Students should have expertise in QuarkXpress or Aldus PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator or Aldus Freehand, and Adobe Photoshop. Experience in Macromedia Director is desirable. Assignments are founded on directed goals and playful investigation to train the student in areas of selection, self-criticism, set theory, and visual logic. This course investigates and defines basic principles of typography in a communication context. Directed research based upon typographic norms addresses the issues of informational hierarchies achievable through visual form and structure as well as the editorial and expressive potentials of typography.
Coursework uses traditional and digital technologies.
Students must have working knowledge of QuarkXpress and basic Macintosh operation or be concurrently enrolled in EM 202. Working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is preferred. Junior status in the Graphic Design department, or permission of the instructor by portfolio review and interview. This elective course explored the design of messages in spatial environments. Investigation of the relationship between the communication of messages and within the context of scale, surface texture, light modulation, and their application to three-dimensional form, combine both experimental and practical criteria.