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About the Course

This course for serious makers, and for students new to imagemaking. Imagemaking is a fluid and exciting area of graphic design that comes out of practice and process: experimenting fearlessly, showing and sharing ideas, and giving and receiving knowledgeable and constructive input. For the sake of this online platform, we have applied some structure to our investigations, but for the most part imagemaking is loose and unstructured. If we must adopt a rule in this course it is only this: you will not become a graphic designer by watching videos alone. Or, don't just make stuff just in your head. So here, the focus here is on making, and you are expected to devote serious time and intellectual energy to that activity in this course. Specifically, you will: - experiment with a range of materials and techniques to make images for graphic design - expand your visual vocabulary both in terms of making and talking about work, in order to discuss your work and work of others - learn how to make, manipulate and arrange images to create compositions, eventually culminating in the design and production of an-image-based book. The first half of the course is an opportunity to experiment and explore imagemaking in order to expand your visual vocabulary. You will create pieces that are expressive, meditative, or 'design-y' to instigate, evoke, experiment, record, explain, or try out a media. In the second two weeks, we’ll invite the images to deliberately and intentionally carry meaning and communication through relational moves like juxtaposition, composition, and context. We’ll look at developing and expanding the range of approaches for putting things together by composing page spreads with your images. Since nothing exists without context, we look at how to intentionally drive the image’s connotations, meanings, and associations generated through elements of composition and “visual contrasts.” Ultimately, we will take the images that you create and make a book from them. The results of your assignments (and experiments) may generate something completely unknowable now or in the future—and that's the goal....

Top reviews

HL

May 22, 2019

The instructor had such a soothing voice and explained everything very well! The videos were very helpful in showcasing the concepts and providing examples, plus the assignments were super fun!

HA

Jan 16, 2020

harder than other courses of the specialization which makes it more important and valuable, I didn't know about designing images but now i'm confident I can make cool designs with images

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By Imsüjungla

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Oct 22, 2020

I learned a few interesting methods for helping my imagination run

By Utku K

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Jul 28, 2016

Good course, maybe more detailed information would be better.

By Nicole S

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Jun 5, 2018

Very good course for the amount of time they spend with you.

By Kaiva J

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Jun 6, 2016

Loved it. More non graded assignments would have been great.

By Inés A

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May 17, 2016

I started 2 Hours ago.... it's amazing, such good teachers !

By Daniel M

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Dec 17, 2018

Nice lectures and assignments. Also provided good resources

By Tabitha A J

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Sep 28, 2020

Loved the Course! Enjoyed Working on the Assignments!

By Thasni T

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Oct 8, 2020

I love this course because it made me think a lot❤️

By Julia R

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Jun 16, 2018

Great course if you want to practice image making!

By Hung C F F

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Jan 8, 2020

Pretty informative on the subject, inspiring also

By Aditi A

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Nov 4, 2020

amazing courses, learnt a lot about imagemaking!

By Karen

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Oct 1, 2016

如果有真实的workshop，相信效果会更好，这样的教育形式将在中国有很大的发展。

By Naomi M H

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Oct 13, 2019

Great methods for development.

By Khan Z A

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Aug 5, 2020

Had a great time learning

By Jorge R

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Aug 29, 2022

It was good and complete

By Joy S

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Jan 14, 2019

Good, practical course

By Maria T G

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Nov 10, 2016

Challenging and great!

By Chathrapathi N K

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Nov 23, 2020

really a great course

By Charity

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Dec 14, 2020

nice experience

By Eder A R C

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Aug 27, 2018

Muy interesante

By Llimy J C A

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May 26, 2023

Es muy bueno

By Alexandra M

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Mar 7, 2019

I't was good

By Passant M T

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Oct 19, 2018

good course

By Алина Н

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Feb 17, 2021

Not bad:)

By Aldair A I L

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Oct 25, 2022

nice