FI:PV123 Visual communication - Course Information
PV123 Elements of visual communication
Faculty of InformaticsSpring 2007
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Vítězslav Švalbach (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. Ing. Jiří Sochor, CSc.
Department of Visual Computing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Vítězslav Švalbach - Timetable
- Wed 14:00–15:50 D2
- Prerequisites
- ! P123 Visual communication
Recomendation: Following Studies - Calligraphy I., Typography I., Graphic Desing I - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Applied Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
- Applied Informatics (programme FI, N-AP)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-BI)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-FY)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GE)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GK)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-CH)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-IO)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-MA)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-SO)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-TV)
- Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
- Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
- Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-TV)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, N-SS)
- Information Technology (programme FI, B-IN)
- Course objectives (in Czech)
- Předmět Základy vizuální komunikace tvoří předpoklad pro následné studium předmětů Typografie, Grafický design a Písmo, je jejich teoretickou částí. Seznamuje s historií a teorií těchto oborů. Bez jeho úspěšného absolvování si nelze zapsat jmenované předměty.
- Syllabus
- Introduction - The Subject of Visual Communication
- Parallel Communication
- Writting Systems (terminology) , The Influence of a Tool, Material, Thinking and Environment on the Shape of a Written Sign
- History of Script . Four Phases of the Development of a Script, Famous Script Writters and Famous Scripts Throughout the History and Present Time
- Classification of Scripts: Czech, Europian, American
- Choosing a Skript According to an Assigment. Possible and Impossible Combination of Different Scripts
- Kerning of Characters and Leading of a Small Letters. Rules to create of a Written Unit
- Typography as an Confirmatory Aid of Communication . Legibility, Proportion of an Area , Golden Section, Standardized Format, Optical Center. Symmetry and Asymmetry. Contrast and Rhytm
- Levels of a Letter Size
- The Combination of Four Basic Typographic Elements: Script, Line, Column. The Division into the Logical and Optical Units.
- Tendencies in Typography, History of Typography. Significant Personalities.
- Book and Book Edition; Development, Terminology and Anatomy.
- Graphic Information Systems. Piktogram, Ideogram, Media, Rasters.
- Signs and Logotype, Rules of Creation and Classification; Codification.
- Compact Visual Style. Image. Graphic Manuals.
- Basics of Polygraphy.
- Literature
- BLAŽEJ, Bohuslav. Grafická úprava tiskovin : pro IV. ročník střední průmyslové školy grafické (studijní obor polygrafie). 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1990, 191 s. ISBN 8004232019. info
- HLAVSA, Oldřich. Typographia : písmo, ilustrace, kniha. Praha: SNTL - Nakladatelství technické literatury, 1976. info
- HLAVSA, Oldřich. Typografická písma latinková. 2. dopl. a upr. vyd. Praha: Státní nakladatelství technické literatury, 1960, 494 s. URL info
- MUZIKA, František. Krásné písmo ve vývoji latinky. I. vydání. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury, hudby a umění, 1958, 656 stran. info
- MUZIKA, František. Krásné písmo ve vývoji latinky. I. vydání. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury, hudby a umění, 1958, 657 stran. info
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Přednáška. Kolokvium.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- PV066 Typography I
PV123&&SOUHLAS - PV078 Graphic Design I
PV123&&SOUHLAS - PV084 Type Design I
PV123&&SOUHLAS - VV033 Photography - Working with Light and Surface
(PV123||VV042||PV156)&&SOUHLAS
- PV066 Typography I
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2007, recent)
- Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/spring2007/PV123