What is media design? Visual rhetoric? Visual culture? Who do we serve? What's the message?

No class Monday (Martin Luther King day)
No class Tuesday (reading and work day)

Due: Currency assignment

InDesign | Logos & Business Cards

Due: Currency assignment 2; 3 logo ideas

Read for next week: InD 8-10, 15; Debunking Myths
Single Image

Finish InDesign basics | Identifont.com

Due: type exercise (i s o l a t i o n; etc.)

Tables & Resumes

Due: by end of class: biz card and letterhead

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Text wraps & Layers

Due: resumes (3:30 p.m. Thursday for Sect. A; 3:30 p.m. Friday for Sect. B)

Advertising: Flyers and Ad Slicks
Grids & Guides in InDesign

Flyers due: Monday, Feb. 18, 10:15 a.m. (Section A); Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2 p.m. (Section B); printed out and submitted

Newsletters -- open lab with coaching

Newsletters due: Monday, Feb. 25, 10:15 a.m. (Section A); Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2 p.m. (Section B); printed out and submitted.

Magazine layout

Newsletter re-submits due Wednesday, Feb. 27, 10:15 a.m. (Section A); Thursday, Feb. 28, 2 p.m.; printed out and submitted.

Magazine layout open lab

Introduction to Web | Jeanne Cahill of ARC Rome visiting | Bob Frank visiting >> client meetings

Magazine inside spread due: Section A – Wednesday, March 5; Section B – Thursday, March 6 at the beginning of class. No late submissions; we have guest speakers!

Web: CSS

Quiz

DW 7-8

use of tabs | use of tabs 2 | backgrounds | backgrounds 2 | clipart | animation (careful) | icons | visibone (for color & design)

Web: Type and Tables

Vogue cover | Landmark backgrounds | COM 300: Visual Rhetoric

Catching up: DW 7-8 (no quiz)

Tutorials

Web: Rollovers & Behaviors; Media Objects

New York Magazine cover

Web: Your Web sites | Barack Obama and Gotham | campaign site | campaign artifacts

Vogue cover reaction | Vogue cover reaction 2

DUE: site map, storyboards for home page and sectional front pages, color palette (about 5 colors by hexadecimal)

Web Design No-nos

Web work: Launching the shuttle | Web rubric (Word .doc download)

Layout | Navigation & Theme

Obama's type: Gotham

Good example of a portfolio site

Web work

Web work

Web work

Due: Viking Vision Awards flyers for a dropped worst grade

Due: Finished Web sites (at the beginning of class, not during); You will give us a quick tour of your site during class.

Wrapping it up | Course evaluations

No class Wednesday, April 30 -- good luck on finals!

Submit to the professor the full URL for your published Web site, as well as a paragraph or two covering:

• What you were trying to do (the goal of your Web site)
• The audience(s) you are trying to reach
• Anything else to help me understand your site (limitations, wish list of what you'd like to add with more time & know-how, missing elements, etc.)
• The grade you feel you earned on the Web site, with a rationale or justification for that letter grade

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By the end of this course, my goal is for students to:

• Achieve competencies with computers, scanners, printers, and design- and publishing-related software tools.
• Learn about design strategies and principles to make more functional and creative publications, images and other visual materials.
• Learn visual ways to think and convey information.
• Know, understand and apply many of the principles and theories of graphic design.
• Meet deadlines.

• InDesign QuickStart Guide, by Sandee Cohen (Peachpit Press)
• Dreamweaver 8 Hands-on Training, by Daniel Short and Caro Green (Peachpit Press)
• Design Workshop, by Robin Williams and John Tollett (Peachpit Press)
• Memory for storing and backing up work

• Amy Arntson, Graphic Design Basics
• Ryan Conover, Graphic Communications Today, 4th ed.
• Irene Hammerich and Claire Harrison, Developing Online Content
• Steve Krug, Don’t Make Me Think
• Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton, Web Style Guide 2
• Robin Williams and John Tollett, The Non-Designers Web Book (Peachpit)

Instructor: Dr. Brian Carroll
Office: Laughlin Hall 100
Office phone: 368.6944 (anytime)
E-mail: bc@berry.edu (not bcarroll or bdcarroll)
Home page: www.cubanxgiants.com
Blog: Wandering Rocks

Policies

• Attendance: Attendance is a part of your grade. Be here every day on time, just as you would for a job, surgery or even a haircut. Everyone gets one unexcused absence >> no questions asked. Stuff happens. After that, unexcused absences will result in deductions from the "professionalism and participation" portion of your grade -- one point for each unexcused absence and/or lateness to class. What is excused is at the instructor's discretion, so you are best served by discussing situations and extraordinary circumstances prior to class whenever possible.

• Distractions: This instructor is easily distracted. Ringing cell phones, therefore, will be lobbed out of the classroom window. Chatter during lecture will result in "professionalism and participation" point deductions, as will Facebooking or other Internet use during lecture or topic presentations, particularly after warnings have been issued. If you have to arrive late or leave early, clear it with the instructor beforehand whenever possible. Basic civility is what is expected. If you are at all unclear as to what “basic civility” implies, the professor would be more than happy to elaborate.

• Preparation: Complete the assignments and be ready to tackle the activities of the day. Be ready to discuss and debate ideas, approaches and opinions.

• Deadlines: When an in-class/in-lab assignment is due, it is due. This reflects the reality of many mass communication professions and work environments. Late in-class assignments will not be accepted unless permission for extension had been granted prior to deadline. Turn in whatever has been done by deadline. If we have out-of-class assignments, they will be accepted for up to one week after deadline, but late assignments will be penalized. Remember, penalized work is not necessarily the same as 0 (zero) points. Complete out-of-class assignments and learn from them, even if they are turned in late. After an assignment is more than a week late, however, that work is not eligible for points. Please note: If a student misses a class when an assignment is due and that student has a legitimate excuse, the professor will accept the late assignment without penalty at his discretion. The professor defines what constitutes a legitimate excuse and reserves the right not to grant full credit for assignments turned in under these circumstances.

How you will be graded:

To compute your final grade, add up your point totals, apply the appropriate percentages, then refer to the grading system summarized here:

Berry Viking code
Academic dishonesty in any form is unacceptable because any breach in academic integrity, however small, strikes destructively at the college’s life and work. The code is not just policy, it is foundational to the academic environment we enjoy and in which scholarship thrives. It is in force in this classroom.

For the complete Viking Code, please consult the student handbook. In short, each student is “expected to recognize constituted authority, to abide by the ordinary rules of good conduct, to be truthful, to respect the rights of others.” The College’s mission, in part, commits to a community of integrity and justice. During an era when ethics are sometimes suspect, there seems no higher goal toward which students ought to strive than that of personal honor.

Students with special needs
If you have special needs of any kind, including learning disabilities, please let me know. Come discuss it with me. I want to make sure on the front end that we prevent any problems associated with the course. Martha Van Cise, director of the Academic Support Center, suggests: “Students with disabilities who believe that they may need accommodation in this course are encouraged to contact the Academic Support Center in Krannert Room 301 as soon as possible to ensure that such accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.”

Finally, I believe we are here for a good time, not a long time, so let’s have some fun!

Sites & Resources:

Evolution of Type
Thinking With Type
http://www.3dtextmaker.com
http://www.mediabuilder.com
AIGA
Web Style Guide, 2d edition
Geocities
Google Images
Color presentation
Web pages that suck
Bob's Print Guide

Introduction to Photoshop
Using Dreamweaver
Lynda.com tutorial for DW CS3

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