This senior-level, social science course is intended to prepare students for professional and further educational opportunities after graduation. The student gains practical and critical, conceptual and theoretical skills. Topics include: project management, business formations, the fundamentals of proposals and contracts, intellectual property and the complexities of authorship, budgets and financial administration, the market planning process within the private and public sectors, and the social role of the artist or designer. Larger societal constructs are examined as well as assumptions about the nature of professional practice research and discourse. The goal is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to enter the cultural or design sectors with assurance, awareness and integrity. Through faculty and guest presentations, individual and group research projects, students learn to identify the ways in which the artists and designers respond to their cultural, social and economic context assurance, awareness and integrity.
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Dianne is passionate about design and business. She has extensive experience in corporate and retail industries, bringing strong leadership skills and deep knowledge of brand development, communications and marketing to a wide range of clients that include Barrick Gold, FoodSpect Technologies, Labatt Breweries, MEC, the Richard Ivey School of Business, Royal Bank of Canada, the Toronto Blue Jays, the Toronto General and Western Hospital Foundation, and the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre.
Dianne has worked with a number of award-winning design firms, agencies and in-house teams as Design Lead and Art Director. She has taught part-time at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and at York|Sheridan in the Bachelor of Design program. She is a professional member of the Graphic Designers of Canada (CGD), has served on the Board for the Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario (RGD) and the Examination Board for Registered Graphic Designers. She is a certified member of the Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) and an active member of the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild (VMQG).
Gabriel Wong is a graphic designer and educator. He is a second-generation Canadian from Edmonton, Alberta. He has worked as an independent design practitioner for over a decade.
His professional work focuses on the arts and international development, from working with contemporary dance companies to UNEP's CITES. His work has been recognized by Communication Arts and American Illustration and is included in Edmonton and Fort McMurray's Public Art Collection.
He received his Bachelor's in Visual Communication Design from the University of Alberta and Master's of Arts in Environmental Art from Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. He has also studied graphic design and comics (bande dessinée) at École Recherche Graphique in Brussels, Belgium.
He is interested in pedagogy, design and writing systems and international perspectives.
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