Introduction to Imagemaking

Description

This course is designed for both experienced artists and students who are new to imagemaking. Imagemaking is a fluid and exciting area of graphic design that emerges from practise and process: fearless experimentation, showing and sharing ideas, and giving and receiving knowledgeable and constructive feedback. A chance to experiment with and explore imagemaking in order to broaden your visual vocabulary You will create expressive, meditative, or 'design-y' pieces to instigate, evoke, experiment with, record, explain, or try out a media. We'll invite the images to carry meaning and communication deliberately and intentionally through relational moves like juxtaposition, composition, and context. By creating page spreads with your images, we'll look at developing and expanding the range of methods for putting things together. Because nothing exists without context, we examine how to intentionally drive the image's connotations, meanings, and associations generated by compositional elements and "visual contrasts.

Syllabus :

1. Image-based Research

• Practice
• What Images Do
• Considering the Book (in a graphic design context)

 

2. Making Images

• Making Methods and Techniques
• Denotation & Connotation
• Range of Representation

 

3. Composition is Relational

• Composition is Relational
• About Hierarchy
• Scale
• Space
• Composition: Figure/Ground (from Introduction to Imagemaking)
• Narrative

 

4. Designing a Book with Your Images

• Bookishness
• Putting your book together
• Lazy Wow
• Katharina Pierini/Sming Sming Books: Night Moves
• Hey What
• New Work
• A Tale of Three Little Birds
• Two simple bookbinding techniques

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