GDS 120 Graphic Design I
Course Content

(Archived from 2019)

Projects

• Project 1: Website Mock-up
• Project 2: T-Shirt Design
• Project 3: Package Design
• Project 4: Book Cover

Assignments

• Process Book
• Visual Diary
• Homework

Exercises

Photoshop Exercises

• Exercise 1.1 Process Page (download starter files)
• Exercise 1.2: Web Mockup (Kate)
• Exercise 1.3: Background Blur (Soldiers)
• Exercise 1.4: Type Effects (Book Cover)
• Exercise 1.5: Channels (Mona)
• Exercise 1.6: Displacement Map (Carve)
• Exercise 1.7: Animated GIF (Prairie Gardens)

Illustrator Exercises

• Exercise 2.1: Curves (Colossus)
• Exercise 2.2: Calligraphic Lines (Tessler)
• Exercise 2.3: Packaging (Simplicity)
• Exercise 2.4: Joining Primitives (Horse)
• Exercise 2.5: Pathfinder (Matrix)
• Exercise 2.6: Envelope Distort (History)
• Exercise 2.7: Trace (One On One)
• Exercise 2.8: Art Brushes (Scratch)
• Exercise 2.9: Logo (Auditor Assistant)
• Exercise 2.10: Blending (Airplane)

InDesign Exercises

• Exercise 3.1 Book Cover (Winona)
• Exercise 3.2: Flyer (Weiss)
• Exercise 3.3: Newspaper Ad (Miko)
• Exercise 3.4: Newspaper Ad (First Fed)

Demos

• Cleaning Up Concept Sketches

Lectures

• The Creative Process

Class Handouts

• Blank browser chrome for student show mounts (flat, vector)
• Client Brief (example)
• Common Graphics Formats
• Fonts: Parkland GDS core specimen sheets
• Illustrator: Finger Dance from The Illustrator WOW Book
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Common Macintosh
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Common Windows
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Illustrator
• Ingimages (high resolution stock images: login required)
• Scanning and resolution
• Thumbnail Sketches (examples)
• Typography Checklist 
• Typography Proofreaders' Marks 
• Typography Style Guide (Nick Shinn) 
• Vocabulary Wheel
• Web Browser Elements (for mock-ups)
• Web Browser Test Pattern (for re-sizing browser windows)

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