The closest to graphic design that UCBerkeley offered was a course during the Spring semester of 2003 called Visual Studies 187x, Paint and Pixel: Drawing for Designers. I started getting interested in graphics and design after I realized I had a knack for it. However, since there are no graphic design nor graphic art programs at UCBerkeley, I was amazed and relieved to have found this course was offered.
VS187x, part of the College of Environmental Design, is meant for architecture majors (but open to all) who would like to explore the drawing side of design by integrating use-of-hand skills with computer programs. We use Photoshop mostly, but are open to using Illustrator, Quark, Page Maker, and Painter. We were required to print out all our projects at high quality. Having a computer, scanner, digital camera, and high quality photo printer was most necessary.
I learned alot about my interest in computer art media from this class. Although the subject matter remained very concept-based and was still far from the kind of graphic design other institutes teach, I was at least able to practice and explore print and layout. Most of all I realized that my style reflected in paintings and drawings heavily touched my graphic art style. I could see how much I was thinking in graphic vision all these years I had been painting.
Here are a few works created during this course, so you have an idea of the different aspects of design I enjoyed integrating with the use of the hand. |
