Communication Design studio
Communication Design Studio
In this studio students learned visual language, design principles, and design thinking methods while exploring contemporary issues around how designers impact the world around us, from commercial design to social awareness campaigns.Each student then created a launch event that would require a family of marketing materials (Poster, instagram stories graphic, and a faux Website landing page) using combinations of Indesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
Taught by Tom Chan
Tom Chan is a Design Thinker, Product Designer, and Educator working in Vancouver on the unceeded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.He approaches problem solving from a place of curiosity, relentlessly testing his own mental model. This ensures that he is able to adequately understand the challenge at hand; gain deep empathy with users; build sustainable solutions; and foresee how that will impact the broader community.While his craft spans Graphic Design and User Experience Design, the approach is typically the same, putting humans at the centre of the experience.