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Media Design

VCOM 2950 Visual Communication Applications

COURSE MATERIALS — Spring 2025

Instructor: Phil Loubere

Section 001: MW 12:40 - 2:05 pm
Section 002: TR 11:20 am - 12:45 pm

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 Jan. 21)
Class schedule - Section 001 (last updated April 20)
Class schedule - Section 002 (last updated April 20)

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.

• Student form - fillable PDF

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.

• Overview

• Typography

• Color Theory

• Design Principles

ASSIGNMENTS

Exercises

• InDesign Overview and exercise 1

• Illustrator Overview and Exercise 1

• Photoshop Overview and Exercise 1

• Midterm Practice Exam

• InDesign Exercise 2

• Illustrator Exercise 2

• Photoshop Exercise 2

Projects

• InDesign Project

• Illustrator Project

• Photoshop Project

Project Examples

• InDesign project example

Project Results

• Illustrator project results

Extra Credit

• 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:

- Digital Interface History
- 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:

- Adobe Alternatives

Jobs:

- Visual Communication Careers
Media careers: Median pay, annual job openings by field, compiled by Dr. Ken Blake:
- SoJSM Employment Outlook

© Philip Loubere

The contents of this site, including text, images and videos, is protected intellectual property belonging to Philip A. Loubere (unless specified otherwise), and may not be used or reproduced without his permission.
Phil.Loubere@mtsu.edu