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Introduction to Imagemaking
  • Level Foundation
  • المدة 12 ساعات hours
  • الطبع بواسطة California Institute of the Arts
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عن

This course for serious makers, and for students new to imagemaking. Imagemaking is a fluid and exciting area of graphic design that comes out of practice and process: experimenting fearlessly, showing and sharing ideas, and giving and receiving knowledgeable and constructive input. For the sake of this online platform, we have applied some structure to our investigations, but for the most part imagemaking is loose and unstructured. If we must adopt a rule in this course it is only this: you will not become a graphic designer by watching videos alone. Or, don't just make stuff just in your head. So here, the focus here is on making, and you are expected to devote serious time and intellectual energy to that activity in this course. Specifically, you will: - experiment with a range of materials and techniques to make images for graphic design - expand your visual vocabulary both in terms of making and talking about work, in order to discuss your work and work of others - learn how to make, manipulate and arrange images to create compositions, eventually culminating in the design and production of an-image-based book. The first half of the course is an opportunity to experiment and explore imagemaking in order to expand your visual vocabulary. You will create pieces that are expressive, meditative, or 'design-y' to instigate, evoke, experiment, record, explain, or try out a media. In the second two weeks, we'll invite the images to deliberately and intentionally carry meaning and communication through relational moves like juxtaposition, composition, and context. We'll look at developing and expanding the range of approaches for putting things together by composing page spreads with your images. Since nothing exists without context, we look at how to intentionally drive the image's connotations, meanings, and associations generated through elements of composition and "visual contrasts." Ultimately, we will take the images that you create and make a book from them. The results of your assignments (and experiments) may generate something completely unknowable now or in the future"and that's the goal.

الوحدات

About this Course

    • 1 Videos
    • 5 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Course Welcome

5 Readings

  • About this Course
  • About the Assignments
  • Course Tools
  • Academic Integrity
  • Additional Resources

How Peer Review Works

    • 3 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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3 Videos

  • Why Peer Review?
  • Peer Review Tips
  • How to apply feedback

1 Readings

  • What is peer review?

Course Communication Policies

    • 3 Readings
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3 Readings

  • Instructor Presence and Staff Support
  • Forum Guidelines
  • Requesting Peer Reviews

Essential Skills

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
    • 1 PeerReview
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1 Peer Review

  • Look Really Closely at an Artwork

1 Discussions

  • Forms of Practice

1 Videos

  • Practice

1 Readings

  • How to Critique

Visual Research

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 PeerReview
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1 Peer Review

  • Making Your Mood Board

2 Videos

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

1 Readings

  • Visual Research

Experiment and Improv

    • 1 Videos
    • 6 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
    • 1 PeerReview
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1 Peer Review

  • Experimentation and Improvisation (Optional)

1 Discussions

  • Forms of Practice: Checking in

1 Videos

  • Making Methods and Techniques

6 Readings

  • Ways of Making
  • Techniques and Materials
  • Working with Style, Mood and Attitude
  • Explain and Illustrate
  • Poetry of Everyday Life
  • Sparks: Even More Making Methods

Images and Meaning

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Denotation & Connotation

1 Readings

  • Tangible, Sensory & Expressive Quality of Materials and Line

Representational Strategies

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 PeerReview
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1 Peer Review

  • Range of Representation

1 Videos

  • Range of Representation

Composition and Arrangement

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Composition is Relational

Using Hierarchy

    • 4 Videos
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4 Videos

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

More Compositional Strategies

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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2 Videos

  • Narrative
  • Simple Composition: Creating Page Spreads

1 Readings

  • Compositional Iterations

Assignment

    • 1 PeerReview
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1 Peer Review

  • Composing Simple Spreads

Bookishness

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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2 Videos

  • Bookishness
  • Complex Composition: Putting your book together

1 Readings

  • Create and Plant a “Surprise” in Your Layouts

Looking at Books

    • 5 Videos
    • 2 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • Forms of Practice: Show us a book

5 Videos

  • 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

2 Readings

  • About this lesson
  • List of Image-Based Books

Laying out a book in InDesign

    • 4 Readings
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4 Readings

  • Introduction
  • Setting up your document
  • Exporting spreads
  • Printing the book

Laying out a book by hand

    • 6 Readings
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6 Readings

  • Introduction
  • Make thumbnail sketches
  • Make copies in multiple sizes
  • Creating spreads
  • Make printer's spreads
  • Assembling your spreads

Assembling a book by hand

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Two simple bookbinding techniques

Assignment

    • 1 Readings
    • 1 PeerReview
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1 Peer Review

  • Composing a Complex Narrative (in a book)

1 Readings

  • Start Your Own Bookmaking League

Auto Summary

"Introduction to Imagemaking" is a dynamic course tailored for both beginners and serious makers in the field of graphic design. Led by Coursera, this foundational Arts & Humanities course emphasizes hands-on experimentation with materials and techniques to create compelling images. Over a span of 720 minutes, learners will expand their visual vocabulary, explore composition, and ultimately produce an image-based book. The course encourages active participation, making it ideal for those eager to dive deep into imagemaking. Available through a Starter subscription, this course promises an engaging and transformative learning experience.

Gail Swanlund
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Gail Swanlund