Capture a child's imagination with original artwork while learning the tricks of the illustration trade. During this class, students will explore the wide range of children's book illustration, from traditional to contemporary.
This class introduces students to an overview of the interactive world by immersing them in current technologies and trends. Aspects of design, development and marketing converge to illustrate the workflow process of interactive projects.
This class builds on the work done in the first Collaborative Workflows class with an extended collaborative project between another Interactive Design and Marketing class The instructor acts as the lead project manager while students assume various roles, commonly found in interactive departments and projects.
This class will cover various approaches and strategies of comic book writing.
The script is the bridge between writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Students will learn to script for both themselves, and for editors, in a variety of formats and house styles. Creation of scripts for different companies and for online publication will be discussed.
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.
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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