here are 22 lecture sessions for this course, most about 30 minutes. You will watch these videos either on Kaltura (from our Canvas site) or YouTube. Below you can see the schedule for those sessions, along with a brief description of each session’s participation work and key deadlines. For complete information on deadlines for J365, please refer to the Canvas site.
Layout unit
Week 1: Getting started
In addition to introducing the course, discussing “good” design and the nuts-and-bolts of typographic use, we’ll introduce InDesign to assemble assets and set copy.
- Tue.
- May 13
- 01-Introductions
Exercise Zero: InDesign tools and interface
- Wed.
- May 14
- The 10 Rules of Good Design
Tutorial 01: InDesign’s building blocks
- Thu.
- May 15
- Typography ABCs
Exercise 01: Setting type effectively
Week 2: Structure
You’ll use InDesign to format text, create style sheets, import and edit images and build layouts based on grids and hierarchical structure. You’ll branch into Photoshop to explore making cutouts and image adjustments.
- Mon.
- May 19
- Grids
Tutorial 02: Placing images and wrapping text
- Tue.
- May 20
- Image issues
Tutorial 03: Photoshop cutouts and adjustment layers
- Wed.
- May 21
- Magazines
Tutorial 04: Layering effect for your cover
- Thu.
- May 22
- Principles of Design
Exercise 02+03: Creating spreads
Week 3: Visual identity
We will explore expressive typography, and how to use type and color to build and maintain a cohesive visual identity to your designs, as well as develop alternative story forms for your first project.
- Tue.
- May 27
- Speaking with Type
Exercise 04: Creating expressive typography
- Wed.
- May 28
- Color
Exercise 05: Mixing and combining colors
- Thu.
- May 29
- ASF / Magazines Past
Work on Magazine project
Deadline: Project 01 (Magazine) due at 11:59PM on Sunday, June 1
Illustration unit
Week 4: Illustration
In this tutorial-heavy week, we will introduce Illustrator and learn how to use some of its basic drawing functions, and further practice how to use Photoshop as a creative design tool.
- Mon.
- June 2
- Image manipulation
Tutorial 05: Exploring Photoshop layers and drawing tools
- Tue.
- June 3
- The poster
Tutorial 06: Creating basic illustrations in Illustrator
- Wed.
- June 4
- Drawing
Tutorial 07 (pt. 1): The Pen tool
- Thu.
- June 5
- Process
Tutorial 07 (pt. 2): Illustrator next-level
Week 5: Composition
We will review all that we have learned about graphic design to this point, and build a practice poster from scratch ahead of your second project deadline.
- Mon.
- June 9
- A Moment To Review
Exercise 06: Popsicle poster
- Tue.
- June 10
- Poster composition
Tutorial 08 (pt. 1): Gradients and offsets
- Wed.
- June 11
- Textures
Tutorial 08 (pt. 2): Masks and symbols
- Thu.
- June 12
- Posters past
Completing Illustrator tutorials
Deadline: Project 02 (Poster) due at 11:59 on Sunday, June 15
Web Design unit
Week 6: Web Design
In our final week, you’ll learn some fundamental HTML coding for your content and use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to style your final project: a personal web page, showcasing your J365 work, which you will publish via IU’s Pages service.
- Mon.
- June 16
- Web Basics
Exercise 07: Building and saving out assets for screens
- Tue.
- June 17
- HTML
Exercise 08: Creating markup and targeting elements
- Wed.
- June 18
- CSS
Exercise 09: Web page structure and flow
- Thu.
- June 19
- Finishing
Publishing your final project
Deadline: Project 03 (Website) due at 11:59PM on Sunday, June 22