Category Archives: Design Classes

Information on new design courses

New Elective Course: ARTS-250 Design Thinking – Spring 2017

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Learn to think and make strategically. Apply your design skills in ways that are truly innovative.
Students interested in creative direction, social innovation, tech entrepreneurship, and solving the world’s big, important problems are encouraged to enroll.
ARTS-250
Design Thinking
Wednesdays, 8:10am-12pm in Klapper 107
Fall 2016
Professor Andrew DeRosa
Course Description
This course will explore a variety of research, strategy, and design methods used by industry leaders to create innovative design solutions. Students will use these methods to create their own fully-formed brands to launch new products, services, and experiences based on real insights.
Pre-req: ARTS 241 or consent of instructor: [email protected]

 

Good Housekeeping Summer Art Interns

  • Good Housekeeping magazine is seeking energetic, detail-oriented art interns for Summer 2016. Interns will have the opportunity to work with the art department, the photo team, and the Creative Director to help produce visual content for the publication. This includes learning about the day-to-day activities and the workflow of the magazine, as well as assisting designers with production tasks, both big and small. Interns will have the opportunity to design pages, help reinvent existing page templates, and experiment with color and type alongside our team. This is an unpaid internship and you must be able to receive college credit.

  • Position: Internship
  • City: New York City
  • Company: Good Housekeeping
  • Contact Email:[email protected]
  • Contact Name: Madeline Kelly
  • How to Apply: Please email cover letter, resume, and portfolio link.

Illustration Summer Session 2 with Elizabeth Sayles

Left: The Totoro Forest Project, by Xu Feng, Spring '15 Right: The Totoro Forest Project, by Jiemin Yang, Spring '15

Left: The Totoro Forest Project, by Xu Feng, Spring ’15
Right: The Totoro Forest Project, by Jiemin Yang, Spring ’15


Spend July improving your illustration skills, and and earning credit. We will work on drawing skills, storytelling, metaphors, sequential illustrations and color technique. Plus field trips!
ARTS 188 – VT: Illustration I
17374
MoTuWeTh 9:00AM – 12:50PM
07/06/2015 – 07/30/2015
ARTS 259 – Illustration II
9383
MoTuWeTh 9:00AM – 12:50PM
07/06/2015 – 07/30/2015
ARTS 359 – Illustration III
9385
MoTuWeTh 9:00AM – 12:50PM
07/06/2015 – 07/30/2015
 

New Class Added to Summer Session 1–Interaction Design

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Image of MacPaint interface by Susan Kare, courtesy of kare.com

Introduction to Interaction Design—
ARTS 286 – Interaction Design
Summer Session 1
5:30-9:20PM

This course will enable students to develop their skills as designers of interactive user-experiences through a series of hands-on projects and exercises. Working individually and in small groups, students will experiment with various prototyping and iteration methods to create, test and refine designs for interactive applications based on client needs, user feedback and in-class design critiques. Regular readings and discussion-based classes will support students with incorporating contemporary design theory and the influence of historical perspectives into their work. Finally, an in-depth closing project will provide students with the opportunity to expand one of their projects into a refined proof-of-concept or working prototype which will serve as a professional work-sample or portfolio item demonstrating the student’s design skills.
About the professor:
Schoemann is a doctoral student in Digital Media at Georgia Institute of Technology and the founder of Different Games Conference. Her design work has included commercial websites, digital games, interactive narrative projects and interactive sculptural objects. As a researcher and a designer she is interested in the way creative work by individuals and communities can speak to broader issues of equity and social justice, online and off.

ARTS370—Poster Design—Spring 2015

Poster Design with Natalya Balnova

What does it take to make a good poster?  What makes a poster eye-catching from a distance and engaging at further inspection? We will examine how to use simple graphics and memorable messages in order to create powerful and bold posters. In this course, you will be pushed to develop your creative process and find new solutions to make your work stand out.

You will learn to think strategically and plan all decisions to work towards the conceptual and visual content of the poster such as basic idea, image, composition and typography.

You will experiment with different materials and techniques with a focus on hand lettering and collages.

Topics covered in this class will not only be relevant for poster design but will also aid in other fields of graphic design such as branding, promotion design, advertising and typography design.

Multiple genres of posters will be overviewed, including theater posters, movie posters, concert posters, and political posters.

The class will cover the historical background of poster design and the development of the poster’s visual language to introduce the diversity of the subject matter.

ARTS370 (59622) –Poster Design—Spring 2015

Fall 2014 CNNMoney Video Intern–Paid Internship

Fall 2014 CNNMoney Video Intern
Time Warner Division: Turner Broadcasting
Business Unit_TBS: CNEWS
Industry: Advertising
Cable/Broadcast Television Networks
Location: United States – New York – New York
Duties: Please Note: Students @ Work Internships Program dates are September 22, 2014 – December 5, 2014. Interns are paid at minimum-wage and relocation is not provided. Students must have completed their sophomore year in college prior to the start of the internship. In addition, students may not have graduated college or graduate school prior to the start of the internship (i.e. STUDENTS MUST BE ENROLLED IN SCHOOL DURING THE TIME OF THIS INTERNSHIP). Note to International Students: All international students will be required to provide documentation of proper visa paperwork prior to your arrival if accepted to the program.
Due to the high volume of candidates for Turner’s Internship Program, interested students are encouraged to apply for openings as soon as possible, as these positions will be filled on an ongoing basis. Competitive candidates are typically contacted after internships are no longer posted on the website. Future semester Internship postings will also be available after the prior semester internships are no longer posted on the website.
CNNMoney Video Interns will work closely with CNNMoney staff on newsgathering, production and programming. They will strengthen their research skills while contributing to our digital programming, weekly show and daily TV reports. They will have opportunities to go out on shoots in the field, assisting in digital online editing and publishing of videos for the website. They will also learn how to build and produce a newscast in our studios and control rooms. Interns will also learn how to use CNN’s media database to locate video and elements for TV and digital storytelling. They will learn how to create and order TV graphics for live reports and taped packages. Interns will also contribute to guest booking ideas, guest greeting and interview preparation. Interns schedules vary and occasional weekend work may be required.
Qualifications: Candidates should be self-motivated, able to multi-task, have a good attitude, and be able to function well in fast paced, high volume environment.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled.
To Apply 

Color and Design 1 with Liz Sayles, Summer Session 1

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COLOR & DESIGN 1
A practical course for designers, animators, illustrators (and everyone else) on the many wonderful ways to use color. Gain experience in:
• Transparency & Illusion
•  Color Mixing with Paint
•  Atmospheric Perspective for Illustration and Animation
• Historical Use of Color: Impressionism & Pointillism
•  Find out what CMYK & RGB means
•  How to Create Color harmonies
•  Symbolic Use of Color For Designers 
Summer Session 1
ARTS  171 – Color and Design I
01-LEC(4641)
June 2 – 25, 2014
Mo / Tu / We / Th
9:00 am – 12:50 pm
Instructor: the talented Elizabeth Sayles