GDS 293 Portfolio Seminar
Course Documents
Instructors: Larry Ecker and Paul Young
Projects
Exercises
- Exercise 1: Personal Process Page
(and publishing
) - Exercise 2: Portfolio Web Site (Flash)
- Exercise 3: Flash Slide Show
- Exercise 4: HTML/Javascript Slide Show

Assignments
Field Trips
- Field Trip 1: Spinlight
- Field Trip 2: Wolfram Research
- Field Trip 3: Horizon Hobby
- Field Trip 4: University Press
- Field Trip 5: WILL AM-FM-TV
- Field Trip 6: Studio 2D
Resources
- GDS News & Announcements Group

- C138 Open Studio Hours (also see Policies)
- C138 Studio Use FAQ Wiki
- delicious.com/parkland.gds
(Internet resources for graphic designers) - delicious.com/parkland.gds/Paper

- delicious.com/parkland.gds/Portfolio

- delicious.com/parkland.gds/WebHosting

- Photospin
(high resolution stock images) - Parkland Academic Calendar

- Parkland Center for Academic Success
(Peer Tutoring, Writing Center, more...) - Parkland Library
- Getting Connected
(Angel, student email, registration, more...) - Vista Print

Also see the Student Resources Page
Class
Handouts
- Blank IE browser window (for sketching)

- Blank 1024x768 browser chrome PNGs (IE7) (Firefox) (Safari)
(more from designerstoolbox.com)
- Classic Fonts Specimen Sheets

- Common
Graphics Formats

- 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
- Sample
Thumbnail Sketches

- Self-promotion Identity Sample

- Web Design Site Maps (Examples)

- Vocabulary
Wheel

Last updated: 3/7/10 Webmaster: Paul Young