Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Liverpool School of Art & Design
Learning Methods
Off Site
Online
Practical
Workshop
Module Offerings
4200CDDA-SEP-MTP
Aims
Cultivate a friendly, supportive and equitable community that fosters confidence discussing personal and professional practice.
Support students to develop a resilient, curious, playful and self-expressive approach to visual communication.
Introduce students to digital literacy and a critical approach to making.
Introduce a variety of approaches to visual problem-solving using text and image.
Introduce approaches to question the boundaries within the disciplines of Graphic Design and Illustration.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Recognise the role of visual research in the creative process.
2.
Practice a variety of media, skills, technologies, techniques and working methods that underpin visual communication to explore visual problem-solving.
3.
Demonstrate a self-expressive, resilient, curious, iterative approach that questions the boundaries within the disciplines of Graphic Design and Illustration.
4.
Recognise how meaning can be communicated through text and image.
5.
Discuss their own and other's work.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
Programme expectations (what students can expect from the course and what the course expects from students):
time management, studentship, scope, ambition, questioning, risk, resilience, professional pride, and confidence.
Understanding learning methods, assessment and feedback e.g. tutorials, crits, seminars, workshops, lectures, formative and summative assessment.
Inductions and workshops e.g. printmaking, risography, animation / motion graphics, core software, digital imaging and reprographics.
Principles of creative practice e.g. how to approach the brief, how to utilise research, the purpose and use of sketchbooks, the importance of experimentation (Iteration and testing), purpose of and approaches to drawing, image making techniques, approaches to typography, exploring problems through visual approaches, reference points, formats etc
Key concepts (and skills) in visual communication, approaches to thinking, thinking tools, introduction to semiotic principles, use and approaches to images, use and approaches to words (and text), curation, hierarchy and presentation, nonlinear structuring, audience and voice.
Confidence in discussion and presentation – how to review and talk about work, both their own and others (the importance of critique). How to reflect on work through self evaluation, writing and presenting.
Programme expectations (what students can expect from the course and what the course expects from students):
time management, studentship, scope, ambition, questioning, risk, resilience, professional pride, and confidence.
Understanding learning methods, assessment and feedback e.g. tutorials, crits, seminars, workshops, lectures, formative and summative assessment.
Inductions and workshops e.g. printmaking, risography, animation / motion graphics, core software, digital imaging and reprographics.
Principles of creative practice e.g. how to approach the brief, how to utilise research, the purpose and use of sketchbooks, the importance of experimentation (Iteration and testing), purpose of and approaches to drawing, image making techniques, approaches to typography, exploring problems through visual approaches, reference points, formats etc
Key concepts (and skills) in visual communication, approaches to thinking, thinking tools, introduction to semiotic principles, use and approaches to images, use and approaches to words (and text), curation, hierarchy and presentation, nonlinear structuring, audience and voice.
Confidence in discussion and presentation – how to review and talk about work, both their own and others (the importance of critique). How to reflect on work through self evaluation, writing and presenting.
Module Overview:
This module introduces you to the programme through a series of complementary briefs that encourage curiosity and experimentation with a variety of approaches to build confidence in taking risks and develop a practical understanding of some of the key skills and concepts that underpin visual communication and the graphic arts. The module culminates in a Portfolio of work demonstrating an exploratory approach to, and understanding of, the key skills and concepts.
This module introduces you to the programme through a series of complementary briefs that encourage curiosity and experimentation with a variety of approaches to build confidence in taking risks and develop a practical understanding of some of the key skills and concepts that underpin visual communication and the graphic arts. The module culminates in a Portfolio of work demonstrating an exploratory approach to, and understanding of, the key skills and concepts.