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Undergraduate / Fall 2024

Visual Systems Foundation

A foundational course connecting typography, grids, hierarchy, and visual systems to early interface thinking.

Critique model

Critique focuses on visual relationships first, then asks how those relationships could scale into interactive systems.

Course

Graphic Design Foundations

Semester

Fall 2024

Level

Undergraduate

Studio format

Formal exercises, iterative critiques, visual system studies, and a final identity-to-interface translation project.

Tools

Adobe IllustratorInDesignFigmaCritique worksheets

Learning goals

01

Build visual hierarchy through type, spacing, contrast, and rhythm.

02

Develop repeatable systems from simple graphic rules.

03

Translate static compositions into interface-ready design logic.

Student outcomes

01

Students developed stronger typographic hierarchy and grid discipline.

02

Final work connected print-based foundations to digital interface structure.

03

Projects showed clearer systems thinking across multiple formats.

Deliverables

Typographic studiesGrid systemVisual identity setInterface translation