Course Calendar
COURSE WEEK ::
Week 01 | Course Orientation / Elements of Design
Monday :: 03.31.2025
Welcome | Course Introduction and Welcome Review of Course Syllabus and Calendar |
Lecture | Creative Process & Design Research Revisited |
Design Lab | Orchard Heights Dog Park |
Resources | Class Notes: Creative Process & Design Research Design Lab: 01 Orchard Heights Dog Park Flyer |
Wednesday :: 04.02.2025
Due | Orchard Heights Dog Park Design Lab |
Critique | Orchard Heights Dog Park Design Lab |
Lecture | Elements of Design: Line, Shape, Texture, Space, Size, Value, & Color. |
Design Lab | Typographic Expression of the Elements of Design |
Resources | Class Notes: The Elements of Design Desigbn Lab: 02 Typographic Expression of the Elements of Design |
Week 02 | InDesign / Principles of Design
Monday :: 04.07.2025
Due | Typographic Expression of the Elements of Design Design Lab |
Project | Introduction to Restaurant Menu Design Project |
Lecture | InDesign Revisited: Character & Paragraph Styles Advanced Typography: Tabs & Glyphs |
Lab | Menu Content Creation Working with Tabs |
Design Lab | Weekly College Activity Flyer |
Resources | Class Notes: Paragraph & Character Styles Revisited & Tabs Design Lab: 03 Weekly College Activity Flyer Lab: Working with Tabs Project: Restaurant Menu Design |
Wednesday :: 04.09.2025
Due | Weekly College Activity Flyer Design Lab |
Critique | Weekly College Activity Flyer Design Lab |
Lecture | Principles of Design: Balance; Emphasis, Rhythm, & Unity |
Lab | Finding the Elements & Principles of Design |
Resources | Class Notes: The Principles of Design |
Week 03 | Hierarchy
Monday :: 04.14.2025
Lecture | Emphasis, Hierarchy, & Contrast |
Demo | Progressive Application of Hierarchy to Content |
Lab | Finding Hierarchies |
Design Lab | Creating Hierarchy with Shape |
Resources | Class Notes: Emphasis, Hierarchy, & Contrast Lab: Finding Heirarchy Design Lab: 04 Creating Hierarchy with Shape |
Wednesday :: 04.16.2025
Due | Initial Version of Restaurant Menu Design Project Creating Hierarchy with Shape Design Lab |
Critique | Initial Version of Restaurant Menu Design Project |
Week 04 | Typography / Grids
Monday :: 04.21.2025
Due | Completed Restaurant Menu Design Project |
Project | Introduction to Calendar Creation Project |
Design Lab | Classical Music Concert Poster |
Resources | Project: Calendar Creation Design Lab: 05 Classical Music Concert Posters |
Wednesday :: 04.23.2025
Due | Classical Music Concert Poster Design Lab |
Critique | Classical Music Concert Poster Design Lab |
Lecture | Introduction to Grids: Creativity within structure. |
Design Lab | Grid Explorations |
Resources | Class Notes: Introduction to Grids: Creativity within Structure Design Lab: 06 Grid Explorations |
Week 05 | Manuscript, Column & Modular Grids
Monday :: 04.28.2025
Lecture | Manuscript Grids: Shaping the page. |
Lab | Creating Manuscript Grids in InDesign |
Design Lab | Portland is Weird Booklet |
Wednesday :: 04.30.2025
Due | Grid Explorations Design Lab |
Critique | Grid Explorations Project |
Lecture | Column & Modular Grids: Combining columns & flowlines to create layouts. |
Lab | Creating Modular Grids in InDesign |
Design Lab | Working with Modular Grids |
Week 06 | Calendar Project
Monday :: 05.05.2025 No In-Person class
Due | Portland is Weird Booklet Design Lab (12:20 PM) Working with Modular Grids Design Lab (12:20 PM) |
Wednesday :: 05.07.2025
Due | Initial Version of Calendar Creation Project |
Critique | Initial Version of Calendar Creation Project |
Project | Visual Timeline Design |
Week 07 | Advanced Type / Proportion
Monday :: 05.12.2025
Design Lab | Soapbox Poetry Poster |
Review | Design Labs 07 & 08 |
Demo | Visual Timeline Example |
Lab | Open lab time to work on Projects and Design Labs |
Resources | Design Lab: 09 Soapbox Poetry Poster |
Wednesday :: 05.14.2025
Due | Final version of Calendar Creation Project |
Lecture | Proportion: Fibonacci & the Golden Ratio. |
Week 08 | ProjectS
Monday :: 05.19.2025
Due | Initial/Rough Draft Version of Soapbox Poetry Poster Design Lab |
Critique | Initial/Rough Draft Version of Soapbox Poetry Poster Design Lab |
Project | Introduction to Toy Catalog Project |
Design Lab | Digital Menu |
Resources | Project: Toy Catalog Design Design Lab: 10 Digital Menu |
Wednesday :: 05.21.2025
Due | Initial Version of Visual Timeline Design Project |
Criqitue | Initial Version of Visual Timeline Design Project |
Week 09 | Projects
Monday :: 05.26.2025 | No Class — Memorial Day
Wednesday :: 05.28.2025
Due | Final Version of Visual Timeline Design Project Revised Version of Soapbox Poetry Poster Design Lab Folding Dummy & Grid Review for Toy Catalog Project |
Critique | Revised Version of Soapbox Poetry Poster Design Lab |
Project | Individual Reviews of Folding Dummy & Grid |
Week 10 | Catalog Project
Monday :: 06.02.2025
Due | Initial Spread of Toy Catalog Project |
Presentation | Client Presentaion of Soapbox Poetry Poster Design Lab |
Critique | Initial Spread of Toy Catalog Project |
Lab | In-class time to work on Toy Catalog Project |
Wednesday :: 06.04.2025
Lab | Open class time to work on Toy Catalog Project |
Thursday :: 06.05.2025 | Portfolio Show 2025
Week 11 | Finals Week
Wednesday :: 06.11.2025 (2:00 PM – 3:50 PM)
Due | Final Toy Catalog Project |
Critique | Class Critique of Toy Catalog Project |