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Commercial Design and Visual Arts

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Mixed Media and Collage for Designers and Artists
Course Format: Classroom
Discover creative approaches to problem solving while developing your own visual language using photocopies, drawing, found art, photography, matte and gel mediums, and gesso. Transfer techniques and digital output also are covered. Students complete three portfolio pieces that are critiqued on clarity of communication and aesthetics.
 

History of Environmental Arts
Course Format: Classroom
Part two of a four-part survey course on the environmental arts of the Western world. This course traces the architecture, landscape architecture, furniture, art, and decorative arts from the Italian Renaissance to the beginning of the 19th century in France, England, and America. Periods covered include the Renaissance, Mannerist, Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassic. Instruction focuses on the man...
 

A Survey of the Decorative Arts
Course Format: Classroom
The fundamentals of understanding and appreciating the decorative arts are explored in this intensive course, which provides a basic historical understanding of forms and social forces, as well as an enhanced awareness of styles. Topics include traditional techniques and innovations utilized by artisans on a range of media (wood, silver, ceramics, etc.). Basic connoisseurship is touched upon to...
 

Interior Design Studio
Course Format: Classroom
In this first in a series of studio courses, students are given the opportunity to apply fundamental design principles to the layout of interior spaces. Starting with the development of a design concept, students learn how to develop a space while incorporating the elements of ergonomics and human factors. Students also explore methods of analyzing a client’s program, beginning with the bu...
 

Color Theory and Application
Course Format: Online
This course covers the study of the perception of color, its permutations and its dimensions, using traditional as well as contemporary methods, emphasizing individual experimentation through lab exercises and demonstrations. Topics include the color wheel; Munsell and Albers theories; perception, symbolism, and psychology; pattern-painting techniques; and the applications of color theories to ...
 

Restaurant Design
Course Format: Classroom
This "behind-the-scenes" study tour of some of the most renowned restaurants in Los Angeles--a city newly recognized for both world-class design and haute cuisine--includes on-site explanations and discussions by the designers, architects, chefs, and/or owners. Students gain insight into justifications behind individual layout and design concepts for front-of-the-house, kitchens, and ...
 

Lighting Design
Course Format: Classroom
This course covers basic lighting topics, including light and texture, light and color, focal lighting, light sources, fixture schedules, switching patterns, and the required drawings used by designers in both residential and commercial spaces. Instruction includes lectures, research, and student projects.
 

Elements of Design
Course Format: Classroom
An introduction to design fundamentals, including exercises in figure-ground relationships, color interaction, line, texture, shape, scale, balance, rhythm, emphasis, and organization of elements in the two-dimensional plane, this course develops perceptual skills, sensitivity, creative awareness, and the technical ability necessary to handle a variety of design media.
 

Design Communication
Course Format: Classroom
This beginning course focuses on basic freehand drawing and drafting. All the components essential to good drawing are presented and discussed. Working almost exclusively in black-and-white, students embark on a series of exercises that introduce important visual concepts--composition and design, contour and line, proportion and scale, plan and section, form and space, tone and shadows--plus th...
 

Decorating and Designing for the Home
Course Format: Classroom
This six-week course covers the basics of decorating a house, an apartment, or a loft. Topics include floor plans, color use, composition, storage ideas, and finishing touches. Students are encouraged to bring fabric samples, and snapshots of their personal space for in-class discussion during the fourth class meeting. Enrollment limited. Visitors not permitted. This "green" course pr...
 

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