Week 1 9.3

Composition

Welcome!

Lecture — Composition

Activity — Group compositions

Introduce — Composition Project

Homework — Sketches for Week 1, Lines, are due next Thursday

Week 2 9.8 & 10

Composition

Activity / Discussion — The design process

Discuss — Critique and how to give / receive feedback

Review — Composition sketches

Homework — Post 60 sketches to Slack

Week 3 9.15 & 24

Composition

Activity — Generative compositions

Review — 60 new sketches

Homework — Final Project due next Thursday (9 enlarged compositions on nice paper)

Week 4 9.22 & 24

Composition / Symbol

Final Critique — Composition Project

Introduce — Symbol Project

Homework — 50 small symbol sketches due next Thursday

Week 5 9.29 & 10.1

Symbol

Activity — Letterforms as shapes

Activity — Drawing connections

Lecture — Symbol

Review — Sketches

Homework — Symbol pasteups

Week 6 10.6 & 8

Symbol

Activity — Re-inspiration

Discuss — Semiotics and Gestalt

Review — Symbol pasteups

Homework — Symbol Project due next Thursday

Week 7 10.13 & 15

Symbol Due

Final Critique — Symbol Project

Homework — None, Enjoy your week :)

Week 8 10.20 & 22

Color

Activity — Perceiving color

Lecture — Color, Part 1

Introduce — Color Project

Read / Discuss — Readings listed in the Color Project

Tutorial — Class Instagram account

Homework — Color Project due next week

Week 9 10.27 & 29

Color Due

Final Critique / Discussion — Color

Lecture — Color, Part 2

Lecture — Motion

Introduce — Motion Project

Homework — Wait icon sketches in a series of frames

Week 10 11.3 & 5

Motion

Activity — Excel animations

Show and tell — Wait icons

Review — Motion frame sketches

Tutorial — Creating Photoshop animations

Homework — Animate your icon in Photoshop

Week 11 10.10 & 12

Motion

Activity — Design a book

Review — Animated icon rough drafts

Homework — Motion Project due next Thursday

Week 12 11.17 & 19

Motion

Final Critique — Motion

Lecture — Sequence

Introduce — Sequence Project

Activity — Bookbinding

Activity — Narrative arcs (if time)

Homework — Start sketching storyboard frames

Week 13 11.24 & 26

Thanksgiving

No Class

Homework — Produce a rough draft of your GIF in Photoshop

Week 14 12.1 & 3

Sequence

Lecture — Websites and basic coding

Review — Sequence rough drafts (on the computer)

Homework — Sequence Project due next Thursday

Week 15 12.8 & 10

Sequence

Final Critique — Sequence Project

Homework — Any revised work you want to turn in to receive a new grade

Week 16 12.15 & 17

Critique Week

No Class

Any Revised Work Due