MM145 - Image Design for Multimedia 1
Instructor: Julia Voellinger Griffey

Goal: Image Design for Multimedia 1 is intended to introduce students to Illustrator, Quark and Photoshop. This class prioritizes understanding the essentials of each software package and how to use these tools, separately and together, to create designs that effectively convey information. Each software package provides the user with a different outlook on how the computer thinks about image data. Special attention is paid to the use of good form in design, understanding use of color, line, shape and typography. Course work is set up to provide students with basic software and design skills.

Assignment: Your assignment is to create an image to reflect your opinion regarding a current event or a political issue. This image must be made in PhotoShop by combing two or more realistic images to generate a scene that does not exist in reality. For example, if you are disgusted with the “Crisis in the Church,” you may make a composite image of 2 priests playing on a playground. Your objective is to confuse and disorient the user as much as possible by presenting a scene that looks real, but does not really exist while making a statement about an issue. The image you create must make a statement on it’s own. Your audience should know how you feel about the subject matter without you using any text to spell it out for them.