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
Learning goals
Build visual hierarchy through type, spacing, contrast, and rhythm.
Develop repeatable systems from simple graphic rules.
Translate static compositions into interface-ready design logic.
Student outcomes
Students developed stronger typographic hierarchy and grid discipline.
Final work connected print-based foundations to digital interface structure.
Projects showed clearer systems thinking across multiple formats.
Deliverables