Detailed schedule

Intro

In class

• Intros (via Miro board)
• About this course

Projects

• Start Mapping/tour

Framing

Reading

In this course, finish the assigned reading by Tuesday (§001) or Wednesday (§003).

• DIS (Design is Storytelling): Action, Hero’s Journey, Storyboard (if you haven’t gotten the textbook, yet, do this when you get the book)
• First Things First 2020
• Chappell Ellison, Can Designers Save the World Without Creating More Stuff?
• Dear Data excerpts (on Blackboard §001/§003 )

Projects

• Finish your initial map from part 3 of Mapping/tour, by the start of class on Tuesday (§001) or Wednesday (§003). Upload an image to Miro (see Blackboard §001/§003 for link).
• Look over everyone else’s initial maps.
• Continue work on Mapping/tour. (Each week, be working steadily on current projects.)

Course survey

Fill out an eight-question survey.

The § symbol means “section.”

Followups from class

• How to Crit

Typography

In class

Demo text (txt)

Reading

• Sign up for Figma (free) and try out Figma features while watching intro videos: What’s Figma?, Tour of the Editor, Shape Tools, Pen Tool, and Color Picker
• DIS: Emoji, Sensation, Multisensory

You’ll use these tools in the next project.

Projects

• Final critique for Mapping/tour. (Tue §002, Wed §003.) Turn in on Blackboard, and upload an image to the same Miro board as last week.
• Start Type flyer

Illustrator background

If you’re working in Illustrator and you’d prefer more background, watch the Illustrator tutorial on LinkedIn Learning. (Sign in to LinkedIn Learning using your AU credentials.)

Visual

In class

• Visual/verbal exercise (PDF)

Reading

• Matthew Butterick, Typography 2020: a special listicle for America
• Ellen Lupton, Thinking with Type, Letter (size, scale, type classficiations, type families, caps and small caps, and mixing types) and Text (tracking, line spacing, and alignment)

Projects

• Critique for Type flyer

We may critique projects in any class. Always be prepared to present your work as it stands.

Color

Reading

• DIS: Color and emotion
• DIS: Emotional Journey
• Improve Your Designs With The Principles Of Closure And Figure-Ground at Smashing Magazine
• Axios, The 2020 campaign gets colorful (one-minute read about colors in 2020 presidential campaign materials)

Projects

• Turn in Type flyer (due by start of class)
• Start Graphic translation.
• Start Designer series

In-class color exercise

Part I/II: Design palettes that respond to each of these prompts: energetic, resolute, natural, and calm.

Part III: Create a color palette for a food truck affiliated with Woodberry Kitchen and Artifact Coffee.

Studio

In class

• Drawing demo
• Small-group critiques and problem-solving. Sign up for a group timeslot: Section 001 Tue/Fri / Section 003 Wed. (If you cannot make any of the available times, we can meet outside of class.)

Reading

• DIS: Persona, Affordance
• 99% Invisible, Ubiquitous Icons (listen to podcast episode or read transcript, and review images in article)
• Work through the Bézier Game, which will help you gain control of the pen tool and drawing curves.

Projects

• For Graphic translation: Choose an object from the list, sketch it to select an orientation, and make initial versions of your line, solid, and tone drawings using Figma or Illustrator.

Experiments

Reading

• DIS: Multisensory, Behavioral Economics
• Victor Papanek and James Hennessey, How Things Don’t Work, Ch. 6: “No Roast Tonight—the Lights on My Carving Knife Need Realignment” (on Blackboard §001/§003 )

Projects

• Turn in Graphic translation (due by start of class)
• Start Packaging

Sustainable design

Projects

• Finish part 1 of Packaging, and upload images/text/sketches to Miro

Reading

• Watch William McDonough’s Cradle to cradle design TED Talk, or read transcript
• New York Times, Stickers, Highlighters and Other Ways States Hope to Save Mail Votes: design changes to help voters return ballots correctly
• Bicycling, When This Bike Company Put a TV on its Box, Shipping Damages Went Way Down
• New York Times, Why Biodegradable Isn’t What You Think

Learning from nature

Reading

• Ellen Lupton, Design It Yourself: Gifts, Business Cards
• Look through six projects at Cooper Hewitt National Design Triennial: Nature
• Optional: The world is poorly designed. But copying nature helps. by Vox/99 Percent Invisible (6:49 video)
• Optional: Yevette Perullo, The Wicked World of Packaging, with background on packaging issues and a few compact case studies

Projects

• Show phase 2 of Packaging

Brand identity

In class

Small-group critiques. Sign up for a group timeslot: Section 001 Tue/Fri / Section 003 Wed.

Reading

• Twenty Thousand Hertz, Ta-dum! It’s Netflix (listen to episode or read transcript)
• Read Dieter Rams’ ten principles (on Design Museum site)

Projects

• Show phase 3 of Packaging

Case study

For Section 001 (Tue/Fri): We will not be holding class on Tuesday, November 3rd, which is Election Day in the U.S. You’re welcome to join an optional class on Friday the 6th, at our usual time and space.

Reading

• Dezeen: OlssønBarbieri makes minimalist chocolate packaging for CF18 Chocolatier

Projects

• Show phase 4 of Packaging

Posters

Reading

• DIS: Design Fiction
• Bill McKibben, Hello from the Year 2050

Projects

• Turn in final Packaging (due by start of class)
• Start Issue poster

Type + image

Projects

• For poster, have an idea and show sketches.

Reading

• Billy Fleming, Design and the Green New Deal in Places Journal
• Bonnie Siegler, Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America
• Optional: Andrew Shea, Designing for Social Change: Project Winterfood, Vendor Power

Optional critiques

Optional critiques for Section 001 (Tue/Fri). No class for Section 003 (Wed).

Reading

• The Correspondent, How maps in the media make us more negative about migrants

Data visualization / Semifinal critique

Reading

• Alberto Cairo, How Charts Lie
• 99% Invisible, Mexico 68

Projects

• Share Designer series