On Friday, March 8, I will not hold regular office hours due to a conflicting event. Please don’t hesitate to make an appointment with me here if you need to meet with me before spring break. Email me if you cannot find an appointment time that works for you.
Due: February 18 (two days before class) Please add your response as a comment below. You can review guidelines for the responses here.
The reading for week 6 reviews design principles such as pattern/repetition, movement, balance, unity, texture, line, shape, and more. For this sketchbook challenge, do some studies of principles by sketching thumbnail compositions to represent the design principles. The eraser works great for creating negative space if you are using a pencil, and a pen creates […]
Since there were so many great examples of mixed-media sketchbooks in the comments on Response 1, I thought it would be a good idea to challenge you this week to do some mixed-media sketches. By that I mean: try some sketchbook pages in which you incorporate other media, such as paints, watercolors, tape, collage effects, […]
Due: February 11 (two days before class) Please add your response as a comment below. You can review guidelines for the responses here.
In the Cullen reading for today, she talks about intuition as “the inner voice” and says that is separate from reason or learned knowledge. Intuition and learned knowledge “work in conjunction” (45), she writes, but goes on to say that “the inexperienced designer may doubt personal instincts” (45) and “reason will counter many gut reactions […]
Think of something you own or see in multiples during a typical day. For example: stuff you sit on. How many different versions (or designs) of the thing can you find? Fill a spread in your sketchbook with thumbnails of the objects.
Due: January 28 (two days before class) Please add your response as a comment below. You can review guidelines for the responses here. Directions for including an image(s) in your post An image or two is required to supplement, complicate, or demonstrate the point being made in your response. To include your image(s), you must […]
Please use this Google doc to sign up for your presentation date. You can review guidelines for presentations here.
I started a group Pinterest board that our class can use to Pin design-related ideas every week. I’d like to reserve time during class for you to Pin anything you’ve seen in the past week, and then each week a different table of 2 to 4 students will discuss their Pins. Nothing formal — just […]