Art and design fundamentalsLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You learn to apply design principles to create visually appealing and cohesive designs.
You understand the principles of form, volume, shape, and proportions in design.
You understand the terms concerning colour and composition.
You become familiar with the opportunities presented by colour through visual observation.
You are able to take advantage of different colour harmony models and recognise subtractive, additive, and optic colour mixing.
You understand the physics of light and the mechanisms of human colour vision.
You understand the fundamentals of perspective.
You can tell a story using light, cropping, framing and composition.

Content

How to observe, form, and compose an object?
How to examine and measure the phenomena of colour mixing?
What are the different colour harmony models?
How does light interact with surfaces?
What are the fundamentals of perspective?