NM2403 - Information and Publication Design for Digital Media

Credit points:	03
Year:	2008
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Creative Arts

Available to all students

This subject focuses on design considerations linked to effective communication through enhanced understanding of reader and user responses to written and visual material. Emphasis is upon developing design skills, which enable data and information to be readily communicable to the user as well as accessible and comprehensible. Principles of language, structure, diagrammatic representation and visuality will be examined whilst underlying effective publication will be appraised including issues of typography, layout, sequencing, text, image, and graphic integration.

Learning Outcomes

• a comprehensive understanding of the behavioural responses of a user to written and visual material depicted within digital media;
• ability to identify the relevant and appropriate combination of characteristics to inform the design of digital media product;
• ability to assess the effectiveness and utility of a range of graphic design material prepared for digital media;
• ability to apply graphic design principles to enhance the integration of image, text, graphic and sound to support comprehension and utility of digital media.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

NM3403

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 04-Apr-2008
Coordinator:	Mr Mitch Goodwin
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures 26 hours workshops/Seminars
Assessment:	end of semester exam (20%); portfolio development and viva (30%); product review (30%); workshop practice (20%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.