Resources
Required Readings
Week 11
- Speculative Everything (Chapter 1 and 2) — Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby, 2013
- The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction — Ursula K. Le Guin, 1986
Week 6
- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
Week 1
- Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production by Johanna Drucker (for week 1 read the introduction only: pdf pages 1 - 63)
AI Image Generation Tools
- OpenAI (GPT Image)
- Google Imagen / Gemini
(Nano Banana) - Midjourney (v6/v7)
- Flux (Flux Schnell / Flux Pro)
- Ideogram (v2/3)
- Leonardo AI (Phoenix)
- Adobe Firefly (Image 3+)
- Runway (Gen-4 image)
- Bing Image Creator (DALL·E-based)
Supplemental Reading Materials (Optional)
- Digital Design Theory: Readings from the Field, Edited by Helen Armstrong (ed.) - buy on Amazon
- Digital Design: A History -
Stephen J. Eskilson
- buy on Amazon
Software, Tools, Apps
- Adobe Creative Cloud for Students - Free for Roski students (email me with questions)
- Claude - Premium LLM
- ChatGPT - LLM
- Gemini (student offer - Pro 1 year free) - Multimodal LLM
- Natural Reader App - this is an app that uses AI TTS (text-to-speech) to read documents out loud. The voices are very natural and you can follow along on each page in the app. It’s currently the best option for this service that I’ve tried. It is free to download, but you’ll need to upgrade to a paid subscription to read longer texts ($20/mo).