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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

LC

Oct 8, 2017

I'm so happy i did this course. Gail, you're amazing and you made my imagination go wild with just your words. I can see you love your craft and that's very inspiring. Enjoyed this course all the way!

TA

May 22, 2023

In fact i am very much glad for this because before taking this course, i know nothing about Indesign but i can now use it and more, Thank you for this financial aid opportunities, Blessings coursera

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By EDELVIRA S

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Dec 26, 2019

I enjoy to do the book. Excellent course

By Evelina V

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Jul 3, 2017

it makes me loving images and photoshop!

By Jonathan Y

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Jun 30, 2018

Like the pragmatism of creating a book.

By Carlos L

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Jul 9, 2017

very practical and interesting course!

By Светлана Н

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Apr 19, 2017

Thanks! It was interesting and useful!

By Mohnyae

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Sep 24, 2024

very enthusiastic and worth the time!

By Lorena J

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Nov 5, 2020

I loved this course!! Great teachers.

By Haidar A

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Jan 29, 2021

very informative and helpful,thanks!

By Gustavo P

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Sep 26, 2016

Excellent course and specialization.

By Pranjal S

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Jun 15, 2016

ONe of the best available courses :)

By Alisha T

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May 31, 2016

Fun and informative. Very creative.

By AVILA G V P

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Sep 19, 2023

aprendí bastante sobre la temática

By Baron L

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Jan 27, 2020

Great course really glad i took it

By Ahmed F e

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Oct 20, 2018

good cores and useful for me?????

By magda

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Jan 3, 2017

Very good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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By Abraham E

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Jun 17, 2020

Thank you for this opportunity :)

By Oleksandra S

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Jun 14, 2019

Interesting and unexpected topics

By Viktoria K

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Jul 1, 2017

Make. its what about this course.

By carmina v

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Aug 8, 2016

Thank you ! awesome introduction!

By barry m

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Oct 12, 2020

Loved this course, learned a lot

By ВахитоваСабина

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Dec 22, 2016

Excellent and impressive course!

By Ali G M

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Apr 30, 2022

useful knowledge .....thank you

By Pradhusha C

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Oct 31, 2020

It was really a good experience

By Qamar A A

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May 3, 2018

very nice course and intresting