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This course focuses on interpreting and designing moving images from a design perspective, rather than software-driven training. Over the past decade, production and distribution environments for moving images have rapidly transformed, making moving images a central mode of communication in visual design. As a result, the ability to understand how moving images are designed to shape meaning and sensation (moving image design) has become increasingly important beyond mere technical production skills. If graphic design results in prints, then moving image design ends with movies, television, or video clips. In this class, students learn how movement is recorded and formed to articulate messages and learn techniques of shooting and editing with using special effects, exploring how time is created through image design.
Each week, students screen and discuss a range of references and analyze them through five lenses—Context, Structure, System, Medium, and Sensory. At the end of each class, the next lens is introduced, and students bring references in advance to support discussion.
The course consists of two assignments: (1) a reference case study with a redesign plan (including an animatic), and (2) a final project in any medium with process documentation.
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This course introduces students to ‘playing with paper’ through collage artmaking, and the creative and diverse possibilities this artform affords for connecting through social engagement. Students explore a range of analog, mixed-media collage processes and concepts, while examining through a critical lens how this relational act of artmaking forms new connections and framing of meaning-making and invites innovative formation of ideas or concepts.