Communication Design Workshop

Provides practice of research, development, and prototyping methods for communication design solutions.

Objective & Outcomes

This workshop allows students to practice methods for design research, concept development, and rapid prototyping of visual communication design solutions. The course explores a variety of communication design outlets, such as traditional communication media, new communication media, multimodal communications, spatial communication, communication systems, urban communication, and networked objects. Teams will discuss the theory, philosophy, technology, and implementation of such media in the real world to solve design problems.

Upon completing the course, students will demonstrate the ability to create communication design solutions resolving the problem by understanding contextual constraints and creating new potential solutions.

Typical Schedule

Session 1: Topic Onboarding
Session 2: Primary & Secondary Research: Analysis & synthesis
Session 3: Primary & Secondary Research: Analysis & synthesis
Session 4: Primary & Secondary Research: Analysis & synthesis
Session 5: Initial Prototyping
Session 6: Initial Prototyping
Session 7: Mid-Term Presentation
Session 8: Iterative Prototyping
Session 9: Iterative Prototyping
Session 10: Iterative Prototyping
Session 11: Iterative Prototyping
Session 12: Iterative Prototyping
Session 13: Iterative Prototyping
Session 14: Final Presentation