Class 1
- Day & Date: Wednesday, August 26, 8:30 am
- Meeting Info: Zoom: Meeting ID: 939 4834 5024
- Topics: Course Overview, Introductions, Supplies
- Activities: Introductions, Your Visual Library
- https://www.ted.com/talks/sunni_brown_doodlers_unite?language=en
- Homework: Join OpenLab. Collect 6 images for Visual Library. Write a description in Word doc. Have it ready for the next class. We will post it together. Get art supplies. Have a photo of yourself that you like.
Class 2
- Day & Date: Monday, August 31
- Meeting Info: Zoom Meeting ID: 939 4834 5024
- Topic: Design Process, Figure-Ground, Point. Line. Project 1
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFSia1LZI4Y
- elements and principles
- point line examples
- figure ground examples
- Activities: Visual Library critique, Vocabulary
- Homework: Start working on your project. Use only points and lines to create 2 self-portraits.
- Assignment 1 point and line
Class 3
- Day & Date: Wednesday, September 2
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Project 1, Figure-Ground, Composition basics
- Activities:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACjsvwQjLSU
- https://www.fastcompany.com/3056991/16-famous-designers-show-us-their-favorite-notebooks
- Homework:
- Finish your F/Ground project. Upload to OpenLab.
- Group Project 1 COMD 1100
Class 4
- Day & Date: Wednesday, September 9
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Project 2, Thumbnails, Iteration
- Activities:
- Student’s presentation on F/G and Repetition
- Nonsynchronous activities:
- How to work in your sketchbook
- http://learnlogodesign.com/logo-design-process/a-look-inside-a-designers-sketchbook
- Read more about thumbnails
- https://conceptartempire.com/intro-to-thumbnail-sketching/
- Watch: On design and repetition and using different materials: Marian Bantjes
- https://www.ted.com/talks/marian_bantjes_intricate_beauty_by_design
- Watch: On the concept, ideas, design thinking: Chip Kidd
- https://www.ted.com/talks/chip_kidd_the_art_of_first_impressions_in_design_and_life
- Homework/in class work:
- Project 2 COMD Repetition
- Writing Project 1 COMD
Class 5
- Day & Date: Monday, September 14
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Project 2, I will do a presentation on how to create a project
- Activities: Sketches review.
- Homework: Work on your Project 2 in class.
Class 6
- Day & Date: Wednesday, September 16
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Critique. Project 2 Presentation.
- critique-presentation
- Activities: Finish Project 2
- Homework: Finish Project 2:
Class 7
- Day & Date: Monday, September 21
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Project 2,
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Homework: Finish Repetition. Post 3 repetition photos to Visual journal
Class 8
- Day & Date: Wednesday, September 23
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Project 3, Symmetry, asymmetry, Variety, Scale
- Activities: Create 2 designs for Assignment 3 ( sketches first)
- https://www.ted.com/talks/paula_scher_great_design_is_serious_not_solemn?language=en
- Homework:
- Notan assignment
Class 9
- Day & Date: Tuesday the 29TH ( instead of ) Monday)
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Project 2
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Homework:
Class 10
- Day & Date: Wednesday, September 30
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Project 2 Critique
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Homework:
Class 11
- Day & Date: Monday, October 5
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Project 3/Light and Darkness. Symmetry Assymetry
- Activities: Critique.
- Homework: Work on your project
Class 12
- Day & Date: Wednesday, October 7
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Project 3 Texture, Pattern, Color
- 1. Design principles:
Design principles overview
Design principles examples
Design principles in practice - Activities: Create in-class experimental work on texture and pattern, using complementary colors
- Design 4 textures: Use an adjective for each, such as smooth, harsh, dynamic, prickly, bumpy or whatever else you can think of.
- Homework: Finish your work. Upload
Class 13
- Day & Date: Wednesday, October 14 ( Monday schedule)
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Project 4. Color
- color lecture
- Color Wheel
- Color Systems
- Complementary Colors
- After Images
- Color & Contrast
- Color wheel and practical advises (from 4:10)
RGB vs. CMYK
Color theory video (2 minutes summary) - Activities: Work on the Color wheel project
- color-wheel-assignment-COMD 1102
- Homework: Sketches for Color Wheel.
- Photos for VJ
Take photos of:
1 complimentary colors- monochromatic colors
- analogous colors
- COOL color combination
Class 14
- Day & Date: Monday, October 19
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Color continuation)
- Activities: Color mixing practice, Value, Color Wheel (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary)
- Homework:
Class 15
- Day & Date: Wednesday, October 21
- Topic: Project 4 Collage
- Mystery vs Clarity
- Chip Kidd
- Example 1, Example 2, Example 3, Example 4, Example 5, Example 6, Example 7, Example 8, Example 9, Example 10, Example 11
Not an example, but an idea
Students’ examples - 1. Design principles:
- gd-concepts vocabulary
Design principles overview
Design principles examples
Design principles in practice - Activities. Work on the Collage project; bring to class for critique. Bring sketches and ideas for the other artwork.
- Homework:collage
Class 16
- Day & Date: Monday, October 26
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Collage
- Activities: Continue working on Collage
- Homework: Continue working on Collage
Class 17
- Day & Date: Wednesday, October 28
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Midterm Review
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Homework: Finish collage. Upload to Open Lab
Class 18
- Day & Date: Monday, November 2
- Meeting Info: Asynchronous
- Topic: Design thinking
- Activities:
Watch Movie: Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight.
Download the paper with questions:
Milton Glaser- To Inform and Delight.
ARTICLE TO READ about Milton Glaser-to be discussed in class
https://www.readingdesign.org/ten-things
- Homework: Write an essay. MAKE Sure you address the questions I am asking. Post it on Open Lab. Come to class ready to discuss what you had learned.
Class 19
- Day & Date: Wednesday, November 4
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Design Principles and Color
- Activities: Milton Glaser Discussion. A project inspired by Milton Glaser
- Design Principles Assignment Milton Glaser
- Homework: Work on Milton Glaser Project. Bring work in progress to the next class.
Class 20
- Day & Date: Monday, November 9
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Milton Glaser Project work in progress.
- Activities: Discuss the influence of artwork on your work.
- Homework: Finish the project.
Class 21
- Day & Date: Wednesday, November 11
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Project: Atmospheric Perspective
- Activities: critique Milton Project
- https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_your_elusive_creative_genius
- https://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-mediums/drawing/learn-to-draw-perspective/
- https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+create+perspective+drawing&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS827US827&oq=how+to+create+perspective+drawing&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30i457j0i22i30l4.7396j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#kpvalbx=_Oe-rX-KVOs7O5gKk2ZiIBg16
- https://www.creativebloq.com/how-to/draw-perspective
- Create a one-point perspective.
- Homework: Watch the videos.
- Work on your Perspective Project.
Class 22
- Day & Date: Monday, November 16
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Perspective work in progress. https://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-mediums/drawing/learn-to-draw-perspective/
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Homework: Finish this one point perspective based on the link above.
Class 23
- Day & Date: Wednesday, November 18
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOsxQbkdUvs
- Create your own 2 pont perspective
- https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/834714112163559286/
- Activities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ICyLN6I2cY
- Homework: finish work
Class 24
- Day & Date: Monday, November 23
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic:https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/560557484862185893/
- https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/740631101210961924/
- https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/834714112163559286/
- Activities: Work on finishing 2 point perspective
- Letetrform design
Final Perspective Project-logo - Homework: create a logo in 3d for yourself
Class 25
- Day & Date: Monday, November 30
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Review of Perspective unit and 3d logo
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Homework:
Class 26
- Day & Date: December 2
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Project 8 Perspective final critique
Final Project Overview - Final Project COMD
- Graphic design Styles:
- https://bhattifaizan.medium.com/graphic-design-styles-fa85aff1ff69
- Activities: Research for the final project
- Homework: Work on Final Project
Class 27
- Day & Date: December 7
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Final Project
- Activities: Work on Final Project
- Homework: Work on Final Project
Class 28
- Day & Date: December 9
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Final Project
- Activities: Work on Final Project
- Homework: Work on Final Project
Class 29
- Day & Date: December 14
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Final Project
- Activities: Work on Final Project
- Homework: Work on Final Project
Class 30
- Day & Date: December 16
- Meeting Info: Zoom
- Topic: Final Project PRESENTATION
- Activities: Presentation of Final Project
- Homework: Have a Greate break!