This page contains links to lectures, slide shows, handouts and reference links from various graphic design and interactive design classes.
Lectures/Slide Shows
- Analyzing Web Sites
- Animation: GIF Banner Ads (examples)
- Animation: Keyframes (examples)
- Animation: Storyboards (examples)
- Billboards (creative examples)
- Coffee Illustrations (examples)
- Color Theory
- Composites (from worth1000.com)
- Creative Process
- Design Principles (Gestalt Theories)
- Illustrated Type (examples)
- Infographics (examples)
- Internet History
- Logos (examples)
- Merge (from worth1000.com)
- Silhouettes (examples)
- Surealism (Dali)
- Symbols (male/female)
- Theatre Posters (examples)
- Thumbnail sketches (examples)
- Type Basics
- Type History
- What is Graphic Design?
- Wireframe Web Layouts (examples)
- Wordmarks (examples)
Design History Lectures
- Why Study History?
- What is Graphic Design?
- Eight Ways to Look at Art
- The Origins of Print
- Graphic Arts Techniques
- The Prudential Logo
- Victorian Age
- Arts & Crafts
- Art Nouveau
- Early Modern
- Art Deco
- American Kitsch
- Late Modern
- Swiss / International
- Psychedelia
- Postmodern
- Deconstructivism
- Contemporary
- Design History Style Review
- Influential Designers Review
Handouts/Reference
- Adobe application preferences (how to reset)
- After Effects letterboxing instructions
- Application preferences (Mac Lab testing notes)
- Billboards: Adams Outdoor 201 (creative examples)
- Billboards: Adams Rules of Outdoor
- Billboards: OAAA's Creative Library
- Billboards: OBBIE Awards Hall of Fame
- Blank browser chrome for student show mounts (flat, vector)
- Blank browser chrome screenshots (cleaned-up PNGs)
(more from designerstoolbox.com) - Blank browser window (for sketching)
- Browser test pattern (for measuring browser windows)
- Client brief example (also see web version)
- Common graphics formats
- Design brief (how to write one) (AIGA)
- Design process framework (AIGA)
- Desktop picture with monitor resolutions:
(1024x768) (1280x960) (1680x1050) (2560x1440) - Envelope addressing requirements (USPS)
- Envelope sizes
- Fonts: Parkland GDS core specimen sheets
- Font Folio specimen sheets
- Graphic design history: styles timeline
- Gregg Berryman's Notes (Process, Seeing, The Grid)*
- Illustrator: finger dance from The Illustrator WOW Book
- InDesign multipage book template (for Parkland's print shop)
- Keyboard shortcuts (common): Macintosh or Windows
- Keyboard shortcuts: After Effects
- Keyboard shortcuts: Flash
- Keyboard shortcuts: Foreign Accents
- Keyboard shortcuts: Illustrator
- Lorem Ipsum ("greek" text)
- Marketing communications overview
- Model release form
- Photography: aperture and shutterspeed
- Prepress checklist
- Scanning and resolution
- Type Anatomy
- Type pronunciation guide
- Typography checklist
- Typography proofreaders' marks
- Typography style guide (Nick Shinn)
- Vocabulary wheel
- Web design CSS cheat sheet
- Web design HTML characters cheat sheet
- Web design code snippets
- Web design site maps (examples)
- Web design statistics
*Gregg Berryman's Notes on Graphic Design and Visual Communication is available in the Parkland Library