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About the Course

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

TA

May 22, 2023

In fact i am very much glad for this because before taking this course, i know nothing about Indesign but i can now use it and more, Thank you for this financial aid opportunities, Blessings coursera

LS

Sep 23, 2019

The assignments are really fun and put the videos into practice very efficiently! The only thing that troubles me is sometimes the "design language" is too unfamiliar for beginners.

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By carmina v

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Aug 8, 2016

Thank you ! awesome introduction!

By barry m

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Oct 12, 2020

Loved this course, learned a lot

By ВахитоваСабина

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Dec 22, 2016

Excellent and impressive course!

By Ali G M

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Apr 30, 2022

useful knowledge .....thank you

By Pradhusha C

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Oct 31, 2020

It was really a good experience

By Qamar A A

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May 3, 2018

very nice course and intresting

By Laura d

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Jun 18, 2025

This is a really great class!

By Rosa L B

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Feb 15, 2022

This course helped me so much

By Roxana S

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Feb 21, 2017

Good course! Nice experience!

By Jessika G

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Aug 10, 2016

Excellent I really enjoyed it

By Daniel D

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Apr 15, 2016

Great course!! Thanks again!!

By Maggy M

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Jan 23, 2025

I like the course so much :)

By Jane S A

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Mar 13, 2017

Very interesting and useful

By Yuri G

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Feb 15, 2017

everything is great. thanx

By Béatrice A

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May 1, 2016

it is a fantastic course !

By Vikram P

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Sep 19, 2025

Excellent way of Learning

By whoop d w

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Oct 16, 2022

Very informative course.

By Deleted A

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Aug 2, 2022

Great and helpful coures.

By SERGIO C E

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Oct 26, 2021

It is a very good course.

By Nguyen H D

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Feb 6, 2020

Such an inspiring course!

By Ayesha k a

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Oct 7, 2024

Such a great full course

By Svitlana T

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Nov 30, 2023

Really enjoyable course!

By fernanda v m

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Jun 11, 2021

Excellent unit i love it

By Nicole

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May 13, 2021

really nice and helpful!

By مريم ف ع ا ع ا

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Jan 8, 2021

enjoyed with this course