Design to Communicate
For a meaningful design
A course by Leire y Eduardo , Professors of Graphic Design
About the video: For a meaningful design
Overview
“In this first lesson, we analyze the significant resources (iconographic, typographical, chromatic and rhetorical) that shape a selection of icon-graphic-type signs. ”
In this video lesson Leire y Eduardo addresses the topic: For a meaningful design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design to Communicate. Learn to master visual rhetoric.
Partial transcription of the video
“Hi. In this unit, we will expose our consideration of the design of a graphic sign, how can a book cover be, a graphic identity brand or poster as the approach of a visual discourse. In this lesson we will see the workspace of graphic design as a place of fusion of significant purposes. Lets go see it. To begin we feel the need to define the term design with the aim of reducing ambiguity or polysemy that this term has acquired in our society and that is applied vaguely and generically in all those circumstances in which it is assumed that something has been projected and thought about doing...”
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Course summary for: Design to Communicate
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Art Direction, Communication, Creativity, Design, Graphic Design, Information Design
Leire y Eduardo
A course by Leire y Eduardo
Leire Fernández has a doctorate in fine arts and is a professor of graphic design at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Among her subjects, she specializes in editorial design, visual identity, and design professionalization and management.
Eduardo Herrera has a doctorate in fine arts and is a professor of graphic design at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Among his subjects, he specializes in editorial design, typography, and visual identity.
Together they co-direct the graphic design and typography research group Letraz at the UPV/EHU. Both have published multiple books, most notably Diseño de cubiertas de libros: Recursos de retórica visual (Editorial Síntesis), Un proceso creativo en el diseño gráfico de carteles (Servicio Editorial - UPV/EHU), and Historias que marcan: Origen y significado de 50 marcas gráficas (Editorial GG).
Throughout their careers, they've collaborated on graphic design projects in a variety of fields, mainly in publishing, typography, poster design, and corporate visual identity, which have earned them awards such as the Klap Platinum award for the best font design, the Anuaria de Oro for the best design of an editorial publication, the Juan de Yciar Award for editorial quality, and the Letra de Plata in visual and graphic communication for the best coverage of an event.
They also organize and teach numerous courses, workshops, and conferences, including the Taller de Diseño Gráfico de los Cursos de Verano at the UPV/EHU in San Sebastián, as well as the Congreso de Diseño Gráfico and the Jornadas de Caligrafía in Arantzazu.
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