Graphic Design ART 750, Coded Design

Learning how to apply the medium of the Internet to the practice of design. Through discourse, example, and collaboration, we learn how the shape and properties of information influence the digital surfaces around us. Students bring their interest in understanding the nature of systems, develop new ways of looking at their own work through the lens of code, and conceptualize novel social experiences in distributed design. Through HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and API, the web browser becomes a method for helping to create the digital world around us and aids in deepening our understanding of the information economy that feeds creation and consumption online. While this course goes deep into these and other programming technologies and concepts, prior experience with programming or HTML is recommended, but not required.