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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....

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harder than other courses of the specialization which makes it more important and valuable, I didn't know about designing images but now i'm confident I can make cool designs with images

SL

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One of the most enjoyable courses for me. It was really fun to do all the assignments and to practice different ways to express myself. A very very nice way to lear. Thank you!

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By Anita G

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Dec 28, 2020

i really enjoyed the course, however more insight in imagemaking would be great. Some assignments also were a little confusing

By Ana A

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May 14, 2016

This course teach you to think out of the box and if you have the courage and try, you will take it for the rest of your life.

By H. A

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Jun 9, 2020

The course is incredible, it gives a wide range of options to execute the assignments beautifully! I learned a lot

By zhra s

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Jul 21, 2022

I do not know the reason for not passing the course, obtaining the certificate, and completing the Brinage course

By erinsouder@live.com

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Oct 5, 2023

INteresting class - some of the assignments were difficult to interpret what exactly we were supposed to do.

By Jel C

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Jan 14, 2017

I liked how there's such an open approach to the course and it gave me a lot of chances to practice design.

By Kelly L

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Apr 7, 2018

I wish there was more lessons on specific creative techniques. Otherwise good class. Well worth the time!

By Beverley H

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Oct 25, 2016

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

By Justyna B

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Jul 12, 2019

Great course and quite heavy on the assignment part. Nevertheless, this is where true learning starts.

By Susan M

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Mar 24, 2017

Good introduction to important workflow concepts for creating and designing publications from scratch

By Kasturi K

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May 30, 2020

very very interesting , highly recommend if u looking for a good course to do during this quarantine

By Eumorphia K

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Jul 20, 2016

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

By Stacey J J

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Jun 11, 2020

fun course - lots of hands-on assignments and the videos did a good job explaining the concepts.

By Evin s

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Oct 4, 2024

Bazı yerlerde odev icin yonergeler net değildi. Ayrıca öğreticiliği diğer kurslara göre düşük.

By Winnie W

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Jul 14, 2017

More theory and example will give students more detail about image making. Not only a notion.

By Mohamed K E S

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Jun 26, 2017

again for this kind of course, peer review isn't really effective.

but the content is nice.

By Mustafa O Ç

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Apr 8, 2017

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

By Verasha N

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Mar 17, 2021

This course helped me to tell a story or convey a message through the use of images.

By Chris

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May 10, 2020

Great video content. Assignment targets can be difficult to understand at times.

By Kolya K

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Feb 16, 2018

Nice course of superb specialization. Wish it could be a little more detailed.

By Lisa H

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May 21, 2017

Nice, hands on course where you really get to the practical parts of design.

By ben

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Mar 8, 2019

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

By أسامة م

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Jul 27, 2020

It is an open ended course totally different from any ordinary course

By OSCAR G V

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Mar 21, 2024

Son muy importantes los fundamentos, de ahi se parte toda profesion.

By Saúl E T H

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Oct 6, 2020

I liked it, is very creative, but is much teory and a bit confusing