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- Effective Term:
- Winter 2017 through Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- GD 239
- Course Title:
- Illustration for Graphic Designers
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture Hours:
- 0
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 60
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Explores a variety of traditional, non-digital illustration tools and techniques. Covers professional methods of digitizing and formatting artwork for media reproduction. Integrates illustrations into design communication materials.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- Utilize key illustration techniques for client-based solutions.
- Apply professional output preparation techniques to hand-rendered illustrations.
- Skillfully incorporate illustration into layouts to enhance client communications.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Design and produce a collection of 2-D and 3-D graphic design projects which incorporate non-digital illustration as a key component.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
THEMES
Non-digital illustration
Design and Layout
CONCEPTS
Workflow
Craft
Slower processes
Detail
Non-digital to Digital
ISSUES
Technical preparation of non-digital illustrations
Maintaining personal voice in digital-driven design
Human vs. computer design elements
SKILLS
- Produce illustrations incorporating a variety of non-digital techniques.
- Utilize illustration as an element of Graphic Design projects.
- Prepare non-digital illustration for placement in a digital layout.