New Media Design

Recommended Prerequisites

Design, Illustration, Web Design or similar courses.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical classes will serve to present and discuss case studies and to prepare practical projects.

Practical classes will serve for the definition, elaboration and development of projects, with feedback from teachers.

Learning Outcomes

This course articulates the multidisciplinary nature of the new communication, editorial and content production paradigms. New media enable the reconfiguration of the roles of editor and designer, and a melting of boundaries, turning the designer more active in the production of communicational contents. The course aims for the student to understand these new roles and practices, promoting the development of competencies to articulate and integrate the multidisciplinarities of photograohy, ilustration, animation and graphic design for the new media, creating new dynamic relations between them.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

a) inlustrated and interactive e-books

b) author and artist explorations of e-zines / pro-zines 

c) online magazines and newspapers 

d) interactive communication or promotional materials, e.g. booktrailers

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Alice Barriga Geirinhas dos Santos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 100.0%

Bibliography

BUCKMINSTER-FULLER, Richard. “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, URL: http://www.bfi.org/about-bucky/resources/books/operating-manual-spaceship-earth

MANOVICH, Lev. “The Language of New Media” 2000, Ed. MIT Press.

DRUCKER, Johanna. “The Virtual Codex From Page Space to E-Space” URL: http://www.philobiblon.com/drucker/

ELI, Michael Ben. “Sustainability The Five Core Principles, a new framework” New York, 2006. URL: http://www.bfi.org/design-science/definitions-and-resources/five-core-principles

GATTER, Mark. Getting it right in print. Lawrence King, 2006.

HARRAWAY, Donna, A Cyborg Manifesto, Routledge Press (Edu.) 1991. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html

MACLUHAN, Marshall. "The Laws of the Media. Macluhan Unbound". Ginko Press. 2005

PAPANEK, Victor. Design for The Real World. 1973, Bantam Books.

STEFFEN, Alex. GORE, Al (Foreword) World Changing: A Users Guide to The 21st Century. 2008, Abrams.

THACKARA, John. In the Bubble - Designing in a Complex Wo.