Art 582 - Grad Digital Design
Fall
2026
01
3.00
Jan Sabach
TU TH 8:30AM 11:15AM
UMass Amherst
20535
Studio Arts Bldg Room 247
jsabach@umass.edu
10579
Digital media is a key creative tool for artists and designers. Lectures, readings, and tutorials introduce students to contemporary design practice, including: digital typography, page design and layout, vector-based graphics, and design for the screen. Design projects range from purely textual, single and multi-page document design, to problems that require the successful integration of typography, image, and basic interaction. Students explore how context and form affect meaning and message through the creation of conceptual solutions. Assignments and exercises assist in developing fluency in creative problem-solving and visual communications using desktop publishing and computer graphics software.
This class is open to MA-Art and MFA-Art students only