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