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AXM-E2009 - Contemporary Graphic Design, Lecture, 28.2.2025-4.4.2025

Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify various components of visual arrangement (color, form, grid, scale, hierarchy) and their roles in different media and modes of expression. 

2.  Evaluate the parallels and tensions between tactile and digital design outcomes.

3. Consider the significance of physical place and space as a starting point for visual design, and the impact of materials, media, and technology to visual forms of expression.

4. Apply the knowledge of grids and colour schemes in design for different environments.

Credits: 3

Schedule: 28.02.2025 - 04.04.2025

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Arja Karhumaa

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    The course addresses graphic design as spatial arrangement of visual elements and considers how its methods and genealogies travel across the contemporary media landscape as well as physical space. We explore the importance of spatial and haptic experience in design work and to seek new form through working with analogue references. The tactile design experience is regarded as an equal component in the world of digital design.

    The course offers a chance to update your notions of basic components of graphic design such as form, scale, hierarchy, grid, and colour. You get an opportunity to refresh your graphic design skills to contemporary standards, but also to re-evaluate which of the traditional and well-established notions of aesthetic “quality” in design are relevant in current conditions, where audiences scatter, and the tactile and the digital often co-exist rather than oppose each other.

Assessment Methods and Criteria

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Participation in teaching, completed assignments.

    Minimum 80% attendance.

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Workload

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    3 ECTS ≈ 81h

    Contact Teaching: 24H

    -Lectures 10h

    -Groupwork 8h

    -Workshop and practice-based work 10h

    -Reflection and thinking 30h

    Other, excursion 3h

               

DETAILS

Substitutes for Courses
Prerequisites
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals

    12 Responsible Production and Consumption

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Teaching Language: English

    Teaching Period: 2024-2025 Spring IV
    2025-2026 Spring IV

    Registration:

    Minimum amount of participants 8
    Maximum amount of participants 25.
    Priority order to courses is according to the order of priority decided by the Academic committee for School of Arts, Design and Architecture
    https//www.aalto.fi/en/services/registering-to-courses-and-the-order-of-priority-at-aalto-arts

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