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Project 2: Rainbow Dance

BRIEF

Create a stop-motion sequence with six frames, then re-interpret and illustrate each frame using a different color scheme: monochromatic, analogous/adjacent, complementary, split complementary, triadic, and full spectrum. These works … Read More

Exercise: Music Interpretation

Create an abstract or semi-abstract visual interpretation of a song of your choice (you’ll play a little when you present in class, so keep that in mind re: lyrics). You

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Exercise: Making Faces

Animation showing before and after of assignment

Use Adobe Illustrator to make a simplified, two-color vector illustration based on one of the faces below.

  1. Choose a face from the gallery above; save and download the image.
  2. Create
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Project 3: Band Identity

BRIEF

Use photomontage to design an album cover for a fictional band with a randomly generated and assigned name. Since the bands doesn’t actually exist, you decide the details – … Read More

Project 5: Living Room

Objective

Design a textile pattern based on the colors, content, and context of a room from film, TV, or other mass media. This can be something that would … Read More

Project 4: Pattern Portrait

Objective

Create a black-and-white portrait that uses patterns of varying densities instead of shades of gray.

Step 1: Source

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Exercise: Lost & Found

BACKGROUND

Figure-ground relationships are what let humans recognize objects through vision – distinguishing the subject (figure) from everything around it (background).

Representational images often have an … Read More

Course Schedule

Date Agenda Homework
8.30 ·   review syllabus and supply list Buy required materials, bring phone and/or camera to next class
9.3 ·   lecture: figure/ground and negative space

·   assign Broken

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