Project Schedule
1/12 First Day
of Class – Introduction, Syllabus, Schedule, Slides, Vector Demonstration
Homework – Assign Logo
1/14 Logo Sketches Due (scanned and emailed to
me by 8 am) Continue working with Vector
1/19 Martin
Luther King Jr. (Holiday – No Class)
1/21 Logo – Work in class
Homework – Finish Logo
Homework – Finish Logo
1/26 Finished
Logos Due (high res jpg mailed to me by 9 am), Photoshop Demonstration
1/28 Critique
Finished Logos
Homework – Card Deck Proposal – Containing Research,
Mind Map, and Sketches
*Blog Post
with sketches, Final Logo, and Process/Ideation Statement
2/2 Blog Posts checked, Card Deck Proposals
2/4 Photoshop Demonstration (flat coloring
techniques with line art and digital painting crash course)
Homework –Visual Research and Sketches, Create Color
Comps for one Face Card and one Number Card. (Assemble as PDF and present to
class)
2/9 Review
Visual Research, Sketches, and Color Comps in class
Homework - begin thumbnailing entire deck and at least
5 different box designs.
2/11 Work in
class on thumbnails and box designs
Homework – finish thumbnails and box designs,
*create a blog post containing all research and development for Card Deck
*create a blog post containing all research and development for Card Deck
2/16 Review Card
Deck Thumbnails in class
2/18 Review Card Deck Thumbnails in class
continued, begin revised card sketches
Homework – continue
working on revised card sketches
2/23 Continue working on revised card sketches
Homework – begin
final card art
2/25 Continue working on final card art
Homework –continue
working on final card art
3/2 Work in class on card box
Homework – continue
working on final card art and card box
3/4 Work in class on card box
Homework – continue
working on final card art and card box
3/9 Spring Break
3/11 Spring Break
3/16 Assign Editorial Illustration, work in class on cards.
Homework
– Editorial Illustration Thumbnails (40) FINISH CARDS!!!
3/18 Final Card Art and Card Box due (emailed by 9am), Editorial Illustration Thumbnails due
Homework – Five Best Editorial Thumbnail Revised Sketches
3/23 Critique
Final Card Art and Box
3/25 Critique
Final Card Art and Box continued, review Revised Sketches
3/30 Editorial Illustration due (high res file
emailed to me by 9am)
4/1 Critique
Editorial Illustration, Assign Imaginary Travel Poster and Postcard
Homework – Imaginary Travel Poster & Postcard Research and Thumbnails WITH COPY!
Homework – Imaginary Travel Poster & Postcard Research and Thumbnails WITH COPY!
*Editorial Illustration process blog post
4/6 Travel Poster and Postcard thumbnails
due
Homework – Five
Best revised sketches
4/8 Work in class on Best revised sketches
with Type Treatments
Homework – finish
revised sketches – 5 variations with different type treatments
4/13 Revised Sketches and Type Treatments Due -
Review in class (emailed by 8 am)
4/15 Work in class on Final Poster and Postcard
4/20 Work in class on Final Poster and Postcard
4/22 Work in class on Final Poster and Postcard
Homework – FINISH Poster and Postcard. Emailed to me by
midnight Saturday, 4/23
4/27 Critique
Final Imaginary Travel Poster and Postcard
4/29 Critique
Final Imaginary Travel Poster and Postcard (continued)
Homework –
Imaginary Travel Poster and Postcard Blog Post
5/4 Last Day of Class Turn in Printed and
assembled deck, and any project revisions