Class Illustration I

This course offers an introduction to Drawing and Illustration as expressive, projective and reflective resources in Design. Through exercises that combine observation and conceptual work with experimentation with techniques, materials and expressive solutions, the aim is to expand students' visual culture and provide tools for thinking and acting in the field of illustration.

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Sketching from nature and architecture; observation drawing; image transfer; frottages; collages, etc.   Visualisation structures: Composition through drawing and collecting materials; manipulation of objects and their graphic representation. Characteristics of graphic form. Types of graphic register: gestural, volumetric, diagrammatic and contour drawing.   (Re)connecting image and text . Deconstructing and manipulating the design of a letter to the point of abstraction. Negative space and positive space from the letter. . Calligrams and ideograms.    Photography as a reference and tool for producing images.

Development of  illustration project in dialogue with an external entity.

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