Class Info: Week 2

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

• • Date: February 2
  • Goal: Investigate graphic form through figure/ground studies

To-Do Before Class

• • Complete homework assignments so that you can proceed to the next step.

Topic

Graphic communication through form

Objectives

• • Understanding details of form manipulation

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.

Activities

Critique

Demonstration

Digitally fine tuning a figure/ground composition

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Lecture

What is an icon? 

Graphic designers are 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.

Icon design requires an image that is simple enought to be easily remembered, yet contain symbolism recognizable to your audience.

 

Review

Design Fundamentals

• • • • Design fundamentals: gestalt principles of design

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

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

      • Working Process: Where to begin?  Brainstorming & Research Techniques

 

Due Next 

Assignment: due Monday , February 6