Welcome!

We will be working in close collaboration with Professor Devers who you have for English Composition 1, ENG 1101. Our classes are paired as part of a learning community and will allow us to explore relevant subject matter. Using the theme of food and culture, we will explore the creative process and principles of design. Ultimately students will be encouraged to discover new relationships between typographic form, space, and structure with the content from their own writing projects. Our leaning community is titled:

Eat Your Words
Food and its connection with identity and culture

Please see the handouts given in class today, as well as the lecture/ lesson topics, and the homework assignment due for next week.

ADV1162_HitchingsSyllabus
ADV1162_StudentPresentations
ADV1162_Week1-Terms

Lecture Topic
Introduction to the semester

• Introductions & Presentations
• Photoshop and Illustrator
• Vector vs. bitmap, print vs. web, resolution, saving, file formats, file management
• Workspace
• Type tools
• Name design exercise

Homework

• Chose a designer for in-class presentation (see handout above). Presentations start week3.
• Register for this blog to receive regular updates
• Send me a ‘professional’ email with your signature (contact information)
• Go to www.commarts.com and find one designer featured on the site who works with raster images, and then find another designers who works with vector. We will discuss in class next week. Copy and paste the links into a word document or an email to yourself, so you have them handy when needed in class.

Resources

• www.commarts.com
• www.aiga.com
• www.tdc.org
• www.adcglobal.org