Course summary

This course is designed to be a meeting place for people who are hungry to engage with communication design practice at a deeper level: to research, investigate and debate the nature and dynamics of communication, and explore how they can produce meaningful outcomes using conventional and unconventional forms; particular emphasis is on communication, which may be located in printed design outcomes (books, magazines, posters etc), screen (motion graphics, video, web etc) or cut across these; editorial control and responsibility to content and intention are at the core of developing themes; narrative form, structure, the relationship of type and image and a deeper understanding of commercial print, multiples, electronic and broadcast media and other means of dissemination are considered both intellectually and practically.