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>

<Agenda>
Critique
Demo

<Assignment>
Make it to 30 frames
<Download>
Blender: https://www.blender.org/
Bring your mouse
Adobe Aero: under the Adobe Creative Cloud. (*both on your laptop and mobile!)

WK 3
<9/12>

<Agenda>
Critique
Lecture: MacroSoft
Demo for 3D+AR

<Assignment>
<100 frames> Keep adding the <100 frames> to 40 frames
<3D for Riso> Create a 3D typographic/letter form poster for word “(TBD)” by using Blender, editing with Adobe Photoshop.
/What is Risograph/
We will turn your poster into 2-color risograph.

<Download>
Spectrolite: https://spectrolite.app/how-to/overview/riso-ify

WK 4
<9/19>

<Agenda>
Project 2 kick-off
Spectrolite Demo
Worshop: Risograph

<Assignment>
<100 frames> Adding it to 50 frames
<3D for Riso> Print it in Mint and Pink for at least 5 copies
<A non-existent landscape>
Create 10 sketches, each sketch should include the following content:
-What is your concept? What is your subject matter?
-What is the meduim/materials you will use/expect?
-What is your visual/references/inspo?

You will print each sketch in 3 sheets of 11x17 paper, each paper answer one question above, you will bring 30 11x17 prints in total for next week’s critique.
<Reading list>
https://core.ac.uk/download/541730918.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014362282100224
https://sarahetruman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BodySociety_Trans_Springgay_Truman.pdf

WK 5
<9/26>

<<Agenda>
Critique
MFA Announcement

<Assignment>
<A non-existent landscape>
Narrow down to 1 direction, start sketching the posters into 2 (compositions).
Bring it to the class.

WK 6
<10/03>

<Agenda>
Critique
Workshop: 10:30-12:00 Screen Printing

<Assignment>

WK 7
<10/10>

WK 8
<10/17>

WK 9
<10/24>

<Agenda>
Project 3 kick-off
Worshop: Ceramic

<Assignment>
<100 frames> Adding it to 70 frames
<Site-specific Typography>
Create 10 sketches, each sketch should include the following content:
-What is your concept? What is your subject matter?
-What is the meduim/materials you will use/expect?
-What is your visual/references/inspo?

You will print each sketch in 3 sheets of 11x17 paper, each paper answer one question above, you will bring 30 11x17 prints in total for next week’s critique.

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)