GDS 293 Portfolio Seminar
Course Documents
Instructor: Paul Young
Projects
Exercises
- Exercise 1: Personal Process Page
(and publishing) - Exercise 2: Cargo CMS
- Exercise 3: HTML Portfolio Web Site Template
- Exercise 4: HTML/Javascript Slideshow (JQuery Lightbox)
- Exercise 5: XML Slideshow with Fireworks
- Exercise 6: XML Slideshow with SimpleViewer
- Exercise 7: Picasa Slide Show with JQuery
Assignments
Field Trips
- Field Trip 1: McKenzie Wagner
- Field Trip 2: Horizon Hobby
- Field Trip 3: Adams Outdoor
- Field Trip 4: Human Kinetics
- Field Trip 5: Champaign Public Library
- Field Trip 6: Roberts Design Company
- Field Trip 7: Studio 2D
Parkland Resources
- GDS News & Announcements Group
- Adobe Font Finder
- delicious.com/parkland.gds (Internet resources for graphic designers)
- Facebook
- Macintosh Studio Policies
- Macintosh Studio Use FAQ Wiki
- my.parkland.edu (Cobra Learning, student email, WebAvisor, more...)
- Parkland Academic Calendar
- Parkland Center for Academic Success (Peer Tutoring, Writing Center, more...)
- Parkland Library
- Photospin (high resolution stock images)
Class
Handouts
- Blank IE browser window (for sketching)
- Blank 1024x768 browser chrome PNGs (IE7) (Firefox) (Safari)(more from designerstoolbox.com)
- Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
- Common
Graphics Formats
- Core Fonts Specimen Sheets
- Domain name registration and custom email (FAQ)
- Illustrator:
Finger Dance from The Illustrator WOW Book
- Keyboard
Shortcuts: Common Macintosh
- Keyboard
Shortcuts: Common Windows
- Keyboard
Shortcuts: Illustrator
- Recent Parkland graduates links
- Thumbnail Sketches (examples)
- Self-promotion Identity Sample
- Web Design Site Maps (Examples)
- Vocabulary
Wheel
Also see the Handouts & Reference Page
