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Overview

Explore imagemaking & expand your visual vocabulary

Duration

11 hours

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

Official Website

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Credential

Certificate

Future job roles

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Introduction to Imagemaking
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Highlights

  • Course material is 100% Online
  • It is being offered by the California Institute of the Arts
  • Start Introduction to Imagemaking instantly and learn at your own pace
  • The course has flexible deadlines
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Introduction to Imagemaking
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Course details

Who should do this course?
  • Beginner and Intermediate level designers wanting a Graphic Design Specialization
What are the course deliverables?
  • Through Introduction to Imagemaking course, once can compose & spread their own design book
  • One can create a wide range of representation through images
  • Once can design a book with their own image
  • One can make an informed design choice through image-based research
  • It comes with a self-paced learning option
  • It has a shareable certificate & also practice quizzes
More about this course
  • The course Introduction to Imagemaking is for students and professions who want to seriously learn the nuances of imagemaking. Basically, imagemaking is a fluid and exciting area of graphic design and this course covers its practice and process like experimentation, displaying and distributing ideas, giving and getting conversant and productive feedback.
  • The first half of the course helps budding designers experiment and explore imagemaking as well as expand visual vocabulary through the creation of pieces that are communicative, thoughtful, or 'design-y' to explore a media.
  • Participants can actually experiment with a wide variety of materials and techniques for making images in graphic design. They will get to make and talk about work as well as learn how to make, manipulate and arrange images into a compositions, for a culminated design output.
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Introduction to Imagemaking
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Curriculum

Week 1: Image-based Research

Course Welcome

Practice

What Images Do

Considering the Book (in a graphic design context)

Week 2: Making Images

Making Methods and Techniques

Denotation & Connotation

Range of Representation

Week 3: Composition is Relational

Composition is Relational

About Hierarchy

Scale

Space

Figure/Ground

Narrative

Simple Composition: Creating Page Spread

Week 4: Designing a Book with Your Images

Bookishness

Complex Composition: Putting your book together

Lazy Mom: Lazy Wow

Katharina Pierini/Sming Sming Books: Night Moves

Laura Owens: Hey What

Laura Owens: New Work

Bruno Munari: A Tale of Three Little Birds

Two simple bookbinding techniques

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Apoorva Mehta
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Other: Really enjoyed this course and it pushed me to think about the application of the design. In this case, I learned a lot about composing spreads for books which was something very new to me.
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Niharika Dutta
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Other: I really loved this course. Useful information presented in an attractive format. Hands on approach. It opened my mind regarding a lot of possible applications in different areas of life.
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