COMMUNICATION AND DESIGN | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
VCD4138 | Portfolio Design | Fall | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
The course opens with the approval of the Department at the beginning of each semester |
Language of instruction: | En |
Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi İPEK TORUN |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Instructor DİDEM WONG |
Course Objectives: | This course focuses on each student’s self unique design vision and the many ways students can promote their design abilities by producing a creative selection of their existing communication design projects. Highlighting the individual design approach is an emphasis on self-promotion in its most suitable form. Students learn the details of the job-seeking portfolio since creative success is determined as much by how well they promote their work as by the quality of their work. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; 1) Visualize concepts. 2) Demonstrate knowledge of the essential business practices used in the communication design industry. 3) Produce the basic business forms needed in communication design business. 4) Recognize the laws pertaining to the Visual Artist in business. 5) Promote themselves and their design work. 6) Demonstrate a marketable and uniquely original portfolio and produce a "creative" resume. |
Types of portfolios, portfolio research, developing a communication network are discussed. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation | |
1) | Introduction Expectations Time management Daily Planner Goals | ||
2) | Assignment 1 in progress. Mood Boards In-house vs. Agency/Design Firm vs. Freelance vs. Self-employed Types of Portfolios | ||
3) | Assignment 1 in progress. | Portfolio review | |
4) | Résumé writing Employment Application | ||
5) | Interviews | ||
6) | Self-promotion Digitizing your portfolio Networking | ||
7) | Cost-effective Design Due Group Presentations Assignment 2: High budget Promotion | ||
8) | Expectations Time management Daily Planner Goals Assignment 2 in progress. Researching outstanding promos | ||
9) | Assignment 2 in progress. Researching outstanding promos | ||
10) | Assignment 2 in progress. | ||
11) | Group Discussion | ||
12) | Practice presentations | ||
13) | Retouching week | ||
14) | High budget Promotion Portfolio show |
Course Notes: | |
References: | How, Print Dergileri. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | % 0 | |
Laboratory | % 0 | |
Application | 2 | % 30 |
Field Work | % 0 | |
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | % 0 | |
Quizzes | % 0 | |
Homework Assignments | % 0 | |
Presentation | % 0 | |
Project | % 0 | |
Seminar | % 0 | |
Midterms | 1 | % 35 |
Preliminary Jury | % 0 | |
Final | 1 | % 35 |
Paper Submission | % 0 | |
Jury | % 0 | |
Bütünleme | % 0 | |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 65 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 35 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload | |
Course Hours | 14 | 42 | |
Laboratory | |||
Application | 14 | 28 | |
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | |||
Field Work | |||
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 14 | |
Presentations / Seminar | |||
Project | 14 | 14 | |
Homework Assignments | |||
Quizzes | |||
Preliminary Jury | |||
Midterms | 14 | 14 | |
Paper Submission | |||
Jury | |||
Final | 14 | 14 | |
Total Workload | 126 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Create design oriented application for the visual communication design field. | |
2) | Resolve visual communication problems via concept based designs and an integrated perspective in the visual communication design field. | |
3) | Qualify in design directing through analysis and design processes. | |
4) | Display creative thinking, approach and production process skills. | |
5) | Integrate basic fields of visual communication; print, time-based and interactive media, through mastering each one of these fields individually. | |
6) | Identify complementary design solutions in the visual field in order to solve communication problems. | |
7) | Perform necessary operational skills in order to finalize products in the visual communication design field. | |
8) | Evaluate recent design trends and the evolving aesthetic perspectives. | |
9) | Use recent design softwares that coincide with the developing information technologies and communication channels. | |
10) | Interpret theoretical, historical and intellectual roots of the visual communication design field. | |
11) | Perform necessary time management in order to complete a visual communication design project. | |
12) | Demonstrate leadership qualities in a design team as well as individual skills during the progress of a visual communication design project. | |
13) | Display compositional solutions and aesthetic skills to fulfill design needs in a visual communication design work. | |
14) | Develop academical, intellectual and critical point of view for global, local and individual visual communication design works. |