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GELCT-6700-1: Form[ing] Ideas

Fall 2023

Subject: Grad Wide Elective
Type: Workshop
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Graduate

Campus: San Francisco
Course Dates: August 30, 2023 — December 12, 2023
Meetings:
09/02: Sat 12:00-06:00PM, Main Bldg - N18/20 (Illustration Homeroom)
09/16: Sat 12:00-06:00PM, Main Bldg - N18/20 (Illustration Homeroom)
09/30: Sat 12:00-06:00PM, Main Bldg - N18/20 (Illustration Homeroom)
10/14: Sat 12:00-06:00PM, Main Bldg - N18/20 (Illustration Homeroom)
10/28: Sat 12:00-06:00PM, Main Bldg - N18/20 (Illustration Homeroom)
11/11: Sat 12:00-06:00PM, Main Bldg - N18/20 (Illustration Homeroom)
12/02: Sat 12:00-06:00PM, Main Bldg - N18/20 (Illustration Homeroom)
12/09: Sat 12:00-06:00PM, Main Bldg - N18/20 (Illustration Homeroom)
Instructor: Michael Wertz

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 7/12

Description:

This studio course is designed for all creative disciplines across CCA—from writers to designers to artists—who want to explore how writing, artwork, and design meld to create meaning. Contemporary publication design practices as well as historic forms such as the manifesto will be explored as we interrogate how to place, align, squish, illustrate, and arrange image and text in space (in page, poster, book, or hybrid forms). This is an ideal course for Thesis students across the college, offering robust making sessions on Saturdays during the term. Conscientious and dynamic research is required outside of class meeting time to support the Saturday making sessions. These studio days will offer students the chance to establish a workflow focused on making physical work AND explore the intellectual and contextual underpinnings of their work in a multidisciplinary and discussion-based setting. The studio will focus on student thesis work (integral or corollary), exploring personal projects, and/or development of instructor-provided prompts through making. There will be 1:1 and class critiques to review student work, and a final show and discussion of student work at the end of the semester.

Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites:

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