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Alice Vidal
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Alice Vidal
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Communication Design
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COMD 2400 Fall 2024

COMD 2400 Fall 2024

In this course, students learn to refine their conceptual thinking, and the ability to apply design concepts across various media channels. This course challenges students to think and strategically apply campaign ideas. At this stage, students choose a media placement and incorporate it into the solution. The course also introduces the collaborative relationship between Art Director and Copywriter. Student teams brainstorm, develop copy, art direct and pitch ideas in teams. Students will explore the dialogue between products and services and how to communicate their benefits and features to the intended target.

COMD3711 Vector Art Editing, Fall 2024

COMD3711 Vector Art Editing, Fall 2024

Students will learn advanced techniques for design, illustration, and production on the computer using vector graphics. Students are exposed to professional tools using software such as Adobe Illustrator on the Macintosh operating system.

ComD 3316 Advanced Digital Image Editing

ComD 3316 Advanced Digital Image Editing

An advanced raster imaging skills course focused on color correcting and retouching continuous tone images. Students learn how digital images can be enhanced and optimized. Bitmapped files are strategically modified using color modes, paths, selections, layers, filters and curves. Discussions, quizzes and projects focus on professional terminology and techniques for making alterations to match a client’s instructions using industry-standard software.

COMD 1112 Digital Media Foundations FA2023 Henry

COMD 1112 Digital Media Foundations FA2023 Henry

This course introduces students to core concepts in the graphic communications field, including typography, color theory, design and production terminology, reproduction processes, file formats, and substrates. During the semester, students will complete three pages of their own ePortfolio website. Lectures will provide students with a historical perspective of the graphic communications field, as well as discuss current practices and future trends.

COMD 3504 SUMMER 2024 Communications Design Theory

COMD 3504 SUMMER 2024 Communications Design Theory

An in-depth introduction to communication design theory, this course examines theoretical perspectives of design practice within the larger discourse of design and visual culture. Communication models, the nature of representation, the dimensions of context, and semiotics are explored through critical readings in key documents from the early decades of the twentieth century to the present.

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ARTH 1100 OL 20 – OER History of Photography Resources

ARTH 1100 OL 20 – OER History of Photography Resources

This website is an OER for City Tech’s ARTH1100 History of Photography course. Course Description: An introduction to photography as a fine art and communications medium, from the publication of its invention in 1839 to the present, among Western practitioners. Illustrated lectures and discussions appraise diverse overlapping functions of photographs and view camera work within the history of art and culture. Changing styles, purposes and techniques are outlined chronologically.

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