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GDS 293 Portfolio Seminar

Home Page: gds.parkland.edu/gds/293
Instructor: Paul Young

 

    Spring
2008
Tentative Schedule Projects & Assignments
1 Mon Jan
14
GDS News & Announcements
The Sketchbook
Blogging Assignment
Homework Assignments
Project 1: assigned
Project 2: assigned
2 Wed Jan
16

Portfolio presentation
Résumé Seminar (4pm)

Homework 1 due (11:55pm)
Project 1: research due (3pm)
Project 3: assigned
Project 4: assigned

3 Mon Jan
21
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday
(no class)
 
4 Wed Jan
23

Guest speaker: Kerri Hurd
Exercise 1: Personal Projects Page

Homework 2 due (11:55pm)
Project 1: sketches/résumé due (3pm)
5 Mon Jan
28
Field Trip 1: Precision Graphics  
6 Wed Jan
30

Guest speaker: Anni Poppen

Homework 3 due (11:55pm)
Project 1: b&w proof due (3pm)
7 Mon Feb
4
Field Trip 2: News-Gazette  
8 Wed Feb
6
  Homework 4 due (11:55pm)
Project 1: color proof due (3pm)
9 Mon Feb
11
Field Trip 3: Champaign Public Library  
10 Wed Feb
13
Exercise 2: Portfolio Website
Homework 5 due (11:55pm)
Project 1: applications proof due (3pm)
11 Mon Feb
18
Field Trip 4: Surface 51  
12 Wed Feb
20
 

Homework 6 due (11:55pm)
Project 1: final critique (3pm)

13 Mon Feb
25
Field Trip 5: Horizon Hobby  
14 Wed Feb
27
  Homework 7 due (11:55pm)
Project 2: sketches/site map due (3pm)
15 Mon Mar
3
Field Trip 6: Spinlight
16 Wed Mar
5
MIDTERM REVIEW
Submit all projects and assignments for in-progress grading
Homework 8 due (11:55pm)
17 Mon Mar
10
Portfolio Editing Seminar #1
(C123 by appointment)
18 Wed Mar
12
Field Trip 7: Studio 2D Homework 9 due (11:55pm)
Project 2: mock-ups/text site due (3pm)
  Mon Mar
17
(Spring Vacation)  
  Wed Mar
19
(Spring Vacation)  
19 Mon Mar
24
Portfolio Editing Seminar #2
(C123 by appointment)
20 Wed Mar
26

Exercise 3: Flash Slide Show

 

Homework 10 due (11:55pm)
Project 2: template due (3pm)
21 Mon Mar
31

Exercise 4: HTML Slide Show

 
22 Wed Apr
2
Exercise 5: Animated Menu Homework 11 due (11:55pm)
23 Mon Apr
7
Portfolio Editing Seminar #3
(C123 by appointment)
 
24 Wed Apr
9
  Homework 12 due (11:55pm)
25 Mon Apr
14
QUIZ  
26 Wed Apr
16
Exercise 6: Clipping Path Homework 13 due (11:55pm)
Project 2: final critique (3pm)
27 Mon Apr
21
Lecture: Interviewing for success  
28 Wed Apr
23
FINAL REVIEW
Submit all projects and assignments for final grading

Homework 14 due (11:55pm)
Project 3: due
Project 4: due

29 Mon Apr
28
PRACTICE INTERVIEWS
with Paul Young (C123)
 
30 Wed Apr
30

PRACTICE INTERVIEWS
with Paul Young (C123)

 
31 Mon May
5
PRACTICE INTERVIEWS
with industry professionals
(C123 or D187)
32 Wed May
7
PRACTICE INTERVIEWS
with industry professionals
(C123 or D187)
 
33 Mon May
12
Field Trip 8: Jupiter's (free pizza 2-4pm)
(also see Finals Week Schedule )
 


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