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Final Daze

Reminder:
Theory final “paper” due December 10
At least 1000 words; no more than 2000.
Using Design Observer’s postings as a model, theorize a current design condition. Hopefully some issue discussed in class or a reading has provoked your thoughts, but, since you need to theorize your thesis project, this might provide a great opportunity to do so.

Reading:
For December 10, Andrew Blauvelt’s Towards a Complex Simplicity. You can download it.
Please contribute an example of design work that illustrates the concept of design that Blauvelt is describing. Send those to me as jpgs (72dpi approx. 640 x 480 pixels) by 1pm Monday. I’ll make a slide show and add them to the blog.

Field trips this Wednesday:
Info to come on parking for both trips. But we’ll meet in Metro lobby at 10:25am.
Any lunch suggestions?

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Theory I F09 Course Description

  • This course will offer (more or less) a survey representing a spectrum of design theory’s influential texts. These represent the evolving theoretical ideas produced through modernity in varying contexts that have motivated works of graphic design, typography, and book design. The readings beginning in the mid-nineteenth century at the height of the industrial revolution when graphic design as an autonomous field develops and continue into the early 21st century information age. Collectively these texts represent a leap-frogging between “tradition” and “modernity,” finally arriving at post-modernism and the debates and challenges to all previous models.

    As a class we’ll consider these texts as representing the changing values of design in order to inspire and consider our own context in the shaping of our disciplines and as motivation for our work.

    Learning Goals · Learning to read and engage with theoretical writing and theoretical ideas
    · Develop an understanding of theoretical writing
    · Gain understanding of the theoretical concepts that have driven modern design
    · Develop basic thinking skills to generate personal credos and theories
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