SEPTEMBER 30: INTRODUCTIONS

• Course introduction: instructors, students, outline, schedule, and the course blog
• What is art? What is design?
• Introduction to the Course Project: A Museum in a Box.
• Begin looking for your Course Project container. You will need this no later than October 21, but you will have an easier time if you get it sooner.
• Project One: Blog Introduction
• Project Two: Found Image
• Tutorial One: Searching and Sampling (Chapter 2)

OCTOBER 2: BASIC 2-D PRINCIPLES

• Deadline: Project One
• Deadline: Project Two
• Jesse Colin Jackson’s Art and Design
• Principles of two-dimensional composition: shape, scale, proportion, texture, form, color, rhythm, symmetry/asymmetry, etc.
• Project Three: Box Deconstruction
• Tutorial Two: Using Graphics Applications (Chapter 1)
• Tutorial Three: Symmetry (Chapter 3)

OCTOBER 7: WORKING WITH COLOR

• Bring to class: printed copies of Projects Two and Three
• Deadline: Project Three
• The Critique.
• Participatory critique of Project Three results.
• Project Four: Working with Color
• In-class time on Project Four.
• Tutorial Four: Color Theory and Basic Shapes (Chapter 5)
• Tutorial Five: Tonal Scale (Chapter 8)

OCTOBER 9: CATCHING UP FROM THE COMPUTER HIJINX

• In-class time on Project Three (with upgrade).
• Project Five: Exhibition Critique
• Exhibition Visit
• Tutorial Six: Line Art and Flat Graphics (Chapter 6)

OCTOBER 14: COMMUNICATION, PART 1

• NOTE: By this date, you should have completed Projects 1-4, and Tutorials 1-6 (Chapters 1-3, 5-6, 8). These Projects may be graded at any time after this date. Grades will be based on your blog posts only.
• Deadline: Project Three
• Deadline: Project Four
• Catching up with the course blog: categories, comments, etc.
• Bring to class: printed copies of Projects Two, Three, and Four
• Participatory critique of Project Three and Project Four results.
• Project Six: A Short Book

OCTOBER 16: COMMUNICATION, PART 1

• Three Books: The Art of Color, The New Typography, and The Elements of Typographic Style
• Deadline: Project Five
• Deadline: Project Six
• Project Seven: Digital Foundations Tutorial
• Project Eight: A Scanner Darkly
• Tutorial Seven: Type on the Grid (Chapter 4)
• Tutorial Eight: Scanning (Chapter 7)

OCTOBER 21

• Guest Professor: Kim Zumpfe
• Deadline: Project Eight
• Review of Course Project containers: bring your container to class
• Manifestos in Art and Design
• Project Nine: Written Manifesto

OCTOBER 23

• Guest Professor: Kim Zumpfe
• Deadline: Project Nine
• Review of Course Project containers (continued)
• Semiotics: Icon, Symbol, Index
• Group/individual discussions of Project Nine
• Project Ten: Visual Manifesto

OCTOBER 28

• Guest Professor: Kim Zumpfe
• Deadline: Project Seven
• Deadline: Project Ten
• Group/individual discussions of Project Ten
• Project Seven presentations (ongoing)
• Project Eleven: Completed Manifesto

OCTOBER 30

• Guest Professor: Kim Zumpfe
• Group/individual discussions of Project Eleven: Completed Manifesto
• Project Seven presentations (ongoing)

NOVEMBER 4

• Kim Zumpfe’s Art and Design
• Deadline: Project Eleven
• Project Eleven presentations
• Project Seven presentations (ongoing)

NOVEMBER 6

• Field Trip to RapidTech (tentative)

NOVEMBER 11

NOVEMBER 13

NOVEMBER 18

• Guest Professor: Kim Zumpfe

NOVEMBER 20

• Guest Professor: Kim Zumpfe

NOVEMBER 25

NOVEMBER 27

DECEMBER 2

DECEMBER 4

DECEMBER 9: COURSE PROJECTS EXHIBITION

• Invite your friends and family!