Pattern

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Patterns are everywhere around us: embedded in surfaces, situated in screens, and emerging from everyday interaction, connection, and communication. In this immersive color and design course, students attend to pattern in all its physical and metaphorical manifestations in order to explore the ways in which image and idea emerge from the organization of form and the interaction of color. Using iterative and experimental processes, students engage with contemporary notions of visual literacy, abstraction, composition, and cultural agency – ­ in order to deepen their understanding of color and design while developing their own visual language.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the conclusion of the course, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate understanding of basic design and color concepts and practices.
• Demonstrate purposeful application of visual organizational principles.
• Demonstrate ability to use analog and digital processes in order to construct meaning.
• Demonstrate an ability to use design and color in multiple dimensions.
• Consider cross cultural and intercultural learning in the classroom as a local, national and global learning space.

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  CONSISTENCY GUIDELINES

  Student Learning Outcome	Required Content
  Demonstrate understanding of basic design and color concepts and practices	Multiple Compositions with Value using Patterns in Illustrator Sample Lesson Plans
  Demonstrate purposeful application of visual organizational principles.	Creating Space with values Sample Lesson Plans
  Demonstrate ability to use analog and digital processes in order to construct meaning	Digital Competencies Basic composite imaging image size/resolution/file type/saving/exporting Combining two or more images together Layer blending modes Making and working with selections (cutting and pasting) How to make a new document (specify size and resolution in Photoshop) Basic vector drawing How to make a new document (specify size etc), save and export Illustrator files How to use the color well (stroke and fill) to add color to objects How to make and arrange basic objects (shapes, text, lines etc) Difference between vectors and bitmaps
  Demonstrate an ability to use design and color in multiple dimensions.	Color Theory Color Wheel Color Vocabulary  Complementary Analogous Cross complements Simultaneous contrast Warm and Cool Color Practice Albers using Photoshop or Illustrator Two colors look like one One color looks like two Transparency Warm and cool shifts Color Mixing Additive Subtractive Sample Lesson Plans
  Consider cross cultural and intercultural learning in the classroom as a local, national and global learning space.	Determined by the Professor