Week 1: Jan 21 – Jan 23

Tuesday


Thursday

  • Discuss Reading
  • Lecture: Designing with Type
  • Uploading fonts
  • Using the Inspector
  • WhatFont / Sont Fwap
  • Homework: Design 4 of your cards for Tuesday. We'll be projecting them in class.

Week 2: Jan 28 – Jan 30

Tuesday

  • Class Crit: Oblique Strategies Presentations
  • Present first 4 cards
  • Homework: Finalize cards and create 4 more. You should have a total of 8 for next Tuesday
  • Read: Exercises in Style (pp. 5–17)

Thursday

  • Discuss Reading
  • Lecture: Typography on the Web
  • Responsive Text
  • CSS units
  • Media queries
  • Responsive Exercise

Week 3: Feb 4 – Feb 6

Tuesday

  • Class Crit: Oblique Strategies Presentations
  • Homework: Create an environment or a way to display your cards
  • Read: Change Over Time, Linked by Air

Thursday

Week 4: Feb 11 – Feb 13

Tuesday

  • Final Crit: Oblique Strategies
  • Assign Project 2:
  • Guest Crit: Philip DiBello

Thursday

  • Group Presentations: Clock Pt. 1
  • Homework: Pick one direction and begin developing it further with more research and design
  • For Tuesday: Bring sketches for your clock (Pt 1.) showing different states, along with any more research or inspiration (if applicable)

Week 5: Feb 18 – Feb 20

Tuesday

  • Group Presentations: Clock Pt. 1
  • Homework: Continue designs for Clock Pt. 1
  • Bring 10 pages minimum on your chosen direction

Thursday

  • Lecture: Hover states, Clocks, Sketch
  • Homework: Finalize Clocks Pt. 1
  • Next Tuesday: In depth presentation presenting ALL phases of your clock

Week 6: Feb 25 – Feb 27

Tuesday

  • Final Crit: Clock Pt. 1
  • Homework: Begin coding your clock with html and css
  • Reading: Beyond Pong, James Bridle

Thursday

Week 7: Mar 3 – Mar 5

Tuesday

Thursday

  • Discuss Reading
  • Individual Crits: Clock

Week 8: Mar 10 – Mar 12

Tuesday

Thursday

  • Discuss Reading
  • Presentations: Studio Reports

Week 9: Mar 17 – Mar 19

Tuesday

  • No Class: Spring Break!

Thursday

  • No Class: Spring Break!

Week 10: Mar 24 – Mar 26

Tuesday

  • No Class: Study Week
  • Begin collecting images for Collections project

Thursday

  • No Class: Study Week!
  • Continue collecting images for Collections project

Week 11: Mar 31 – Apr 2

Tuesday

Thursday

  • Refine your images and divide them into subcategories. You should now have 100 images.

Week 12: April 7 – April 9

Tuesday

  • Present sketches of 3 vastly different ways of viewing your collection using Sketch.

Thursday

  • Present 1 refined direction

Week 13: Apr 14 – Apr 16

Tuesday

  • Individual Crits: Collections

Thursday

  • Group Crits: Collections

Week 14: Apr 21 – Apr 23

Tuesday

  • Individual Crits: Collections
  • Homework for Thursday: Present 1 thing from Lab or Studio that you'd like to refine and explain how (projects or class sites)

Thursday

  • Present: 1 thing from Lab or Studio to refine
  • Lecture: Documenting work
  • Homework: Continue collections and refine past projects and begin documenting work

Week 15: Apr 28 – Apr 30

Tuesday

  • Individual Crits: Collections/Work

Thursday

  • Individual Crits: Collections/Work

Week 16: May 5 – May 7

Tuesday

  • Final Crit: Collections

Thursday

  • Final Class: Turn in all documented work and class sites