First Lesson Involving AutoCad, I hated it.
Start - AutoCad 2011
File - New - Drawing Sheet - Set - Manufacturing Metric
Line Tool (space/return/right click to stop)
Middle button = Pan
Trim Tool = Highlight/select lines - Click Trim - Click line you wish to snip
Fillet Tool = Highlight/ select lines - Right Click - Select Radius - Input number - Select vertical and horizontal line - Corner is smoothed (Press Spacebar to do it again)
Offset = Highlight/select line - Click offset - click on line - input number - press enter - Line offset.
Monday, 15 November 2010
Talk by Black and Blum
Black and blum website.
VERY POOR NOTES I TOOK IN THEIR TALK
They were ex DFI students at Northumbria.
Based at Oxo Tower in London.
IDEO
Went to 100% Design show
Products Made
James the Doorman
Mr and Mrs Hangup
Propello
VERY POOR NOTES I TOOK IN THEIR TALK
They were ex DFI students at Northumbria.
Based at Oxo Tower in London.
IDEO
Went to 100% Design show
Products Made
James the Doorman
Mr and Mrs Hangup
Propello
Chess Board Ideas
IDEAS
Red Coloured Wood
Pair of scales. (dunk the losing side in a bath of blood)
See-Saw board - board tips depending on how many pieces are left on each side of the board. (Doesn't tip so far that the models fall off)
How to present work
Board 1: What is it?
Board 2: What does it do?
Board 3: How does it work?
Board 4: Exploded view/ materials
Red Coloured Wood
Pair of scales. (dunk the losing side in a bath of blood)
See-Saw board - board tips depending on how many pieces are left on each side of the board. (Doesn't tip so far that the models fall off)
How to present work
Board 1: What is it?
Board 2: What does it do?
Board 3: How does it work?
Board 4: Exploded view/ materials
History Of Visual Communication
A good link to a website. http://www.citrinitas.com/
History of VisCom section http://www.citrinitas.com/history_of_viscom/index.html
History of VisCom section http://www.citrinitas.com/history_of_viscom/index.html
Friday, 15 October 2010
Public Seating
I need to go out and take photos of people using public seating. So consider yourself warned!
Thursday, 14 October 2010
DE1041 Learning through 3D Design
Encourage reflective practice (Whats the point in things)
Explain University systems - Module Guides - School Handbook
Encourage Reflective Practice
-Think about your learning
- Understand the value of feedback
- Self Awareness/ Interaction
My Learning Style
Reflector x 2
Activist x 0
Explorer x 2
Theorist x 0
Pragmatist x 1
Brief Title: REFLECTION
ASSIGNMENT:
Create a portfolio of reflective practice (A4 format)
This is and opportunity to design a system of managing aspects of your learning. The submission should be designed in such a way as to be easy to understand/ read. Think about the use of layout/ composition.
WORK REQUIREMENTS:
1.) A C.V
2.) A catalogue/ record of the projects and assignments from the first semester.
3.) A Collection of feedback (All formats) from all aspects of the course.
4.) A reflective summary of a project (min 1000 words). Take one project from DE830 Design Projects and reflect on the methods and study skills you have employed. Reflect on the different stages of your design process - research and planning, concept generation, design development, presentation and feedback. Think about what you did well, what you have learnt from the process and what you would do differently next time.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
1.) Awareness of Design Issues
2.) Creative thinking
3.) Reflective Practice
4.) Communication Skills
SUBMISSION
HAND-IN: To the design school office Monday 17th January 2011.
Explain University systems - Module Guides - School Handbook
Encourage Reflective Practice
-Think about your learning
- Understand the value of feedback
- Self Awareness/ Interaction
My Learning Style
Reflector x 2
Activist x 0
Explorer x 2
Theorist x 0
Pragmatist x 1
Brief Title: REFLECTION
ASSIGNMENT:
Create a portfolio of reflective practice (A4 format)
This is and opportunity to design a system of managing aspects of your learning. The submission should be designed in such a way as to be easy to understand/ read. Think about the use of layout/ composition.
WORK REQUIREMENTS:
1.) A C.V
2.) A catalogue/ record of the projects and assignments from the first semester.
3.) A Collection of feedback (All formats) from all aspects of the course.
4.) A reflective summary of a project (min 1000 words). Take one project from DE830 Design Projects and reflect on the methods and study skills you have employed. Reflect on the different stages of your design process - research and planning, concept generation, design development, presentation and feedback. Think about what you did well, what you have learnt from the process and what you would do differently next time.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
1.) Awareness of Design Issues
2.) Creative thinking
3.) Reflective Practice
4.) Communication Skills
SUBMISSION
HAND-IN: To the design school office Monday 17th January 2011.
Christopher Dresser - E Kramer
Christopher Dresser (1834-1904)
First Professional Industrial Designer
Proto Modernism. Predates modernism with his simple, no ornamentation style.
Wallpaper samples - Not afraid to experiment with industrial processes.
He thought industrial objects could be well made.
1851 - Britains bad design was blamed on poor designers and machines.
Christopher went to Government School of Design in Somerset in 1847 - 1854.
He wanted ornament to be conventionalized.
Owen Jones: The Grammer of Ornament
- Demonstrate importance of historical and cross cultural ornament.
Dresser - Signature of objects symboled quality
Artistic living:
- c1870 - 1900 (in conjunction with Aesthetic Movement)
Life should imitate art
Could be achieved by careful selection of objects for the home.
Opened shop, the Art Furnisher's Alliance (1881 - 1883)
'Knowledge is Power' - Charles Knight
IMITATION (Design of an illusionistic nature) = NO
ADAPTATION (Innovative Design) = YES
1) Function - 2) Form - 3) Ornamentation
E.W. Godwin, Butterfly, woven Silk c.1874
Mon of the Japanese
First Professional Industrial Designer
Proto Modernism. Predates modernism with his simple, no ornamentation style.
Wallpaper samples - Not afraid to experiment with industrial processes.
He thought industrial objects could be well made.
1851 - Britains bad design was blamed on poor designers and machines.
Christopher went to Government School of Design in Somerset in 1847 - 1854.
He wanted ornament to be conventionalized.
Owen Jones: The Grammer of Ornament
- Demonstrate importance of historical and cross cultural ornament.
Dresser - Signature of objects symboled quality
Artistic living:
- c1870 - 1900 (in conjunction with Aesthetic Movement)
Life should imitate art
Could be achieved by careful selection of objects for the home.
Opened shop, the Art Furnisher's Alliance (1881 - 1883)
'Knowledge is Power' - Charles Knight
IMITATION (Design of an illusionistic nature) = NO
ADAPTATION (Innovative Design) = YES
1) Function - 2) Form - 3) Ornamentation
E.W. Godwin, Butterfly, woven Silk c.1874
Mon of the Japanese
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