Visual communication is the purpose of graphic design.
This course expands your visual thinking and increases your understanding of the design process. You engage in projects to develop skills in composition, color use, and typography. Assignments range from logo development to layout for books, brochures, magazines, posters, and package design. Balancing the conceptual and technical approaches to design, you develop the skills needed to generate concepts and layouts and present them in a professional manner. Through lectures, discussions, critiques, and design exercises, you discover and practice ways to define your design goals.