Students in this workshop will learn about the cyanotype process, one of the first photographic processes from the 1840s. The cyanotype process produces beautiful blue images and doesn't require a darkroom or enlarger, just sunlight and water. Students will be given some background about the history of alternative processes, and cyanotypes in particular.
Sustainability is the common sense notion that long-term prosperity, social equity, and ecological health not only go together but also depend on one another. Making a sustainable way of life requires changes in the design of most everything.
Designers, brand leaders, and manufacturers can play a powerful role in effecting change on both local and global levels. Design roles shift when we view design as a tool or opportunity to enrich and add value to people's lives. Designers can use their communication skills and talents not only to create or sell products but to educate, engage, and inform society through design.
Do you have a design project that you want to start but don't know where to begin? Has your day job taken some of the passion out of your portfolio? Have you started a personal project but are having a hard time completing it without the benefit of regular feedback? Perhaps you just miss showing new work to a group of trusted colleagues?
In this online class, students will learn the fundamentals of marketing and how it relates to the design and development process.
Students will connect digital marketing practices to the larger concepts of marketing and advertising. Interactive channels will open a new world of connecting with a target market. Marketing concepts of ROI, the marketing mix and business objectives will be blended with new ways of connecting with engaging target markets.
In this class, students will construct three to five narrative dioramas that adapt Grimm's Fairy Tales. The instructor will lecture on the history and meaning of fairy tales, and students will be encouraged to do weekly readings in support of class discussion and for the purpose of conceiving a design concept.
As popularized in the pages of magazines like Rolling Stone, Time, and Entertainment Weekly, the illustrated portrait provides a fresh new look at the strengths and flaws of people who shape popular culture, government, and everything inbetween.
For a century, poster art has been used effectively for commerce, propaganda, protest, image, and personal expression. This class will focus on two particularly vibrant and expressive applications of this medium: The concert poster and the theatre poster.
This class, ideal for those who work in both print and on the web, will cover concise, straightforward instruction on how to get started with Adobe Illustrator and how to work toward the creation of images and text with more sophisticated tools and techniques.
This introductory class will provide the groundwork for creating professional quality, print- and screen-ready documents using Adobe's page-layout program, InDesign.
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