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
