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Links
Adobe site
www.adobe.com
Photoshop Illustrator links
www.photoshoptv.com Photoshop video podcast from the NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals
www.freeimages.co.uk
A place to find free photography
www.watchandlearnillustrator.com
A link to my Illustrator tutorials
www.tutorialized.com
A website with lots of tutorials including Photoshop and Illustrator.
Project 1 links
Simmons and Burke/ Google Grazing
simmonsandburke.com
Project 2 links
Surrealism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism
www.surrealist.com/what_is_surrealism.aspx
Project 3 Links
The Ideal You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U
Project 4 links
Magazine ad
Project 5 links
Visual Identity
Color Links
Color Matters
www.colormatters.com
This site looks at color from pretty much every angle, from color theory, science of color, cultural aspects and much more.
Here are some other color related sites
www.carnrightdesign.com/color4business/
www.worqx.com/color/
http://www.colorstrology.com/
www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs092/VA10/HTML/start.html
Typography
www.fonts.com This site is run by Monotype Corporation and has a great section on finding fonts.
www.itcfonts.com International Typeface Corporation
www.thinkingwithtype.com/ This a great resource for learning terminology, the anatomy of letterforms, grids and much more.
http://typography.art.udel.edu/index.html Letter spacing exercises for typography students
www.typehype.net/ Game based learning about typography, “World Of Warcraft” it isn’t.
http://helveticafilm.com/clips.html# Official site for the film about Helvetica the font
www.houseind.com/ Great source for well-designed retro fonts
www.dafont.com A good resource for free fonts.
www.emigre.com Great articles Émigré magazine ran from 1984 to 2005 I believe and printed 69 issues, now defunct the magazine left a valuable legacy. Zuzana Licko, one of the founding members who is one of the leading type designers around.
www.orangeitalic.com/ Small independent designers
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Download syllabus
Week by Week
[ Week 1 ]
School Closed for Presidents Day Holiday
[ Week 2 ]
Introduce the course
Where to find information
Intro to Photoshop
Intro project 1
simmonsandburke.com
Download class handout
Homework
Look at the work of Simmons and Burke
Start work on Project 1
[ Week 3 ]
Intro to Photoshop and comparing Illustrator with Photoshop
simmonsandburke.com
Download class handout
Homework
Look at the work of Simmons and Burke
Work on Project 1
[ Week 4 ]
Image capture
More about layers
Introduce project 2
Download class handout
Homework
Work on Project 2 - Surrealism
[ Week 5 ]
Image capture
Painting and retouching
Download class handout
Retouching image
Retouching handout
Homework
Work on Project 2 and 3
[ Week 6 ]
Clipping Groups and Adjustment layers
Coloring black and white artwork or photographs
Coloring blacka and white line art
Tracing in Illustrator
Download class handout
Label template
tracing handout
TracingVideo
Homework
Work on Project 2 and 3
[ Week 7 ]
Critique
Download class handout
Homework
Start working on the Scion ad
SPRING BREAK
[ Week 9 ]
Demos relating to Scion Ad project in both Photoshop and Illustrator
Download class handout
Flame image
Homework
Work on the Scion ad
[ Week 10 ]
Demos relating to Scion Ad project in both Photoshop and Illustrator
Download class handout
Homework
Work on the Scion ad
[ Week 11 ]
Illustrator Demos
Download class handout
Homework
Finish Scion ad
[ Week 12 ]
Critique
Introduce final project
Demos for logo design
Download class handout
Examples of logos
Homework
Work on ideas for logo design
[ Week 13 ]
Slicing in Photoshop
Making a web photo gallery
defining a site
Linking pages
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Web folder structure
Homework
Work on ideas for logo design
[ Week 14 ]
Review slicing
Flash animation from Illustrator
Download class handout
Homework
Work on identity program
[ Week 15 ]
Demo for setting up visual ID
Demo frame by frame animation in Photoshop
Download class handout
Souper Soup logo
Slicing Video Tutorial
Final Example
Homework
Finish project for next week
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