Specific research, analysis, and solutions are explored, using the Fort Valley State University campus as the ideal client. Students examine image enhancing techniques and produce visual solutions of their findings. Students are encouraged to think about market influences and graphic designs in solving visual related campus problems. Students explore the major movements of contemporary advertising procedures in relation to ideas they transmit and the interaction with graphic design, print, and film. Students learn how to argue graphically, verbally, in print and on film to solve specific design problems.
Students explore the relationships among personality, the written word and the image.
This interaction, as it exists in advertising between copy and illustration, in editorial between photo and caption, and in film between dialogue and corrected image, is the basis of all graphical thinking. Students explore various external peripheral devices that aid in the development of graphic solutions and the appropriate output devices for each solution. I Students demonstrate the development of a digital art portfolio. Students utilize the essential skills of computer graphics along with numerous software programs to produce ten quality conceptual pieces of art work. Students are introduced to a sequence of experiences that are designed to examine the art curriculum and the interests, abilities, and needs of children at different levels of growth.