Personal Transformation
Purpose
Make a 3D piece of art that is wearable. The designers must be able to wear the piece themselves, during the period of critique. The wearable must transform the person from a body, into something else. The wearable must be based off of research of other wearable types of things.
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Building Community
Purpose
To create an individual structure through an architectural form that achieves a communal environment by connecting to others.
Objectives
To research architectural space in terms of form, function and fantasy.
To develop concepts through drawings which are about internal space, external form, and about location.
To produce a model using technical processes and formal concepts learned in the previous projects.
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A Cubic Foot of Space
Purpose
You will create a 12"x12"x12" cube and design the interior to be visually interesting. Address every area of the space. In 2D design we designed the picture plane, filling in the space, using Gestalt principles to create illusions within a square. For this assignment you need to design the 3D space, using the elements from a common board game. What will the shapes do in the space? Transform, overlap, melt, tear, what is gravity’s effect, is there movement, what direction is the shape going? Using the principle of grouping, closure and proximity, each tiny point will be placed intentionally to create these larger shapes/volumes.
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Project #2: Eggs in Space
Purpose
Develop and make a 3D design that possesses aerodynamic form and design elements that enable it to carry an egg safely to the ground from the third floor level of the music building and it must include impact engineering. The egg must not break. The form must be original in concept.
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Project #1: Line and Space
Purpose
To create 2 designs based on a shoe that you are wearing. The first will be created through contour drawing; the second will be created physically, using wire to construct a three-dimensional line based form.
Objectives
• To heighten visual and spatial awareness
• To compare, contrast, and connect linear notation in two and three dimensions
• To explore the transformation of an everyday object into a piece of art
• To learn basic construction skills.
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Art 210 - 3 credit hours
Tuesday + Thursday 10:30am–1:20pm
Course Description
This course covers the fundamentals of three-dimensional (spacial) composition. Exercises move from the study of elementary forms to more complex configurations and conceptual problem solving using various mediums.
Objectives
1.) to explore composition and color using the design principles
3.) to develop sensitivities to 3-D spatial relationships
4.) to refine students visual + verbal vocabulary
5.) to acquire the ability to create dynamic 3-D compositions
Topics
Ways of approaching the 3-D structure
Principles of Organization
Visual Elements
Object Relationships
Aspects of Gestalt
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