Week 13 Agenda

Tasks Due Last Week

• The Digital Revolution & Social Responsibility
• Evaluating Online Sources
• Research Project Prep
• Project Presentation Tools & Tips
• Reading + Discussion Week 12
• Week 12 Agenda Checklist

This Week’s Topics

• Check-in
• New Paradigms
• Research Project Prep
• Discussion Week 13
• Week 13 Agenda Checklist

Check-in & Announcements

Does anyone have their Research Project Presentation (In Progress) to share for feedback? If not, suggest a track for the playlist on the COMD3504 playlist post.

For inspiration, check out this student’s final Research Project Presentation from a previous semester:

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/spevackcomd3504fa21/2021/12/16/research-project-presentation-ea/

Review Comments from Week 12

See Reading & Discussion: Week 12

Outcomes this Week

This week you will be focusing on finishing your Research Project & Presentation.

You should have a rough cut of your video completed by today to post on this week’s discussion post for feedback before our next class, and your final post submitted by December 12th.

The Discussion Week 13 will be available to share your Research Project Presentations in progress and get feedback from your classmates prior to the December 12th deadline.

In this Week’s Agenda, we will take a look at recent and current design trends, but there will be no reading or discussion required. Review the videos and text below to explore the New Paradigms and observed design trends. What design trends have you noticed in your world?

If you’d like to meet again to discuss your research project, please contact me to schedule a time. And as always, be in touch with any questions or concerns.

If you’d like an overview of all of the topics we’ve covered this semester, take a look at the Schedule page. Each week is listed with the topic and readings we completed each week. We’ve covered a lot and you’ve produced some great written work!

Opening Tonight!

Self Portraits: Explorations of Identity

Please join us as we celebrate the creative work of New York City high school students as they explore their cultural heritage, questions of race, ethnicity, and gender through their self portraits. 30 finalists were selected from over 70 submissions by a panel of COMD graduates serving as jurors.

• Grace Gallery, Namm 11th floor
• Doors open at 5:30 pm / Opening Remarks at 6:00 pm
• Exhibit closes Thursday, February 16th, 2023

All faculty, staff, and students are welcome!

This event is made possible by a grant awarded by the CUNY Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI) supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Activities

Below find the information covered in this session. Complete all of the following activities, videos, and assignments.

1. New Paradigms (30+ minutes)

In this section, let’s look at a few different areas that have surfaced in recent years and are positioned to alter the future of design.

AI Designed Products

The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning is being felt in all areas of the creative industry. We have robots reporting the news, computers generating songs, and paintings by AI machines. Our creative roles are changing once again due to new technologies.

One designer discusses the potential implications of AI in our design processes and provides an example of a shoe designed with AI tools.

Virtual and Augmented Reality

VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality), and 360 Video are working their way into a range of disciplines, but these are still emerging technologies. Many people predict the Metaverse will be a bigger change in society than the internet. We have seen how technology can be a driving force in the changes in society and in the field of design, but it may take time for real adoption to occur.

Last year Facebook announced it is evolving into Meta: “3D spaces in the metaverse will let you socialize, learn, collaborate and play in ways that go beyond what we can imagine.”

Augmented and 360 Advertising

Check out some examples below and imagine what VR and AR will look like in five to ten years.

Here are just a couple of the product apps that use AR technology:

• Maybelline’s virtual try-on tool
• Warby Parker’s Glasses try-on app

Here is an example of a 360 world of Oreo Cookie. View on desktop and use your mouse or the arrows to move around the scene.

Here is one designer’s dystopian imagining of an Augmented Reality future. Could this be the Future?

Want to learn more?

Here’s a designer who talks about his journey and career in 3D and AR.

• Harnessing Adobe 3D and AR Tools to Prepare for the XR Revolution 

Here’s an example of the use of VR to share the experience of racism:

• Experiencing Racism in VR | Courtney D. Cogburn, PhD

Ethical Design

Last week we looked at the Social Responsibility Movement and prior to that, we explored how the Ethical Design Movement has grown out of the impacts of social media and the internet. The Ethical Design movement which is often connected to technology takes many forms: accessibility, inclusion, open culture, social equity…

Here is an interactive video that takes you through some of these questions of ethics and design. Below are related links.

• A Designer’s Code of Ethics by Mike Monteiro
• Center for Humane Technology
• Ethical Design Manifesto by Indie Team
• Code of Ethics for professional designer by the French Design Alliance

Design Trends

Every year you see lists of current design trends. These often look at visual trends, such as Vintage Design, Minimalism, Maximalism, Metamodernism, etc. Take a look at an example below of one designer’s observations of current trends. Using your Design Theorist skills, I encourage you to look deeper and ask WHY we are seeing these visual trends now?

1. DIVERSITY + INCLUSIVITY
2. METAVERSE
3. DATAVIZ
4. MUTED TONES
5. VINTAGE APOTHECARY
6. ECO EVERYTHING
7. IRIDESCENCE
8. MODULAR GEO
9. TRIPPY TYPE
10. MOVING MARKS
11. TRUE GRIT
12. VERY PERI

What’s happening NOW?

As you continue your academic career and your career as a designer (in whatever form that takes), keep an eye out for what is happening right now in the broad field(s) of design in relationship to culture, politics, technology – the why’s of design . Here are a few suggestions. If you have channels that you follow to keep up with what’s happening in the field, add them with this form.

• AIGA Eye on Design – Published by AIGA an editorial platform covers the issues important to the global design world + elevates the voices of contemporary designers as a way to build a more engaged design community.
• Revision Path – Podcast by Maurice Cherry. Discover the stories of Black designers, developers, artists, and digital creatives.
• Works in Process – Prof. George Garresteigi’s podcast about uncovering creative methodologies from people doing inspiring work. Whether talking to a designer, an educator, or an entrepreneur the listener learns the HOWs and WHYs behind what they do.
• The Observatory– Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand on design, current events, and current enthusiasms.
• Design Matters – Debbie Millman features interviews with designers, artists and cultural leaders.

2. Research Project Presentation Planning

You have [12 days] left to complete your Research Project & Presentation.

Review the following milestones. Your next milestone is Dec. 5th.

November 3: Finalize your topic and start collecting supporting media and sources in an annotated bibliography
November 10: Complete presentation outline and script
November 17: Assemble all graphics and text in a slideshow
December 5: Share in-progress slideshow presentation with voiceover, give and get feedback from peers and professor, finalize annotated bibliography
December 12: Post Presentation to OpenLab site – follow the guidelines
December 15: Review Research Project Presentations in class.
December 19: Submit one comment on each of your classmates’ presentations

3. Presentation Tips & Tools

Review the Research Project & Presentation guidelines to make sure you are clear about what the expectations are. Specifically, take note of the requirements for Your Annotated Bibliography and Your Presentation Format.

Below find some helpful links for tips and tools you can use to assemble and record your Research Presentation.

• Review ‘TED’s Secret to a Great Public Speaking‘ (8-min video)
• Use Powerpoint, Google Slides, Preview PDF slideshow, Prezi or any other method to assemble your slidedeck.
• Use Zoom, Vimeo Record, Prezi, Screencast-o-matic, or any screencapture app to record your slidedeck presentation with voiceover. Remember to save your recording to your desktop to edit or upload direclty to YouTube or Vimeo (depending on the which app you are using.)
• Make sure your slide deck is set to FULL SCREEN when your record.
  • Here is a screenshot of a fullscreen presentation.
  • Here is a screenshot of what not to do and how to enter fullscreen mode.
• Follow these guidelines to upload your finished Research Presentation video to YouTube. Set your video as Unlisted and copy the Video Link to paste into your OpenLab Post.

If you have questions about putting together your presentation, don’t wait until the last minute. Reach out and ask: jspevack@citytech.cuny.edu

4. Discussion Week 13 – WORK IN PROGRESS

Add a comment to this Discussion Post with link(s) to your Research Project & Presentation in progress with any questions about your project that you’d like feedback on from your classmates or the professor by Dec 5th.

Give feedback to at least 3 of your classmates before Dec 7th.

• Discussion Week 13

Week 13 Agenda Checklist

Below are all of the tasks, big and small, for this week. The due date is Wednesday, 11:59 pm before our next Thursday class. Timely completion of these tasks will contribute to your success in this course.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out.

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