Visual Disign Lecture

Week 1:

What is the direction of the subject?

What should you know at the end of semester?

What is expected of students? Finding your own voice, i.e. a personal visual language

Why are oral communication skills important for a designer?

What should your folio consist of and how should it be presented?

What is the use of this course if you want to be

1.a general multimedia practitioner,

2. a producer,

3. a designer,

4. an artist,

5. a programmer,

6. other.

How does this subject sit with the rest of your course?

What is design?

• Set of fields for problem-solving that uses user-centric approaches to understand user needs.

What is style?    

•  Feelings, experience, attach to events, people, products, and services.

What does a graphic designer do?


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Week 2 - Lecture 

Writing a brief

What is a design brief/specification? How do you read, write, and use them?

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Introduction to the technical elements of screen design

How does screen design differ from other types of design?

Why might a designer design for a range of screens and instances?

What are the different screens you could be designing for and what are the characteristics of these screens? Screen ratios. How does someone interact with the screen, is it by mouse or touchscreen?

How does a platform or system affect a design?

File formats and Archiving. Why is it important?

Technical Terms (including bitmap, vector, pixel, "dpi", bit depth)

Print vs. Screen Design