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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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RJ

Jun 12, 2020

I did not take the courses in order so this was the last course I too. I like that it had fewer lectures and more hands-on activities. I even learned about a different website.

HA

Jan 15, 2020

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

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By Mariel L

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Feb 1, 2019

I learned a lot from this course, especially in the last assignment.

By Anastasia D

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Nov 6, 2016

This course encouraged me to start learning InDesign Adobe program!

By Yolanda I I M

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Aug 8, 2025

Realmente me fascino este curso estoy muy contenta con lo aprendido

By Sneha B

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May 16, 2020

it was really fun nd interesting doing this course

thank you so much

By María J F M

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Jun 16, 2016

I loved it , going straight to the point and has very valuable tips

By Stacie M B

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Dec 2, 2020

I have truly enjoyed taking this course and will be taking others.

By christy p

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Jun 23, 2016

A great course. It took me out of my comfort zone of design ideas.

By Erick A R A d l S

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Feb 20, 2018

Good Course! I would encourage people to create their own images.

By Marcia A

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Apr 8, 2022

fue intenso y me hicieron trabajar la cabeza y dibujar como loca

By MARISOL P V

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Oct 4, 2017

very good introductory course, assignments are greatly enjoyed

By Lucelene A d M

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Aug 20, 2020

Muito bem elaborado, excelente explicações e material claro.

By SaSha D

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Jun 17, 2019

Fun and very informative. Good hard work that is productive!

By Konstantinos A

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May 1, 2018

Awesome course, lets you get exactly the use of imagemaking!

By Tomás G D

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Mar 27, 2021

excellent, very creative homeworks and professional skills.

By Aya B A E A

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Jun 26, 2020

I loved it so much, I learned a lot of things :)) thank you

By Leo C

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Jun 10, 2020

Love this course. And all the Graphic Design specialization

By Can Ö

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Oct 10, 2023

I learned more about graphic design thanks to this course.

By MPearsall

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Aug 11, 2021

Excellent material, resources, and instruction. Thank you.

By Aleksandar J

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May 19, 2019

I've learned a lot throughout this course. I recommend it!

By Andre M O

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Aug 28, 2016

They say a picture can speak a thousand words. It is true!

By Ampol A

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Dec 26, 2017

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By Beatriz G F

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May 6, 2016

Outstanding class. Very dynamic, inspiring and creative.

By 40_NALAWADE V

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Oct 3, 2021

it was good experience . i have learned new things .

By Anand V

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Jun 27, 2018

Getting knowledge on image making is really good for me