• About the Program
• Career Opportunities
• Alumni Profiles
• Student Gallery
• Student Links
• Faculty

Assignments

• The Sketchbook
• Process Book
• Blogging Assignment
• Homework

 

Projects

• Project 1: Web Site Mock-up (also see final brief)
• Project 2: T-Shirt Design (also see final brief)
• Project 3: Package Design
• Project 4: CD Jewel Case

 

Exercises

Photoshop Exercises

• Exercise 1.1: Personal Projects Page
  (and Dreamweaver Publishing)
• Exercise 1.2: Web Site Mockup (Kate)
• Exercise 1.3: Background Blur (Soldiers)
• Exercise 1.4: Advanced Layers (Book Cover)
• Exercise 1.5: Extract (Susan)
• Exercise 1.6: Channels (Mona)
• Exercise 1.7: Displacement Map (Carve)
• Exercise 1.8: Animated GIF (Famous Dave's)

Illustrator Exercises

• Exercise 2.1: Curves (Colossus)
• Exercise 2.2: Calligraphic Lines (Tessler)
• Exercise 2.3: Joining Primitives (Horse)
• Exercise 2.4: Pathfinder (Matrix)
• Exercise 2.5: Envelope Distort (History)
• Exercise 2.6: Trace (One On One)
• Exercise 2.7: Art Brushes (Scratch)
• Exercise 2.8: Packaging (Simplicity)
• Exercise 2.9: Graph (Natural Gas)
• Exercise 2.10: Blending (Airplane)
• Exercise 2.11: Gradient Mesh (Bottle)

InDesign Exercises

• Exercise 3.1: Flyer (Weiss)
• Exercise 3.2: Newspaper Ad (First Fed)
• Exercise 3.3: CD Package (Russo)
• Exercise 3.4: Brochure (HRBR)
• Exercise 3.5: Form (Serai)

 

Lectures

• The Creative Process
• Making Presentations
• Award-winning logos

 

Resources

• GDS News & Announcements (or Subscribe)
• C138 Open Studio Hours (also see Policies)
• C138 Studio Use FAQ Wiki
• delicious.com/parkland.gds (Internet resources for graphic designers)
• Facebook (become a fan!)
• Getting Connected (Angel, student email, registration, more...)
• Photospin (high resolution stock images)
• Parkland Academic Calendar
• Parkland Center for Academic Success (Peer Tutoring, Writing Center, more...)
• Parkland Library
  
  
• 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
• Sample brief
• Sample Thumbnail Sketches
• Scanning and resolution
• Vocabulary Wheel
• Web Browser Elements (for mock-ups)
• Welcome Letter