GDES-270 spring 2023 / David Ramos, American University Design
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Responsible design
Monday, February 27 / Thursday, March 02
Topics
- Illustrator tracing exercise (see tracing template [ZIP])
- Responsible design
Projects
- Continue work on objects
Reading
We’ll be discussing the reading in class on Thursday.
- Either First Things First 1964 (text version) or First Things First 2020
- Chappell Ellison, Can Designers Save the World Without Creating More Stuff?
- Read Dieter Rams’ ten principles (on Design Museum site)
I’ve also uploaded a video that walks through how to add a tracing image in Illustrator.
Tech demos
Type (~12 min. runtime)
Raster images (~6 min. runtime)