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New Summer Class: Graphic Design as Art! Sign Up! Sign Up!

Graphic Design as Art: ART 399

This course will focus on creating graphic work that is non-commercial in motive and application and instead examines the history of graphic design in an art context, from the Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements, Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, Lettrism, Psychedelia, to contemporary graphic artist that play dual roles in commercial graphic design and art. This course will include class discussions, lectures and research into the history of graphic design in an art context. In-class workshops will culminate in one final project that can be a singular piece or modual piece to exhibited in a gallery/art space and/or public space. Projects will be etermined by student and instructor consultation.

Course open to juniors and seniors in graphic design and fine art.

Screenprinting class for winter term!

The department will be offering a screenprinting class in winter 2011. While its NOT online YET (we are waiting for a CRN) it will be called ART 399 Screenprinting. The screenprinting (AKA silkscreening) class is open to GD and ART majors — there will be about 10 spots open in this course.

The course will run from 9-12 on MW mornings and will be taught by Rita Robillard. Watch for the course to show up online in the next week or so! This class will cover simple stencils processes, drawing resist methods, and photo processes in  combination with digital prints. 

Rita Robillard  has taught printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design’ in a class “Billboards,  Zines and Artist’s Books” and printmaking classes at the San Francisco Art Institute and Washington State University. Robillard’s mixed-media work has been included in museum and gallery exhibitions, in Santiago, Chile at the Museum of Contemporary Art; Sao Paulo and Curitiba, Brazil; Tokyo; Hangzhou, China; London; and Lacoste, France. Her work is included in over twenty public collections including the Portland Art Museum; Yale University Library; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The National Academy of Art, China; Brown University’s Bell Gallery Collection and Museu da Gravura, Curitiba, Brazil.

 

Let's Think, Designers!

 

Have space in your schedule next term?

The Art Department is rolling out a new course offering for Winter Term, and I'm really excited about it. Sign up now!

What: Design Thinking, Art 199 (can also be a CBA ART 399 for students needing upper division credits.)

Description: This course addresses what graphic design is and examines the many ways in which design engages audiences. Students explore the language and media of graphic design, considering its conceptual and practical methodologies and generating an understanding of the ways it can be framed, made, and used. This overview will foster a more nuanced understanding of the larger discourse of graphic design.

Who: Taught by Matt Livengood, open to students of all levels.

When: Monday and Wednesday, 9-11:50 am. 

Get this:
CAN BE USED TO REPLACE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
ART112 (IDEA & FORM)
ART115 (2-D DESIGN)
ART117 (3-D DESIGN)

Image: Mark A. Hicks

Winter Registration!

Hello Students:

Winter registration is coming up in November...

Check out the Course Planning Guide

The Course Planning Guide is a tentative list of offerings projected for the academic year by most departments.

http://www.pdx.edu/registration/cpg.html