GRAPHIC DESIGN FOR EXHIBITIONS

ART 563

Game design is a subdiscipline in which graphic designers create meaningful play and interactive experience through words, images, structure, process, and the study of user experience. This course, which explores both digital and non-digital games, aims to provide you with a critical vocabulary and historical context for analyzing games, as well as the skills and techniques necessary to incorporate game design into your ongoing design practice.

ART 575

A project-based introduction to the examination of user experience, and is oriented toward practical methods for approaching a design problem. The focus of the course is to develop conceptual design based on the needs of users. Students will receive grounding in user research methods, design sketching, and design validation.

ART 467

Examines the design of posters as a mode of communication. Students will learn to create effective combinations of words and images that mobilize principles of composition, perception, and rhetoric. Projects will encourage students to further explore graphic design as a means of communication, artistic expression, and information organization.

ART 463

This course examines the theory and practice of visual representation of information. Students will learn to create effective and illuminating graphical displays of data based on four basic formulations -- location, time, category, hierarchy, and index.

ART 442

Addresses basic visual communication principles that include semiotics, gestalt, form, and context, and applies them to the design of icons, symbols, and pictograms. Cultural, psychological, social, and historical interpretations of these forms are analyzed through design projects, readings, discussion, and research.