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This course for serious makers, and for students new to imagemaking. Imagemaking is a fluid and exciting area of graphic design that comes out of practice and process: experimenting fearlessly, showing and sharing ideas, and giving and receiving knowledgeable and constructive input. For the sake of this online platform, we have applied some structure to our investigations, but for the most part imagemaking is loose and unstructured. If we must adopt a rule in this course it is only this: you will not become a graphic designer by watching videos alone. Or, don't just make stuff just in your head. So here, the focus here is on making, and you are expected to devote serious time and intellectual energy to that activity in this course. Specifically, you will: - experiment with a range of materials and techniques to make images for graphic design - expand your visual vocabulary both in terms of making and talking about work, in order to discuss your work and work of others - learn how to make, manipulate and arrange images to create compositions, eventually culminating in the design and production of an-image-based book. The first half of the course is an opportunity to experiment and explore imagemaking in order to expand your visual vocabulary. You will create pieces that are expressive, meditative, or 'design-y' to instigate, evoke, experiment, record, explain, or try out a media. In the second two weeks, we’ll invite the images to deliberately and intentionally carry meaning and communication through relational moves like juxtaposition, composition, and context. We’ll look at developing and expanding the range of approaches for putting things together by composing page spreads with your images. Since nothing exists without context, we look at how to intentionally drive the image’s connotations, meanings, and associations generated through elements of composition and “visual contrasts.” Ultimately, we will take the images that you create and make a book from them. The results of your assignments (and experiments) may generate something completely unknowable now or in the future—and that's the goal....

Top reviews

LC
Oct 8, 2017

I'm so happy i did this course. Gail, you're amazing and you made my imagination go wild with just your words. I can see you love your craft and that's very inspiring. Enjoyed this course all the way!

ID
May 21, 2019

Very useful course. Really puts you to practice. I learned a lot and feel encouraged to continue. Reviewing other peer's work was inspiring and gave me fresh ideas about what I could have done better.

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By cici

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May 6, 2018

Nice Start.

By Eman M S

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Nov 20, 2017

l like this

By Fahimation

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Aug 9, 2017

good course

By Enas M A M

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Jan 7, 2021

i like it

By PUDOTA S

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Oct 31, 2020

Excellent

By Smith B

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Aug 31, 2020

Excellent

By Noshin S K

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Aug 22, 2020

Very good

By Samah M A E

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May 23, 2020

مفيده جدا

By ana s

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Mar 20, 2019

Its nice!

By Kristian J L D R

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Mar 25, 2017

Very Nice

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Jul 28, 2017

Amazing!

By Eimy S M G

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Jan 3, 2020

I loved

By Doaa M M

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Aug 2, 2019

جيد جدا

By udit k

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Jan 30, 2018

thanks

By chise

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Feb 9, 2020

goood

By lily r

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Jun 18, 2017

Nice!

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Dec 12, 2020

Nice

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Oct 31, 2020

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Oct 30, 2018

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Feb 18, 2017

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