Visual Language Course - By Otar Karalashvili
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The course is designed for anyone working in any field of visual creativity. Our course will provide you with a solid foundation for using visual signs more consciously and purposefully. At the same time, the aim of the course is to develop creative habits and expand your creative arsenal. Mastering the visual language will forever change your approach to visual expression, making your work more effective, powerful, and precise.
Otar Karalashvili
Book artist, illustrator, designer, curator, Invited Professor at the International School of Design, Georgian Technical University. Founder and director of the Book Art Center Tbilisi, Co-founder Diogene Publishers, one of the first independent publishing houses in Georgia, One of the organizers of the first Georgian children’s book and children’s book illustration contest, Initiator of founding the Georgian Publisher’s Association, Curator of the Georgian collective stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Professor of Graphic Design, Typography, Book Design, Children’s Book Illustration at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, the Tbilisi Free University, and the International Design School of the Georgian Technical University, Founder of Virgam Virtual Publishers – an informal creative student program which supported and supervised the creation of more than 100 picture books, photo books, and artist books by young book artists, illustrators and photographers, Founder of the Book Art Center Tbilisi – a non-governmental institution committed to the development of book art, book design, and book illustration in Georgia and internationally, For its contribution to Georgian children’s illustration, the Book Art Center Tbilisi was twice nominated from Georgia for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, Chief curator of the Tbilisi Book Days international festival for book art and design, Curator of numerous international exhibitions of children’s book Illustration, Founder of 1/16 – a monthly series of photo- and artbooks by prominent Georgian artists and photographers.
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Main Visual Element: Shape
- Characteristics of shape and their emotional impact. Elementary shapes
- Types of shapes. Construction and deconstruction of shape
- Simple and complex shapes. Shape reduction. Iconography and style
- Figure and background. Depiction and perception of shape. Gestalt principles
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How Composition Works
- Size, visual weight
- Placement: Horizontal, vertical, diagonal
- Structure of the plane. Points of attraction. Reading patterns
- Direction, movement
- Space and distance
- Elements of composition and their emotional impact
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Color Theory
- Color vision. Additive and subtractive color mixing
- Color wheel and color models
- Color parameters and their emotional impact
- Types of color contrast and types of color palettes
- Color proportions
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Rhythmic Structures
- Tempo and rhythm
- Counterpoint and dramaturgy
- How to build dynamic compositions through repeated visual elements
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Visual Hierarchy
- Information blocks. Grouping by distance and similarity
- Distance and space. Micro- and macro-space
- Stages of perception
- Hierarchical relationships
- Structural markers
- How to showcase logical, emotional, and hierarchical connections through the correct distribution of visual elements
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Contrast and Motivation
- The mechanism of visual perception
- Attention, motivation, information
- Internal and external contrast
- How to create interesting imagery through contrast. Methods
10 sessions (20 hours), September 22 to October 24 Mondays and Fridays, from 19:00 to 21:00.
Meeting dates: 22, 24*, 26, 29 September and 3, 6, 10, 13, 17, 22, 24, October
The course has no prerequisites and does not require prior preparation.
For payment arrangements, please contact us at: contact@di.ge