Course: Studio 4

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Course title Studio 4
Course code KVU/GR4
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 12
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.
  • Kocman Bedřich, MgA. Mgr.
Course content
1. Semester assignment (set to encyclopedic entries, illustrations) and semestral project theme (graphic speech in public space) - a comprehensive project incl. of implementation. 2. Continuous correction term project. 3. Live images. 4. Photograms. 5. Drawing and painting. 6. Digital methods of image creation. 7. Relationship graphics and space. 8. Graphic object. 9. Promotion Project. 10. The shift scales, patterns, and reducing image scaling. 11. - 13. Using a scanner, copier, typewriter, a square network and large-format drawings. Assignment evaluation. Preparation for semestral project. During the semester, students will create two more semester tasks - a set of illustrations to encyclopedic entries, (digital art) and graphic speech in public space (including a comprehensive project implementation).

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture with practical applications, Project-based instruction, One-to-One tutorial, Skills demonstration, Task-based study method, Individual study, Lecture with visual aids, Practicum
  • Presentation preparation (report) (1-10) - 10 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 143 hours per semester
  • Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40) - 40 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 60 hours per semester
  • Individual project (40) - 40 hours per semester
  • Practical training (number of hours) - 20 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
of basic knowledge of typology and font making including its different qualities of further partial division of basic graphic techniques and their usage in making of conventional complex units (books, promotional materials, etc.) of common graphic procedures and their integration into own automated motoric processes to plan a project and divide it into several steps of professional terminology of materials and techniques of graphic art
Skills
of making drawing designs for graphic elaborating considering specifics based on the nature of the graphic technique and on a purpose and uniformed style of elaborated complex to use basic machines, tools and other equipment of graphic workshop including various chemical substances and materials for various types of printing of technical elaborating of matrix for the most of common graphic techniques of both mechanical and chemical nature of making uniformed style of simple complex unit based od asigned task from managing particular methodical steps and evaluating aesthetics and originality to realization of final author's product to reflect his work in historical and contemporary contexts and to be aware of potencial of those contexts for own original expression
Competences
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learning outcomes
Knowledge
of basic knowledge of typology and font making including its different qualities of further partial division of basic graphic techniques and their usage in making of conventional complex units and graphics as own artistic epression of common graphic and digital procedures and their integration into own automated motoric processes, of knowledge of several usages of graphc other than conventional to plan a project and divide it into several steps
Skills
of making drawing designs 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 use basic 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 of technical elaborating of matrix for the most of common graphic techniques of both mechanical and chemical nature of making uniformed style of simple complex unit based od asigned task from managing particular methodical steps and evaluating aesthetics and originality to realization of final author's product 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
Competences
N/A
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Students' portfolio
One-to-One tutorial
Seminar classes
Skills
Skills demonstration
Students' portfolio
Competences
Discussion
assessment methods
Knowledge
Continuous assessment
Seminar work
Skills
Skills demonstration during practicum
Project
Practical exam
Competences
Seminar work
Recommended literature
  • Současná česká grafika.
  • 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.
  • Čapek, Josef. Umění přírodních národů. Praha : Československý spisovatel, 1949.
  • Heller, Steven,; Wiedemann, Julius. 100 illustrators. Praha : Slovart, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7391-808-8.
  • Kneidl, P. Z historie evropské knihy.
  • Krejča, Aleš. Grafické techniky. 2. vyd. Praha : Aventinum, 1994. ISBN 80-7151-636-8.
  • Kritter, Ulrich von. Slawische Buchillustration im 20. Jahrhundert : Rußland, Polen, Tschechien, Slowakei. Köln : Bölau, 1998. ISBN 3-412-12497-4.
  • Larousse. Umění a lidstvo-Umění nové doby. Praha, 1974.
  • Meggs, Philip B. A history of graphic design. New York : John Wiley & Sons, 1998. ISBN 0-471-29198-6.
  • Pijoan, José. Dějiny umění. 1. Praha, 1998.
  • 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.
  • Schweitzer, Albert. Zastánce kritického myšlení a úcty k životu. 1. vyd. ve Vyšehradu. Praha : Vyšehrad, 1989. ISBN 80-7021-010-9.
  • Slánský, B. Technika malby. Paseka, 2005.
  • Smith, Lucie E. Movements in Art science.
  • Stehlíková, Blanka. Cesty české ilustrace v knize pro děti a mládež. 1. vyd. Praha : Albatros, 1984.
  • Wiedemann, Julius. Illustrations Now! : 96 illustrators from 13 countries. Hong Kong : Taschen, 2008. ISBN 978-3-8365-0509-3.


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