The 1975 exhibition, “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape,” was a watershed moment for landscape photography. The genre, which was largely perceived of as merely office decor or an antiquated aesthetic, was reintroduced with a vibrant and contemporary voice. Using this exhibition as inspiration and photography as the medium, the class will delve into humanity's effect upon the natural world, and its effect upon those within it.
Have you ever used a website or app that makes it hard to do what you want? This class explores the UX Design process and leverages it to bridge the gap between functionality and aesthetics, creating a better experience for your users.
How do you communicate claustrophobia in an image without using words or photographs? What about freedom? Chaos? Joy? Can you make an engaging composition with just one or two elements? After this class, the answer should be “yes”.
In this class, students will be introduced to designing for web and screen. This includes web-specific design fundamentals, best practices, and review of current web design trends.
From ideation to client review, students will be guided through each step of the design process including ways to find inspiration, wireframing, using design tools, and preparing a design for client review. Students will complete a final web design project and continue building and refining their web portfolio.
In this class, students learn how to apply style to HTML using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Students will create well crafted web pages using various CSS selectors and properties, including fonts, colors, divs and spans, layout, and positioning.
This five week online class is a blend of tutorials, readings, development projects, and online discussion. The class is geared toward the beginning to intermediate web developer or designer; students are assumed to have a strong fluency with HTML.
This class introduces the fundamentals language the web: HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Students explore how the web works, tags, links, images, lists, tables, forms, web standards (old, new, and evolving), directory structure, wireframing, web development best practices, and lay the foundation for further web development in the next class, Web Development Basics: CSS.
This five week online class is a blend of tutorials, readings, development projects, and online discussion. The class is geared toward the beginning to intermediate web developer or designer.
In this class, students expand on their understanding of HTML and CSS, laying a foundation for more advanced development work.
Students will explore advanced topics, such as: CSS frameworks, emerging web standards, client and server side scripting, mobile development, development tools, and more. Students complete a large project for their portfolio, proceeding from ideation to final web site.
In this class, students will expand on HTML and CSS skills by bringing projects to life with JavaScript and JavaScript libraries.
These languages will be used as the vehicle to add interactive and rich experiences to websites. Additionally, students will explore a variety of content management systems (CMS), learning to customize and manage these platforms. Topics include: fundamental programming concepts, best practices for interactive development, coding for interactive design, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, Wordpress, Drupal, and related technologies.
In this class, students learn how to apply style to HTML using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
Students will create well-crafted web pages using various CSS selectors and properties, including fonts, colors, divs and spans, layout, and positioning.
This five week online class is a blend of tutorials, readings, development projects, and online discussion. The class is geared toward the beginning to intermediate web developer or designer; students are assumed to have a strong fluency with HTML.
This class introduces the fundamentals language the web: HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Students explore how the web works: Tags; links; images; lists; tables; forms; web standards (old, new, and evolving); directory structure; wireframing; web development best practice;, and lay the foundation for further web development in the next class Web Development Basics: CSS.
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