| Dsc 122 | Spring 2001 | Rev 15 Feb 2001 |

Studio 08 Work Target

The studio work targets:
· demonstrate your ability and communicate your knowledge concerning these topics;
· monitor individual progress, and compare individual progress relative to group progress; and
· identify problems to develop remediation plans for the next target.

· Evaluation criteria comprise the project requirements and the self-evaluation personal growth points.
· Deficiencies are recorded and considered in the final evaluation.
· Leave your work at your desk at the beginning of studio and return at the end of studio to pick it up.
· Some work may be temporarily retained for faculty discussion and documentation.
· Each item: best example with proper presentation such as, sheet protector, case or portfolio, organized notebook. The notebook is based on your upperdivision application requirements. Write your name on each item at the bottom right front corner.

Unit 1 Plan to Form and Space Studies

• 1.3 Gestalt principles: figure/ground (layered initials composition)
  • .1 image/format ideas (first initial; last initial; both initials) (monogram)
  • .2 layered ideas (metagram)

Unit 2 Form Studies

• 2.1 Regular polyhedra (precise models; white material only; equal height or equal side)
  • .1 tetrahedron
  • .2 hexahedron
  • .3 octahedron
  • .4 dodecahedron
  • .5 icosahedron

Unit 3 Color Studies

• 3.2 Color systems (all compositions random; 3 square x 3 square format )
  • .1 hue palette (preference colors including 3 warm and 3 cool colors)
  • .2 gray palette (preference colors converted to grays)
  • .3 reference gray (g) + 1 warm (w) color + 3 cool (c) colors (lightness control)
  • .4 reference gray (g) + 1 cool (c) color + 3 warm (w) colors (lightness control)
  • .5 gwc (lightness control) + lighter/brighter (lb) + darker/duller (dd)

Unit 4 Synthesis

• 4.2 Low-tech photo compositions (Golden Rectangle compositions)
  
  • .1 photo composition with conventional photographs
  • .2 photo composition with unconventional photographs

Unit 5 Technical Drawing

• 5.1 Plane figures (pencil on bristol board: 28.0 cm w x 35.5 cm h)
  • .1 pentagram-to-height visual directions (sequence view)

Unit 6 Research Presentation

• 6.2 Historic precedent (20C designer; architectural form: tower; architectural style: craftsman)
  • .1 topic sentence
  • .2 organized notebook research section

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