Graphic Design

When was the last time you were able to focus on typography in its essence? In the world of the working graphic designer, the pure joys of working with typography can become buried under brand standards, clients’ tastes, unnecessary information, and heady concepts. Created especially for professional designers or those with a solid design background looking to take their work to the next level, this class is an immersive and fast-paced workshop exploring typography at its roots as both image and text.

This class introduces individuals with little or no design background to the graphic design practice. Students work both on and off the computer to complete assignments that explore basic 2D communication principles integrating color, shape, texture, typography, and photography to build a visual language.

The visual journal can be a place of exploration that is portable, economical and inter-disciplinary. Daily journal entries can include and are not limited to drawings, paintings, collages, digital renderings and photography, paper engineering, written observations, and more.

This class is designed to help artists interested in understanding the tools and methods of painting digitally in Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter using Wacom technology.

Discussions and demonstrations of digital best-practices, various stylistic interpretations, customization of brushes and tools, and walkthroughs of each method will be provided. The class will discuss the benefits of painting in these programs, as well as ways to effectively and expertly approach using a tablet within the framework of each program.