Portfolio of Student Work
Course Outline
Course Identification
ART 246: Advanced Computer Art
Credit hours: 3
Contact hours: 6: lecture 0, lab 6
Prerequisite: ART-146 or consent of the instructor
Course Description
This art/graphic design studio course develops students’ advanced skills in the digital creation and manipulation of visual images. This course permits students to work on computer-designed projects in close contact with the instructor. Fee is required. (6 contact hours).
Books, Supplies and Supplementary Materials
Software
All available titles
Platform
Macintosh iMac, OS X
Course Goals
ART 246 is an advanced seminar to develop a student’s digital skills. The entire semester will evolve around the development of student’s individual strengths and sharpen these skills to the expectations of the professional marketplace.
Communicating
Course End Competencies
Students must produce a portfolio of advanced work that will demonstrate to a future employer the quality and substance of your thinking and image making.
Your final grade will depend upon your
Major Concepts
Computer system information
Point Breakdown
Process critique - 20 points
Midterm Critique and Reports - 20 points
Final Projects Critique - 20 points
Portfolio - 20 points
Professional paper/signage - 10 points
In-class projects/critique/participation - 10 points
Schedule
See class calendar.
ART 246: Advanced Computer Art
Credit hours: 3
Contact hours: 6: lecture 0, lab 6
Prerequisite: ART-146 or consent of the instructor
Course Description
This art/graphic design studio course develops students’ advanced skills in the digital creation and manipulation of visual images. This course permits students to work on computer-designed projects in close contact with the instructor. Fee is required. (6 contact hours).
Books, Supplies and Supplementary Materials
- Required Texts Instructor handouts
- Web research, tutorials, blogs
- Portable storage device: Flash drive or portable hard drive
- Sketchbook, visual journal, portfolio
- Other supplies as needed to complete projects
Software
All available titles
Platform
Macintosh iMac, OS X
Course Goals
ART 246 is an advanced seminar to develop a student’s digital skills. The entire semester will evolve around the development of student’s individual strengths and sharpen these skills to the expectations of the professional marketplace.
Communicating
- Read and listen with comprehension.
- Write and speak effectively in English.
- Use computer information systems and other technology effectively.
- Understand the nature of literary, philosophical, and artistic expression and how particular works have contributed to the ideas and culture of the past and present.
- Integrate the principles of design, typography and visual communication to enhance the content of portfolios. Content is key.
- Demonstrate the ability to create well-designed layout designs.
- Learn how the planning process for layout designs, including storyboarding, information architecture and developing navigation, are key components of production and the design process.
- Learn differences between print and digital design.
- Learn how to compose appropriate content for layout design.
- Understand appropriate generation, formatting, color modes (RGB vs. CMYK) and optimization of images.
- Learn how to aesthetically integrate images into a layout designs.
- Learn how to import images.
- Understand typography.
- Have a clear understanding of how to use e-mail, how to use Blackboard, how the internet works
- Demonstrate a knowledge and utilization of basic HTML.
- Demonstrate the basic operations of, as well as identify, the input, processing, and output hardware of an iMac.
- Have a clear understanding of the operation of software's main features.
- Use the basic palettes, tools and menus to create digital work.
Course End Competencies
Students must produce a portfolio of advanced work that will demonstrate to a future employer the quality and substance of your thinking and image making.
Your final grade will depend upon your
- effective use of the design process in the creation of raster, vector and layout-based projects
- integration of the principles of composition & design, typography, and visual communication to enhance the content of projects
- understanding of experienced-level features (palettes and tools) of software titles
Major Concepts
Computer system information
- the student will understand the operation of the computer
- crucial role of planning and front-end design
- principles of graphic design using electronic media
- creating using industry-standard software
- generation and manipulation of images and text documents
- Learn how to integrate principles of composition and design, typography, and visual communication to enhance the content of projects.
- Use the front-end design process effectively to plan well-designed, usable output whatever the device.
- Demonstrate basic understanding of typography and color.
- Have a clear understanding of the operation of main features (palettes and tools) of software used in this course.
- Be able to save, copy, delete, organize, understand and maintain document links and output the files they create to the appropriate format.
- The use of input devices (scanner, digital cameras, databases, etc.).
- Preparation of pages for appropriate output.
- Graphic file format distinctions, i.e., psd, ai, gif, jpg, png, etc.
- File-naming conventions/file storage (external storage devices, burnable CD/DVDs, the server, and online sites.
Point Breakdown
Process critique - 20 points
Midterm Critique and Reports - 20 points
Final Projects Critique - 20 points
Portfolio - 20 points
Professional paper/signage - 10 points
In-class projects/critique/participation - 10 points
Schedule
See class calendar.