Art 105 Section 01, Computer Studio, Fall 2009
Professor Bill Gorcica

Digital Foundations Textbook WIKI

Wikimedia Commons

ARTstor

From the link above to the Art Research area of the SCSU Library, scroll down to Find Images, Videos, Audio and Digital Media…ARTstor and follow instructions.
The university and department have a license agreement for you to search this art database and use it for academic purposes.

art10501fall09.blogspot.com

A place to post your work and comments about class projects

PDF Downloads

Syllabus

Schedule

Project Descriptions

First Exercise in Illustrator - Layered Shapes

Isolate a film still from either the Battleship Potemkin or The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari that has asymmetrical balance.
Use it as the source for reinterpretation using layered shapes in Adobe Illustrator.

Project 1 - Illustrator Self-Portrait as an Artist

Detailed Tips for Project 1

Project 2 - Photoshop Collage

Los Caprichos by Francesco Goya (Wesleyan University Davison Gallery Collection) COMPLETE COLLECTION OF 80 PRINTS

Los Caprichos by Francisco Goya (San Jose Museum) VIDEO

Wired Magazine Article on Appropriations of Goya's Caprichos

The Exhibition at Calcografianational referred to in Wired Magazine

Dali's Interpretation of Goya's Caprichos

Collage and Poster Design Links

First Exercise in InDesign - Basic Page Layout

Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton (Useful link to learn about typography)

Project 4 - Personal Web Site

Defining a Web Site in Dreamweaver and Setting up FTP

Basic Tables in Dreamweaver (a fine way to start)

Basic CSS Layout in Dreamweaver (more flexible but quite abstract to learn)

Web Style Guide (3rd edition) online

Adobe TV Dreamweaver Series (a lot of this too complex for your needs now but some of the starters are useful)

A web aside…

Visual Narrative as a Scrolling Page (sometimes it is good to keep it simple)

Week Plans

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Resources

Adobe Video Tutorials

www.lynda.com