Course Calendar
Course Week ::
Calendar Notes:
- Exercises are homework assignments that are due at a future class period, while Lab Exercises are assignments that should be worked on and completed during the current class period. Labs are ungraded activities we will complete in class.
Week 01 | InDesign
Monday :: 01.06.2025
| Welcome | Course Introduction and Welcome Review of Course Syllabus and Calendar |
| Lecture | A Brief History of Desktop Publishing InDesign Overview: Work area, tools, menus, panels, & navigation. Introduction to Content Frames |
| Resources | Class Notes: Introduction to Adobe InDesign |
Wednesday :: 01.08.2025
| Lecture | InDesign Documents: Setup, Options, Pages, & Master Pages Understanding Imposition & Binding |
| Lab | Hands-on with Imposition |
| Exercise | Document Setup & Pagination |
| Project | Introduction to Portfolio Booklet Design Project |
| Resources | Class Notes: Document Setup, Pages, & Imposition Project: Portfolio Booklet Design Exercise: 01 Document Setup and Pagination Lab: Hands-on with Imposition |
Week 02 | InDesign
Monday :: 01.13.2025
| Due | Document Setup & Pagination Exercise |
| Lecture | Images in InDesign: Placing, resizing, specialty frames, & text wrap. |
| Lab Exercise | Working with Images & Frames |
| Resources | Class Notes: Working with Images in InDesig Exercise: 02 Working with Images & Frames |
Wednesday :: 01.15.2025
| Lecture | Managing Linked Images Working with Color in InDesign |
| Lab | Process Color Identification |
| Lab Exercise | Exploring Grayscale Images within Color Photographs |
| Resources | Class Notes: Working with Image Links & Color Exerciese: 03 Exploring Grayscale Images within Color Photographs |
Week 03 | InDesign
Monday :: 01.20.2025 | No Class — Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Wednesday :: 01.22.2025
| Lecture | Precision & Efficiency Tools: Margins, guides, columns, & text frame options. |
| Lab Exercise | Precision Layout with Guides & Frames |
| Resources | Class Notes: Precision & Efficiency Tools in InDesign Exercise: 04 Precision Layout with Guides & Frames |
Week 04 | InDesign
Monday :: 01.27.2025
| Lecture | Formatting Type in InDesign: Character & Paragraph formatting options, rules, glyphs, & text editing. |
| Lab Exercise | Character & Paragraph Formatting |
| Exercise | Practice with Columnar Layout |
| Resources | Class Notes: Formatting Type in InDesign Lab Exercise: 05 Character & Paragraph Formatting Exercise: 06 Practice with Columnar Layout |
Wednesday :: 01.29.2025
| Lecture | Advanced Paragraph Styling: Tabs, Hanging Indents, & Bullet Points. Introduction to Paragraph & Character Styles |
| Lab Exercise | Long Document Formatting with Styles |
| Resources | Class Notes: Paragraph & Character Styles, & Controling Text Flow Exercise: 07 Long Document Formatting with Styles |
Week 05 | InDesign
Monday :: 02.03.2025
| Guest Presenter | Blake Tupman, PNCA |
| Lecture | Preparing for Print: Troubleshooting Fonts & Printing |
| Demo | Printing from InDesign using Print Booklet |
| Movie | Graphic Means |
| Exercise | Graphic Means Film Response Questions |
| Resources | Class Notes: Troubleshooting Fonts & Printing Exercise: 08 Graphic Means Film Response Questions |
Wednesday :: 02.05.2025
| Due | Practice with Columnar Layout Exercise (5:00 PM) Graphic Means Film Response Questions (5:00 PM) |
| Project | In-class time to work on & produce Portfolio Booklet Design Project |
Week 06 | Indesign / Animate
Monday :: 02.10.2025
| Due | Portfolio Booklet Design Project |
| Critique | Portfolio Booklet Design Project |
| Exam | Over InDesign class demonstrations, exercises, and projects |
Wednesday :: 02.12.2025
| Lecture | Introduction to Adobe Animate: Work area, tools, panels, & drawing modes. Importing Vector & Raster Images |
| Lab Exercise | Creating Artwork with Adobe Animate |
| Project | Intro to Virtual Aquarium Animation Project |
| Resources | Class Notes: Introduction to Adobe Animate Exercise: 09 Creating Artwork with Adobe Animate Project: Virtual Aquarium Animation |
Week 07 | Animate
Monday :: 02.17.2025 | No Class — President's Day
Wednesday :: 02.19.2025
| Lecture | Introduction to Animation: Frames, Keyframes, Layers, & Onion Skinning. |
| Lab Exercise | Simple Frame-by-Frame Animation |
| Resources | Class Notes: Introduction to Animation in Adobe Animate Exercise: 10 Simple Frame-by-Frame Animation |
Week 08 | Animate
Monday :: 02.24.2025
| Lecture | Introduction to Symbols, the Library, & Assets Importing Imagery into the Library Understanding Classic Tweening |
| Lab Exercise | Animating with Classic Tweens |
| Project | Introduction to Portfolio Booklet Revisions |
| Resources | Class Notes: Introduction to Symbols & Tweening Exercise: 11 Animating with Shape & Classic Tweens Project: Portfolio Booklet Revisions |
Wednesday :: 02.26.2025
| Lecture | Understanding Motion Tweens & Property Keyframes |
| Lab Exercise | Animating with Motion Tweens |
| Resources | Class Notes: Motion Tweening Exercise: 12 Animating with Motion Tweens |
Week 09 | Animate
Monday :: 03.03.2025
| Lecture | Understanding the Asset Warp Tool & Bones Exporting in Animate & Introduction to Adobe Media Encoder |
| Lab Exercise | Character Rigging with the Asset Warp Tool |
| Resource | Class Notes: Asset Warp Tool & Exporting Exercise: 13 Character Rigging with the Asset Warp Tool |
Wednesday :: 03.05.2025
| Lecture | Working with the Animate Virtual Camera & Audio |
| Exercise | Basic Character Animation |
| Resources | Class Notes: Virtual Camera Layer & Audio Exercise: 14 Basic Character Animation |
Week 10 | Animate
Monday :: 03.10.2025
| Due | Basic Character Animation Exercise |
| Exam | Over animation class demonstrations, exercises, and projects (bring headphones) |
| Lab | Open lab time to work on Virtual Aquarium Animation Project |
Wednesday :: 03.12.2025
| Due | Portfolio Booklet Revisions Project (12:20 PM) |
| Lab | Open lab time to work on Virtual Aquarium Animation Project |
Week 11 | Finals Week
Monday :: 03.17.2025 @ 10:00 AM
| Due | Virtual Aquarium Project |
| Presentation | Virtual Aquarium Animation Projects |