ERIC BAYLIS

For owners and managers of small businesses. Analysis of personal qualifications, forms of ownership, sources of information, financing, planning, legal problems, record keeping, advertising, insurance, sales promotions, credit, public relations, and current aids to successful management... This course focuses on the history and evolution of graphic communications from prehistoric pictographs to present day graphic design. Topics include the invention of writing and the creation of alphabets. Other topics include world influences on print and aesthetic design, and an understanding of the stylistic, social, political, economic, and historical events as related to communication and graphic design. The emphasis is on art movements, schools of thought, influential individuals, and technology as they interrelate with the history of graphic arts. Historical topics are applied to photography, print media graphics, and motion graphics. Field trips to museums and guest speakers will be..