Online Courses Handbook 2003

306958 (v.1) Visual Communication Technology 291

Area:	School of Design
Contact Hours:	4.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	7672 (v.4) Design Studio 192 or any previous version AND 7846 (v.5) Design Technology 192 or any previous version
Co Requisite(s):	306956 (v.1) Visual Communication 291
Typography, design principles and techniques, photographic imagery, design computing and software and digital redering. Studio sessions will introduce appropriate digital rendering techniques as well as the creative use of various types of grid systems for effective communication in design principles. Typography will include a three week project which will provide a deeper understanding of the potential of type. The photographic component of this unit will address the possibilities of seeing and recording through the lens of a camera as a design process, and visual communication through photo image composition. The computing component in addition to machine operation, will introduce image compositing and processing, headline and page makeup software.