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Students create and work with images using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. They explore basic concepts, methods, tools, and techniques for each application and create vector-based materials, including signs, symbols, icons, drawings and illustrations, in black-and-white, spot, and full colour...

Students explore how design can communicate specific stories in the built environment using a variety of mediums and techniques. They learn how to leverage a combination of objects, imagery, materials, and colours plus other sensory devices to communicate an idea or ideas. Through discussion and...

Design thinking is a methodology used to create effective and memorable products and experiences. It is a non-linear, iterative process in which solutions are generated by empathy and proven through measurable data. This problem-solving process can be applied to any discipline that seeks to enhance...

When working with Indigenous client groups designers need to be able to evaluate inherent Euro-centric assumptions regarding power, authorship, and control to decolonize the design process. The goal is to re-envision roles and methodologies to allow for more equitable and inclusive designer-client...

Through research, goal setting, and interactions with design professionals, students explore career possibilities and educational paths. They gain the skills required to engage in informational interviews with industry experts, design custom resumes and cover letters, and implement professional...

Well-designed furniture requires a thoughtful, thorough design approach grounded in function, along with understanding the human form and aesthetics. Through lectures, exercises, and hands on projects students develop skills for furniture creation. Project outcomes synthesize concept, materials...

This course offers an in-depth study of typography skills for designers. Through the evaluation of typography as a core element of design, students explore the subtleties of type in relation to audience, page structure, and communication. They examine letterform anatomy, syntax, legibility, grids...

Students take the narrative devices and techniques applied to 3D spaces and expand those applications to larger, multi-layered storytelling with a variety of objects and/or ideas. Using their own designs, they explore how complex storytelling can be managed and organized through visual systems while...

Students use Adobe InDesign to create grids, page layout, master pages, paragraph styles, and incorporate vector graphics and photography in a multipage document. They also learn how to prepare press-ready files for commercial printing, including colour separation, spot colour, and registration...

Students research, conceptualize, and plan branding and marketing communication campaigns to promote products, services, and ideas that raise public awareness, communicate information, and influence the action of specific target audiences.Students will receive credit for only one of DDSN 2211/2212...