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today's updates

Jan 26     - If you want to make up your quiz, you'll need to ask me about that. Everyone else, congrats, you've passed the quiz!

Jan 24     - Our Little Quiz. Review this and this and this and the artists we looked at here and here and here and you'll do great!

Jan17:

• We need to POSTPONE OUR FIRST QUIZ: it will happen next TUESDAY (Jan 24).
• LAB HOURS.
• Two Opportunities, if you want to put your videos into the larger (Ft. Lauderdale) Art Party World. For ATN,  EMAIL ME.(here's an example of the sort of video material ATN is looking for). For V-Day, click here.

Jan 12      - Need your Wordpress Address!

Jan. 10 -

     OK, if you want to change the look'n'feel of your Wordpress blog for the course, click on the APPEARANCE icon on the DASHBOARD page. The themes that will      absolutely work are: Piano Black, Enterprise, Twenty Eleven, Modularity Lite, Parament, Titan by The Theme Foundry, and more . Themes that don't work:      Motion by Volcanic.

COURSE OVERVIEW

What the course is about?

 

Here's my current little chart on Multimedia, and here's another one. 

 

Production Component - Digital Tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)

 

Visual Art and Design Component - Theory and History

 

Interactive Multimedia Sequence - 3110, 3711, 4713, 4930, 4943

 

The Wiki Tutorial 

Welcome to The Wiki!

The Lab - Not Used to a Mac - what do I do?

 

 

Intro - Visual Literacy, Design, and Vocabulary 

 

Frameworks for Design

Your Visual Vocabulary

 

Part 1 - Bitmap Fundamentals (PhotoShop)

 

Bitmaps and Vectors

 

Color Modes and File Formats

 

PhotoShop 

Photoshop Work Flow

Inputs: photos, digital media, native sources

Output: Master files, saving for particular applications

 

Photoshop Interface - Getting to know your way around it.

 

Selections, Moving Pixels, and Working with Layers

 

Cut, Copy, Paste

 

Layers: Duplicating, Arranging, Opacity, Merging, Layer Modes, Masks

 

Image Adjustments:

 

Image Manipulations: Filters & Effects

 

Actions and Automation

 

 

Making a Layer Mask

 

More Advanced Techniques and Recipes

•  Custom Header for Wordpress Blog

•  Background graphic for web page

•  Inline graphic for web page

•  Navigation Bar for web page

 

 

Part 2 - Vector Fundamentals (Illustrator)

 

Illustrator Big Picture: The Bezier Curve

 

basics 2: option+ move, duplicate, lock guides, crop area, coumpound paths, toggle view.

 

Letterforms and Type

 

Clipping Path

 

Pathfinder

 

How Illustrator and Photoshop work together

 

Compound Paths

 

Illustrator, Text Layout, and Typography

 

Trace Bitmap

 

 

Part 3 - Visual Design History

 

Graphic Design History Overview

 

Modern Art (Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism)

 

DADA and the Avant-Garde

 

Typography and Futurism

 

Dada photomontage

 

Illustration and Poster Design (1905-1930s)

 

Constructivism

 

DeStijl

 

Logo Art and Symbols

 

Bauhaus

 

The New Typography

 

Design in the 50s and 60s - 70s

 

International Design: the Formation of the New York School

 

More Swiss Design

 

The Blue Note Album Covers

 

Impact of Advertising and Art Direction

 

Visual Directions in Modern Art - Late 1940's to the 1970's

 

Rise of PostModernism

 

Digital Design