Field trips provide exposure to the expanding applicability of letterpress in contemporary design. This course will explore the technological application of texts within the realm of the visual arts. Studio projects and discussion of existing commercial and fine arts image-texts will expose students to relations acroos word and picture fields, and demonstrate ways in which texts are elicited or repressed by visual representation. Students are expected to have basic Macintosh computer skills. This course examines the informational structures of print and interactive media.
Students design for both print and screen media.
Students will consider alternate informational, narrative, free associative, or interpretive methodologies, to develop exploratory design projects that will foster transdisciplinary design capabilities. This course is an introduction to the realm of three-dimensional graphic design. Students focus upon exploratory projects that examine the authenticity of content related to the urban context to form a conceptual basis for subsequent courses.