📺 Digital Form v1

What kinds of graphic forms are unique to digital screens? How can we or should we design for phones, laptops, and other digital devices? *What is this digital material capable of?*

This introductory studio course is an exploration of these questions and the range of possibilities that digital tools and spaces afford us. We will look at a vast and ever-changing landscape that includes multiple mediums, practices, technologies, geographies, histories, and more. To guide these explorations, we will focus on three key ideas:

1) Phenomenologies of light and computation, particularly additive color and binary;

2) Keyframing, sequencing, and programming of motion design and animation; and,

3) Structuring and integrating responsive and interactive design elements or systems, particularly websites and user interfaces.

Students build up facility and familiarity with digital practices through small workshops, larger overarching projects, and opportunities to share independent research. In addition to studio work, students will look at historical developments and conflicts in the world of digital design and technology, including discussions of equity and inequity.