Ontario College of Art & Design

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GDES 1B24
Colour & Two-dimensional Design
0.50 Credit(s)
Studio
This course initiates students in the processes of visual perception using analogue and digital methods, and the principal vocabularies of two-dimensional design, colour and spatial organization.
Through investigations of light, point, plane, volume and colour mixing, students are introduced to the physiology of vision and the elements of two-dimensional forms and spaces.
Building upon conceptual, visual, relational and practical components of two-dimensional design, students further examine how ideas, forms, shapes, colours and two-dimensional spaces are related to one another. Exercises and assignments germane to contemporary design practices focus on two-dimensional form generations and composition, applied colour vocabulary,
contextual colour applications, spatial sensitivity and development of practical two-dimensional structures. Information acquired from this course enables students to use vocabulary appropriately and to apply learned visual and spatial sensibilities to studies in design.
Course was last updated May 25, 2009 - 3:30 PM