Deane Nettles | Advertising & Graphic Design
CLASS INFORMATION
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do not fail. and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble." —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything... every idea should be seemingly outrageous." —George Lois
"Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work." —Chuck Close
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." —Lou Holtz
"If you listen carefully enough, good ideas are all around you." —Deane Nettles
In addition to art direction for businesses and associations, I also teach graphic design at area colleges to keep myself sharp and give back to the community. Below are syllabi, visual presentations, handouts and links I've developed for individual classes; at left are some subtopics in depth.
I am also available for individual training.
Contact me at deane@deanenettles.com for more information.
See Deane's "morgue file" of graphic design inspiration.
Checklists
MONTGOMERY COLLEGE, ROCKVILLE
MC GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDENT INFO
Prof. Deane Nettles:
Comm Arts Technologies Dept: Administrative Aide Michelle Brink, 240-567-7535
Office in Technical Center (TC) building, lower floor, room 116
Website: montgomerycollege.edu/catdept Full time faculty office hours, a directory of phone numbers and email addresses, information about all of our classes, certificates and degrees, and open lab schedule.
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Course evaluations are an important tool for helping faculty and administrators improve teaching, course content, and student learning. This semester’s course evaluations will be conducted online. To access the electronic course evaluation, click on the following link during the last two weeks of class: https://mc.simplyvoting.com. All students are encouraged to provide this valuable feedback for each of their classes.
MC GDES 121 Fundamentals of Graphic Design
GDES121 Syllabus Spring 2020 MW Morning
GDES121 Syllabus Spring 2020 MW Afternoon
Elements of Visual Communication
Neil Gaiman on Art and Freelancing
Project 1: "Design In My World" PowerPoint
10 easy ways to work faster and smarter in PowerPoint
Project 2: Kerning
Project 3: Expressive Typography
Expressive Typography Examples
Basic Instructions for InDesign
And and example of how this might be used in the real world:
Project 4-5: Design History Report and Magazine Spread
Rough History of Western Graphic Design
Basic Instructions for InDesign
Read Top Ten Type Crimes
11 classic body fonts for magazine project
Dimensions for drawing a Magazine Spread Grid
Dimensions for drawing a Web Grid
Creating PDF in InDesign Checklist
DIY Design
Project 6: Self-critique, Magazine Design
Project 7: Sequential Illustration
Project 8: Written Ad Critique
Project 9: Ad Campaign
This is TV not print, but a great example of issue advertising (AL&H):
Project 10: Logo Design/Letterhead
Logomotion, Chermayeff & Geismar
MC CG 120 Art & Illustration
Syllabus for CG120 Art & Illustration Spring 2012
Final Project Animation Examples
MC GDES 212 Publication Design with InDesign Spring 2010
Syllabus for GD212 Pub Design in InDesign Sp 10
Read Top Ten Type Crimes
11 classic fonts designers traditionally use
TOWSON UNIVERSITY
Designing for the World Wide Web
Syllabus: ART365 Designing for the World Wide Web
Project 1
Walter Gropius Bio example site
Importance of negative space to design
Project 2
Harmonic Instruction advanced web construction project
Final Project
HOWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE
ARTT-112 Introduction to Digital Media
Syllabus for AART112 Introduction to Digital Media Sp 2015 Wednesday Evening
AART200 GRAPHIC DESIGN
Syllabus for AART200 Graphic Design Sp2011 Monday
Basic Instructions for InDesign
Hierarchy Poster
Read Top Ten Type Crimes
11 classic fonts designers traditionally use
Magazine Spread Design
CD Redesign
Poster Design
AART204 GRAPHIC DESIGN
Project 1: Logo Design
Logomotion, Chermayeff & Geismar
Project 2: Type Poster
"Breathtaking" Typography Posters
(look at the ones toward the middle, the ones that are ONLY type)
Posters from Hatch Show Print
(Printed with antique wooden type)
Jessica Hische
(Her work is hand-created, not using ready-made fonts)
Project 3: Magazine Spread Design
Read Top Ten Type Crimes
11 classic fonts designers traditionally use
Dimensions for drawing a Magazine Spread Grid
Project 4: 8-pg Annual Report
FLASH
Movies shown in the classroom are protected under U.S. Copyright Law. All rights reserved. The public display of the movies shown in class are excepted from public performance restrictions by U.S. Copyright Law, October 2009, Chapter 1, Limitation 110.1.