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Class Itinerary, Thursday, December 8th

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MEET UPSTAIRS PLEASE! 0900h

Discuss Friday/Workday

1. Finish Arnheim discussion:

IV. Growth — Sarah/Brighde
V. Space — Topaz
VI. Light — Jake/Gabby
VII. Color — Dylan/Wade
VIII. Movement — Claudia/Paige
IX. Dynamics — Muir/Aaron
X. Expression — Marie/Lia

2. Review Child Themes

  • Visit Child Themes Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
  • Create “style.css” using CSSEdit, save on desktop
  • Copy template, change appropriate data, e.g.
  • /*
Theme Name: Twenty Eleven Child
Description: Child theme for the Twenty Eleven theme
Author: Your name here
Template: twentyeleven
*/

@import url("../twentyeleven/style.css");
    {css content follows}
  • Install FireBug in Firefox: http://getfirebug.com/
  • Inspect elements, adjust CSS accordingly in style.css (don’t forget class/id differences).
  • Place new stylesheet in folder: wp-content/themes/childthemename/style.css
  • Enable new theme under appearance.
  • Edit changes as you develop them through COMMAND+K while in CyberDuck. When you save, the results should be reflected on your site.
3. Review how to use the large-format printer: Epson 9600.
4. One-on-one meetings to check progress: Brighde and Topaz first…

Links for Today’s Demo

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First thing, before anything…your ‘webspace’ on S-R.edu

http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit/downloads/thank-you?dl=http://downloads.activestate.com/Komodo/releases/6.1.3/Komodo-Edit-6.1.3-8844-macosx-x86.dmg

  • Launch CyberDuck
  • Put the following information:
  • You’ll need the HTML Cheat Sheet. Note link above!


I. How to modify fonts. Let’s mess around with this page.

Fonts cheat sheet.

http://www2.gol.com/users/billp/articlehtml/fonts.html

Special Characters:

http://www.degraeve.com/reference/specialcharacters.php

My test page (go to view>view source).

Example 1 (web page with built in style sheet):

Blind Spot Newsletter

Example 2 (web page with connected style sheet):

http://bigbabygenius.com

Related style sheet: http://bigbabygenius.com/style.css

Research/Presentation//In-class

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1. Print out your poster.

2. Team up/choose one of these epochs of design from here.

3. Get ready to tell us: 3 principal designers of the era (at least one woman), characteristics/aesthetics of the movement, and the social/economic influences that may have ‘inspired’ the movement.

4. Show 5 examples from the movement; find one on ARTstor.

5. Post all to class blog.

6. Present with the current state of your poster.

Class Itin. for 4TS19

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Ahem:

Sorry for the late ‘prep’ on what class is tomorrow but here it is:

The syllabus indicates that this is a ‘logo crit.’  But since we are still in the early planning stages of our overarching projects (of which the logo only makes up a small part) this is more of a general ‘pitch’ to the class about what you want to do.

Bring:

1. Drawings, lists to read, inspiration, etc.

Upload:

2. Things that you want to project, talk about

Prepare:

3. Get ready to talk about the ‘shape’ chapter, which deals with some of the problems you will have figuring out how to develop your logos/letterhead.

Topaz, any muffin preferences?

-David

Class Agenda for 3TS13

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Hello Designers:

So just a reminder for tomorrow:

Please digitally turn in your two letters (and print them out if you’re feeling ambitious).

Bring your first printout of aforementioned letters and the grid tracing that you did to class on Tuesday (3TS12).

Get ready to think branding/logos/etc.

 

Class Itin./Assignment for 2RS8

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To refresh, for Tuesday:

The Pen Tool!  This page can give you some refreshers about your new best friend.

Work on Illustrator files for two letters: a hard one (e.g ‘G’) and an easy one (e.g. ‘I’).

Save as an .ai file and upload to your DropBox in a folder: lastname_vectorletter

…if you’re feeling ambitious, export it as a PDF as well.

Bring your first printout of aforementioned letters, the grid tracing that you did and new printouts of the letters to class on Tuesday (3TS12).

Start reading Arnheim so you don’t have to rush it on Wednesday night!