GRAPHIC DESIGN, Art 744 01, 4-D Design

This course provides opportunities to explore how the conventions of print typography and the dynamics of word-image relationships change with the introduction of time, motion, and sound. There is a sequence of problems of increasing length, often with personal choice of subject matter. Most weeks we spend part of our class period looking at selected film and video examples and talking about how they work. Our work focuses on the controlled interaction of words and images to express an idea or tell a story. The goal is to experience firsthand, using simple tools and techniques, the extra dimensions of time-based communications, and to learn to choreograph aural and visual images through selection, editing, and juxtaposition. While problems center on linear narrative forms, by exploring the extra dimensions of time, motion, and sound (the actual stuff of the world we live in) we also anticipate the unique issues of nonlinear and interactive media: engagement, action and feedback, orientation and navigation. Christopher Pullman