Week 1 & 2

Aug 21 - Sept 02

Branding Yourself

Résumé and Cover Letter

​WRITE your résumé / cover letter. 
CREATE a LinkedIn account. Add your résumé info and a link to your online portfolio. Some basic tutorials for LinkedIn.

Portfolio

DESIGN your portfolios: 

Print: Professional quality prints in a professional book.

Digital: Create an online portfolio where ever you feel fit your style and needs. Here are a few professional portfolio sites to check out:

Get a Job

FIND an internship site to work. Here is a list of job boards to get you started:

Purchase your Supplies

  • ​​BUY the class book - The Business of Design.
  • Portfolio Book
  • Professional paper you need for your portfolio
  • You will be printing your portfolio at a service bureau

Extras

Week 3 & 4

Sept 03 - 16

Branding Yourself Continued and Networking

Branding Yourself, Due Before 09.11

FINISH PREPPING FOR THE INTERNSHIP FAIR 
  • FINISH cover letter, resumé - including JRC workshop, LinkedIn profile, and online portfolio  from week 1 & 2​
  • DESIGN your business card. 

Network, Due 09.08

NETWORK
  • POST a link to your online portfolio on the class blog along with a short explanation of your goals with your portfolio, - why is it designed the way it is. COMMENT on your classmates portfolios.
  • NETWORK / CONNECT with your classmates on LinkedIn

Elevator Speech, Due 09.08

  • WRITE an elevator speech. Google the how-to's of writing an elevator speech. HINT: it is as long as taking an elevator one floor distance, i.e, 30 secs.
  • RECORD your elevator speech
  • POST your recorded elevator speech with the transcript to the class blog
  • COMMENT on your classmates "elevator speech"

Blog - Portfolio Display
Update: This project has been removed from the schedule.

  • READ and POST to the thread "Choose Your Display Dates" on the class blog 

Internship Fair, 09.11

ATTEND - JRC INTERNSHIP FAIR & SYMPOSIUM
Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, 5:30-8 p.m. in Building M 
Symposium 5:30-6:30 p.m. * Fair 6:30 p.m
 
Resumes, business attire and registration required. 
​Register by Sept. 8. To register contact Marie Harrell at harrellm3@morainevalley.edu
 
Students interested in obtaining an internship must meet eligibility requirements. 

Funding provided in whole or in part by the Illinois Community College Board

Bring your business cards too!

The Business of Design​, Due 09.16

READ 
  • Chapter 1 - The Creative Industry
  • Chapter 2 - How Business Thinks
WATCH 

Extras

Week 5 & 6

Sept 17 - 30

Hours Check-in

Due 09.29

​
HOURS CHECK-IN: Email the professor an update of how many internship hours you have worked. Use the time-log template below - add in your own dates / times that you have worked; under details add client name and project info.
time-log-template.xlsx
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Hours depend on working environment:
  • internship site for 150 hours (about 9.5 hours /week) OR
  • freelance projects for 225 hours (about 14 hours /week).
So by week 6 you should have worked a minimum of:
  • internship site - 56 hours
  • freelance - 84 hours
Here is the link for today's meeting.

Week 7 & 8

Oct 01 - 14

Week 7

The Business of Design​, Due 10.12

READ 
  • Chapter 3 - The Jobs
  • Chapter 5 - Proposals and Projects - AIGA Resources has templates for your reference

Mid-Term, Week 8

Due 10.12 at 4p

This week is our Synchronous Online Meeting using Google Hangouts. Please practice before our meeting so you are ready to use the technology needed for this meeting.
By week 8 you should have worked a minimum of:
  • internship site - 76 hours
  • freelance - 112 hours

Week 9 & 10

Oct 15 - 28
CATCH UP week.
No new homework. 
Do not forget to do the following from our video chat meeting:

Send me an email with
  • your cell phone number
  • time-log for hours completed so far
  • gmail email address (if you have not so far)
  • confirmation that you are available to meet on Thursday, 12.14.17 at 8a to give a presentation to the Introduction to Computer Art class in lieu of display 
Please note that if you did not attend the INTERNSHIP FAIR in September this is your only other opportunity to complete this assignment.
JRC Internship Presentation - Not required, just an FYI.
  • October 24, 2017 1p-2p in S117B

Week 11 & 12

Oct 29 - Nov 11
The Business of Design​, Due 11.11
READ 
  • Chapter 4 - Marketing
  • Chapter 6 - Legal Issues
  • Chapter 7 - Design Assets

Week 13 & 14

Nov 12 - 25
Thanksgiving Break

Week 15 & 16

Nov 26 - Dec 07

Internship Portfolio DUE 12.07.17

Internship Portfolio created in InDesign - package the file for submission - containing:
  • ​Professional materials: Résumé and Cover Letter, Business Card, digital portfolio (screenshots and link to online portfolio) and print portfolio (PDF), general artist / ethic statement (this is your elevator speech)
  • Two-page summary of what you learned from the book readings you completed this semester. (basic font, 11pt, single spaced, .5 margins)
  • Samples of client work organized by client with a signed Memo of Understanding for each client as "chapter headings". 
  • 1-page spreadsheet: include client name, client company, client contact info, freelance or on-site, how many hours you worked at each client per project. Must include total hours worked.
Signed copies of "Memo of Understanding" for each client. 
  • ​Must submit these to the JRC.
  • A​dd a digital copy of each to your final digital submission.
Final Digital Submission
  • ​Submit all of the above in digital format to your professor no later than December 7th. I will put a folder in GROUPS on campus for your final submission.​​​
Here is a folder structure and instructions for what each folder should contain. You have already completed most of this work with the exception of the internship portfolio, simply organize it.
Folder Structure for Submission
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File Type: zip
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Mandatory Final Exam—Thursday, 12.14.17 at 8a

Fri, Dec 08-Thu, Dec 14
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