About this course: During this course, we’ll be making exploratory images to expand your visual vocabulary. We'll create pieces that are expressive, meditative, or 'design-y' to instigate, evoke, experiment, record, explain, or to try out a media. The first two weeks are experimental and exploratory; we won’t be concerned with meaning or communication (although, to be honest, every image does exist in a context, and therefore communicates—or can convey—meaning, connotation, associations, and expressiveness). In the second two weeks, we’ll invite the images to deliberately and intentionally carry meaning and communication through relational moves like juxtaposition, composition, and context. Everyone has a natural, intuitive way of putting things together. We’ll look at developing and expanding the range of approaches for putting things together, composing page spreads with your images. Since nothing exists without context, we look at how to intentionally drive the image’s connotations, meanings and associations generated through elements of composition and “visual contrasts.” through style, juxtaposition, closure and figures of speech. Ultimately, we will take the images that you create and make a book from them.
Taught by: Gail Swanlund, Faculty in Graphic Design
School of Art
| Basic Info | Course 3 of 5 in the Graphic Design Specialization |
| Level | Beginner |
| Commitment | 4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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- Video: Course Welcome
- Reading: About this Course
- Reading: About the Assignments
- Reading: Course Tools
- Reading: Additional Resources
- Video: Practice
- Discussion Prompt: Forms of Practice
- Reading: How to Critique
- Video: What Images Do
- Reading: Visual Research
- Reading: Forms of Presentation
- Video: Making Methods and Techniques
- Reading: More Making Methods
- Reading: Sparks: Even More Making Methods
- Peer Review: Experimentation and Improvisation
- Video: Denotation & Connotation
- Reading: Tangible, Sensory & Expressive Quality of Materials and Line
- Video: Range of Representation
- Video: Composition is Relational
- Video: About Hierarchy
- Video: Scale
- Video: Space
- Video: Figure/Ground
- Video: Narrative
- Video: Simple Composition: Creating Page Spreads
- Video: Bookishness
- Video: Complex Composition: Putting your book together
- Reading: Introduction
- Reading: Make thumbnail sketches
- Reading: Make copies in multiple sizes
- Reading: Creating spreads
- Reading: Make printer's spreads
- Reading: Assembling your spreads
- Reading: Introduction
- Reading: Setting up your document
- Reading: Exporting spreads & printing your book
- Video: Two simple bookbinding techniques
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I have really enjoyed the Introduction to Imagemaking course. It has inspired me to do more visual research and helped me gain a deeper understanding of that process. It has also inspired me to get hands on and generate lots of different images; I feel i have stretched my boundaries in doing this.
good materia
Quite engaging, I improved my knowledge of Illustrator thanks to the assignments, but I think a few lesson videos are too few/short, especially in the end.
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丰富的图形制作方式和创意十足的想法。