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SYLLABUS :: fall 2006

Thursday nights
7:00-10:00

1 three hour lab per week over 10 weeks

Instructor
Lou Fuiano

Phone:
215.923.5990

e-mail:
fuiano.design@verizon.net

CE 2404
continuing education
DIGITAL DESIGN STUDIO

This course serves as both a technical capstone as well as an introductory course to the visual language of communication. This will help you to take your technical experience with Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign or Quark and use it to produce work that has graphic resonance. Create impact with type by integrating images and by addressing com positional issues. The projects will include a range of practical applications such as iconography, editorial design and package design. All projects will be coupled with brief lectures and critiques.

Class Format
Class will be divided in two parts. The first half of the class will be lectures and demonstrations on the issues mentioned on page two. The second half will be dedicated to design exercises and class projects. Out of class time will be needed to successfully complete the class projects.

Requirements
Class attendance and participation
Removable media
Completion of all assignments based on dates given
A portfolio of work from the duration of class

The post industrial information age, if it means nothing else, means more messages: messages that must be sorted, sifted, and represented in ways that people understand, enjoy and most importantly, can use. As we become inundated with information, thoughtful, perceptive design will become a mark of distinction, a competitive edge.

-Willi Kunz,
Macro+Micro Aesthetics