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2.00 Credits
This course introduces traditional and innovative approaches to the book as an artistic medium and cultural form. Students gain an increased vocabulary of expressive possibilities through demonstrations and practice of bookbinding techniques, letterpress printing, and a variety of related skills. Class projects challenge students to apply conceptual thinking and content development to the craft skills they have learned. Open to all majors.
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed to familiarize the student with the fundamentals of lighting as a primary element of Design. The student will be made aware of the language of Light, the tools available to the designer, and how they can be used to properly illuminate any environment. Topics covered include: Lighting Metrics, Applications, Codes and Regulations compliance and Building Systems interface. Open to non-majors with permission.
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2.00 Credits
This studio course introduces the conventions of architectural representation. Projects focus on technical hand-drawing skills and integrate digital media. Students develop the vocabulary, techniques, and skills to explore and communicate the design of space and form through perspective, design process drawing, orthographic projection, and presentation. Open to non-majors with permission.
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2.00 Credits
This course emphasizes the conventions of architectural representation and the development of fluency with expressive freehand drawing. Projects incorporate the use of color and its effective application to specific interior conditions. All projects reinforce the process of information gathering, ideation, 2D visualization of perspectival interior space and execution with appropriate material selection for presentations. Open to nonmajors with permission. Prerequisite: DE 253
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2.00 Credits
Students experiment with a range of watercolor techniques through a variety of assignments. Students develop their understanding and abilities with painting as a means of expression. Exploration includes color identification, mixing, visual illusion and effects, and representational studies of selected subject matter. Open to all majors.
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2.00 Credits
Students focus on observational oil painting from the model, including upper torso to full figure portraits. Typical poses will last multiple periods. The technique is working freely and directly with paint to create areas of color, and thinking directly with paint rather than working within line drawings. Open to all majors.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an overview of contemporary type, as well as the traditions and history that formed it. Through lectures, studio projects, and in-class exercises, students explore the basic mechanics involved in recognizing the communicative potential of type. At the end of the semester, students have the "tools" toinclude type as part of a working creative repertoire. Open to non-majors with permission.
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3.00 Credits
This course emphasizes type as a communicative and aesthetic tool, and explores legibility and meaning through composition. Historical studies continue, with an emphasis on late twentieth century designers/typographers. Students explore concepts through the development of individual interpretations. With advanced exercises, such as working with grids and self-authoring copy, students develop further typographic fluency. Open to nonmajors with permission. Prerequisite: DE 261
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2.00 Credits
This beginning comics class covers the basics of creating comic art, including full-page comics, short strips, and gag cartoons (single panel comics). This will be primarily a studio class, focusing on drawing and design, storytelling, and choreographing narratives. By the end of the term, students will have written, drawn, and fully rendered their own comics of various lengths, including assembling a mini-comic. Open to all majors.
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2.00 Credits
Students create photography, both still and sequential, to support narratives. Students explore contemporary and historical use of narrative photography, while learning the art of visual storytelling. Through studio projects, students learn basic photographic skills. Open to all majors.
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