Prof. Brian Jones | COMD3504_D005 | SPRING 2025 | Tues 2:30pm
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Stereotypes: are widely circulated oversimplifications of people and groups; a preconceived idea of what a person is like, based on a range of different factors. These factors can involve culture, religion, race, sexual orientation, age, gender, appearance.
The … Continue Reading “Assignment: Decoding Stereotype in Advertising”
“Rhetoric is the ‘technique of using the means of expression to persuade’. The hallmark of all rhetoric is that it involves at least two levels of language, the primary or denoted (non-coded) and the figurative or connoted (coded).”
Aesthetics of Photography
You will … Continue Reading “Assignment: Reading Response – Visual Rhetoric”
Our first reading consists of an introduction to the text Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field, Armstrong, Helen, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009. Navigate to pages 6-7 to read “Why Theory? by Ellen Lupton.”
And we will also read a page from the … Continue Reading “Assignment: Reading Response – Why Theory?”
Each week, let’s choose or adapt one noticing task from the book “The Art of Noticing” by Rob Walker or create your own. Exercising your noticing muscles will help you to increase your curiosity, awareness, and … Continue Reading “Weekly Noticing Tasks”
The following is our list of course assignments. NOTE: It will be updated as the course progresses.
Refer to the guidelines for each of the following Assignment Instructions, Discussions, Reading Responses, Free-writing, and Designer’s Cookbook.
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