GDS 108 Design Media and Principles
Course Documents
Instructor: Paul Young
Assignments
Projects
- Project 1: The Grid
- Project 2: Storyboard
- Project 3: Mass Transit Schematic
- Project 4: Book Cover Design
Exercises
- Exercise 1: Dreamweaver and XHTML
and Publishing - Exercise 2: Unity
- Exercise 3: Emphasis
- Exercise 4: Balance (Symmetry, Asymmetry,
Random)
- Exercise 5: Rhythm
- Exercise 6: Depth (Illusion of Space)
- Exercise 7: Map (Mass Transit Schematic)
- Exercise 8–14: Color
- Exercise 15: Book Cover (Winona)
- Exercise 16: CSS Basics (Happy Cog)
Lectures
Resources
- GDS News & Announcements Blog
- GDS Discussion Group
- C138 Open Studio Hours (also see Policies)
- C138 Studio Use FAQ Wiki
- delicious.com/parkland.gds (Internet resources for graphic designers)
- Photospin (high resolution stock images)
- Parkland Academic Calendar
- Parkland Center for Academic Success (Peer Tutoring, Writing Center, more...)
- Parkland Library
- Parkland Online (Email, Angel, Grades, Registration, more...)
Also see the Student Resources Page
Class
Handouts
- Classic Fonts Specimen Sheets
- Common
Graphics Formats
- Illustrator:
Finger Dance from The Illustrator WOW Book
- Keyboard
Shortcuts: Common Macintosh
- Keyboard
Shortcuts: Common Windows
- Keyboard
Shortcuts: Illustrator
- Process
- Sample
Thumbnail Sketches
- Scanning
and resolution
- Seeing
- Vocabulary
Wheel
- Welcome Letter
Last updated: 7/27/09 • Webmaster: Paul Young