Class Info: week 2
This agenda provides a detailed outline to give a clear vision of the day’s class.

To-Do Before Class

• • Post your homework
  • Prepare to describe your work in terms of figure/ground perception

Topic: graphic images

Goal: refining form

Objective: finalize details

Activities

• • Attendance
  • Let’s chat
  • Review figure-ground examples from Miro
  • Introduce next project
  • Critique

Breakout Group: figure-ground critique

1  Open a new Word doc.

2   Choose one scribe to take notes for each member

3  As a group, discuss each designers response to the assignment (about 4 minutes each, more if you have less than 4 members in your group)

a    square format?
b   does the design use shape or line?
c   does it have an equal amount of black and white?
d   does it demonstrate the figure-ground principle? (does the eye shift back and forth between black and white?
e.  does it have distracting anomalies?

4  The scribe makes notes in the Word doc as the group discusses the work

1.   the name of the designer being critiqued
2.   the results of the a, b, c, questions above
3.   why have you come to these conclusions?

5 Once we return to the classroom, each scribe copies and pastes their notes in the chat

• • Review breakout information
  • How do we make meaning:

    How do we make meaning?  

    1. 1. Watch: Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. (6 minutes)
          https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_3_ways_the_brain_creates_meaning    4:20

Due Next Class

Homework assignment

Question

• What did you learn about balancing figure and ground?
  Add it to the chat

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