This 3-credit hour studio course provides the opportunity for you to apply your design abilities to complex projects using independently derived processes and methodologies. You will be expected to develop content for explicit contexts focusing on the resultant appropriate relationships to scale, format, and media. Prerequisites: ART 115 and 116, or permission of instructor.
This course was created to provide you with a dedicated space for self-investigation, allowing you to pursue specific areas of inquiry of, and/or using, the design discipline. Context & Process provides a physical structure and conceptual support for the development of autonomous design processes that will continue to support you in your career as a designer/artist. You are expected to build upon the ideas, themes, and processes presented in order to develop a substantial series, system, campaign, or other body of work. You will have the opportunity to integrate design theory into the work, employ idiosyncratic and narrative approaches, and explore the idea of graphic-designer-as-author. You are encouraged to incorporate your studio practice and philosophy into your design work and will be expected to demonstrate a range of communicative skills (written, oral and visual) for the resolution and presentation of design concepts, and your work.
Conceptually, this course will enable you to:
- Focus on autonomous design practices
- Explore your relationship to design
- Develop individual design methodologies
- Integrate observation, curiosity, and analysis into custom design methodologies
Formally, this course will enable you to:
- Develop an identifiable (visual and/or conceptual) voice
- Work in 2D, 3D, and/or 4D media in order to realize your concepts
- Make use of the concepts of experimentation and play in your work
- Recognize cause and effect in your work from motivation to interpretation
- Refine compositional skills through cycles of iteration, critique, and editing
Technically, this course will enable you to:
- Develop effective large-project management skills
- Establish systems for the organization and analysis of your work
- Broaden your appreciation of the role of materials and tools in design and production
- Explore techniques for the presentation and explanation of design solutions
