Image Essentials for Designers

Catalog description

Images persuade, narrate, and evoke—they communicate messages in ways words cannot. This course develops your ability to create compelling imagery across traditional and digital media. You'll experiment with mixed media, from hand-drawn marks to AI-generated visuals, discovering how unexpected combinations produce powerful results. Through project work, you'll practice image manipulation, generation, and composition using industry-standard tools. But technical skill is just the beginning. You'll learn how compositional choices, visual metaphors, and symbolic content convey specific messages to different audiences. By studying influential image-makers and visual movements, you'll understand how images have evolved across media and cultural contexts. Whether you combine photography with illustration, create digital compositions, or explore non-traditional approaches, you'll develop a visual vocabulary that communicates memorable ideas. Prerequisite: ART 111 or permission of instructor.