Class Info: Week 2

This Week’s has been outlined in detail to give a clear vision of the overall course.

Goals

Review the field of graphic design including its basic working methods and theory. This class will focus on communication through form.

Objectives

Continue to explore theory through perception.

It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world;
we explain that world with words,
but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it.
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.

John Berger, Ways of Seeing

FYI

Review Attendance Policy

The COMD BFA and AAS degrees are design studio programs. In-class laboratory activities and engagement with other students is a significant portion of the courses.

Absences more than 10% of the total class hours will result in a 10% drop from your grade due to an inability to meet deliverables of participation.

This may be in addition to other penalties that will be imposed for failure to complete in-class academic requirements.

Missing more than 25% of total class meetings will not be permitted.

Any 2 lateness’s (10 minutes or more) will be equal to 1 absence.

Openlab COMD student advisement website

Follow it throughout your COMD education. It is regularly updated.

Course structure and Expectations

This class is not software-oriented

The scaffolded, systematic nature of the assignments are designed to help you develop a working process that leads to a body of accomplished visual work, as well as a vocabulary for critically engaging that work, laying a solid foundation for further study.

Critique and Discussion best practices

Fundamentals

Thinking with Type

Design fundamentals: gestalt principles of design

gestalt principles of design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk7cXdjX2Ys

homework: How do we communicate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn8oxWEtJE4&t=159s