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

Last updated: 8/28/10 Webmaster: Paul Young