Course Schedule for FSAD 125

1: Friday, Aug. 24:

Introduction: Visual language

Assignment: Portrait

2: Monday, Aug. 27:

Design elements: Point

Assign: point exercise

Wednesday, Aug. 29:

Design elements: Line

Friday, Aug. 31:

Two and Three dimensional form

3: Monday, Sept. 3:

Design elements: Space, Movement

Wednesday, Sept. 5:

Design elements: Color


Friday, Sept. 7:

Design elements: Color

Point exercise due beginning of class

4:Monday, Sept. 10:

Design elements: Pattern, Texture

Assign: 3D exercise

Wednesday, Sept. 12:

Design principles: Rhythm, unity
Assign: Paper due Oct 6

Friday, Sept. 14:

Design Principles: Balance, Proportion, Emphasis

5: Monday, Sept 17:

Creativity and the design process; Media: techniques of drawing

Wednesday, Sept 19:

Media: Techniques of painting

Friday, Sept. 21:

Media: Techniques of printmaking

3D exercise due beginning of class

Monday, Sept 24:

Media: Structural design of textiles

Wednesday, Sept. 26:

Media: Surface design of textiles

Friday, Sept. 28::

Media: Metal and wood

Monday, Oct 1:

Media: Glass and ceramics

Wednesday, Oct 3:

Evaluating functional design: Structural design

Friday, Oct 5:

Evaluating functional design: Applied decorative design
Assign: Critique of designed objects
Paper due

Monday, Oct 8:

FALL BREAK
NO CLASS

Wednesday, Oct. 10:

Purposes of Fine Arts

Friday, Oct. 12:

Fine Arts: Events leading to change

Monday, Oct 15:

Fine Arts: Beginnings of Modernism

Wednesday, Oct. 17:

Fine Arts: New forms and expression

Friday, Oct. 19:

Fine Arts: Recent trends

Critique of designed objects due

Monday, Oct. 22:

The art of persuasion

Assign: Persuasion and visual interpretation of data

Wednesday, Oct. 24:

Review for prelim

Prelim: room 166 MVR from 7:30 to 9:00 pm Thursday October 25

Friday, Oct. 26:

Decorative arts: Developments to World War I

Monday, Oct.29:

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

Wednesday, Oct. 31:

Decorative arts: Post-Modernism
The design of Apparel: Introduction

Friday, Nov. 2:

The design of apparel : 1800-1890

Persuasion and visual interpretation exercise due

Monday, Nov. 5:

The design of apparel: 1890-present

Assign: Historical sources exercise

Wednesday, Nov. 7:

The design of Apparel: Evolution of menswear
Integrating the visual languages of Art and Design

Friday, Nov. 9:

Review of the evolution of dress: Examples from the Collection

Monday, Nov. 12:

Non-Eurocentric modes of design: Introduction, Africa

Wednesday, Nov. 14:

Non-Eurocentric modes of design: Africa and India

Friday, Nov. 16:

Non-Eurocentric modes of design: The Islamic Near East

Monday, Nov 19:

Non-Eurocentric modes of design: China and Japan
Historical sources exercise due

Wednesday, Nov. 21:

THANKSGIVING BREAK - NO CLASS

Friday, Nov. 23:

THANKSGIVING BREAK - NO CLASS

Monday, Nov. 26:

Non-Eurocentric modes of design: Native American

Wednesday, Nov. 28:

Review for final exam

Friday, Nov. 30:

Review: Synthesis: the global view

Final exam on Thursday Dec. 6 from 9:00-11:30 AM
Goldwin Smith Hall, Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium
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