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SANTIAGO ECHEVERRY ART210 \| Beginning Digital Arts \| Summer 1 - 2009 CAS 134 \| 05/26/09 - 07/02/09 Section G \| Mon-Wed \| 1:30p-05:45p secheverry at ut.edu \| BAS 131 \| 813 - 257 3769 Office hours by appointment only
Class	Description	Assignments
1 - I / 0	Syllabus, goals of the class, required readings, general presentation and statistics of the students. Chuck Csuri #1 #2 #3 #4 #5, ASCII art. Realistic imaging Vs. vectorial creation. Software and Hardware evolution, debugging. Graphic User Interface: APPLE OS. 1984 ASCII ART Personal computer milestones Explore: http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline http://seas.upenn.edu/~pws/EMX/before.html	• Go to blogger.com and create your own BLOG for this class. Post your first feelings of the class, who you are, describe yourself and what you expect from this class • Send me an email BEFORE THE FOLLOWING CLASS from your personal UT email account, letting me know the url of your blog.
2 - VECTOR	Vector shapes, implications for design, Adobe Illustrator, resolution free, tools, layers, compatibility. Explore: Tutorial on Youtube - bwoark USSR Propaganda and go to the gallery \|\| American War Posters from the library of Northwestern University (BEAUTIFUL!) \|\| Russian Propaganda and WWII American Posters /// POST your comments about these posters on your blogs. Explore: Learning Illustrator	• Using a self-portrait, convert yourselves into vector shapes, using a painting by numbers technique. Print them full size at 8.5x11", CMYK, vector shapes. Bring the original AI files. • Create a Calligram in Apollinaire's way. • Optimize these files, resize to maximum 300x400 or 400x300pixels at 72DPI, optimize them as JPG and post them in your blogs. • Look for Illustrator CS4 tutorials on the web and post the link of your three favorite tutorials on your blogs
3 - VECTOR	Filters, advanced tools. Notions of basic design, corporate image. Typography, Fonts, choice of faces. Dealing with printers, pantone colors, universal formats... Explore Google: LOGO • Bauhaus Explore www.adbusters.org	• Design 5 different versions of own logo. • Design 5 business cards with your own logo ( two sided )
4 - PIXEL	The real world translated into a digital world. Adobe Photoshop. Dove How to capture reality: digital cameras, scanners. How to alter that reality with a digital tool. RGB vs CMYK, resolution, DPI, print size vs. pixel size. Layers, tools, cropping, copying, pasting. Filters. Campaign for real beauty Explore: PS tutorials on Lynda.com Explore www.nelsonsullivan.tv • Look for Photoshop CS4 tutorials on the web and post the link of your three favorite tutorials on your blogs	• Digital Autoscopy: self portrait alterations. At least 2 different self-scanned images. Explore layer effects + PS filters • Somewhere: place yourselves in an environment where you have never been. I will be paying close attention to the cutting and cleaning details. • Art Project: choose your favorite painted portrait and combine yourselves with this painting. Print them in a letter size photo quality paper at full size, CMYK 72 DPI.
5 - PIXEL	Optimization of files, understanding compression via Adobe ImageReady/Fireworks. PSD Vs TIFF Vs PNG Vs JPG Vs GIF Vs PDF. Particularities of file size, differences and unique features of each format GIF vs JPG Optimizing your images	• Optimize all the assignments produced so far for this class, resize to maximum 300x400 or 400x300pixels. Recompress them as JPG (100%, 75%, 25% and 0%), PNG / Transparent PNG and GIF (256 - 128 - 16 and 2 dithered colors). Compare the original file and pixel sizes with the new sizes. Post them all in your Blogs
6 - PRINT	Organizing and integrating the information on paper: InDesign. From the screen to reality. InDesign objects, control of text / image areas. Displaying information, flow of information. Rulers, guides Readings • Dada Manifesto • maximalism vs. minimalism in design • minimalism • punk	• Using pixel based images, vector shapes, fonts, create two versions of your favorite poem using inDesign in a maximalist/punk way and a minimalist way, in one 8.5"x11" sheet of paper, printed on both sides of the page. • Look for InDesign tutorials on the web and post the link of your three favorite tutorials on your blogs. Flyers - Maximalism http://www.screamsfromthegutter.com/punk-flyers Anarchy and DADA incarnated in PUNK culture, explore the wonderful photos www.punkbrighton.co.uk
7 - PRINT	Optimizing files for the printed world, importing, organizing and categorizing. Collecting for output.	• Choose your favorite local restaurant. Borrow one of their menus • Radically redesign the menu • Bring a hand drawn / collage mock up of the way you want your menu to look like. • Print a BW version of your menu for a final feedback session. After this session, print your final version of the menu.
8 - TIME	Understanding Motion - Frame by frame animation. Animation tools in Photoshop. White Stripes, Peter Gabriel, BLU, Brothers Quay, Norman McLaren: Neighbours, Blinkity Blank, TV SHOW , Oren Lavie, student works: JSM, Memo, Travis, Maddox, Drake, KT	• Create a 60 seconds / 600 frames / 400x300px / 10fps / frame x frame animation using Photoshop inspired by your audio track. Export it as a 1 minute video.
9 - TIME	Understanding Audio. Audacity and GarageBand, audio frequencies and sampling rates, Nyquist Theorem, formats, compression. Download Audacity and install in your own computers	• Using Audacity, Garageband or any other audio tool, compose the soundtrack for your frame by frame animation. The mix must contain YOUR OWN VOICE. Create sound effects and loops. Use a high quality 44.1KHz sampling rate.
10 - TIME	Understanding Video - Digital vs Analog, compression, formats, flv, youtube.	* Explore EBN #1 #2 #3 • Create a 1 minute video using your own images and any other footage you capture, with a song that you will manipulate in a unique way. 320x240 10fps. Post the results in your blog ( using youtube or directly to the blog)
11 - TIME	FINAL WORKSHOP
12 - TIME	FINAL WORKSHOP
13 - 07/01	FINAL CLASS