Technique | Graphic Design and Communications

Right on schedule — or maybe a few minutes past the 11:00am deadline — the sophomore Graphic Design and Communications classes completed their display cases. The active learning project requires students to research, design and build a display case on topics related to design or photography. The project not only reinforces the digital skills students acquire over the first year of the program, it’s a great way to introduce some analog production techniques.

*‘Oh Snap!’* deconstructs the basics of how a camera works. One of the props is a gigantic cut-away camera.

A larger-than-life ‘man of steel’ anchors *‘Comic Ka-Boom’*, a display featuring heroes and villains from the Golden Age of comics.

The first year Digital Illustration students recently completed an analog assignment where they were pushed to illustrate an object using different illustration styles and traditional mediums. For many it was an experimental voyage into trying something new. For others it was continued practice in an area they already excel. Below are just a few of the images captured from this assignment.