HALL TODAY

In class: Boardstorming / site setup

Assignment  for next class: Read White Space Chapter 10 (Infographics)

Monday 4/20

In class: infographics case studies

Wednesday 4/22

Due: Project milestone 3 (Individual contributions)

Assignment  for next class: Foundations Chapter 13 (revision)

Friday 4/24

MEET IN BRONSTEIN HALL TODAY

Talk about Chapter 13.

Monday 4/27

Due: Project milestone 4 (Advocacy website first draft)

Assignment  for next class: Write website critiques in a Google document and add the document to one of the following shared folders:

– section D01 (11:15AM) folder is here

– section D03 (9:05AM) folder is here

Please title your document with a logical file name, like “Tim Tebow’s critique of family farms advocacy website.” I know that’s long, but it will help avoid confusion.

Wednesday 4/29

Due: website critiques 

Assignment  for next class: Foundations Chapter 12 (making a design portfolio)

I am no longer asking you to turn in this homework, but you will find this chapter (Foundations Chapter 12) helpful since it explains how you should set-up your final exam portfolio.

Friday 5/1

Due: Foundations Chapter 12

Upload the final exercise 7 .pdf files to Blackboard.

In class: Laying out the final portfolio / exam

Assignment  for next class: Finalize project 4 (advocacy website)

Monday 5/4

Due: Advocacy website final version

In class: show and tell, additional prep for the final exam

Tuesday 5/5, Reading day