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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the roles that graphic design plays in society as shapers of style and ritual within contexts of community and commerce. The class will work collaboratively in the development of concepts, process design, layout, scheduling, production and the construction, expense, and production of the print publication artifact.
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3.00 Credits
To be determined
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3.00 Credits
This capstone course celebrates innovation, imagination, and creative solutions to design projects. The objective of this course is to enable students to synthesize design history and theory to demonstrate conceptual understanding of the aesthetic and technical aspects of design that combine inquiry, research, creative problem-solving, and design prototyping.
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3.00 Credits
Students will explore sustainable design within the context of graphic design. Through studio projects and exercises students will develop green graphic design standards: material/health selection, production techniques, eco-labeling/packaging, and green branding. Sustainable graphic design strategies while addressing environmental, social and cultural implications within core graphic design practices.
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3.00 Credits
Digital illustration tools and methods are explored within the context of publication and branding. The contemporary illustrator becomes a conceptual interpreter of content through the potential mixing of primary graphic assets and secondary collected and manipulated graphic assets from digital archives and resources. Methods of information gathering are developed from photography, library, and archival research. This course includes a foundation to Wacom drawing tablet capabilities. Processes and techniques from printmaking, painting, 2-D design, photography and drawing are mediated through digital software and hardware.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the role of information design and how it serves society as a tool for communication and shaping agendas. Students apply dynamic solutions that utilize design fundamentals and methods of data visualization that address real world design solutions and operate as effective information tools.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with essential marketing principles and advanced desktop publishing skills to complete individual design portfolios. Analysis of professional portfolios and research of target firm's requirements are completed to establish a deliverable format. Using advanced tools in Adobe InDesign and other design applications, students learn how to implement their portfolios as both print and interactive formats. Topics such as selective content, innovative graphics, consistent layout, stylized copy, and creative packaging are covered. The portfolios created in this course are used to market individual talents to any sector of the design profession. Additional Fee(s): Course LAB Fee
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3.00 Credits
Chatham MA/MFA students have the opportunity to gain hands-on professional experience in the Pittsburgh area and beyond through an academic internship program supervised in collaboration with department faculty.
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3.00 Credits
Packaging design systems combines graphics, fundamentals of marketing and an understanding of form and structure. Packages are evaluated based on creative strategies developed from marketing positions. Individual brand identities are developed which include: naming, type, visual graphics, color schemes, and applied to various forms of packaging and extended lines. Packaging projects range from mass marketed food/beverage, electronic, and household sectors to luxury goods. Additional Fee(s): Course Computing LAB Fee
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3.00 Credits
The mastery production components: a self-directed project with an approved thesis topic generated by individual student interest. The final project is completed under joint guidance of the class instructor and an outside advisor. Cross-listed with FDT program. Additional Fee(s): Course LAB Fee
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