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Textbooks

Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud, Revised Edition
Digital Foundations uses formal exercises of the Bauhaus to teach the Adobe Creative Suite.
Graphic Design and Print Production Fundamentals
This textbook -- written by a group of select experts with a focus on different aspects of the design process, from creation to production -- addresses the many steps of creating and then producing physical, printed, or other imaged products that people interact with on a daily basis.
Digital Imaging 1: Digital Photography Basics
Digital Imaging 2: Digital Image Editing

Course Materials

OER Commons - Photography
OER Commons provides a curated collection of Art History, Graphic Arts, Performing Arts, and Visual Arts.
MERLOT II - Photography
It's In the Cards - Graphic Design Project
This project-based lesson is a capstone project in graphic design and includes typography, color theory, design techniques, history, and more, using the tools of the graphic design trade. Students are introduced to aspects of project management, graphics production business, and what working with clients.
Tell Me a Story: Storytelling using Photos and Graphic Design PBL Project
"Tell me a story" takes students through a journey of hands-on learning about storytelling through photography, graphic design, and videography. In these lessons, students will be taught key points in telling compelling stories then, challenged to use their creativity and critical thinking to demonstrate techniques of effective non verbally and verbal communication.

Open Courses

Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry
From MIT Open CourseWare. This course explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing or investigating urban landscapes, and expressing ideas. Readings, observations, and photographs form the basis of discussions on light, detail, place, poetics, narrative, and how photography can inform design and planning.
Intermediate Graphic Design
This course provides students with an in depth experience with digital design tools, processes and systems common to careers in graphic arts and digital production. Career examination and skill building include printing enterprise, art and copy preparation, graphic design, image generation and assembly, production photography, graphic reproduction operations, binding and/or finishing related to digital imaging, printing, and digital production.
Animation - CTE Online Model
This instructional program prepares students to use artistic and technological foundations to create animated presentations for industry and entertainment. Students will develop basic drawing and design skills, learn the fundamentals and physics movement, the concept of communication to a given audience, and techniques for self-expression through a variety of animated formats. In addition, they will explore the careers and requisite skills required by animators in both entertainment and the business world.