Week 1: What is design?
– Overview of class, review of syllabus, expectations
– Design history cliffnotes
– Exercise: Intro to InDesign

Week 2: Crit

Week 3: Typography (9/11)
– Lecture: Short history of type
– Illustrator: Tools and tricks
– Exercise: Refining your posters
• reading: Thinking With Type (Ellen Lupton)
• reading: The Grid (Josef Müller-Brockman)
– Exercise: Type layout

Week 4: Process (9/18)
–Lecture and Crit

Week 5: Color (9/25)
– Lecture: Color theory
• reading: Interaction of Color (Josef Albers)
– Photoshop: Tools and tricks
– Exercise: Finalizing website layout

Week 6: Designing in Analog (10/2)
– Lecture: Designing in Analog 

Week 7: Brand (10/9)
– Guest speaker: Megan Kreuz, Location Labs
– Design project 2

Week 8: The F-Bomb (10/16)
– Guest speaker: Ryan McAdams, School of Information
– Design project updates and personal reviews

Week 9: Review

Week 10:Showcase

Reading list/Resources:
Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field (Helen Armstrong)
Thinking With Type (Ellen Lupton)
The Elements of Typographic Style (Robert Bringhurst)
http://www.webtypography.net/
The Grid ( Josef Müller-Brockman)
Interaction of Color (Josef Albers)
Design is a Job (Mike Montiero)