GDT 239 Imaging & Illustration

Description:

In this course students create industry-related illustrations using vector and raster based software programs. Projects include: diagramming information, technical renderings, editorial and promotional illustrations. This course is a program requirement for GDT-Design and Illustration programs. 4 credit hours, 6 contact hours, prereq: GDT 139 and GDT 140

Objectives:

  

• Build technical and conceptual skills
• Integrating technological elements
• Research, organize and utilize information
• Demonstrate "Creative Visual Thinking" process
• Determine appropriate workflow options for projects
• Working independently and in groups
• Define design rationale
• Presentations of concepts, thumbnails, roughs, comps and final output for portfolio

Units:

 

• Promotional Illustration
• Illustrative Imagery
• Information-Based Graphic
• Spot Illustration
• Technical Illustration
• Editorial Illustration
• Photographic Montage - Historical Era, Personality or Event

Text:

 

Recommended:
Design Essentials – Professional Studio Techniques, by Luanne Seymour Cohen, Peachpit Press
Step by Step Electronic Design Techniques edited by Talitha Harper and Sara Booth
Photoshop Masters edited by Agosto
Graphic Design Sources by Kenneth Hiebert – Yale University Press
The Illustrator Wow! Book, by Sharon Steuer ­ Peachpit Press
The Photoshop Wow! Book, by Linnea Dayton and Jack Davis ­ Peachpit Press

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