CDES 4152 - Citizen Designers: Social Poster Design

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): CDES 3215 with C- or better; or permission of department

Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): CDES 3222

Description: Students in this course explore themes of social advocacy with emphasis placed upon research, process and production techniques through poster design. Social causes are addressed through large-scale print media as a platform for communication, applied to real-world scenarios. As a medium for social change, posters are persuasive, conceptual, educational and informational as platforms for advocacy through the public dissemination of ideas. Students demonstrate the designer’s role in social and political frameworks, integrating how to respond to cause-based contexts in relation to design and communication.