Printmaking Il Students examine the screen printing processes in the commercial design industry. Students are introduced to basic and traditional stencil processes and progress to more advanced principles and techniques of photographic stencil making. Students develop the ability to use this remarkable medium by exploring the creative possibilities during various projects and the production of final editions. Visual Communication I Student explore the vital communication needs of the designer and client relationships in an agency or studio setting. 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.