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Introduction to Imagemaking

Graphic Design,

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.

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Rating 4.3 based on 315 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
Starts Jun 26 (44 weeks ago)
Cost $79
From California Institute of the Arts via Coursera
Instructor Gail Swanlund
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Language English
Subjects Programming Art & Design Humanities
Tags Computer Science Design And Product Arts And Humanities Music And Art

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graphic design

thank you Very interesting assignments and a more hands-on approach than the first 2 courses in this Graphic Design specialization.

Its really Important for every Graphic Designer and becoming artist.

After all it's a core goal for the Graphic designer!

I feel like I got just as much imagemaking experience from the intro to graphic design course offered by Cal Arts.

This course is very good for beginners of using images and need to know how to set images together and anyone did not studied graphic design before This video lectures are very clear and well made.

A weaker version of "Fundamentals of Graphic Design" with way too much overlap.

Fun course but everything was already covered on the Fundamentals Of Graphic Design Course.

This course is good, although it repeats a lot from the Fundamentals of Graphic Design.

The material was already covered in the first course - Fundamentals of Graphic Design - and nothing new was brought to the table.

My only criticism of this series of courses (the graphic design specialization) is the grading process and lack of instructor interaction.

So far, this has been my favorite among the Graphic Design Specialization courses.

I found that the course 'Fundamentals of Graphic Design' did an exponentially better job of explaining image making techniques and composition.

G I thought this course would be more fun and interesting but I find it VERY repetitive with the Fundamentals of Graphic Design.

Getting knowledge on image making is really good for me The worst course of the Graphic Design Specialisation so far.Unclear instructions for each assignment and too much asked for so that the focus becomes on getting them done rather than producing pieces of quality.

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really enjoyed

This course is amazing, I really enjoyed all the content.

The teacher is fantastic and I just really enjoyed doing all of the assignments.

It was hard work and lots of trials and errors, but I really enjoyed it, and I'm sure that I've learnt a lot for my next projects.

Really enjoyed this course and it pushed me to think about the application of the design.

Really enjoyed the challenges it made me face with designing my own booklet.Has inspired me to do more.

Really, really enjoyed this course - very insightful I loved it, it pushes me to get out of my confort zone.

Excellent I really enjoyed it Thank you !

I really enjoyed the course and it helped me to start creating again.

I loved LOVED this course and really enjoyed it.

I really enjoyed the assignments!

I really enjoyed this course and it was one of the most helpful along with the Typography course, but it felt a little impersonal and short on information when I compare this one to the previous ones.

Thank you coursera and thanks for the teacher for the great information I learn a lot in the previews courses thank you again Very creative I really Enjoyed this course, made me get out of my comfort zone and think outside the box.

I really enjoyed working in this course.

I really enjoyed the course and doing all the assignments, I could clearly see the potential of my creativity and my style.

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image making

丰富的图形制作方式和创意十足的想法。 The course failed to make me enthusiastic about image making the way I was enthusiastic about typography in the preceding course.

Loved the course, really enjoyed the Image making and learning about image interpretations and expressions making a book is intresting in good steps Excellent course kinda too basic for me....but it would be a good course for beginners very interesting.

Thanks for this creative course that learned us different ways andaspects of image making.

Image making is the focus of this course.If you love making images you will love this.Not much theory but all the more making.Assignments needs a bit more time and thought than the other courses in the specialization.

i was never comfortable with image making, but this course had given me a lot of confidence and i made a drawing i was proud of I like the content and enjoyed the process but as this is online course, it should be better designed.

the course helped me a lot especially in discovering new technique for image making.

Good start for anyone trying to learn image making techniques and zines.

Great additional reading suggestions for continued growth in image making for those who are into making their own image, which I am not!

Great course if you want to practice image making!

Gail encouraged me to have fun with the image making process.

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about image

Great course to help learn about images in composition and critical looks at planning and creating images.

Very interesting through creative assignments you can learn and refine things about image telling.

I learned a lot about imagemaking but I wasn't sure what the point was about making a book.

جيد جدا Probably the most I learnt about Image-making so far.

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making images

If you wanna expand your creativity about making images, you should take this course.

Very useful for image-makers, to clarify many aspects of creation and composition, with very useful practice activities, that set the knowledge and make your way of making images be wider.

An inspiring course encouraging an experimental and open approach with making images.

This was a great course that got me to stop judging my creations and start making images!

From the lectures, we've got the techniques of making various types of images and also the basic points of making images and compose images.

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for beginners

Good for beginners!

The only thing that troubles me is sometimes the "design language" is too unfamiliar for beginners.

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felt like

I felt like this course was a super waste of my time and if anything should have been an intro class.

I felt like standalone course its probably good, but as a part of specialization it is a bit repetitive of the design introduction course We learn really good tools and methodologies to abstract and create new images.

There were not many videos so I felt like I was not able to learn a ton.

Out of all the different ones in this specialisation, I felt like this one was the course that could have the most work done to it.

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Rating 4.3 based on 315 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
Starts Jun 26 (44 weeks ago)
Cost $79
From California Institute of the Arts via Coursera
Instructor Gail Swanlund
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Programming Art & Design Humanities
Tags Computer Science Design And Product Arts And Humanities Music And Art

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