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Course Name	Turkish	Görsel İletişim
	English	Visual Communication I
Course Code	TES 112E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	4	2	2
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Saniye Feyza Ergün
Course Objectives		TES112E Visual Communication 1 course aims to increase the interaction and coordination between the mind and hand. It will be the vital tool to develop and improve your design ideas. Communicating is via sketches, perspectives, use of images, renderings, texts; communicating will work for two partners: allows you to see; and for other people to whom you want to describe your ideas. The studio will concentrate on introducing you to the media and give you critical experience on how to use it effectively: you will sketch to externalize ideas, draw to map and represent, and then produce and re-produce these productions into eloquent graphics. This semester will provide a solid, heartfelt, and hand-felt foundation of various techniques and approaches to both visualization and representation, of ideas, processes, and relationships. Hence, the course forms a basis for your future development as a planner and designer. Besides visualization and communication of ideas, two major issues to be covered are “graphics” and “technical drawing”. You will be introduced to the fundamental concepts of graphics – the issues related to the performance of the various elements of a visual or artboard. Technical Drawing on the other hand will allow you to develop your skills in 3D thinking, handling an object in its physicality and in Cartesian space, and effectively mapping formal properties. This will be a fundamental basis for you to understand and communicate – in an architectural manner – various archetypal forms in context and in scale.
Course Description		In this course, starting from basic elements of design which are Line, form, color, texture, shade, basic and complex geometries various graphical and technical representation techniques will be executed. As this course is a foundation course which aims to improve visualization and technical drawing skills, it is expected from students to draw sketches through the semester in addition to the weekly studio works. Dimensions and scale, isometric and artistic perspective, visualization, basic graphical elements; composition, collage are subjects of this semester. Added to the principles and techniques of Projection, Sections Elevations, Markers and Symbols, Drawing of Structural Elements by hand and representation techniques will be introduced. This course includes several studio exercises and 10 studies to submit and builds a relation with the project studio work. The assessment of each studio exercises is executed separately. Additional to the studio studies, there will be a general technical drawing exam across all Sections in the 13th week (Dec.16) of the course calendar. It will comprise 10% of the course grade.
Course Outcomes		Students who complete the course satisfactorily will be able to: 1) Understand the basic elements of design, theories and systems of color, 2) Use colored, fast drawing techniques; prepare effective presentations, 3) Express ideas, scenarios, concepts graphically, 4) Use 2D and 3D rendering technologies and tool, 5) Create freehand sketching and lettering, 6) Learn the concept of scale, give dimensions on the drawings, 7) Learn the principles of projection, sketch the orthographic views of structural and contextual elements. 8) Apply necessary markings and symbols on drawings.
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