Assignments
Projects
Required projects:
- Project 1: Silhouette Illustration (Festival)
- Project 2: Travel Poster Illustration (Amtrak)
- Project 3: Holiday Card Illustration
- Project 4: Student Choice (choose from list below)
Student choice projects:
- Project 5: Architecture Poster Illustration
- Project 6: Biography Book Cover Illustration
- Project 7: Scientific Illustration
- Project 8: Newspaper Editorial Spot Illustration
- Project 9: Step-By-Step Instruction Illustration
- Project 10: The Illustrated Novel
- Project 11: Vinyl Album Cover Illustration
- Project 12: Hand-Generated Type (Wine Label)
Exercises
- Exercise 1: Personal Process Page and Publishing
- Exercise 2: Editorial Spot Illustration (Coffee)
- Exercise 3: Michael Schwab Poster
- Exercise 4: Illustration Collections (Fish)
- Exercise 5: Perspective Drawing (City)
- Exercise 6: Photoshop Brushes
- Exercise 7: Concept Art
Field Trips
Class Handouts
- AIGA: Design Process Framework
- AIGA: How to Write a Design Brief
- Billboards (examples)
- Billboards: OAAA
- Billboards: OBBIE Awards Hall of Fame
- Billboards: Adam's Outdoor Advertising
- Client Brief (example)
- Common Graphics Formats
- Core Fonts Specimen Sheets
- Designers Toolbox (web mockups, envelope sizes, resources, etc)
- Gregg Berryman's Notes: Process *
- Gregg Berryman's Notes: Seeing *
- Gregg Berryman's Notes: The Grid *
- Illustrator: Finger Dance from The Illustrator WOW Book
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Common Macintosh
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Common Windows
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Illustrator
- Logos (examples)
- Marketing Communications
- Prepress Checklist
- Thumbnail Sketches (examples)
- Scanning and resolution
- USPS mailing sizes
- Vocabulary Wheel
*Gregg Berryman's Notes on Graphic Design and Visual Communication is available in the Parkland Library