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WEEK 1:  
Monday, September 30 Wednesday, October 2nd
  • Assignment 1: LA/Berlin poster

WEEK 2:
 
Monday, October 7 Wednesday, October 9
  • Assignment 2: Design personal logo, splash for your homepage and a print version. Design Shin Wei poster.
  • Assignment 1 due
  • Printing (Charles Harvey)
  • HTML Tutorial (Tables)
    Download Power Point Presentation
 

WEEK 3:
 
Monday, October 14 Wednesday, October 16
  • Assignment 3: Design interface for your homepage. Design poster for ISEA event.
  • Assigment 2 due
  • Shin Wei's visit at 2 pm

WEEK 4:
 
Monday, October 21 Wednesday, October 23 
  • Assignment 3 due
  • Result of ISEA poster

WEEK 5:
 
Monday, October 28 Wednesday, October 30 
  • FIELD TRIP to Colornet Press (required): This field trip is to learn how to prepare documents for the business card project and also for posters in case they go to the printer. Also, to find out how a designer creates a successsful interaction with the printer.
    Address:
    2216 Federal Avenue
    Santa Monica, CA 90064
    (a van wil be provided)
  • Assignment 5: Design direction signage for the Kinross building.
 
  • MIDTERM portfolio presentation
    (please bring all the work you are considering to include in your final portfolio)
  • Assignment 4: Design and prepare for print your two color business card and letterhead.
  • Assignment 5: Design posters for one or all of these events - LA Freewaves | Michael Century | Berlin Media Group |

WEEK 6:
 
Monday, November 4  Wednesday, November 6 
  • Assignment 4 due
  • Assignment 5 due
  • Ewa Wojciak lectures
    Ewa Wojciak has a MFA from Mills College in Oakland
    (1976) and a BFA from CSUN (1974). She has worked professionally for 25 years as a designer/creative director for advertising agencies, record companies, major studios, and publications in Los Angeles.
    Currently she is the owner and Creative Director of her own business, Clean Advertising. Her clients include Sony Pictures, Columbia Home Entertainment, HBO, Universal Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures,
    and the Center for Arts And Culture in Washington DC. She is also the recipient of several design awards; for Newspaper Design, Television ad campaigns, poster art and standees.
  • Adam Eeuwens critique
  • Assignment 6: final version of the business card | second version of printed portfolio.

WEEK 7:
 
Monday, November 11 Wednesday, November 13 
VETERAN’S day 
  • Deadline to UCDARNet logo competition
  • Assignment 6 due.
  • Assignment 7: Second version of printed porfolio (physical container).

WEEK 8:
 
Monday, November 18  Wednesday, November 20 
  • Assignment 7 due.
 
  • Hollyday Mix Party deadline. (Nov. 26th, 5-7pm, @EDA, D|MA / Arts and WAC). Needed posters and flyers.
  • Assignment 8 due.

WEEK 9:
 
Monday, November 25 Wednesday, November 27
  • Game Culture and Technology Lab competition deadline.
  • Assignment 9: First version of your final portfolio.
 

WEEK 10:
 
Monday, December 2 Wednesday, December 4
 
  •  FINAL critique day

WEEK 11:
 
Monday, December 9 Wednesday, December 11
 
  •  FINAL portfolio submission day