Course Schedule for FSAD 1250

1: Friday, Aug. 28:

Introduction: Visual language

Assignment: Portrait

2: Monday, Aug 31:

Design elements: Point

Assign: point exercise

Wednesday, Sept. 2:

Design elements: Line

Friday, Sept. 4:

Two and Three dimensional form

3: Monday, Sept. 7:

Design elements: Space, Movement

Wednesday, Sept. 9:

Design elements: Color


Friday, Sept. 11:

Design elements: Color

Point exercise due beginning of class

4:Monday, Sept. 14:

Design elements: Pattern, Texture

Assign: 3D exercise

Wednesday, Sept. 16:

Design principles: Balance, Proportion, Emphasis
Assign: Paper due Oct 9

Friday, Sept. 18:

Design Principles: Rhythm, unity

5: Monday, Sept 21:

Media: techniques of drawing and painting

Wednesday, Sept 23:

Media: Techniques of printmaking

Friday, Sept. 25:

Media: Techniques of wood and metal

3D exercise due beginning of class

6:Monday, Sept 28:

Media: Structural design of textiles

Wednesday, Sept. 30:

Media: Surface design of textiles

Friday, Oct. 2::

Media: Ceramics and Glass

7:Monday, Oct 5:

Creativity and the design process; Media: Glass and ceramics

Wednesday, Oct 7:

Evaluating functional design: Structural design

Friday, Oct 9:

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

8:Monday, Oct 12:

FALL BREAK
NO CLASS

Wednesday, Oct. 14:

Purposes of Fine Arts

Friday, Oct. 16:

Fine Arts: Events leading to change

9:Monday, Oct 19:

Fine Arts: Beginnings of Modernism

Wednesday, Oct. 21:

Fine Arts: New forms and expression

Friday, Oct. 23:

Fine Arts: Recent trends

Critique of designed objects due

10: Monday, Oct. 26:

The art of persuasion

Assign: Persuasion and visual interpretation of data

Wednesday, Oct. 28:

Review for prelim

Prelim: room G71 MVR from 7:30 to 9:00 pm Thursday October 29

Friday, Oct. 30:

Decorative arts: Developments to World War I

11: Monday, Nov. 2:

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

Wednesday, Nov. 4:

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

Friday, Nov. 6:

The design of apparel : 1800-1890

Persuasion and visual interpretation exercise due

12: Monday, Nov. 9:

The design of apparel: 1890-present

Assign: Historical sources exercise

Wednesday, Nov. 11:

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

Friday, Nov. 13:

Review of the evolution of dress: Examples from the Collection

13: Monday, Nov. 16:

Non-Eurocentric modes of design: Introduction, Africa

Wednesday, Nov. 18:

Non-Eurocentric modes of design: Africa and India

Friday, Nov. 20:

Non-Eurocentric modes of design: The Islamic Near East

14: Monday, Nov 23:

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

Wednesday, Nov. 25:

THANKSGIVING BREAK - NO CLASS

Friday, Nov. 27:

THANKSGIVING BREAK - NO CLASS

15: Monday, Nov. 30:

Non-Eurocentric modes of design: Native American

Wednesday, Dec. 2:

Review for final exam

Friday, Dec. 4:

Review: Synthesis: the global view

Final exam on Thursday Dec. 10 from 2:00-4:30 PM
Room TBA
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