HAD-365 History of Graphic Design & Illustration
3 Credits
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HAD-365-01
Monday
9:00 am – 11:50 am
East Hall, 312
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HAD-365-02
Monday
2:00 pm – 4:50 pm
East Hall, 312
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HAD-365-03
Wednesday
9:00 am – 11:50 am
East Hall, 312
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HAD-365-04
Wednesday
5:30 pm – 8:20 pm
Engineering Building, 111
Graphic design and illustration, as forms of visual communication, are a formative aspect of our everyday visual landscape. Posters, magazines, websites, and signage are just a few examples of the common forms that mediate our experience of the world. This course explores select episodes within the histories of graphic design and illustration, primarily between the 1800s and the present, examining the ways in which evolving methods of production have influenced their construction, circulation, and meaning. Students investigate how , through its close relationships to economic and social production, visual communication operates as an instrument of historical change.