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This course focuses on fundamental design elements and principles such as harmony, contrast, balance, unity, dilemma, dominance, repetition, rhythm, analogy, metaphor. It also includes the colour theory and its application to design. Students are also introduced to the Euclidean geometry,  composition of shapes, forms and shapes with the emphasis on their visual expression such as light, colour, texture, gestalt principles of perception, figure-ground relations,  orientation, formal transformations, interdependence and relationships; studies on ordering systems; introduction of abstract/real concepts in a design. The aim of the course is to motivate creativity, hand-eye coordination, and artistic perception by focusing on the basics of design elements and design principles for graphic design students.

Preparing a magazine and a series of book design with using one or all of the media and multimedia techniques such as illustration, photography, and typography. Studies on the realization of graphic projects. Students in this course will tackle advanced-level layout projects that push their design skills to the limit. Students will learn how to build strong foundations for the page design, explore creative applications for lines and shapes, and discover how to break the rules while maintaining the underlying structure of a page. Case studies will analyze carefully selected examples of layout designs considered to be classics of graphic print design. 

Students in Graphic design are required to complete a major graduating project, this course will prepare them to find their area of interest and develop their theoretical premise, the problem / issue, the program and the parameters of their project. Students must complete a draft of the Graduate project proposal by the end of these semester. The proposal should state and define the area of their inquiry, the project’s rationale, objectives, and methods to be followed during the project. In this course, they will learn how to write academically without plagiarism while they will get to know different styles of writings and research. This course will be the base of their graduation project and the graphic design solution.

Students of the Department of Graphic Design are expected to present a project in detail by using the knowledge and skills that they had gained through their education and by keeping the basic principles of graphical design in mind. The main goal is to provide a designer identity to the senior students of the department before their approaching graduation. The students focus on local design problems as festivals of Cyprus, museums, social campaigns and so on. After detecting the local issues, campaigns begin to develop in terms of global design criteria. During the course, students develop their project as an advertising campaign. After giving the identity to the project, they run the necessary research. After determining the target audience students organize the campaign…