ILD 3000 - Illustrative Design Junior Portfolio Review

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Students who have completed over 60 credit hours are required to participate in a mid-career portfolio review before reaching 90 credits. This review is designed to identify students’ strengths and weaknesses so that they may address both in their upcoming major coursework.

Prerequisites: Completion of 60+ credits

Course Learning Outcomes:

Solve communication problems through illustrative design.
Apply research, information gathering and analysis to generate alternative solutions.
Create prototypes, apply user testing and evaluate outcomes.
Describe and respond to the audiences and contexts, which communication solutions must address.
Recognize the physical, cognitive, cultural, and social human factors that shape human decisions.
Create visual form in response to communication problems.
Understand symbolic representation.
Apply principles of visual organization/composition and information hierarchy.
Apply typography properly in its various applications.
Use industry based tools in the creation, reproduction, and distribution of visual messages.
Examine their position within illustration and design history, theory, and criticism.
Show basic business practices, including the ability to organize and work productively as a member of a team.
Organize and present a junior-level portfolio representing program outcomes, and evincing readiness to move into advanced courses in the major.
Apply storytelling that merges narrative & visual elements at a professional level. Directed to the right audience with clear purpose. The narrative elements are creative, original, easily recognized and understood.
Demonstrate drawing mastery that combines observation and imagination with research to construct expressive images at a professional level.