This is a tentative schedule of what will happen week to week. Since the field trip(s) and guest lecturers are not locked down yet, expect these to shift radically.

Week 1 Lecture: What is Publishing? In-class: Publication spectrum Assignment: Media Consumption Report

Week 2
Lecture: Data and Typography
In-class: Data Basics and Markup Exercises
Assignment: Mark up Benjamin’s “The Work of Art In the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” as HTML.

Week 3
Guest Lecture: Creative Commons
Guest Lecturer: Ying Ying Li
In-class: Typographic Style
Assignment: Online Type Specimen

Week 4
Lecture: The Grid
In-class: Positioning with CSS
Assignment: Working with Blueprint

Week 5
Lecture: Resolution and Images
In-class: Image optimization exercises
Assignment: From print to screen

Week 6
Lecture: Field Trip
Assignment: Poetry In Motion

Week 7
Midterm Projects Due

Week 8
Lecture: Information Architecture
In-class: Navigation and Interaction
Assignment: Component design

Week 9
Lecture: Interaction Design
In-class: Simple rollovers and fades
Assignment: The reading experience

Week 10
In-class: Open Lab
Assignment: Final Project Proposal

Week 11
Lecture: CSS Zen
In-class: Skinning a blog
Assignment: Design a Redub Theme

Week 12
Lecture: The Future of Publishing
In-class: RSS
Assignment: RSS publishing

Week 13
In-class: Final Project work

Week 14
In-class: Final Project work

Week 15
FINAL PROJECTS DUE