Student-Directed Projects in Adobe Graphic Design Software: Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator

Student-Directed Projects in Adobe Graphic Design Software: Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator is a remote home-studio intensive course. Students will gain experience in proposing, developing, and realizing a graphic design-based project that contains multiple design assets and is suitable for a professional digital design portfolio. Students registering for this course will have either completed the first summer session offering, Adobe Graphic Design Software , or have gained beginning to intermediate computer design software skills elsewhere in at least one of Adobe’s design applications (Photoshop, InDesign, or Illustrator) . Students in this course will further develop their design software skills by completing a larger-scale individual final project of their own choosing. 

Students will assemble an individual web portfolio for this course that demonstrates their ability to conceive of and execute a multiple-asset digital graphic design project. 

Tech, Connectivity, and Home-Studio Space needs: In order to participate in this remote-learning course, students will need access to a newer laptop, or desktop computer that has a multi-core processor and at least 8GB of RAM and access to a reliable internet connection. Our work will be conducted remotely, using Canvas and Zoom. 

Students will be given access to a remote Adobe Creative Cloud license from Evergreen during the course.

All students will receive and submit course assignments on Canvas following weekly submission deadlines. Students will participate in 6 hours of remote synchronous Zoom project development instruction, project work and project critique on Saturdays from 10am to 2pm and should expect to spend an additional 8-10 hours outside of class time per week on their projects.