

Develop habits for self-directed research and inquiry.Finished projects are not the intended outcome of DS1. DS1 assumes no prior knowledge of tools or skills, but is not designed as ‘introductory’.

John Caserta, Office Hours: DC105, Mondays 10:30am–1:30pmĭS1 pushes students into a variety of directions, introducing critical tools, methods and content areas in the field. Graph-3210, Fall 2016, 3 credits required studio.Rhode Island School of Design, Graphic Design Dept.Units will not define outcomes or prescribe processes, but rather will aim to inspire lines of enquiry, challenging students to explore unfamiliar subject matter, tools, media, and processes by their own initiative. Design Studio is a fast-paced course that necessitates a self-directed, open-ended, experimental and playful mindset. Units may span the entire term, a few weeks, or a single class period. The emphasis will be on methodologies of making - observation, analysis, ideation, translation, curation, research - and on developing personal voice.ĭesign Studio will take the form of a series of question-based units, each initiated by a faculty member and contextualized by a presentation, event, or workshop. You will encounter and engage the tools, materials, and processes of graphic design in functional context, as means to self-directed ends.
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Rather than attempt to codify this expansive landscape, or to delineate a sequential path through it, this course takes this ambiguity as license for experimentation, discovery, and play. Graphic designers are inquirers, observers, poets, editors, curators, analysts, researchers, commentators, and critics. Its methods make use of both sides of the brain: pairing logic, critical analysis, research, and planning with intuitive search, mark-making and visual expression. Its media spans everything from websites to postcards, film to signage, typefaces to billboards. Graphic design occupies an ever-expanding, ever-redefined territory at the intersection of verbal and visual languages.
