Schedule Notes
*Committees’ tasks are within dotted lines – – – – – – -.
*Please note that you should also be advancing your personal branding materials and portfolio website over the course of this semester. There are a couple of times that we’ve allocated to review/touch base on your progress. It is important that each student is proactive about this work and manages their time responsibly to include its advancement. Final deliverables include this work. Key advancements: Adding new work to your online and pdf portfolio and completing and printing your business and ‘takeaways’.

Phase I: Ideation & Research
December 2024 – January 30, 2025
Ideation & Research will consist of formulating the conceptual framework for your project, identifying a larger narrative “theme” or story, and the development/collection/creation of content and other raw materials.

-Tuesday, 1/21-
*Introduce Course Framework*
– Review Syllabus: Semester Timeline, Expectations, and Deliverables
– Review portfolio considerations and the inclusion of personal branding requirements
– Introduce Exhibition Committees
– Begin presentations

-Thursday, 1/23-
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Exhibition Committees:
– Discussion/selection of exhibition committees
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Continue presentations

-Tuesday, 1/28-
Classwork:
– Complete presentations
– Begin Content Collection
What to research and collect/create:
/ Imagery (photographs, drawings, diagrams, charts, maps, textures, colors, etc)
/ Verbal language/copy (audio transcripts, contextual copy or other languages i.e.
in artifacts such as signs, conversations, letters, menus, instructions, etc.
/ Sound/audio
/ Newspaper articles, etc.
/ Anything else that you can think of! Be creative!

-Thursday, 1/30-
GALLERY VISIT
Class will meet at Project For Empty Space at 11:30am
800 Broad St, Newark, NJ 07102
[ Gallery entrance is on Edison Pl.]
We’ll meet for an hour and then walk back to school. Class resumes at 1pm. 
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Exhibition Committees:
– Go over past committee work examples
– Committee breakout sessions (1 hour)
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Homework:
– *Cont. Collect* Based on the feedback given during presentations, further develop capstone concepts and media directions.
Continue research and gathering/creating content to support the next phase of project/medium development.

Phase II: Content Shaping & Design Exploration
January 30, 2024 – February 27, 2024
Once a theme is defined, build and shape your content and ideate how you will represent your narrative(s) visually or build your campaign. Investigate, sketch & rationalize how the medium is appropriate to and reflective of your story. Exploit the unique affordances of each medium.

-Tuesday, 2/4-
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Committee Break Out (1 hour)
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Working Session
Begin Preparing for Critique 1 (2/11)
/  Organize Collected (Found) Content
/ Conduct a thorough sketch process to explore different potential narrative interpretations and media ideas.
*These should be presented as pencil concept sketches for different media.
/ Visual research, which includes type studies, color, texture, imagery, and grid systems
/ Technology and material exploration and affordance analysis

-Thursday, 2/6-
Working Session + Capstone One-on-Ones

-Tuesday, 2/11-
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Committee  Presentations (Ideation + Concepts)
Branding

Group A: Camilla, Robert, Alyssandre, Jia, Jazmyne, Jhoselyn

Group B: Jean, Kaviyan, Liam, Niko, Alexis

Group C: Jammie, Nihaal, Mansi, Vylette, Elizabeth

Group D: Yuli, Brandon, David, Nathalie, James
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– Group A + B Critique:
Present 2 Comps and Visual Solutions for each Media
– Working Session for Groups C + D

-Thursday, 2/13-
– Group C Critique:
Present 2 Comps and Visual Solutions for each Media
– Working Session for Groups A + B + D

-Tuesday, 2/18-
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Committee  Presentations (Ideation + Concepts)
Branding, Collateral, Exhibition Design
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– Group D Critique:
Present 2 Comps and Visual Solutions for each Media
– Working Session for Groups A + B + C

-Thursday, 2/20-
Working Session + Capstone One-on-Ones

-Tuesday, 2/25-
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Committee  Presentations (Ideation + Concepts)
Branding, Language, Programming
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Working Session + Capstone One-on-Ones

-Thursday, 2/27-
Working Session + Capstone One-on-Ones