Abstract:

“Basic Design Education” is the foundation stone of visual arts education. The most efficient way of raising educated creative people takes place within the basic art classes using programs, methods, application variables and objectives.

When you examine the works which are produced during basic art education, you can see unlimited diversity and imagination. In this context, it is very important to apply education in a right manner and with superior quality.

In Basic Art Education, design power and handwork of the student is very important. But it is also inevitable and mandatory to use fast expanding and always growing technological means. That’s why the students have to benefit from technological advances to reach their goals in a more practical way and to see application diversity.

In this point, innovations and improvements provided by technology have to be adapted to educational system, in order to create technically potent, modern, creative artists who are suitable for contemporary art and design. Designing with computers helps people to reach their target quicker. Digital environment, which offers unlimited trial opportunities without the fear of making errors, increases the motivation and self confidence of the students.

Digital medium must especially be integrated with basic art education classes. To achieve this, students are educated to use programs like Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia FreeHand, Adobe Illustrator until an intermediate level. This study contains studies which are practiced with students from Integrated School for Handicapped for the Basic Art Design in Digital Medium lesson.

Keywords:

Basic Design.