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GRAPHIC DESIGN, Art 132a 01, Introductory Graphic Design
GREEN 210 MW 3.30-5.20

A studio introduction to visual communication with an emphasis on principles of the visual organization of design elements. Topics include shape, color, visual hierarchy, word/image relationships, typography, symbol design, and persuasion. Development of a verbal and visual vocabulary to discuss and critique the designed world and contribute significant projects to it. Materials fee: $150. Pamela Hovland.

GRAPHIC DESIGN ART 469b 01, Advanced Graphic Design / Designer vs. User
GREEN 210 F 1.30-5.20

Advanced Graphic Design is a general graphic design studio course. This semester we will focus explicitly on a goal which, like all conversations, pulls in two directions. How can you be present as an idiosyncratic individual in the work you produce? But how can that work still communicate on its own to a broad audience, and even be useful? Through practice, by the end of this studio you may feel closer to having your own set of imperfect answers to that double question.

Throughout the semester, we concentrate on making graffiti: The design of a set of outdoor marks and tours for New Haven. As such, this course also replaces the class formerly known as “Multimedia Design” and includes a technological component both in the metaphor of designing outdoor interaction as a way to learn about screen-based interaction, and in the final project to design an interface for a handheld computer. No prior technical experience is required. Materials fee: $150. Dan Michaelson.

Prerequisite: ART 367a or ART 468a or permission of instructor.

GRAPHIC DESIGN, 742b, Networks & Transactions 1
GREEN 209 M 10:30-2:30, plus lab times to be announced

How can graphic design influence and be influenced by the unpredictable encounters between one group and another? Or between quantities of unknown users on one side, and vast webs of fluctuating information on the other? In the Networks & Transactions sequence we will develop together a typography appropriate for these pervasive conditions of the modern world. This is the first class of the sequence.

In addition to typographic concerns, in this class you will learn fundamentals of programming, and the PHP language in specific, through hands-on work. No previous programming experience is necessary. See the syllabus for more information. Dan Michaelson.

Prerequisite: Open to prelim and first-year graduate graphic design students, or by permission of instructor.

GRAPHIC DESIGN, Art 752a, Networks & Transactions 2
Green 107 Th 1.30-5.30

Some of the most exciting possibilities in design, arise when design’s job is to connect multiple networks of information and of people, all of which are in motion. This class asks each student to complete two assignments: Junction and Messenger. Together, the assignments focus on exploiting and activating network connections in the city, in our studio, and online.

Students are expected to tailor the given assignments to support their own thesis, and the assignments are designed to facilitate this. The Junction project does not require programming (although programming can be supported); the Messenger project is programmed in Flash and builds on the skills you learned in 742b. Previous experience with Flash is not required; Flash’s language (ActionScript) is very similar to the PHP we used in 742b.

We will also discuss how to site, show, or publish work tways that are appropriate to each student’s thesis. Dan Michaelson.

Open to all departments but perhaps most appropriate for second-year graphic design grad students. Prerequisite: Art 742b (Networks & Transactions 1) or permission.

GRAPHIC DESIGN, 762b, Exhibition Design
Website: GD2007
Locations to be announced. Mondays 3:30-6:30

Problems in the graphic design of a collaborative and self-initiated exhibition in the post-cold war era. Glen Cummings.

Prerequisite: Graphic Design 752a.

Dan Michaelson, Graphic Designer

Mr. Michaelson received a B.A. in history from Columbia University in 1997 and an M.F.A. in graphic design from Yale in 2002. He has worked as a designer at Pentagram and at 2×4 in New York City. He is a partner in the design practice Linked By Air. In 2004 he was awarded a Charles Nypels grant for research on embedded digital sign systems. Mr. Michaelson was appointed lecturer in graphic design in 2005.