This agenda provides a detailed outline to give a clear vision of the day’s class.

Date: Friday, September 18

 

To-Do: before class

• • Post your homework
  • Prepare to describe your work in terms of graphic shape

 

Topic

Form studies

Goal: Review gestalt principles

Objectives: Create forms that signify essential qualities

 

Let’s Chat!!

What design principles does this image represent?

Add your answer to the chat
Everyone must answer

 

Activities

Critique: Collaboration

collaborative critique feedback loop

 

 

 

 

critique instructions:

• • • • • • • • Consider the goals of the piece
              • Consider the arrangement and relationships of the elements on the page
              • Avoid “I like this” or “I don’t like that”  statements
                Comments should be substantive.
              • If something isn’t working, identify and articulate the problem that your suggestion might help fix so that the designer can address that issue.

1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. upload sketches to Miro
               2. work in teams to fine-tune your letterforms

Lecture

Graphic images

Goal: Simplification

Objective:  Define essential qualities

Graphic images: Gestalt tries to explain our ability to interpret images ­

• • • Our primary senses report “wholes”; the whole is different from the sum of its parts.
    • Our brain interprets whole forms in the visual recognition of global figures

Discuss next project

 

Due Next Class

Due: 11:30, Wednesday, September 22
Categories: figure-ground letter final, object photo

1. 1. finalize your letter
   2. comment
   3. photograph

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