Projects
Confection Project
In Photoshop, create an image that visually summarizes and analyzes a complex idea, theory, or extended narrative in a single eye span. The image could to serve as a frontispiece or poster-insert for a book, as an academic poster, or as an artistic rendering of a concept. Edward Tufte's Chapter 7 from Visual Explanations discusses the techniques and history this genre of visual rhetoric,calling it a visual confection. More....
Visualized Data Project
Using principles from Edward Tufte's book Visual Explanations, create an informational graphic that makes a point or argument by visualizing a set of numerical data. In essence, this graphic will both present the data (with numbers and words) and also visualize the most relevant relationships among that data (e.g., distances, proportions, locations, time, change, etc.). See the assignment page for details.
Title Sequence
In this assignment, you will create a title sequence for a fictitious television series of your own devising. This title sequence will be completed as a short, slideshow video, between 1 and 2 minutes long.
This title sequence will comprise a set of still images prepared in Photoshop and then edited together in iMovie with effects such as panning, zooming, and transitions between shots. The sequence be composed of 12 to 30 images and timed with music.
Essay: The Cultural Work of an Image
In this last assignment, you will write a five-to-seven-page essay on the "Cultural Work of an Image." More...