Projects

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....

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.

In this assignment, you will create a set of images to serve as a storyboard for the title sequence of a ficticious television series or TV-movie based on an existing story.

The sequence should comprise between 12 and 30 images.

You will compose the images or "shots" in Photoshop, and sequence and time them in iPhoto. You can add background music to the sequence if you like, but you will need to edit the music to fit the short timeframe of a title sequence. More....

In this last assignment, you will write a five-to-seven-page essay on the "Cultural Work of an Image." More...