Communication Design & Illustration
The communication arts of illustration, graphic design, advertising, and their related disciplines, comprise an overwhelming majority of the images we encounter in our daily lives.
Therefore, the education of professionals, whose understanding of these fields is comprehensive and whose practice of
their craft reflects the highest levels of training and skill, is of
extreme importance. For the impact of the images created by
the communication artist deeply affects the quality of our lives.
The combined curriculum of illustration and communication
design at Otis/Parsons addresses itself to the problem of
developing excellence in tomorrow's generation of professionals.Thecurriculum provides an opportunityforthestudent
to explore several directions within this broad area and to concentrate more fully on those that interest him as he moves
towards his senioryear.The program is based upon the found-
dation skills that form the substance of all visual expression,
and some specialization begins in the sophomore year. A high
degree of course selectivity is possible at the Junior and
Senior level.
Freshman Year—Foundation Program (see page 6)
Sophomore Year—Both Majors
Fall Spring
HA 125 Backgrounds in Graphic Design
HA 225 History of Illustration
C 110 Communication Design
C 170 Typography
IL 120 Illustration Concepts & Methods
IL 180 Drawing
Liberal Arts
2.0 -
2.0
4.0
3.0
4.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
3.0
4.0
2.0
3.0
18.0 18.0
Junior Year
Fall
Spring
Communication Design Major
C 210 Communication Design
4.0
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C 260 Graphic Production Procedures
1.5
—
C 261 Preparing Art for Reproduction
—
1.5
C 270 Typography
3.0
—
Fall: Choice of 1 below
3.0
—
Spring: Choice of 3 below
—
9.0
C 212 Package Design
C 214 Three-Dimensional Concepts
C 216 Trademark Systems
C 218 Publication Design
C 225 Exhibition Design
C 240 Advertising
Studio Electives
2.0
4.0
Liberal Arts
3.0
3.0
16.5 17.5
Illustration Major
IL 220 Illustration
Drawing
Printmaking
C 130 Photography
Studio Electives
Liberal Arts
Senior Year
Commun
Fall:
Spring:
C 310
312
314
C 316
C 318
320
325
340
345
370
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
ication Design Major
Choice of 3 below
Choice of 2 below
Communication Design
Package Design
Three-Dimensional Concepts
Trademark Systems
Publication Design
Special Projects
Exhibition Design
Advertising
You, Words, and Pictures
Type Concepts
Studio Electives
Liberal Arts
Illustration Major
IL 320 Illustration
Drawing
Printmaking
Studio Electives
Liberal Arts
4.0
4.0
4.0
4.0
2.0
2.0
2.0
—
2.0
4.0
3.0
3.0
17.0
17.0
Fall Spring
12.0
12.0
2.0
4.0
3.0
—
17.0
16.0
6.0
6.0
4.0
4.0
2.0
2.0
2.0
4.0
3.0
—
17.0 16.0
Course descriptions for Communication Design and Illustration parallel those of the New York campus and may be found
in the Parsons end of this book.
Art History and Liberal Arts courses are described on pages 9
and 11.
Otis faculty are listed on page 14.
Art History
The History of Art and Design is an important part of the
curriculum at Otis.The minimum requirement of two years of art
history is based on the conviction that a student can better
understand his relation to his own time and the technology at
his comand through an awareness of the relationship of his
artistic predecessors to their cultural backgrounds and technologies. In the first year a Survey of World Art provides a
comprehensive introduction to the works of art and architecture created by human societies on a worldwide basis. In the
second year students take courses in specific periods of art
history or in the historical background of the studio area in
which they are specializing. The Foundation Year course in the
Philosophy of Art provides a theoretical basis for the practice
of art and an investigation into the natureof aesthetic response.
Otis Faculty are listed on page 14.
HA100/Survey of World Art
A comparative study of art as an expression of human experience in different periods and cultures, ranging from prehistoric to contemporary, from tribal art to the creations of
Western and Oriental civilizations at their most complex. The
emphasis is on the development of a capacity for perceptive
stylistic analysis and an ability to understand the work of art in
relation to its cultural context.
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