Graphic design can take many forms, both on-screen and in print, but it is always composed of images and text to achieve a communication purpose. This course introduces students to the core skills needed to create complex graphic design, including method, historical context, and communication through image creation and typography. A final project that incorporates the skills learned in each session, as well as peer feedback into a polished branding project fit for a variety of artists, completes the program.
What you will learn in this course:
- Learn the basic skills needed to work as a graphic designer.
- Use design and image-making to communicate.
- To enhance your career pathway, complete a master thesis.
- Get anything you need to know about working in the fields of interface design, motion graphics, and editing design.
This course will teach you the fundamental skills you’ll need to develop computer programs. This is the course for you if you want to learn how to develop interacting, graphical programs in a genuine programming language from the ground up. You’ll start by studying the fundamentals of program editing and execution.
Then you’ll learn how to use shapes and coordinates to create 2D visuals. Finally, you’ll discover how to make interactive visuals that you can manipulate with your mouse. You’ll even use your coding skills to solve a set of graphical puzzles in the Sleuth videogame, which was built specifically for this course.
This course’s purpose is to provide students with a set of adaptable formal and conceptual skills for “developing and delivering” in the field of graphic design. This foundational skill set will prepare students for professional graphic design courses and serve as a springboard for additional work in interface design, video production, and editorial design.