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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
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