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FACULTY OF FINE ARTS / GİT408 - VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN

Code: GİT408 Course Title: TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN Theoretical+Practice: 3+1 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 4 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer FATİH ÖZDEMİR (fatihozdemir@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
To give the theory and technology of experimental typography.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Students will develop skills related to the use of space, media and forms in experimental typography. PO-6 Students will be able to know the change and development processes of graphic design discipline from past to present and transfer what they know to current problems.
PO-8 Students will be able to solve two, three and four dimensional design problems and perform their applications.
PO-9 Students will be able to apply their practices scientifically and philosophically.
PO-11 Students will have the ability to comprehend the visual language and differences of art and design and aesthetic sensitivity and to reflect on their designs.
PO-19 Performs natural and artificial object studies related to vision and shaping.
PO-23 Students produce designs using all kinds of visual media, from freehand drawing to computer graphics.
Term Paper
Practice Exam
LO-2 Students will be able to explain creative typography applications PO-6 Students will be able to know the change and development processes of graphic design discipline from past to present and transfer what they know to current problems.
PO-8 Students will be able to solve two, three and four dimensional design problems and perform their applications.
PO-10 Students gain practical and communicative skills to present their designs effectively.
PO-25 Basic knowledge of artistic applications and designs
Term Paper
Practice Exam
LO-3 Can use visual language. PO-18 Students use existing computer technologies in the area of ??interest.
PO-21 Produces original ideas and solutions according to the requirements of a given project.
PO-23 Students produce designs using all kinds of visual media, from freehand drawing to computer graphics.
PO-26 Interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary cooperation.
Examination
Term Paper
Practice Exam
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Introduction to experimental typography / Creating a visual language / Creative Uses of Place and Media / Creativity on place and form / Characteristic of language / Construction and deconstruction in creative typography / text and letter / Setting text / Sizing text / Applications.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Definition of creative typography Naration, Question and Answer
2 ntroduction to creative typography Naration, Question and Answer
3 Creating a visual language Naration, Question and Answer
4 Creative use of place and form Naration, Question and Answer
5 Structure of a font and font family Naration, Question and Answer
6 Setting dimensions Naration, Question and Answer
7 Characteristic of language, Creativity on place and form Naration, Question and Answer
8 mid-term exam
9 Constructing and deconstructing in creative typography Naration, Question and Answer
10 Constructing and deconstructing in creative typography Naration, Question and Answer
11 Exercises Individual Study Method, Brainstorming, Discussion Method
12 Exercises Individual Study Method, Brainstorming, Discussion Method
13 Methods Individual Study Method, Brainstorming, Discussion Method
14 Methods Individual Study Method, Brainstorming, Discussion Method
15 Text and letter Individual Study Method, Brainstorming, Discussion Method
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
Required Course instruments and materials
Course notes, computer, slides, projector

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 2 30
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper 15 1 30
9.Project
final exam 16 1 40

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 4 14 56
Outside Class
       a) Reading 2 14 28
       b) Search in internet/Library 2 14 28
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 1 10 10
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 4 8 32
mid-term exam 1 2 2
Own study for final exam 3 8 24
final exam 1 2 2
0
0
Total work load; 182