Introduction to Imagemaking at Coursera Overview
Introduction to Imagemaking
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Explore imagemaking & expand your visual vocabulary
Duration | 11 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Future job roles | Senior Graphic Designer , Graphic Designer |
Introduction to Imagemaking
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Introduction to Imagemaking at Coursera Highlights
Introduction to Imagemaking
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- Course material is 100% Online
- It is being offered by the California Institute of the Arts
- Start Introduction to Imagemaking instantly and learn at your own pace
- The course has flexible deadlines
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Introduction to Imagemaking at Coursera Course details
Introduction to Imagemaking
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Who should do this course?
- Beginner and Intermediate level designers wanting a Graphic Design Specialization
What are the course deliverables?
- Through Introduction to Imagemaking course, once can compose & spread their own design book
- One can create a wide range of representation through images
- Once can design a book with their own image
- One can make an informed design choice through image-based research
- It comes with a self-paced learning option
- It has a shareable certificate & also practice quizzes
More about this course
- The course Introduction to Imagemaking is for students and professions who want to seriously learn the nuances of imagemaking. Basically, imagemaking is a fluid and exciting area of graphic design and this course covers its practice and process like experimentation, displaying and distributing ideas, giving and getting conversant and productive feedback.
- The first half of the course helps budding designers experiment and explore imagemaking as well as expand visual vocabulary through the creation of pieces that are communicative, thoughtful, or 'design-y' to explore a media.
- Participants can actually experiment with a wide variety of materials and techniques for making images in graphic design. They will get to make and talk about work as well as learn how to make, manipulate and arrange images into a compositions, for a culminated design output.
Introduction to Imagemaking at Coursera Curriculum
Introduction to Imagemaking
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Week 1: Image-based Research
Course Welcome
Practice
What Images Do
Considering the Book (in a graphic design context)
Week 2: Making Images
Making Methods and Techniques
Denotation & Connotation
Range of Representation
Week 3: Composition is Relational
Composition is Relational
About Hierarchy
Scale
Space
Figure/Ground
Narrative
Simple Composition: Creating Page Spread
Week 4: Designing a Book with Your Images
Bookishness
Complex Composition: Putting your book together
Lazy Mom: Lazy Wow
Katharina Pierini/Sming Sming Books: Night Moves
Laura Owens: Hey What
Laura Owens: New Work
Bruno Munari: A Tale of Three Little Birds
Two simple bookbinding techniques
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5/5
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Apoorva Mehta
Introduction to Imagemaking
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Other: Really enjoyed this course and it pushed me to think about the application of the design. In this case, I learned a lot about composing spreads for books which was something very new to me.
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Niharika Dutta
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Other: I really loved this course. Useful information presented in an attractive format. Hands on approach. It opened my mind regarding a lot of possible applications in different areas of life.
Reviewed on 21 Oct 2020Read More
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