Impactful Graphics: Visual Communication for Social Impact

Catalog description

This course provides a foundation in graphic design to communicate ideas and create impact. This course encourages students to engage with the visual language of design through experimentation, exploration and iteration, connecting action (making visual form) to reflection (looking and thinking). It will require students to reflect upon the relationship between form-making and meaning-making as well as to consider the ethics of graphic design and its impact on society. Students will work in two dimensions by hand and with the digital tools of the Adobe Suite (Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop).