Course: Studio 11

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Course title Studio 11
Course code KVU/GR11
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 17
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Axmann Mikoláš, Prof. akad. mal.
Course content
1. Ways to store images - relief, template, chemistry, or digital mode. 2. Enter the first task - block B2 printing, painting and song writing techniques venal graphic coloring. 3. - 6. Consultation semester assignment, coloring, large format printing, unique piece. 7. Entering the second semester assignment - poster B1 in the combined techniques such as serigraphy and the lino, the content is a literary theme. 8. - 13. Consultation semester assignment, combined techniques, seal, watermark. Assignment evaluation. In this semester, students individually choose one of four positions on the matrix, preserving the image - either relief, or template, chemical way or digital way. Then implement the processing method chosen (historical - traditional or current - the current technology), combining traditional and "buried" position graphic expression to tendencies today.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture with practical applications, Project-based instruction, Students' portfolio, Skills demonstration, Task-based study method, Lecture with visual aids, Practicum
  • Contact hours - 208 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 60 hours per semester
  • Presentation preparation (report) (1-10) - 10 hours per semester
  • Practical training (number of hours) - 85 hours per semester
  • Individual project (40) - 40 hours per semester
  • Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40) - 40 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to recall knowledge about a wider range of advanced graphic assets (font, image, shape, color, etc.), about their possible reciprocal compositional relationships and their usage for printing and graphical methods and procedures, to work with typology and font making including its different qualities and to choose it based on a purpose, to use knowledge about visual and artistic means suitable for graphic techniques and their usage in making of conventional complex units and graphics as own artistic expression, to interpret own knowlidge about historical and contemporary style canons and their possible conections, to use the suitable ways of mechanism of communication with the client to determine his/her requirements, to critically assess his/her own work in a discipline context, to plan a project in the production team dealing with complex tasks, about ways to justify and defend your own design activity in relation to other members of the production team, to plan a complex project and divide it into several steps, finding and alteration of those steps and finding the best solution both in proces and product of the work, of advanced graphic and digital procedures and their integration into own automated motoric processes, of knowledge of usages of graphic other than conventional and options they have for own creative action bot on small and large scale, to reproduce knowledge about technological procedures of different supporting and technical disciplines, of possibilities of cooperation with particular disciplines, the knowledge of possibilities and function of other disciplines on a level of educated estimation of their real possibilities for own work, to reproduce theoretical knowledge of function and specifics of PC softwares fo graphic designing and artistic and production technologies, of technical differences and advantages of particula alternatives for different instances,
Skills
of making drawing designs of higher noticeable value for graphic elaborating considering specifics based on the nature of the graphic technique and its overlap to other graphic and illustratition forms and their combination, to propose surface stylization of visually processed topics and their integration into a graphically effective composition related to own wide united graphic style, to make this style corresponding with enviroment, where should be the graphic style functional, to professionally use machines, tools and other equipment of graphic workshop including various chemical substances and materials for various types of printing and combine them with digital tools, to handle technology of large scale printing and perserving matrix for those prints, to choose the appropriate technology for producing the final product based on its usage, to reflect its work in the context of professional, technical and technological processes, to submit his proposal and selection to the contracting authority and justify it in the respect to the task and his/her requirements, to critically assess his/her own work in the field context and style framework, to select the most suitable variant of the final graphic project and create complex design documentation, to choose appropriate forms of presentation and promotion of graphic project related to targeted group of specatotors, with erudition, to present his work to the professional community, to be able to accept and assert in a way the evaluation and critical response, to be fully involved in the activities of the production team dealing with complex tasks, to explain and defend his/her choice from other members of the production team, producents, commissioners and spectators, to be able to accept and assert in a way the evaluation and critical response and to flexibly react to it, to individually choose a sphere of interest and problematics, which he/ she will deal with and graphically solve, to search for application of own work in practice and to participate in contest and exhibitions,
Competences
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learning outcomes
Knowledge
about possibilities of inspiration and creation initiated by own innovative intention and a generally assigned task in a form of author graphical series aimed as testimony of authors profile and as searching for individual photographic language about planning a complex and technically difficult project of artistic and praphic character about planing and managing work and specialized procedures and their innovation, about possibilities to prove own crafting and artistic skills, about planning a comple and echnically difficult project of united visual style for specific purpose, about time and work management related to given deadlines, of advanced graphic and digital procedures and their integration into own automated motoric processes, of knowledge of usages of graphics other than conventionally and options they have for own creative action on small and large scale and on the display, about the possibilities and limits of involvement in interdisciplinary cooperation on graphic design projects in more difficult complexes, about a wider range of advanced graphic assets, about their possible reciprocal compositional relationships and their usage in conventional and experimental way, about creating own individual style based on both techniques and motives, of professional terminology of materials and techniques of graphic art and to use it fluently in communication about creative process,
Skills
to individually plan and realise more difficult graphical project including drawing designs of higher noticeable value for graphic elaborating considering specifics based on the nature of the graphic technique and its overlap to other graphic, digital and illustratition forms and their combination, in generally assigned task to find own view and approach leading to individual style, to critically assess his/her own work in the field context and style framework, to work with several varied alternatives and variations, to choose most suitable design based on specific requirements of each project, to select the most suitable variant of the final graphic project and create complex design documentation, choose the appropriate technology for producing the final product, of technical elaborating of matrix of different sizes for the conventional and unconventional graphic techniques of both mechanical and chemical nature, to use the most appropriate way to preserve the image matrix and process historical or current way, to prove own professional artistic and crafting skill, to make effort to find various solutions to given problem, to maintain originality of own design and to own advancement aiming to distinctie artistic and graphic expression, to be able to accept and assert in a way the evaluation and critical response, to reflect own work in the context of professional, technical and technological processes, to reflect his work in historical and contemporary contexts and to be aware of potencial of those contexts for own original expression and inspirational sources which work with this reality, to have an overview and to show interest in project, real and potencional, in a field of student work, to search for suitable opportunities and to take part in competitions, to recall the appropriate forms of presentation and promotion of the prototype/project based on the type of customer or viewer, to transfer meant visual into suitable graphic techniques in a form of given techniques or artistic experiment leading to positive progress of own individual style,
Competences
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teaching methods
Knowledge
Students' portfolio
One-to-One tutorial
Seminar classes
Skills
Skills demonstration
Students' portfolio
Competences
Discussion
assessment methods
Knowledge
Seminar work
Continuous assessment
Skills
Skills demonstration during practicum
Project
Practical exam
Competences
Seminar work
Recommended literature
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  • Bohatcová, Mirjam. Česká kniha v proměnách staletí. 1. vyd. Praha : Panorama, 1990. ISBN 80-7038-131-0.
  • Bowlt, John E.; Hernad, Béatrice. Aus vollem Halse : Russische Buchillustration und Typographie 1900-1930. Aus den Sammlungen der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München. 1. Dezember 1993 - 29. Januar 1994. München : Prestel, 1993. ISBN 3-7913-1289-8.
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  • Heller, Steven,; Wiedemann, Julius. 100 illustrators. Praha : Slovart, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7391-808-8.
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  • Reynek, Bohuslav; Quinn, Justin,; Putna, Martin C.,; Šerých, Jiří. The well at morning : selected poems and graphic artworks, 1925-1971. First English edition. 2017. ISBN 978-80-246-3425-8.
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  • Štech, V. V. Rembrandt Kresby a Grafika.
  • Wiedemann, Julius. Illustrations Now! : 96 illustrators from 13 countries. Hong Kong : Taschen, 2008. ISBN 978-3-8365-0509-3.
  • Zahálka, F. Přehled knihtisku.


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