DESMA 144Type in Motion
Design|Media Arts · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Typographic vocabulary is expanded through the use of time-based composition, sound, and animation. The application of kinetic media enables motion, scale change, and sequence to typographic communication. By experiencing the rhythmic and expressive use of type in motion, investigation of varying type size, weight, spatial relationships, form and counter form, and movement within a word, while preserving typographic principles. Students are exposed to a more interpretive use of typography, which can be applied to a variety of applications such as film and television titles, commercials, information kiosks, interactive signage, websites, and presentations.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 21, 22, 24, 25, 28, and 101 or 104.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.