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- Effective Term:
- Winter 2017 through Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- GD 221
- Course Title:
- Graphic Design 4
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture Hours:
- 0
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 60
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion student will be able to:
• 欧洲杯决赛竞猜app_欧洲杯足球网-投注|官网 and design professional-level publications which focus on targeting information to a specific market
• Apply professional-level design development process of thumbnails, tight roughs and final comprehensive designs
• Use industry software at a professional-level for the purpose of creating digital files for output of publication print pages.
Course Activities and Design
Possible projects (will vary by instructor): Newsletter, annual report, magazine design, editorial spreads, ads, magazine cover, catalogs, books.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Successfully designed and output printed projects will be the major criteria for evaluation. Additional assessment may include quizzes, in-class exercises, research assignments and attendance.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
THEMES
Design
Layout
Typography
ISSUES
Control of Eyeflow
Visual Hierarchy
Readability
Balance
CONCEPTS
Critical Thinking
Communication
Organization
Space
Scale
Color
SKILLS
- Design visually focused layouts to stimulate viewer interest
- Generate high resolution imagery through use of photography, illustration, and image manipulation
- Create unique compositions of type to enhance communication
- 欧洲杯决赛竞猜app_欧洲杯足球网-投注|官网 systems of typographic hierarchy to thoroughly organize various types of information
- Plan and build a complex document of multiple layouts unified by design