GDS 122 Graphic Design II
Course Documents
Instructors: John Havlik and Paul
Young
Assignments
Projects
- Project 1: Event Promotion Campaign (Parkland Theatre)
- Project 2: Billboard Campaign
- Project 3: Menu Design
- Project 4: Visual Branding
Exercises
- Exercise 1: Personal Process Page
(and publishing) - Exercise 2: Type Studies (Movie Titles)
- Exercise 3: Poster (Madama Buttefly)
- Exercise 4: Pixels and Resolution
- Exercise 5: Billboard (Holiday Inn)
- Exercise 6: Brochure Cover (Colt)
- Exercise 7: Systems of Visual Organization (Stamp)
- Exercise 8: Menu (Miko)
- Exercise 9: Catalog (Art Gallery)
- Exercise 10: Symbols (Bathroom Icons)
- Exercise 11: Logo (Auditor Assistant)
- Exercise 12: Identity (Henneman)
Resources
- GDS News & Announcements Group
- C138 Open Studio Hours (also see Policies)
- C138 Studio Use FAQ Wiki
- Adobe Font Finder
- delicious.com/parkland.gds (Internet resources for graphic designers)
- Facebook (become a fan!)
- my.parkland.edu (Angel, student email, WebAvisor, more...)
- Parkland Academic Calendar
- Parkland Center for Academic Success (Peer Tutoring, Writing Center, more...)
- Parkland Library
- Photospin (high resolution stock images)
Also see the Student Resources Page
Class
Handouts
- Billboards (examples)
- Client Brief (example)
- Client Brief (how to write one)
- Common
Graphics Formats
- Core Fonts Specimen Sheets
- Creative Process
- Design Process Framework
- Illustrator:
Finger Dance from The Illustrator WOW Book
- Keyboard
Shortcuts: Common Macintosh
- Keyboard
Shortcuts: Common Windows
- Keyboard
Shortcuts: Illustrator
- Logos (examples)
- Marketing Communications
- Prepress Checklist
- Thumbnail Sketches (examples)
- Seeing
- Scanning
and resolution
- Theatre Event Posters (examples)
- Vocabulary
Wheel
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