FSAD 1250: Art, Design and Visual Thinking

 

Fall 2013 Schedule

 

 

Alana Staiti

E-mail: als89@cornell.edu

Mailing List:(List Serve)

    FH-FSAD-1250-Students@groups.cornell.edu

Office hours: W 11-12; Th 1-2

 

 

1: Wednesday, Aug. 28:

Introduction: Visual language

 

Assignment: Portrait

 

 Friday, Aug. 30:

Design elements: Point

Assign: point exercise

 

2: Monday, Sept. 2:

LABOR DAY

NO CLASS

 

 

Wednesday, Sept. 4:

Design elements: Line

 

Friday, Sept. 6:

Design elements: Two and Three dimensional form and space

 

3: Monday, Sept. 9:

Design elements:   Three dimensional Form and Space, movement

 

 

Wednesday, Sept. 11:

Design elements: Color

 

Friday, Sept 13:

Design elements: Color

LPoint exercise due beginning of class

 

4:Monday, Sept. 16:

Design elements:Pattern, texture

Assign: 3D exercise

 

 

Wednesday, Sept. 18:

Design principles:

Balance, proportion, Emphasis

 

Assign: Paper due Oct. 11

 

 

Friday, Sept. 20:

Design principles: Rhythm,

Unity  

 

 

5: Sept 23:

Creativity and the design process

Media: Techniques of drawing

 

 

Wednesday, Sept 25:

Media: Techniques of

painting

 

 

 

 

Friday, Sept. 27:

Media: Techniques of printmaking

 

L 3D exercise due beginning of class

 

6: Monday, Sept. 30:

Media: Structural design of textiles

 

 

Wednesday, Oct. 2:

 Media: Surface design of textiles

 

 

Friday, Oct. 4:

Media: Metal and wood

 

 

 

7: Monday, Oct 7:

Media:  Glass and ceramics

Evaluating functional design: structural design

 

Wednesday, Oct. 9:

Evaluating functional design: Applied decorative design

 

 

Friday, Oct. 11:

Purposes of Fine Arts

 

LPaper due

Assign: Critique of designed objects

 

 

8: Monday, Oct 14:

 

FALL BREAK

 

Wednesday, Oct. 16:

Fine Arts: Events leading to change

 

 

Friday, Oct. 18:

 Fine Arts: Beginnings of Modernism

L Critique of designed objects due

 

 

prelim : MVR 280

 

Thursday

October 24

 

7:30-9:00 pm   

 

 

9: Monday, Oct. 21:

Fine Arts: New forms and expression

 

Wednesday, Oct. 23:

Fine Arts: Recent trends

Review for prelim

 

 

Friday, Oct 25:

The art of persuasion

Assign: Persuasion and visual interpretation of data

 

 

10: Monday, Oct. 28: Decorative arts: Developments to World War I

 

 

Wednesday, Oct. 30: 

Decorative arts: 20th century design: Art Deco and Modernism

 

Friday, Nov. 1:

 Decorative arts: Post-Modernism

 

 

11: Monday, Nov. 4:

The design of Apparel: Introduction

 

Wednesday, Nov. 6:

The design of apparel :

1800-1890

L Assign: Historical sources exercise

 

Friday, Nov 8:

The design of apparel:

1890-present


Persuasion exercise due

 

12: Monday, Nov. 11:

The design of Apparel: Evolution of menswear

 

Wednesday, Nov. 13:

Integrating the visual languages of Art and Design

 

Friday, Nov. 15:  

Review of the evolution of dress:

 

Examples from the Collection

 

 

13: Monday, Nov 18:

Non-Eurocentric modes of design: Introduction:

Africa L Historical sources exercise due

 

Wednesday, Nov. 20:

Non-Eurocentric modes of design: Africa and India

 

 

 

Friday, Nov. 22:

Non-Eurocentric modes of design: the Islamic Near East

 

 

 

14: Monday, Nov. 25:         

Non-Eurocentric modes of design: China and Japan

 

 

Wednesday, Nov. 27:

THANKSGIVING BREAK - NO CLASS

 

 

Friday, Nov. 29:

THANKSGIVING BREAK - NO CLASS

15: Monday, Dec. 2:

Non-Eurocentric modes of design: Native American

 

Wednesday, Dec. 4:

Review for final exam

 

Friday, Dec. 6: Review:

Synthesis: the global view

 

Final Exam

 

 

December 17

7-9 PM  

Room G71MVR