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Degree Project | 2014/15 Spring

Design Center, Room 704. Office hours : Thursday 9am 12pm by email appointment. To work on an approved project interest that will demonstrate your visual communication skills. To develop a project that reflects the theory and practice of the graphic design field. To research and develop your project as rigourously as possible. To take responsibility for all phases and aspects of the project. To emphasize visual search and experimentation. Missing a single class will seriously jeopardize your grade. You a...

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GD for the Web | 2014/15 Fall

GD for the Web. GD for the Web. Design Center, Room 501. Office hours : Thursday 9-12 and by appointment. To give students an understanding of how information is distributed online, and how good design can harness these modes of structuring information. To discuss with the students how the web as a very specific public space, with its own communities, forms of engagement, modes of communication. To familiarize students with the design principles relating to dynamic media. F frequently late and/or absent&...

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Grad Research Elective | 2013/14 Fall

The emphasis of this course will be on working with code directly; some assignments will require programming, while others will explore programming and the ‘coder’ mindset through a variety of media. This course will engage with with computers, computer languages, and software at a variety of levels, and is suitable for both novice an more advanced programmers. I do not expect all of you to become proficient programmers! There are NO unexcused absences. We have a lot to cover. If you are late to class th...

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Graduate Thesis I | 2014/15 Fall

Bethany Johns Clement Valla. Graduate Thesis I / Course Overview. Each graduate thesis is an attempt to define what we know to be ‘Graphic Design.’ Theses are the multiple formulations and rephrasings of this common question. Each thesis is the result of an active inquiry into the role of design in making sense of the world for ourselves, and for others. This course proposes the thesis, ultimately, as the documentation of a process that begins from the first moments of your graduate experience. You are e...

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Relational Design Section 4 | 2013/14 Spring

Relational Design Section 4. Design is no longer limited to a one-directional process where a visual expert creates a fixed form for a pre-determined audience. The role of designer itself varies from expert to facilitator to user within a single project. The field of Relational Design focuses on the non-subjective area of design that effects experience. It can also be described as contextual and/or conditional concerned with the placement and lifespan of a design as the with its form. Is not a style.

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Uncreative Design | 2013/14 Fall

Namita posted Reading Responses Week 11 in Reading Responses. 1 ‘(Not to architects: You thought that you could ignore Junkspace, visit it surreptitiously, treat it with condescending contempt or enjoy it vicariouslybecause you could not understand it, you’ve thrown away the keysBut now your own architecture is infected, has become equally smooth, all-inclusive, continuous, warped, bus, atrium-ridden). 2 Is Junkspace a postive or negative phenomenon? Does it matter to qualify it? 2 “A collection is...

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Degree Project | 2013/14 Spring

Design Center, Room 704. Office hours : Tuesday 10am 1pm by email appointment. To work on an approved project interest that will demonstrate your visual communication skills. To develop a project that reflects the theory and practice of the graphic design field. To research and develop your project as rigourously as possible. To take responsibility for all phases and aspects of the project. To emphasize visual search and experimentation. Missing a single class will seriously jeopardize your grade. You ar...

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GD for the Web | 2013/14 Fall

GD for the Web. GD for the Web. Design Center, Room 501. Office hours : Thursday 9-12 and by appointment. To give students an understanding of how information is distributed online, and how good design can harness these modes of structuring information. To discuss with the students how the web as a very specific public space, with its own communities, forms of engagement, modes of communication. To familiarize students with the design principles relating to dynamic media. F frequently late and/or absent&...

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GD for the Web | 2014/15 Spring

GD for the Web. GD for the Web. Design Center, Room 211. Office hours : Thursday 9-12 and by appointment. To give students an understanding of how information is distributed online, and how good design can harness these modes of structuring information. To discuss with the students how the web as a very specific public space, with its own communities, forms of engagement, modes of communication. To familiarize students with the design principles relating to dynamic media. F frequently late and/or absent&...

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Workshop: Programming | 2014/15 Fall

Design Center, Room 210. Office hours : Thursday 9-12 and by appointment. To give students an understanding of fundamental programming principles. To introduce students to the Processing programming language. To give students the necessary basics to be able to pursue Processing and programming more broadly. There will 1 assignment over the course of the semester, as well as coding exercises due every week. A always present. work in on time. demonstrated a solid understanding of coding and technol...The p...