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DESIGN YOUR OWN ANTI-PROCRASTINATION PLAN

You are gonna love this....

Color Schemer - Online Color Scheme Generator will make your color pallette decisions so much easier.

IDD 400 Flashforward

SF Festival Finalists

Good article on designing with color:

Design How-To: Solve Color Dilemmas

Great post on interactivity...

Jeffrey Veen: State-of-the-art interactivity?

creativepro.com - Design How-to: A Better Newsletter

IDD480 HOMEWORK

Refine web designs

BLOG (amnesty is over!)

IDD 400: Homework

Refine storyboard (or create storyboards). Those who are ready may begin working on their animation.

Blog (and catch up on missed blogs, grace period is over soon)

Read MGD Chap. 9, tutorials CMG part 6.

IDD 400 Animations

High

papersky

The Beautiful One with Wings

Welcome Back!

My beautiful, tanned and rested students - back to work!

I hope everyone had a great Spring Break.

Weblog as personal marketing tool : Lifehacker

Blogging for Jobs

Nice how-to article on Illustrator logos:

creativepro.com - Illustrator How-To: Make a Logo Flow in Illustrator

IDD480 HOMEWORK

ABSOLUTE DEADLINE: march 21st
logo/id comps
logo/id finals
BLOG template

design comps for website (3 dif. versions in photoshop. sketch and do research first!)

IDD 400 Homework

Continue with readings (MGD chaps. 7&8) and tutorials (CMG part 5).

Blog on one animation from Trollback. NO BLOG over spring break.

Project 2:
30 sec (minimum) animation, using any image source (graphic, video, photographic). This animation must have sound.
***Three high-quality storyboards due for presentation next class.

IDD400 Motion Graphics Site

Trollback Company

IDD 300 DVD Project Due Date

Just a reminder, the DVD project must be completed to be turned in for Wed. March 9th. Don't forget to blog as well on a DVD.

Designers Online: Todd Dominey

AIGA Los Angeles | Feature

IDD400

We will have lab tomorrow for class to make up for the snow day last week.

Early Web “Design”

Olia Lialina. A Vernacular web. Indigenous and Barbarians.

For all your Demuxing Needs

Streamclip is free and demuxes MPEG2 to separate .m2v & .aiff files.

IDD300 Homework

• Finish and Burn your DVD
• Readings/tutorials
• Interface Blog Post

IDD 480 HOMEWORK

Print and turn in mind map

Complete logo designs

Letterhead/business card/envelope designs (6 of each)

Draft of resume

Read and blog (blog must be customized by mid-term)

For My Flash Fiends

Flash Goes Mobile (opportunity abounds)

Best Practices for developing for Mobile content

IDD 400 Homework

- Translate storyboard to After Effects (begin working on your animation)

- Blog on an animation from Eyeball NYC

- Readings and tutorials: CMG part 3, MGD Chapter 4.

IDD 300 Homework

-Collecting/Creating Assets
-Tutorials
-Analyze/Blog

Next week is a lab period to get any technical problems worked out.

IDD 480 Homework

1. take selected logo and refine

2. create layouts for biz cards, letterhead, and envelope (6 variations minimum)

3. read, research, blog

IDD Free/Public Domain Photo Resources (all classes)

PD Photo - Public Domain Photos

stock.xchng - the leading free stock photography site

Fun Nintendo Game

Practice your surgeon skills...

IDD400 Motion Graphics Site

EyeballNYC

Audio Clips for IDD 300

Repost from 10.2004 QUIDD Archives:

Google Search for Public Domain sound clips
Free Sound FX
FindSounds - Search the web for sounds
Simply the Best Sound Effects, midis
Sound Clips
Partners in Rhyme

New Semester Sidebar!

OK. I have created the sidebar links to all your Spring 05 blogs. Test your link(s) to make sure they work properly. If they do not, then you have NOT sent me your URL OR you sent the wrong URL. You must get it to me ASAP or your blogs will be graded as late.

Now you may start commenting on your classmates posts!

A FRIENDLY REMINDER

You must have links in your blog posts. If you do not - the mark down is a whole point off! (out of five points total) Amnesty for blog mistakes and revisions will end at midterm. After that - you get what you get.

ALSO:
Please turn commenting on in your blog settings if you have not... (Jason M - that's you)

FYI

AIGA - Blogs vs. Mags

IDD300 Homework

-Tutorials
-Analyze a DVD interface for your Blog.
-Storyboards for 1st DVD and find videos and sound to use.

IDD300 Additional Project Resource

Internet Archive

IDD300 Project Resource

The Open Video Project

IDD300 Helpful Links

Creating Alpha Transitions for DVD Studio Pro 3

Creative Cow Media Pros Community

Creative COW: DVD Creation

Apple - Support - DVD Studio Pro

Larry Jordan

IDD 400 Homework

Revised storyboard due for presentation next week.

Blog on an animation from the Digital Kitchen website.

Readings and Tutorials: MGD Chapter 3, CMG Chapter 2.

IDD400 Motion Graphics Site

::DIGITALKITCHEN2004::

IDD300 Bit Budget Calc

DVD Video Bit Budget Calculator

IDD 300 DVD Interfaces Homework

Homework:
-Readings/Tutorials
-Blog (Analyze another DVD)

Do 2 posts if you did not post the first one correctly or you did not blog last week.

QU MUG wants you!

What the heck?! That's right - the QU Macintosh Users Group is asking students to join. If you want to connect with other Mac users on campus and share cool stuff about these machines, send me an email at my QU address - I'll have you added to the meeting notice list.

You guys that had me for IDD301 the past couple of semesters...

I thought you'd get a kick out of this little email exchange!

HAHAHAHA wow!
I was quite surprised when I saw this in my inbox this morning!
Thought you'd enjoy this too.

-mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Gallina [mailto:toddgallina@cox.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 3:38 AM
To: Driscoll, Mark P.
Subject:

Hi Mark,
I ran across your blog:
http://markflash.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_markflash_archive.html
and just wanted to say: YOU ARE TOO KIND!

Thanks for pumping me up buddy!
-Todd
www.toddgallina.com

Blog Templates and Blog Skin links

Template Hunter

IDD 480: Homework

Readings:
CBD ch.3&4
DDP ch.2

Logo development (12 different minimum)
Content collection/creation (resume, old projects, eyc.)
Blog (reading, research related)

IDD 400: Homework

Readings and tutorials:
CMG Part 1
MGD chapter 2

Blog assignment:
Analyze 1 animation from Imaginary Forces (under 'projects').

3 storyboards for a 20 second animation due for presentation in class next week.

The New York Times Blog Article

The New York Times >Hot Off the Web: Gossip and Design Guidance

(requires free sign-in)

LAB HOURS

TH128 Open Lab Times

MON-THURS: 7am-9, 11:30-12:30, 3-3:30, 6-6:30, and 9 - whenever Security locks up
FRI: 7am-9, 11:30-12:30, and 3 - whenever Security locks up
SAT: During Help Desk hours (call security if the lab is not open)
SUN: 12-8pm starting a week from this Sunday (Tim Anderson and Brett Strasnick will be the monitors)

LIBRARY MACS

There are 4 G4s with the Lab configuration in the cyber cafe
There are 3 G5s in Media Services with an slightly modified IDD image

These are available Library hours and Media services hours

GMAIL

I have 9 gmail invitations - if you want one, send me an email at pattiebelle(at)gmail(dot)com

First come, first served.

IDD300: DVD Yahoo Group

Yahoo! Groups: recipe4dvd

IDD 300 HW Assignment

- Buy books
- Read & do tutorials
- Setup blog, email pattiebelle.hastingsATquinnipiac.edu with link to your blog.
- Make first post on blog. Either analyze a DVD menu or something else to do with DVD Interfaces.

Welcome Back!

A new semester, new classes, exciting work - we are going to have a great time! I am so glad to be back - I missed you guys.

Graphic Design Business

creativepro.com - New Study Profiles $15 Billion U.S. Graphic Design Business from 2004 - 2009

**Exam Schedule**

IDD 250
-Monday Dec. 13; 9:00 AM

IDD 301 A
-Wednesday Dec. 15; 10:30 AM

IDD 301 B
-Wednesday Dec. 15; 1:00 PM


Projects for all classes are due on their respective dates.

Blogs Illustrated

IDD 301 Video Resource!

The Open Video Project

IDD 301 & 250 Assignments

IDD 250:
-No more Blogs
-Have part of your website online for debugging.
-Take notice of exam schedule change listed below.

IDD 301
-No more Blogs
-No revised storyboard
-Work on animation as much as possible. It's due in 2 weeks.

**IDD 250 Exam Schedule Change**

The for the exam for IDD 250 is now earlier than the posted time on Quinnipiac. We will not meet at 10:30AM.

New Time:

Monday December 13 @ 9:00 AM

A Celebration of Street Art

Wooster Collective : Stickers / Posters / Graf / Culture Jamming

On Design Blogs

icon | 017 | bloggers

Another Major Company Blogging

creativepro.com - HP Quietly Begins Weblog Experiment

IDD 301 Assignments

-Work on Adobe After Effects tutorials
-Have your storyboard done for when we get back (Dec. 1st)
-Blog on a clip from the previous sites on the Blog (The 4 we went over in class)

Enjoy your Thanksgiving Break!

IDD 250 Assignment

-Finalize Webpage Designs
-1st Draft of Written information
-No Blog, but read

IDD301 Weekly Sites

cybmotion
quietearth
trollback
verbmedia

Animated Graffiti

Protein Feed - Animated Graffiti

Animated Graffiti
By William Rowe on November 15, 2004 11:29 AM

An artist created a small animation of a robot walking, then rendered each frame as a stencil. Then s/he went around town and sprayed the stencil on walls, lamp-posts, etc, and photographed each one.

IDD 301 -- After Effects Plug-Ins installed

The plug-ins needed for the tutorials are installed. To make sure that they are working please REBOOT before using After Effects.

Fireworks Technique

Colorizing Background Image

Design Blogging

icon | 017 | bloggers

IDD250: User Experience Venn Diagrams

Functioning Form - User Experience Comes in Threes

IDD 301 Assignment

-Blog on one thing from Imaginary Forces website.
-Part 2 in Adobe After Effects book.

IDD301 Site of the Week

Imaginary Forces

You must pick one of the animation projects on this site to analyze for your blog this week.

IDD 250 Assignment

Due Next Week

- Three (3) initial, completely different, design comps.
\- Front Cover & Inside page for each design comp
\- Color prints will be turned in after in-class critique

- Flow chart of Website (Use Adobe InDesign)

- 1st Draft of Writing due in two weeks.

*No Blog/Reading this week. It will be done for the following week.

Ian's Shoelace Site - Introduction

IDD 350 Assignment Week 10

-Read and do Part 1 tutorials in your Adobe After Effects book.

-Blog on another Flash animation.

P.S. Great show of poem animations today!

IDD 250 Assignment Week 10

Week 10 (11/1)

Reading "Pause & Effect" p. 154-169

-Blog on reading
-Refine MindMaps

Writing Tips

Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)

Reference to previous link:

Wiretap has been installed on the 4 iMacs in the back of the lab, if you need to use it for your projects.

HOW-TO: Record all audio playing through your Mac

www.engadget.com

IDD 250 Week 9 Assignment/Reading

- Have a research topic & mind map
- Fix anything on last web page (home/portal page)
- Blog on readings in book

Reading "Pause & Effect" p. 124-151

IDD301 After Effects Book

As Tim pointed out in the comment to my previous post on this, Amazon has the book for $42:

Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Vol. 1: The Essentials (3rd Edition, Version 6.5)

Google search for sound effects

Google Search: "sound effects" "public domain" free

more free sound effects

free sound effects sfx

Sound Search Engine

FindSounds - Search the Web for Sounds

SimplytheBest Sound effect MIDI sounds

More Free Sound Clips

Sound Clips

Free Sound Effects Resource

Partners in Rhyme

Mosaics for Mac OS X

MacOSaiX

Check this out...

photoshop girl progression image

Great Design Research Resource

For vintage/retro design trends: Retrolounge | bringing you the best of bygone eras

IDD 250

Week 8

Reading "Pause & Effect" p. 115-123

Dreamweaver HOT chapters 17-18

Webpage - Front Page/Portal
-Intro paragraph
-add a link to all of previous webpages (5) to this home page "Home" link
-Navigation system

Typography Resource

Thinking With Type

IDD 301 After Effects Book!

The bookstore has gotten in the book for the last portion of the class:

Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects,
Vol. 1: The Essentials (3rd Edition, Version 6.5)
by Trish Meyer, Chris Meyer

It's a great book - pick up a copy before people outside of our class start buying them up.

IDD 301 Assignment

-"Free" Blogs (Blog on any animation) until we start Adobe After Effects.

-Revised storyboard for next week (10/20)

-Continue in Flash MX 2k4 H.O.T.

-And start constructing your animations!

IDD 301 Assignment

Blog
-Any animation

Project 2
-Storyboard due Wed. 10/13

Continue in Flash MX 2k4 H.O.T.

IDD 250 Assignment & Reading

Week 6 (10/4)

Reading "Pause & Effect" p. 72-92
Dreamweaver HOT chapters 13-14

Another web page as well.

Week 7 (10/11)

***Note*** This is a free Lab Day (no P.B.)
Use this for catch up and tweeking any old web pages to be re-submitted.

Reading "Pause & Effect" p. 93-115
Dreamweaver HOT chapters 15-16

Yet another web page.

It's Official - Good Bloggers Get the Jobs

The New York Times > Job Market > Before Applying, Check Out the Blogs (free sign in required)