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For Jan 23, Thursday

We'll be meeting in W2 in the Main Building for this session of the class.

Bring your computer!

Jan 23, Thursday

For Jan 27, Monday

Jan 27, Monday

For Jan 30, Thursday

Jan 30, Thursday

For Feb 3, Monday

  • Finish building your List Poetry page and upload it to your class site, linking to it from 'interactive-1/index.html'.
  • Complete Codecademy Learn CSS. The First 5 Lessons, Starting with 'Syntax and Selectors' and ending with 'The Box Model'. You don't need to do the projects or Quizes. Email me a screen shot of Syllabus Panel with all the steps complete. You might need to take a few seperate screenshots.

Feb 3, Monday

For Feb 6, Thursday

  • Read a view source web and respond in the Week 3 Doc
  • Make progress on Musica Viva.
  • Complete the rest of Codecademy Learn CSS. Starting with 'Display and Positioning' through 'Typography'. You don't need to do the projects or Quizes. Email me a screen shot of Syllabus Panel with all the steps complete. You might need to take a few seperate screenshots.

Feb 6, Thursday

For Feb 10, Monday

  • Make progress on Musica Viva.
  • Pick two different sets of three connected Wikipedia articles. Pay special attention to how their connections modify their meaning.
  • Complete CSS Flexbox and Grid lessons on Codecademy Learn CSS. Email me a screen shot of Syllabus Panel with all the steps complete. You might need to take a few seperate screenshots.

Feb 10, Monday

For Feb 13, Thursday

  • Finish Musica Viva.
  • Complete Project 1 — Step 1 → For your chosen articles, draw 3 different sketches of ideas how you could present them on your site. Pay attention to navigation and structure, focus less on aesthetics. We'll talk about your sketches on Thursday, make sure you have enough to be able to communicate your intention!
  • Read Grid World and respond in the Week 4 Doc

Feb 13, Thursday

For Feb 17, Monday

  • Complete Project 1 — Step 2 → For your chosen direction, refine your sketches into hi-fidelity designs. These designs should look like screenshots of the eventual website. Consult Google Fonts or Adobe Fonts for typefaces you might use in your designs.
  • Complete the CSS Transitions lesson on Codecademy Learn CSS. Email me a screen shot of Syllabus Panel with all the steps complete. You might need to take a few seperate screenshots.

Feb 17, Monday

  • Lecture on CSS Transitions and Animations.
  • Review Designs for Project 1 and start building.
  • Worktime on starting to build wikizine

For Feb 20, Thursday

Feb 20, Thursday

For Feb 24, Monday

  • Continue to work on building Project 1. Monday is the 33% check in deadline, by then you should have your pages made and your content in your html, even if the styling has a ways to go yet.

Feb 24, Monday

For Feb 27, Thursday

Feb 27, Thursday

For March 3, Monday

Finish Project 1 and upload it to your class site prior to class.

March 3, Monday

Final Crit Project 1, we'll go in the following order. Make sure to have your site uploaded to Fluxus.

eme
bea
baina
haotian
audrey
erika
alla
lehan
chris
hyein
danny
yudi
finnley
vicky
vivi

For March 6, Thursday

March 6, Thursday

For March 10, Monday

Complete Project 2 Step 2.

Complete 3 sketches of an interface showcasing your chosen interaction, at least one affirming the interaction, and one subverting it. In your sketches, consider how the site will react to the user interacting with it first and foremost.

Also complete Codecademy Introduction to Javascript: Conditionals and Codecademy Introduction to Javascript: Functions. Email me a screen shot of Syllabus Panel with all the steps complete.

March 10, Monday

  • Review Sketches of interaction showcases.
  • Begin working on hi fidelity designs for our showcases.
  • Demos of things that are in people's sketches.

For March 13, Thursday

March 13, Thursday

For March 17, Monday

March 17, Monday

  • Work day!

For March 20, Thursday

  • Continue to make progress on building your Project 2.

For March 20, Thursday

  • Continue to make progress on building your Project 2.

March 20, Thursday

  • Work day!

For March 31, Monday

  • Finish Project 2 and have it uploaded to your class site for crit!

March 31, Monday

Final Crit Project 2. Order is as follows:

vicky
finnley
audrey
chris
eme
alla
bea
yudi
hyein
danny
baina
vivi
erika
haotian
lehan

For April 3, Thursday

April 3, Thursday

For April 7, Monday

Sketch three unique directions for your typeface in a design tool. Conceptually and formally, each direction should be uniquely different from each other. You don't need to draw all the letters, start with the ones that will inform the design of the whole family first (like, how o would inform b,d,p,q) etc. Each sketch should show at least 10 - 12 characters.

April 7, Monday

For April 10, Thursday

April 10, Thursday

For April 14, Monday

  • Make Progress on building your letters, try to have at least 6 built by Monday, focus on building them so that you can reposition and reuse them as needed.

April 14, Monday

  • Check in on your letters.
  • Continue to build your letters.

For April 17, Thursday

April 17, Thursday

  • Reading discussion on the Web's Grain.
  • Demo on media queries.
  • Work time on your letters

For April 21, Monday

Design 2 proposals for a website to showcase your typeface. Your site should include a specimen and a showcase of the type in use. Additionally, as part of your final site your letters should be able to transition between at least 2 different states.

April 21, Monday

  • Discuss two proposals for specimen website.
  • Work time.

For April 24, Thursday

  • Continue to build your letters, start to build your website.

For April 24, Thursday

  • Continue to build your letters, start to build your website.

April 24, Thursday

  • Work time.

For April 28, Monday

Continue to build your letters and site.

On Monday we'll have a in progress crit on Project 3, come with a plan on how to use this time to get feedback from your peers about your project.

Are you interested in feedback about your letters, your site design, the interaction or transition of your letterforms? This is your opportunity to get that feedback.

April 28, Monday

Mid Crit on Project 3

chris
baina
finnley
hyein
lehan
alla
bea
vivi
vicky
erika
eme
yudi
danny
audrey
haotian

For May 1, Thursday

May 1, Thursday

For May 5, Monday

  • Continue to make progress on Project 3.

May 5, Monday

  • Work time on Project 3.

For May 8, Thursday

  • Continue to make progress on Project 3.

May 8, Thursday

  • Crit for Lehan and Danny who can't join us Monday.
  • Work time on Project 3.

For May 12, Monday

  • Final crit Project 3

May 12, Monday

Final Crit Project 3, make sure your site is uploaded to Fluxus and that Will has a link to your Project 3

Our order is as follow:

vicky
chris
finnley
alla
eme
hyein
bea
vivi
erika
audrey
baina
haotian
yudi