Covers thumbnails, roughs, layouts, lettering, typography and mechanicals. Stress is on practical exercises to develop accuracy and neatness in preparing artwork. Practical problems in the preparation of basic master art for printers demonstrate how to meet print reproduction needs.
Students have access to extensive darkroom facilities.
Students are required to have their own manually setable 35mm SLR camera. Through projects, they will explore the challenges of lighting in different locations and conditions, including the effective use of incandescent and electronic flash lighting in the studio. Darkroom and computer projects, including special effects printing, emphasize print quality. The interaction of colors is stressed using student projects and computer demonstrations. Two-dimensional surfaces and their compositional possibilities are studied and related to increasingly complex graphic concepts.