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Thursday, August 20th
First Class: Intro to MART 372 Go to class page

  • Bureaucracy
  • Getting To Know You
  • Syllabus Review
  • Assignments Review
  • Lab Review
  • Email Quickie Assignment
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Tuesday, August 25th
Second Class: Intro to Illustrator Go to class page

  • Update on web presence
  • Some thoughts on this class
  • Do the Questionnaire
  • History!
  • Current tools
  • What is Illustrator for?
  • What is a vector?
  • What is a raster?
  • More Confusion
  • A first-look tour
  • Good links to know about
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Thursday, August 27th
Third Class: More Illustrator Techniques & Tools Go to class page

Class 2 continued

  • What is a vector?
  • What is a raster?
  • More Confusion

Class 3's Techniques & Tools

  • Starting the application
  • The User Interface (UI)
  • The Tools Panel
  • The Control Panel
  • The Panels Panel
  • Changing Views
  • Art Boards
  • Working with multiple documents
  • Getting help
  • Selecting & aligning
  • Working with layers
  • Good links to know about
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Tuesday, September 1st
Fourth Class: Selection, Alignment, and Shape Creation Go to class page

  • Selecting & Aligning
  • Working with Layers
  • Creating & Editing Shapes Demo
    • The Screwdriver Example

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Thursday, September 5th
Fifth Class: Creating & Editing Shapes Continued Go to class page

  • Creating & Editing Shapes Demo Continued: Screwdriver & Wrench example

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Tuesday, September 8th
Sixth Class: Creating & Editing Shape Completed Go to class page

  • Finish Screw-Head & Wrench Demo
  • Start Path Tool Demo
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Thursday, September 10th
Seventh Class: Paths & The Pen Tool Go to class page

  • Bézier Curves
  • Path Symmetry Demo
  • Tracing with the Pen Tool
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Tuesday, September 15th
Eighth Class Go to class page

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Thursday, September 17th
Ninth Class Go to class page

  • Tracing with the pen tool continued
  • The Fine Art of Typography

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Tuesday, September 22nd
Tenth Class Go to class page

  • The Fine Art of Typography, Continued...

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Thursday, September 24th
Eleventh Class Go to class page

  • Assignment 1 Assigned
  • Logos & Logotypes
  • Font Semiotics
  • Assignment file layout
  • Margin guides
  • Single color printing with Illustrator
  • Working with Type as Outlines
  • Creating Logo Ligatures

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Tuesday, September 29th
Twelfth Class Go to class page

  • Review Assignment 1
  • Using graphics tablets
  • Working with the Paint Brush tool
  • Working with the Blob tool

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Thursday, October 1st
Thirteenth Class Go to class page

  • Working with the Paint Brush Tool continued
  • Working with the Blob Tool continued
  • Working with the Pencil & Smooth tools

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Tuesday, October 6th
Fourteenth Class Go to class page

  • ASSIGNMENT 1 DUE
  • Crit Assignment 1
  • ASSIGNMENT 2 ASSIGNED

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Thursday, October 8th
Fifteenth Class Go to class page

  • Working with the Blob Tool Part II
  • Working with the Appearance Panel
  • Working with the Pencil/Smooth Tools
  • Live Color
  • Live Trace
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Tuesday, October 13th
Sixteenth Class Go to class page

  • Thoughts on Children's Books
  • The Value of Sketching It Out First
  • Illlustrator & Color

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Thursday, October 15th
Seventeenth Class Go to class page

  • Illustrator & Color

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Tuesday, October 20th
Eighteenth Class Go to class page

  • ASSIGNMENT 2 DUE
  • Crit
  • ASSIGNMENT 3 ASSIGNED

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Thursday, October 22nd
Nineteenth Class Go to class page

  • Colors
  • Gradients
  • Blends
  • Masks

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Tuesday, October 27th
Twentieth Class Go to class page

  • Building the book bag continued
  • Blends
  • Masks


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Thursday, October 29th
Twenty-First Class Go to class page

  • Recoloring Artwork

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Tuesday, November 3rd
Twenty-Second Class Go to class page

  • Preparing for Silk Screening

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Thursday, November 5th
Twenty-Third Class Go to class page

  • ASSIGNMENT 3 DUE
  • Crit
  • ASSIGNMENT 4 ASSIGNED

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Tuesday, November 10th
Twenty-Fourth Class Go to class page

  • Continue Crit of Assignment 3

No class Thursday

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Tuesday, November 17th
Twenty-Fifth Class Go to class page

  • Poster Deadline Extended
  • A Brief History of Posters
  • What Makes A Good Poster
  • Lithography
  • Offset Lithography
  • Pre-Press Preparation in Illustrator or Extracting Images with Photoshop

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Thursday, November 19th
Twenty-Sixth Class Go to class page

  • Extracting images with Photoshop
  • The Gradient Mesh Tool

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Tuesday, November 24th
Twenty-Seventh Class Go to class page

  • Extracting images with Photoshop (continued)
  • The Gradient Mesh Tool
  • The Envelope Features
  • The Liquify Tools
  • The Graph Tool
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Tuesday, December 1st
Twenty-Eighth Class Go to class page

  • Extracting images with Photoshop (continued, part III)
  • If we get time:
    • The Gradient Mesh Tool
    • The Envelope Features
    • The Liquify Tools
    • The Graph Tool
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Thursday, December 3rd
Twenty-Ninth Class Go to class page

  • ASSIGNMENT 4 DUE
  • No Crit Today
  • ASSIGNMENT 5 ASSIGNED
  • Demo of Animation in Illustrator
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Tuesday, December 8th
Thirtieth Class Go to class page

  • Making Patterns with Illustrator
  • Continued demo of Gradient Mesh & Photorealism

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Thursday, December 10th
Thirty-First Class Go to class page

  • Gradient Mesh

  • Other Goodies
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Tuesday, December 15th
Final Class Go to class page

  • ASSIGNMENT 5 DUE
  • Crit
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