Skip Activities This course introduces students to the basic visual grammar and methodologies of visual communication through colour and design. In weekly exercises students explore point, line, shape, plane, texture, pattern, tone, hierarchy, contrast and composition. Visual presentations, group discussion and critique will analyze the use of these elements and principles in visual communication, contextualized in social, historical and contemporary frameworks. Activity since Monday, 6 September 2010, 06:15 AM
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Welcome to this demonstration version of FNDT 109 Visual Communciation
Online. This course was developed by Heidi May and has been offered
most terms since the Fall of 2005.This
version, the first two weeks of the course, is presented here without student content in the Forums (where asynchronous discussions take place), the Chats (for synchronous meetings) or student assignments. For more information about enrolling return to the main page. Go...
A brief summary of the course:This online course follows the same curriculum that occurs in the face-to-face sections of this Foundation course at the Emily Carr Institute. Of course the delivery of the content is much different, but the information discussed and the projects assigned will be based on
the same principles. At times this online environment may challenge how
we work together but, I also think it will allow us to embrace non-conventional techniques of both learning and art-making. I'm
excited to get started and I look forward to meeting each of you and
sharing ideas and artwork.
| | | | | 21 September - 27 SeptemberVisual Form: Experiencing the Elements
This
week's content introduces the student to the basic visual elements that
make up form (dot, line, shape, colour), ideas behind form, and the
purposes form serves. Students will also gain more experience
discussing visual work in a forum setting.  (above) Photographs from Elements of Design by Loan Oei and Cecile De Kegel, published by Thames and Hudson.
Emily Carr Library > NK 1530. 035 2002
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| | | | 28 September - 4 OctoberBasic Elements: The Power of Line
This
week's content examines the communicative aspects of lines within
several areas of art and design. The book's content explores how line
is used as a means of basic communication, a symbol of observation, an
expression of emotion, a tool within conceptual art, and an element of
motion. Students will spend time critiquing the "function" of art and
design examples (Assignment #2 from Week 1 )
Jérome Fôrtin, Seascape, Landscape no.18, 2002, plastic bottles, 60 x 60 x 10 cm; image source
- The text reading for this week is
pages 33 - 41 of "Understanding Form and Function". Please read the
text first, then watch the video on "line", and finally, proceed to
this week's Book called "Basic Elements: Exploring Line".
- Please watch the short video (not uploaded to this demo site) at the top of the list below before proceeding to the Book for this week. Taken from "The Elements of Design" (by Barbara Wiener; distributed by Kineticvideo; copyright 2001), this 6 minute excerpt illustrates the basics about the importance and function of line in aspects of art and design. Please be patient for this clip to load. It will take 3 or 4 minutes to load if you are using cable internet...so take a break and get yourself a coffee and a snack!
 Basic Elements: Exploring Line Book Assignment: Visual Elements Forum- Assignment: Form + Function> Art/Design Examples Forum
 Office hours - Wed 7-8 pm Chat Line Assignment Information on fine tuning project submissions Resource
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