| Dsc 121 | Fall 2000 | Rev 16 Oct 99 |09 Foundation Meeting Notes
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14:40 Mon 18 Oct
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Calendar
Week 09 Studios 17 and 18
Week 10 Studios 19 and 20
Week 11 Studios 21 and 22
Week 12 Studios 23 and 24
Week 13 Studios 25 and 26
Week 14 Studios 27 and 28
Week 15 Studios 29 and 30
Week 16 Studios 31 and 32
Five months to Graphic Design Application
Holidays
Thu 11 Nov Veterans Day
Thu 26 Nov Thanksgiving
There are only four (three) studios left after Thanksgiving
Final presentations 10-16 Dec.
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Announcements
Applications for the Design in Context summer program are available.
See the Program handout for details.
Early registration
Early registration starts next Monday.
Check the web for schedule updates at:
http://www.public.asu.edu/~detrie/Design_Foundation/schedule_120.html
http://www.public.asu.edu/~detrie/Design_Foundation/schedule_122.html
See the Design Office for Schedule revisions.
See the Advising Office for early registration.
Work load increases in Spring with two studios
Do not take DSC 236 Computer Modeling until second year
Guest Lectures
Oct 25 Prof Jose Bernardi - Summer Program
Nov 08 Prof Jose Bernardi - Poetics of Materials
Nov 15 Prof Paul Randall - Materials and Processes
Nov 22 Prof Michael Kroeger - Visible Language Semiotics
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Studio 16 Reflection
CONGRATULATIONS! Overall an outstanding job. Many compliments from second-year students.
Thanks to the coaches for working so well together.
Excellent performance for some in all three areas: plan, form, and color studies.
Excellent performance for most in the plan studies.
Not yet excellent performance for many in Color Study Exercise 6.1.4.
Even after good effort, problems persist in lightness matching and adjacency effect.
Not yet excellent performance for many in Form Study Exercise .6.
Work management problems seems to be the reason.
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First half was about productivity (getting things done).
Second half is about quality (getting things right).
Studio 08 Formmaking/Process learning model
Quarter Self-discovery
Work Management
Materials
Studio 16 Ideation (transformation)
Quarter Selection (idea)
Investigation (variation)
Studio 24 Selection
Quarter Development (scale and material)
Refinement
Studio 32 Presentations
Quarter
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Studio 24 Target at
www.public.asu.edu/~detrie/Design_Foundation/target_24_121.html
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FAQs
See FAQ link at:
/pages/design_foundation/pages/faqs_121.html
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The upper-division programs do not have acceptance number limits.
Each program accepts all competitive applicants.
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Studio 16 Review
Review Golden Section selection
Can use direct method as web example
Only 2 choices are actually needed because remainder intervals are valid
- one interior line placement yields three intervals in the square
- two interior line placements yields five intervals in the square
Exercise 1.2.7 Permutation Problem
5! = 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 120 combinations
Define combinations
Gray delimitation
4! = 4 x 3 x x 2 x 1 = 24 unreadable eliminations x 2 = 48 left + right
Define delimit, adjacency, analogous, permutations
Diagram quadrant statement - diagraming and drawing to understand
5! - (4! x 2) = 120 - 48 = 72 permutations - new base
72 - (4!) = 72 - 24 (centered gray) = 48 permutations - new base
Start color sketches at this point
Remaining permutations depend on individual color compositions
Diagram adjacency situation
Diagram parallel vs contrary order
12345 W (interval width: 1 is narrow, 5 is wide)
12345 S (hue saturation: 1 is low, 5 is high)
12345 W (interval width: 1 is narrow, 5 is wide)
54321 S (hue saturation: 1 is low, 5 is high)
However, adjacency requires a high hue quantity and saturation and
therefore delimits the gray (zero saturation) to 1W or 2W (narrow intervals).
Exercise 1.1.3 Dimensional transformation
Black and white were constants in the before-midterm exercises.
The after-midterm exercises replace the B/W constants with X/Y variables.
Results look different, but the system remains the same.
For example, X can be rigid material, Y can be flexible material.
The methodology names an operator (bend, fold, pivot) for the function that
transforms the material from two to three dimensions. This affects the
ideas generated. Direct sketching with the material is the technique used.
This further affects the ideas generated.
The X variable and Y variable each can be a criterion set as in the monogram exercise.
For example, X can be rigid and pivot upward, Y can be flexible and curl downward.
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Obligations
Allocation and Selection
7 days x 24 hrs = 168 hrs wk
168 hrs wk - 56 sleep hrs = 112 hrs to allocate
Course Load and Courses
DSC 101
DSC 121
x DSC 236 x - not for first semester
Eng 101
Mat 117
GS: people courses, writing/speaking, computer science.
Check Business minor
Work Load Formula
CrHr x 3 = B
CrHr x 4 = A
(CrHr x 3) + Wrk = 60 hrs wk maximum
(15 x 3) + 15 = 60 hrs wk
(15 x 4) + 15 = 72 hrs wk
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How we do work
D = demonstrate (your ability)
S = support (your decisions - w/o preference)
C = communicate (your knowledge)
Think and Draw
Think about what you do and how you do it;
Think about what you say and how you say it;
Think about what you think and how you think it.
Three learning ways
1) from your efforts
2) from your colleagues
3) from your faculty
Cooperative matching effort
X------------>O Teacher centered
X----->|<-----O Meeting halfway
X---> <---O Matching effort
X-------------- Cooperative overlapping matching effort
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Three people types:
(1) those who make things happen;
(2) those who let things happen; and
(3) those who ask 'what happened?'
Project and time management
concurrent projects
| acceptance -> flex time -> targets -> closure -> END |
See Work Plan link
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Questions
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