Graphic Design I

Course Description

Students will explore visual communication as it applies to commercial art careers. They will create original posters, magazine anillustrations, and communicate identity through logo designs. Students will learn and use technical skills with traditional drawing and painting media and with programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, computer software programs. Students will analyze and critique artworks, discuss aesthetic issues, and understand the evolution of letteforms and origins of graphic design in the history of art.