Project Schedule UPDATED!

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

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

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!

*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