CIS Assignments - Fall '07

Class Date	Assignment
3/19/08	I'm extending the deadline to present the first comp of your "10" book to next week. Please have them printed (in color if possible) and put together so that we can take a look at the beginning of class. I plan to cover more features of Illustrator afterwards. Final books and files will be due April 2nd. Again, if I haven't seen anything and you were absent last week, send me a pdf!!! The quality of what I am seeing so far is terrific--just need to see more quantity!!!
3/5/08	If you did not receive an e-mail from me over the WE, please e-mail me!
2/27/08	Same as below--please bring copies of game plan/prepared text/sketches to hand in and be ready to discuss your idea with me. I can't wait to hear what you are working on. What I've seen so far from many of you looks great!
2/20/08	I handed out a sheet describing the big "mid-term" assignment this week in class. If you weren't in class, please e-mail me so that I can send you a pdf of the assignment description and schedule. Since parts of the assignment are due each week over the next several weeks, it is important that you start work so that you don't get behind. Next week we will be discussing printing and color calibration.
2/13/08	Class is cancelled for today. No homework. We will pick up next week where we left off in class last week. Have a wonderful Valentine's Day!
1/30/08	You are to begin blocking out the pages of a Billboard's Top 10 mini-catalog (any size). Using the information we discussed during class, create a new InDesign facing page document that has 5 master pages (spreads). The first will include automatic page numbers and footers and will be the master page that you will "base" the other four upon. The other four master pages should also include common elements that differentiate the four sections of the catalog. For example, one element may be the name of the section (to be found in the CDCat08.txt file I distributed in class). Another element may be a background element that helps to "describe" the genre of that section. Do not create the actual document pages yet. We will do that in the next class. For those that missed class last week, try to get notes/info from a classmate. We covered quite a bit and, while I will review what we did last week and answer any questions, I'd like to avoid starting from the beginning so that we can move on to the next part of creating multi-page documents:style sheets! Bring to class: InDesign file (you will be working on the files in class), printouts of the master page files (please have the printout ready to be handed in at the beginning of class-B&W is fine!).
1/23/08	This week you are to redesign a TOC (Table of Contents) of an existing magazine using type only-no images!!! Use InDesign and the advanced type formatting techniques we have been discussing in class, such as tabs, right indents, first line indents, hanging indents, space after, glyphs, etc. The new TOC should only be one page, even if the original fills two pages. You may choose not to redesign a TOC and just recreate an existing one. In this case, your challenge will be to duplicate it as closely as possible (as we did last week with the BRC). Bring to class: InDesign file (I would like to take a look, if time allows), printout (please have the printout ready to be handed in at the beginning of class). Tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips.
1/16/08	Welcome Back! Please duplicate (using InDesign) the BRC (business reply card) that I handed out in class EXACTLY!! Find fonts that are as close in appearance as possible, use tabs as discussed in class, measure margins, etc! Bring to class: InDesign file, printout.