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DSGD 104, Introduction to Graphic Design, Section 1

Time: Tuesday, Thursday 12:00pm – 2:50pm
Location: Art 212

Description

Familiarization to form and message development. Emphasis on visual concepts and fundamental design theory. The course also promotes the critical examination of ideas, two-dimensional spaces, and three-dimensional structures, including the relationship between some production methods and materials.

Syllabus

Familiarization to form and message development. Emphasis on visual concepts and fundamental design theory. The course also promotes the critical examination of ideas, two-dimensional spaces, and three-dimensional structures, including the relationship between some production methods and materials.

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Assignments

Throughout the semester, you must create a series of photographs and detailed analytical hand drawings and research and collect reference material on the nature of a baseball (regulation), or pine cone, or spark plug.

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Examples I

The baseball project

Examples II

Content maps

Animated web graphic

To dramatize a goal or aspect of the subject matter