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Intro
Introduction to the course and its aims.
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Basic Design & Colour
Geometry, colour theory and visual perception, in-class exercises.
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Grids & Composition
Overview of grids and composition in graphic design.
Exercise: ‘Graphic Re-enactments’, redrawing of design classics by observation.
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Grids & Composition
Exercise: ‘Graphic Re-enactments’, redrawing of design classics by observation.
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Typography
Historical overview of typography and printing, from moveable type to contemporary technologies.
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Typography
Exercise: ‘Words are Pictures’, typographical exercises, balancing meaning and form.
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Posters
Historical overview and in-class exercise.
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Photographic Associations
In-class exercise.
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Editorial Design
Historical overview and in-class exercise.
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Editorial Design
In-class exercise.
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Final Project
Final project launch.
(12)
Workshop
Printing, binding.
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Final Project
Crits & development.
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Final Project
Crits & development, preparations for class exhibition.
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Exam
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Suggested reading:
— Detail In Typography, Jost Hochuli, Editions B42, ISBN: 2917855665
— Design as Art, Bruno Munari, Penguin, ISBN: 9780141035819
— Interaction of Color, Josef Albers, Yale University Press, ISBN: 978-0300179354
— Grid systems, Josef Müller-Brockmann, Niggli, ISBN: 978-3-7212-0145-1
— Zürich–Milano, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Lars Müller Publishers, ISBN: 978-3-03778-079-4
— Impact 1.0: Design magazines, journals and periodicals [1922–73], Tony Brook & Adrian Shaughnessy, Unit Editions, ISBN: 9780993231681
— Impact 2.0: Design magazines, journals and periodicals [1974–2016], Tony Brook & Adrian Shaughnessy, Unit Editions, ISBN: 9780993231681