A studio course for students who wish to expand their knowledge of jewelry and metalworking techniques. Raising, scoring, bending, casting, and electroplating will be studied along with a review of techniques studied in ART 171. A laboratory fee is required. Developing desktop publishing skills using QuarkXPress. The course emphasizes using style sheets, master pages, and effective typographical design.
Students work on projects such as newsletters and brochures.
The basics of computer art and the use of Illustrator taught through demonstration, discussion and hands-on exerciises. Emphasis is on navigating in Illustrator, using the drawing and transformation tools and working with different kinds of images. The basics of creating original digital images and manipulating them using the graphics industry's standard software package. Students are introduced to painting and editing tools and the techniques required for retouching and enhancing photographs or original art. Importing to and exporting from other graphics software are covered.