DCA

A Final Portfolio was required to graduate from the program and earn an academic certificate in Design Communication Arts.

First Term of Courses

• Design Fundamentals
  • Line Continuity: Notebook Page
  • Shape Integration
  • Figure-Ground Reversal
  • Hierarchy
  • Autobiograph
  • Framing
  • Connection
• Drawing for Communication
  • Sketch set 1 - direct observation
  • Sketch set 2 - light logic
  • Sketch set 3 - linear perspective
  • Sketch set 4 - quick sketch
  • Sketch set 5 - hand lettering & drawing from reference
  • Sketch set 6 - hands
  • Sketch set 7 - proportion/shape - heads
  • Sketch set 8 - heads/two- & four-legged
  • Sketch set 9 - Storytelling: Animals & People
  • Term Project

Third Term of Courses

• Design II
  • Introduction - exercise on typography and legibility
  • Project 1 - promote a charity event of your choice that is associate with a celebrity and design graphics to apply to a t-shirt
  • Project 2 - create a print or online ad for a consumer product of your choice
  • Project 3 - case study
• Mixed Media and Collage
  • Landscape
  • Animal
  • Fortune Cookie
  • Defacing
  • Food

Final Term of Courses

• Icons, Logo and Logotype Design
  • Project A - design of a logo for a retail or public space
  • Project B - focus on the overall visual branding design
  • Project C - create a communication system based on a historical look at cave paintings, icons, patterns, pictographs, languages, hieroglyphs, phonetic alphabets and the concepts of semiotics (context related meanings).