VCOM 2950 Visual Communication Applications
COURSE MATERIALS — Fall 2024
Instructor: Phil Loubere
Welcome VCOM 2950 students. This site will contain instructional videos and materials for our class assignments, as well as study and reference materials.
– Syllabus (last updated August 21)
– Class schedule (last updated August 21)
Student questionnaire
You can earn 20 bonus points by completing and submitting this form. It’s a fillable PDF and needs to be downloaded in order to fill out the fields and sign it. There is a dropbox in D2L to submit it when complete.
QUIZ TOPICS
These links contain videos and study material for the quizzes, which will be done in D2L in the quizzes section under the Assessments tab.
ASSIGNMENTS
Exercises
• InDesign Overview and exercise 1
• Illustrator Overview and Exercise 1
• Photoshop Overview and Exercise 1
Projects
Extra Credit
Study and Reference Materials:
Software manuals:
- Mac OS Manual
- InDesign Manual
- InDesign Publication Package
- InDesign Paragraph Styles
- Illustrator Manual
- Photoshop Manual
- Photoshop Document Formats, Workflow
- Photoshop Outputs
Design and Color:
- Design Principles
- Golden Ratio
- Rule of Thirds
- Color Chart
- Color Terminology
Typography:
- Type Categories
- Typeface Comparisons
- Font Chart—Terminology
- Picas—Points
Technology:
- Print Technology Timeline
- Key Developments in Printing History
- Color Technology
Internet:
- Internet Timeline (updated Sept. 2, 2024)
- Internet Technology
- HTML Terms
- Essential HTML Tags
- jQuery explainer
- Responsive design
Software:
Jobs: