Collaborative Hybrid Course
Course Example
Katie Ries' Special Topics in Illustration
Content of the Class
An in-depth study of an artistic issue of special interest. ART 389 may focus on one or more art forms, an artistic movement or comparison of movements, or a theme. Students are challenged to evaluate trends in historical and contemporary art production as it relates to their own art making.
ENGAGEMENT
Community of Learners
Students communicate with each other about their work through Slack, and have in-person critiques at the end of each project. Most of their interactions as a class occur online in Slack, allowing students to dive deeper into the critique of one another.
TECHNOLOGY
Slack
This course relies on Slack to communicate as a class. This allows students to analyze and critique others work outside of class and have a more in-depth discussion in the classroom. All of their finished projects are posted to the class website.
Complete Discussion
Professor
KATIE RIES
Student
MADDIE LEBRUN
Coursework Examples
Surface Design
Now we’ll focus on maintaining a similar level of production towards a single product: the repeating pattern. You’ll create original imagery, arrange and color it to produce a repeating unit, and then repeat and apply that unit to create believable mock-ups. Please work with the software with which you are most comfortable: there are two videos demonstrating creating patterns with Illustrator or Photoshop.
The Project Description can be found here
Editorial
We’ll be working with Anne Helen Peterson’s article, “How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation” published earlier this year on Buzzfeed. You’ll create a “front page” illustration as well as a series of six (6) roughs, drawn to scale, for proposed complimentary illustrations for the rest of the article.
Your illustration will be the “featured image” for the piece. That’s the one that is shown on Twitter, Facebook, and other digital platforms when someone shares the article. It should relate strongly to the article, but it is not necessary to literally illustrate or show specific content. In fact, the Getty Images published with the original article are a great example of this. They suggest rather than specify.
The Project Description can be found here
Final Project
As we wrap up the semester, I’d like you all to use this project to do two things: 1) to create a piece that lets you make the work you’d like to make and 2) to assemble your illustration portfolio as a page (and downloadable PDF if you’d like) on your website. When we spoke with Sam Smith he said something like, “Your portfolio should be about getting the work you want to do in front of the people who can hire you to do it.” To that end, your final project should be aligned with your dream job. What would you love to be hired to illustrate? For whom?
The Project Description can be found here
