GDES670Otis

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Design the right thing

Design things right

WK 1
<8/29>

<Agenda>
Semester Kick-off
Project 1 Introduction
Adobe Illustrator Demo (TBD)

<Proejct1: 100 Frames>
In this project, students will focus on capturing a single, simple movement from a specific object and translating it into a sequence of 100 frames. By deconstructing and reconstructing the motion, students will analyze, abstract, and recompose the visual narrative. The process emphasizes quick production, experimentation, and creative image-making, encouraging students to push the limits of visual interpretation and storytelling. This exercise challenges them to work intuitively yet intentionally—sharpening their ability to observe movement, break it down into essential parts, and rebuild it as a cohesive visual rhythm through form, sequence, and repetition.

<Assignment>
Find or record one movement.

Break the movement down into 100 frames.
/Adjust your video to 10-15 fps, What is fps?/
/How to change FPS from Adobe?/

Export each frame as a reference.
/How to export frames from Adobe?/

Select frames 1–20.

Create 20 posters by using Adobe AI/PS/AE/Figma or analog making, !no procreate&canva!, using only graphic shapes and colors. Typography is optional.

Print your posters and frames on 22 sheets of paper for the next class.

<By Nextweek>
Thumbnails(2 pages in total): 50 thumbnails per page on 11"x17" paper, black & white.

One poster per page (20 pages in total), printed on 11"x17" or letter-size paper, in black & white or color.

Poster size should reference the original video dimensions.

WK 2
<9/05>

WK 3
<9/12>

WK 4
<9/19>

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WK 5
<9/26>

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WK 6
<10/03>

WK 7
<10/10>

WK 8
<10/17>

WK 9
<10/24>

Class Material
Alyssia Lou: The Advantages of Being a Woman Graphic Designer, 2019.
(Borrowed from the Guerilla Girls, 1988 /
Published in IDEA Magazine, issue 386, June 2019)

Instructor: Jaylen Wang
Syllabus
Google Drive
Email: jwang@otis.edu

<100 Frames>

Eadweard Muybridge

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-19th-century-photographer-first-gif-galloping-horse-180970990/

ICA Moving Image
How to make a flip book

Conditional Design Manifesto
Conditional Design Workbook

Swing 2025

Jingye Yao, Aiden Huang

PAPERS

Yoshinao Satoh

[ Null ] State ( 1 ) Book
25 EUR

Edoardo Benaglia