UCLA Extension
Los Angeles, California, United States
http://www.uclaextension.edu/

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Learn how to work faster and more efficiently on your Mac. Develop skills to manage common technical issues that face designers. Optimize Mac user permissions, file management, smart folders, system preferences, color and font management, system utilities and backup strategies....
 

At the forefront of modern best practices in web design is the separation of content from presentation. Designers can accomplish this by using external cascading style sheets (CSS). In this six-week course, gain a fundamental understanding of CSS and other best practices for creating accessible, sustainable, and easy-to-manage websites. Topics include CSS basics, semantic HTML principles, layou......
 

An introduction to the creative process and core elements of graphic design for print and electronic media. Topics include typography, imagery and concept development....
 

This course covers theories and practical applications to understand the makeup of color and how best to use it. Areas covered include general color theory and psychology; effective color creation, perception, and management; color language; digital issues; and additive and subtractive systems and color output....
 

How can a designer effectively create a clear, consistent, memorable, and lasting identity for a company in a crowded marketplace? Problem-solving methodologies, such as brainstorming and vertical thinking, are applied....
 

This course explores in greater depth the creation and control of artificial light in the context of professional photography. The focus is on using lighting to emphasize or hide aspects of the subject or the environment. The choices available include the use of strobe and hot lights, using multiple light sources, mixing strobe and ambient, creating color, and adding motion to still images. Stu......
 

Design and prepare projects for printing through the understanding of color management; tools, palettes, menus, text, and graphics; and the efficiencies of creating templates, style sheets, and master pages. Learn one- to multi-color output, image preparation, type and file formats, digital prepress workflow, printing options, paper, binding, comping and finishing, interacting with vendors, quo......
 

Discover how this vector-based drawing program integrates into the suite of design tools. Features presented include templates, drawing paths, auto-tracing, blending features, gradient meshes, wrapping type, exporting, shape and pen tools, and more....
 

Learn to develop comprehensive and memorable identities using symbols, logos, and trademarks while considering message reducibility, media variables, and usage standards. For technical requirements....
 

Create and deliver interactive content for the web and related media using Flash, an integral part of a designer’s web toolkit. Explore animation, powerful drawing tools, user interface features, and the basics of ActionScripting....
 

Design, upload, and remotely manage effective web sites using the industry standard Adobe Dreamweaver. Web languages covered include, but are not limited to; Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and HTML. Topics include page creation and site management, integrated FTP functions, web layout design workflows, and digital imaging for the web....
 

A project-based course utilizing advanced techniques in design visualization, drawing, and rendering. Instruction focuses on freehand ideation and research to create stronger and more innovative value-added design....
 

Perception guides our every conscious action. Through a combination of lecture, discussion, and weekly drawing and sculptural exercises, this course investigates the way the brain sees and depicts space and dimension. Assignments are designed to help students navigate creative impulses and develop pictorial skills. Topics include the differences between left and right brain, utilizing imaginati......
 

Explore the exciting, experimental, and versatile medium of monoprinting. Monoprints are hybrids of multiple disciplines, combining drawing and painting skills with printmaking technique. The speed and ease of manipulation encourages new investigations into subject, color, and texture. Learn a variety of approaches, including additive and reductive inking, chine-collé, collographs, Xerox transf......
 

This course uses both hard and soft pastel to explore the eminent quality of color while advancing our understanding of the figure. Used by such artists as Degas, Cassat, and de Kooning, pastel is a versatile medium combining the expressive sensibilities of both drawing and painting. In this course, students develop skills in form and composition while experimenting with layering, blending, and......
 

Discover creative approaches to problem solving while developing your own visual language using photocopies, drawing, found art, photography, matte and gel mediums, and gesso. Transfer techniques and digital output also are covered. Students complete three portfolio pieces that are critiqued on clarity of communication and aesthetics....
 

Intended for beginners, this course presents an introduction to jewelry creation using fine silver. Through a series of projects, students learn methods of drilling, sawing metal shapes, filing, soldering, and finishing to complete their projects without the use of wax or special casting procedures. Instruction also covers how to make tubing, how to set stones, and how to make a bezel setting f......
 

This course provides an investigation into the many technical possibilities of working with oil paints, emphasizing the importance of creativity and personal expression. Students work from classroom setups and create their own setups at home. Painting techniques covered include blending, textural underpainting, glazing, and transparency. Instruction broadens the student’s vocabulary of tec......
 

Explore both contemporary and traditional approaches to portraiture by looking at the head in relation to the full body. This course begins with learning to see the full figure in terms of line, alignment, proportion, volume, and tone. By transferring this knowledge to the portrait, students learn about structure of the face, likeness, and how to visualize and draw the head from different angle......
 

In China, a flower is never merely a flower nor scenery merely a place; each has its legends, romantic stories, and symbolic spirituality. In this course, students explore the spontaneous style of Chinese brush painting through hands-on step-by-step instruction. The course follows the Hsieh-I (Depicting-Idea) style developed by the traditional painters of the 11th century and specifically focus......
 

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