I. BASIC
COURSE INFORMATION
Semester : Fall 2002
Instructor's Name: Janet Anderson
Division: Liberal Arts
Course Number and Title: CGVC 123 Design and Layout I, Section A
Semester Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 4
Prerequisites: CVCP 101 or CGVC 101 and CVCP 106 or CGVC 102 or permission of program coordinator
Instructor's Phone Number: 410.455.4986
email Address: janderso@ccbcmd.edu
Instructor's Office Q217
Instructor's Office Hours: Mon 2-4, Tues 2-4, Thurs 1-2
II. CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Focuses on layout design using the principles of contrast, alignment, repetition and proximity. Students will create original designs for professional layouts in a variety of custom formats. Topics include creative concepts, type specification, grid construction, color separation, history of layout design, copyright issues, and working with printers. Quality, attention to detail and production techniques are stressed. Layout and design programs, such as QuarkXPress®, and presentation programs, such as PowerPoint®, are incorporated in lectures and assignments.
3 credits: 2 lecture hours and 2 laboratory hours per week. Prerequisites: CVCP 101 or CGVC 101 and CVCP 106 or CGVC 102 or permission of program coordinator
III. CORE COURSE GOAL
Use layout, type and typography to communicate a message effectively using the principles of contrast, alignment, repetition and proximity.
IV. OBJECTIVES:
Use research, thumbnails, rough comprehensives and finished comprehensives as part of the design process.
Identify type elements, characteristics and basic groups.
Become aware of type connotations and implied meanings.
Recognize and employ effective type combinations.
Learn to spec type for legibility and aesthetic effect.
Recognize and use various grids to establish layout structure.
Recognize and use appropriate symmetrical and asymmetrical layouts.
Identify and employ the concepts of contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity in designing layouts for printed publication.
Use white space to effectively convey meaning.
Explore gestalt unit forming techniques to integrate word and image.
Understand printing methods, spot vs. CMYK color, color separation, Truetype vs. Postscript fonts, gathering fonts and images for output.
Practice scanning, cropping, and resizing, and importing photographs and art work.
Develop an eye for excellence in typography and critical skills in evaluating the effectiveness of design and layout.
Identify existing layout structures in single page and multiple page documents.
Develop an awareness of the history of layout and typography in printed publication design.
Become familiar with quality design periodicals.
Locate print and electronic resources that aid in the production of interesting solutions to design problems.
Become proficient in using the current industry standard digital page assembly program, QuarkXPress.
V. EVALUATION PROCEDURES
Your grade is based on your original designs that entail the proper use of a page layout application, QuarkXPress 4.0, the compilation of a resource file, two exams and a final portfolio of work from the semester. The following point system will be used in determining your grade for this course:
Projects = 55% 550 points
Resource File = 10% 100 points
Final Portfolio = 10% 100 points
Exams = 20% 200 points Midterm exam 100 points Final exam 100 points
Participation/Professionalism = 5% 50 points
1000- 900 points A
899 - 800 points B
799 - 700 points C
699 - 600 points D
599 - and below F
VI. TENTATIVE LIST OF DATED ASSIGNMENTS
9/30 Critique Project 1
10/14 Critique Project 2
10/21 Midterm Exam
11/4 Critique Project 3
11/11 Critique Project 4
11/18 Resource Book Part I due
12/2 Critique Project 5 and Presentation
12/9 Final Portfoilio due
12/16 Final Exam
VII. TEXTS AND MATERIALS:
Texts:
Quick Start Guide QuarkXPress 4 - required
Non-Designer's Design Book, Robin Williams - required
A History of Graphic Design, Philip B. Meggs (optional)Materials:
Zip Disk
Ruler
Pencil and felt tip markers
Sketch pad
Tracing paper
Three ring binder for resource file, white paper, spray adhesive or glue stick, plastic pages
Software: available in the lab:
QuarkXPress 4, Photoshop 7, Illustrator 10, PowerPoint 4
VIII.
COLLEGE
ATTENDANCE POLICY
Students are expected to attend all class sessions except in cases of emergency (e.g., illness, death in the family) the occasion of religious holidays (the observance of which require restricting daily activity), or when participating in official college functions (e.g., field trips and athletic events). In the case of absence for special personal reasons, other than those mentioned above, it is the student's responsibility to confer with the instructor about whether the absence is to be considered as excused. The instructor may require such evidence as seems fit. When a student's unexcused absences have exceeded the number of class sessions per week, in this case one, the instructor issues a written warning to the students, with a copy to the Director of Counseling. The instructor may recommend that the student be dropped from the class when, in the instructor's opinion, the student's additional absence make passing the course improbable. Students are responsible for making up any work that was missed due to absence excused or unexcused.
Students should be aware of the following additional policies for this class:
IX . CLASS PROCEDURES AND BEHAVIOR
If you wish to complete this course successfully you should exhibit the following behavior:
A. Execute all assignments in a professional manner: clean, neat, well presented.
B. Ask questions of the instructor and classmates so you may better understand the problems and objectives that you are expected to master.
C. Participate in critique sessions and help fellow students to better their ability as a designer.
D. Come to class on time. A professional attitude is evidenced by always being on time.
E. Hand in all projects when they are due. A professional attitude is evidenced by always having assignments ready when they are due. The due dates of assignments are listed in this syllabus or are given out by the instructor. Hard copy of each assignment will be handed in with the appropriate evaluation sheet attached on top. Electronic copies of the work will be placed in the to be graded folder prior to critique. Any work handed in late will result in the lowering of your grade by one letter grade for each session late beyond the due date. See your instructor about extenuating circumstances.
F. Attendance at all class meetings in required; this includes lecture and work periods. When you miss a class you have missed a huge amount of material. Students with excessive absences will be asked to drop the course and retake it when it is convenient to attend on a more regular basis.
G. Read all textbook assignments and handouts in the week they are assigned in the class outline. Any questions you may have should be asked of the instructor and the class.
H. Redo any piece of work that that you wish to improve and submit for one re-grading. If you wish to have a project regraded you must include the instructor's evaluation sheet and your original assignment as first submitted.
I. Bring text books, supplies and equipment to class each session and work in class on projects, during work periods.
J. Be responsible for keeping multiple copies of your work. Since there is no guarantee for the safe travel of a disk, and no way to determine the fate of a missing one, the burden is on you to keep a back-up copy. Do not rely on the scratch folder or the server to have a copy of your data. Use the student storage area in the class folder on the server as a back up for your files, not as your only storage place.
K. Collegiate behavior is expected and required. The goal of classroom activities is to provide the greatest educational benefit to all students. Class participants should expect and provide mutual respect and consideration in words and actions. Students will not engage in non-instructionally related conversations with others during class. The use of active pager phones, beepers, walkmen and other gadgets that may disturb others is prohibited. An instructor has the right to dismiss a student from class that he/she judges to be disruptive to the teaching and learning process. (College Regulations, Section Four: Code of Conduct, College Catalog). In the event that a student is dismissed for behavior, that student must have a conference with the Dean before being readmitted to class.
X. EXHIBITION POLICY
The Computer Graphics and Visual Communications Department reserves the right to retain examples of each student's work during each semester. We also reserve the right to hold the work of all students for a reasonable period of time for exhibition at the school, on the Internet or elsewhere.
Janet Anderson, PhD
Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville Campus
Liberal Arts Division
800 South Rolling Road
Catonsville. MD 21228-5381email: janderso@ccbcmd.edu©Anderson 1999-2002 all rights reserved
