Courses

This week learn about techniques to extract interactive design requirements for UX design. You will also learn about prototyping tools from the Adobe Suite.

Learn course objectives and outline UX and UI design history. We will begin to explore tools within the Adobe Suites, like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.  Also, we will explore methodologies of processing work activity data as well as workflows and flow models. We will explore fundamental techniques for Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

In this course, students will explore the idiosyncratic challenges of the business side of web and interactive design industry specifically. Proposals, pricing, contracts, marketing, client relations, and a number of other topics will all be addressed specifically within the context of web and application development. This course is intended to prepare students, whether they are

Students will be shown the connection between theoretical knowledge and actual application as it relates to their own business. This course will build upon the Business Plan created in BU 270 Business I. Each student will create a three-part Marketing Plan based on the type of photography business they have chosen to pursue. Topics covered: 

This course is primarily a shooting course. Students are expected to shoot hundreds of images improving their techniques and skill as they progress through the course. Some of the images students produce may be of portfolio quality. Additional topics include digital imaging, analyzing digital images, image capture with digital cameras and scanners, output devices, resolutions

This course teaches students the core principles of Adobe Photoshop, the industry-standard raster-based photo manipulation program. Similar to Adobe Illustrator in significance and industry dominance, the ability to manipulate raster images will be a persistent theme throughout any career path involving print or digital media. Among the fundamental concepts explored will be file type constraints,

The Business of Photography is a course designed to introduce the student to the concepts of running a professional photography business. During class each student will create a resume, cover letter, elevator pitch, mission statement, Linked IN profile, personal budget, business budget, CODB (cost of doing business), description of products and services, and competition worksheet. Those

Students will learn techniques for collaborating with advertising professionals as well as producing shots suitable for editorial and advertising photography. Subject matter will include a variety of contemporary advertiser needs, ranging from product shots to architectural work. This course is offered on ground with an online component.

The aim of this course is to advance the student’s skills in visual communications through the use of photography in single images or stories. Communication is the ultimate aim of photography and better communication skills make better photographers. Students will be expected to produce single images and stories on their own time for critique in

A course in understanding the use of natural and artificial light, reflectors, strobes, tungsten and florescent lighting systems to light and photograph portraits, interiors, exteriors, large and small spaces, still life, streets and architecture for corporate and editorial assignments. Students will learn about color temperatures and ways to color- balance with the use of color