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.

COMD1162_HitchingsSyllabus
COMD1162_StudentPresentations
COMD1162_Week1-Terms
COMD1162_Project1Overview

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
• Research: Voting themes, ‘democracy’- words associations
• Get-out-the-vote campaign: Post five words to my blog that you associate with the definition of a ‘democracy’.
• Sign-up for OpenLab
• 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.

Resources

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