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Alex Hass

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Bio

Alex Hass is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer and instructor. Her creative practice explores the tensions and overlaps that exist between nature and technology, visually amplifying the moments when this hybrid creates fresh insights and experiences for the viewer. Her design practice encompasses art direction, brand and book design and image creation. Alex studied illustration and art direction at the Alberta College of Art and Design, received her design degree in Visual Communication from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University and her Masters in Applied Art, Media from ECU. She has taugh tdesign at ECU, SFU and BCIT.

24/25 Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Professional Practices PROF 311 26/SP

Description

This professional practice course prepares students for further professional and educational opportunities. Students gain 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 contexts.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Communication Design COMD 303 26/SP

Description

This advanced studio course examines the role of the designer as art director. Students are introduced to the visual elements of art direction as well as the conceptual processes of creating visual imagery for specific communication objectives that use the elements and principles of communication design as their scaffold. By working through the key stages of a professional art direction project, students plan, generate and edit imagery for concepts which represent an interpretation of a client brief. Course content involves the use of photography, typography, graphics, and illustration as design elements.

This course is subject to priority rules; see here.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Communication Design COMD 403 26/SP

Description

This senior-level studio course provides a thorough grounding for students to express their design ideas from the development of concepts through to the finished product using art directorial imaging processes, and layout and storyboarding techniques. The relationships between concept, audience, form and communication objectives are explored in depth as well as the place of images and imaging in the wider context of social relations and popular culture. Students can choose to prepare a portfolio of images related to their graduation project or to initiate a new creative direction in their design work.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Foundation Studio Courses FNDT 108 26/SP

Description

This course explores creative process, the realms of imagination, and art and design practices within a social, cultural and personal context. Various media and methods of practice will be introduced. Group projects, individual assignments, critiques, discussions, research and studio sessions will provide students an opportunity to work through issues and ideas in producing as well as reading and viewing art.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.