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Digital Image Compositing — DES2106.01

Instructor: Gus Ramirez
Days & Time: MO 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

Beyond its use in commercial and fine art photography, image compositing is a useful tool for artists and designers more broadly. This course will cover processing, combining, and editing images in Adobe Photoshop to an intermediate level. Students will learn about the Photoshop interface, and how to work with images using filters, masks, levels, color and saturation controls, and a variety of selection and editing tools to create digital collages and composites. Student work will culminate in a large-format printed project.

World Building: Designing Characters and World They Live In — DES2109.01

Instructor: Tilly Grimes
Days & Time: MO 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

Every fictional universe has its own history, culture, geography, and ecology that act as a backdrop to the narratives that inhabit it.  This course will investigate the relationship between such a fantastical place and its characters 鈥 with a particular emphasis on the philosophy and symbology of the characters and their clothes.

Space Shaping Image Making: Readings — ARC2207.01

Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

鈥淣ot long ago, a near prerequisite for vanguard architecture was an engagement with theory; lately it has become an acquaintance with art鈥 or so observed Hal Foster in his 2011 book 鈥楾he Art Architecture Complex.鈥 While ideas about what constitutes cutting edge architecture may have transformed in the decade since, entanglements between art and architecture and the reciprocal effects that they have on each other remain central to architectural discourse.