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agenda: week 1, 1/26-30; introduction

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Class Info: Week 1

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

    • Date: January 26 & 30

    • Course Goals: Introduce the field of graphic design including its basic working methods and theory. This class will focus on communication through form, the visible shape or configuration.

To-Do Before Class

    • If you are on this page you have already joined this site. Congrats!!
    • Review the Syllabus:
    • Supplies that you need for every class
        • Sketchbook: 8.5 x 11
        • 2 black markers: 1 wide & 1 fine point.
        • 2 flash drives: one master, one back-up
        • Pencils of varying hardness
        • 2 flash drives: one master, one back-up

Supplies needed on occasion :

        • masking tape
        • Roll of 12” tracing paper
        • Metal ruler for measuring and trimming: 12”
        • 2 black markers: 1 wide & 1 fine point.
        • 2 flash drives: one master, one back-up
        • Pencils of varying hardness
        • Pencil sharpener

Topic

Welcome to Graphic Design
You are about to join the profession!

Objectives

    • To familiarize students with the objectives of the course.
    • To establish working practices and clarify expected outcomes.
    • To introduce 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

Attendance Policy:
failure to complete in-class academic requirements.

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 (15 minutes or more) will be equal to 1 absence.

Be sure to notify all your students about the Openlab COMD student advisement website and have them follow it throughout their education in COMD. We regularly update and send out notifications to students via this website.

 

Advisements

Openlab COMD student advisement website.
Follow it throughout your education in COMD.

Notifications are sent to students via this website.

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/comd-advisement/

 

Activities

Course structure and Expectations

Review academic policies & go over syllabus

 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. 
        •  What to Expect in Class – Online Course Structure
        • How to Navigate this Site
        • Introduce Weekly Discussions
        • Critique and Discussion best practices

Lecture

What is design?   

Graphic design is qualitative rather than quantitative. There are no ‘correct’ solutions to problems but there will be solutions that feel highly compelling, original, and appropriate to you (and hopefully your client). As a creative process, good design is not by nature efficient.

Strong solutions are sometimes arrived at quickly but more often slowly and progressively. The development of a rigorous creative process will help add rationality and consistency to your work. 

Graphic designers are primarily concerned with creating and managing visual forms (usually combining type and images) that communicate a particular message, to a particular audience, in a meaningful and powerful way. Graphic Design can alternately be used to identify, inspire, inform, persuade, or provoke, and designers work across a variety of media, often collaborating with a team of specialists to execute their visions. 

The following are a range of specialties that are generally included within the field of graphic design: 

• Branding: identity design for institutions, companies (non-media specific) 

• Interactive Design: interface design for websites, software, kiosks 

• Motion Graphics: film/tv title sequences, ads, television identities 

• Print Design: design for books, posters, magazines, newspapers • Environmental Design: wayfinding, signage, and exhibition design • Information Design: tables, charts, diagrams (maps are a sub-specialty) 

• Packaging Design: food and product packaging 

• Typeface design is a sub-specialty 

• Advertising is a separate discipline but designers also work within ad agencies 

Design Fundamentals

 

Class Exploration

visit Grace Gallery:  Self Portraits: Explorations of Identity

    • COMD invited New York City Public High School Students to submit creative works that explored their cultural heritages, questions of race, ethnicity and/or gender. 

    • selection on the diverse range of work that questions traditional standards of beauty. 

    • diverse identities expressed in the submissions.

    • a prompt to discuss issues of representation in communication design and advertising

    • sensitivity to demographics and user personas are essential in communication design and advertising.

    • Physical work such as painting, printmaking, photography, and drawing, uploaded as either a low resolution photo or scanned image  &  digital art includes anything created on a computer or tablet.

 

Due Next 

Assignment: due Monday , January 30

Don’t forget to purchase supplies:

            • Sketchbook: 8.5 x 11
            • Roll of 12” tracing paper
            • Metal ruler for measuring and trimming: 12”
            • 2 black markers: 1 wide & 1 fine point.
            • 2 flash drives: one master, one back-up
            • Pencils of varying hardness
            • Pencil sharpener

Assignment due Thursday 2/2

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