I was hired to teach Intro to Production Design (MGD 1012) at Front Range Community College during the 2022 Fall semester. This was a wonderful opportunity to teach InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop as a complete production ecosystem! For this course, I was also given the privilege of designing a new “course shell,” complete with graphics, assignments and their rubrics, and assigned readings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prior instructors had created and built upon an existing course shell, which I used as a guide for setting up my own. A set of learning goals was already in place for the course, and I built the new course shell with an eye to ensuring each of those was well addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For each lecture, I designed a few slides to accompany what I was talking about or demonstrating during class. The presentation deck below was made for the first class session, and demonstrates a bit of the structure of the class overall. Class sessions would begin with an exercise, where students would follow along with a demonstration of a single technique or simple set of techniques before submitting their work. Over the course of the class, each student also produced multiple high-effort projects (to be worked on in between classes), and a personal icon library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n