Printing & Graphic Design
Have you ever wondered how to transfer one of your favorite animation characters into stickers, magnets, or tote bags? Do you wonder what makes the dashboard glow in the car? Students with an interest in graphic design and printing may wonder how colors are printed on t-shirts or how a large-scale Star Wars vinyl wrap was applied to a building or bus?
This course will link a student's daily experience with tangible printing and graphic embellishments. By the end of this class, students will be comfortable designing for digital printing technologies, and will produce a laser cut LED lamp, notepads with varnish sleek foil stamp, a t-shirt, a canvas poster, a bag or hat, and buttons or stickers using their own designs. In this course, students will experience a wholistic experience of the design and reproduction workflow from ideation, prototyping, iteration, and production.
Learning Outcomes in this course
Learn to apply graphic design skills to digital illustration and page layout using Adobe Creative Cloud
Learn how to recognize print embellishment features in real world samples including packaging, publications, and mailing products
Create print-ready files that will comply with production standards and workflow of digital and off-set printing
Develop ways to make tangible printed products by evaluating how to market them to consumers and figure out what their end-use applications will be
When
Session One
June 30 - July 12, 2024
Tuition
On-Campus Residential
$5,298 USD
Proposed Activities
TBD
Instructor
Dr. Rachel Ma, Assistant Professor, Cal Poly SLO
Rachel Ma earned her Ph.D. in Paper and Printing Science from Western Michigan University. Her teaching and research interests include printing electronics, inks and substrates interactions, smart packaging, and packaging sustainability. She is an experienced researcher and skilled in polymer science, nano-materials, surface treatment and testing, material characterization, biocompatible film design and construction, additive manufacturing, digital printing, textile printing, and polymeric materials. She has Master of Paper and Printing Science from Xi'an University of Technology, China.
