Class 17
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 —
Interface Design Lecture & Visual Research
Activities:
- Continue Photoshop demo
- Visual Lecture: Interface Design Principles
- Print vs. digital design considerations
- Information architecture fundamentals
- Visual hierarchy in complex layouts
- Visual Research Workshop: create mood boards in InDesign using your research
- Research references, inspiration: Are.na Poster collection , Poster House exhibitions, Typo/Graphic Posters Archive
- Other resources like Are.na, Pinterest, Museum Collections, design blogs, etc.
- Apply grid systems to organize visual research
- Typography exploration for conference theme
- Color palette development
- Image treatment and layout techniques
- Working between Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
- Ticket to Leave
Homework:
- Complete Graphic Treatment, including visual research mood board, in InDesign, post to Draft 1 Graphic Treatment Section of your Figma file, due Monday, November 3 for both Groups A and B
- Project 2: Conference Poster Draft 1: Content strategy + 3 wireframe layout approaches due for your group's critique class
Group A: Draft 1 due Class 18, Nov 3;
Group B: Draft 1 due Class 19, Nov. 5.