Design School

While a little bit of reading is not going to make you a designer, it can begin the process of getting you to improve. And it will give you something to practice.

What I want you to read: (1) enough of “The Non-Designer’s Design Book” to get its main messages, and (2) something else that you find on the web about some aspect of graphic design that you find interesting.

In class, we will try to work a bit on our skills as “designers” (in the sense of graphic design). Design skills are useful beyond visualization - you will probably need to make presentation slides, posters, web pages, business cards (OK, maybe that’s archaic), … So I wanted to take some time in class so we can work on our skills (yes - me too).

I used to call this “Design School in a Day” - except that it isn’t just a day (it will be a day of class, and a week of “homework”), and it’s hard to glorify this as a “school”.