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Tentative Class Schedule

week 1
Monday Jan 11

 

Review syllabus + course structure, Handout vital stat/info sheets/sign
Introduce semester projects & assignments
Lecture: Design Principles

Assignment
Order InDesign book online
Look up class web site
Bring 3-ring binder and sketchbook to class

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week 1
Wednesday Jan 13
 

Lecture: Design process
Introduce Project 1: Magazine ad for Art department
Tutorial: Photoshop for designers (recap)

Assignment
25 sketches for Magazine ad

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week 2
Monday Jan 18
 

Martin Luther King Day: No class

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week 2
Wednesday Jan 20
 

Review sketches, work on refining the concept with further layout sketches
Photoshop tutorial 2: In class demo and exercise

Assignment
Finish exercise
Photograph, illustrate, scan necessary visuals

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week 3
Monday Jan 25
 

Lecture: Text and image
Hand in Masking exercise
Review refined layout sketches
Review visuals, edit

Assignment
Write necessary copy

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week 3
Wednesday Jan 27
 

Work on ad layouts

Assignment
Prepare a rough layout for review

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week 4
Monday Feb 1
 

Small group review of rough layouts
Tutorial: Illustrator 1
In class work on ad layouts

Assignment
Print, mount and prepare for critique

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week 4
Wednesday Feb 3
 

Magazine ad critique

Introduce Pacific Seminar III book cover project
Lecture: book covers

Assignment
Incorporate feedback to ad and reprint if necessary, prepare to hand in
25 sketches for PACS3 covers

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week 5
Monday Feb 8
 

Magazine ad due
Review 25 sketches for PACS3 covers
Tutorial: Illustrator 2

Assignment
Refine 3 sketches and start obtaining visuals
Finish exercises

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week 5
Wednesday Feb 10
 

Group review of refined sketches (I will not be in class)
Work on visuals, scan if necessary

Assignment
Create / obtain all visuals, digitise
Create rough layouts, print

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week 6
Monday Feb 15
 

President's Day: No class

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week 6
Wednesday Feb 17
 

Review rough layouts in preliminary critique
Tutorial: Illustrator 3

Assignment
Refine layouts and prepare for critique

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week 7
Monday Feb 22
 

PACS 3 Book Cover pre-critique
Work on incorporating feedback

Assignment
Prepare to hand in and for presentations

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week 7
Wednesday Feb 24
 

PACS 3 Book Cover Presentations, project due
Introduce Becoming Famous Morph assignment

Assignment
A famous person and a portrait of you that you will morph into each other and sketch out the illustrations/caricatures: 20 sketches

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week 8
Monday Mar 1
 

Review sketches
Tutorial: Illustrator 5
Work on refining the steps and making the transformation change in equal intervals

Assignment
Digitize photo/illustration of your person and convert to vector

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week 8
Wednesday Mar 3
 

Review vectors of your person
Continue progress on Becoming Famous

Assignment
Complete two intermediate steps

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week 9
Mar 9-11
 

Enjoy your break

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week 10
Monday Mar 15
 

Review Becoming Famous Morph progress
In class work on Becoming Famous

Assignment
Complete third intermediate step, print for pre-critique

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week 10
WednesdayMar 17
 

Pre-critique
Refine all steps

Assignment
Refine all steps

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week 11
Monday Mar 22
 

Introduce CD packaging design project
Refine all steps

Assignment
Print, mount and prepare for critique
Find an artist to create a CD packaging for, bring photos, existing CD covers and other relevant research to class

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week 11
Wednesday Mar 24
 

Becoming Famous Morph critique
Review research on your artist
Discussion: CD covers

Assignment
25 sketches for CD cover
Incorporate feedback on Groucho, prepare to hand in

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week 12
Monday Mar 29
 

Groucho Morph due
Review 25 sketches for CD cover
Tutorial: InDesign 1

Assignment
Refine 3 sketches

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week 12
Wednesday Mar 31
 

Review refined sketches
Tutorial: InDesign 2
In class work on CD cover

Assignment
Create artwork for the cover, scan, clean up, place type

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week 13
Monday Apr 5
 

Student travel day, no class

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week 13
Wednesday Apr 7
 

Review artwork for cover, clean it up
Place typography

Assignment
Create 5 different layouts for pre-critique, print

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week 14
Monday Apr 12
 

Pre-critique of 5 layouts for CD cover
In class work on CD cover

Assignment
Incorporate feedback and refine 1 layout

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week 14
Wednesday Apr 14
 

Review CD cover layout, start on back and CD label

Assignment
Create a CD label and back of the cover to go with the front cover

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week 15
Monday Apr 19
 

Review CD labels and back covers, refine
Start work on CD booklet

Assignment
Create a working grid and place sample elements in 2 page spreads

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week 15
Wednesday Apr 21
 

Review booklet grid and 2 page spreads
Place further elements on grid, revise
Decide on headline size, placement, color
Decide on body copy size, placement, color

Assignment
Create 6 page spreads with all elements placed

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week 16
Monday Apr 26
 

Review page spreads
Continue on booklet development
Tutorial: Interactive PDFs: InDesign and Acrobat Interactive features
Continue with booklet layout

Assignment
Print all CD materials for pre-critique, booklet finished
Create an interactive PDF of your booklet

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week 16
Wednesday Apr 28
 

CD materials per-critique
Review interactive PDFs

Assignment
Incorporate feedback
Create a mock up of all CD materials
Prepare for final critique

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week 17
Monday May 3
 

Final critique, CD project due,
attendance mandatory for passing the class

   
 
 
 
 

marie a. hannigova • assistant professor • department of the arts • university of the pacific• mhannigova@pacific.edu