Tasks Due from Week 1

  • Complete the Student Survey
  • Introduce yourself on the Discussion: Introductions
  • Join & Favorite this course
  • Review Welcome & Introduction: Why Theory?
  • Course Tools Set up: Hypothesis, Writing Portfolio
  • Complete Reading Response 1
  • Submit Week 1 Agenda Checklist

This Week’s Topics

  1. Checkin & Share
  2. Freewrite – The Art of Noticing
  3. Course Materials Review (from last week!)
  4. Your Learning Plan
  5. Laying the Groundwork for Design Theory
  6. Discussion in Groups
  7. Assignment: Reading Response 2
  8. Week 2 Agenda Checklist

Check-in & Share (15+ min)

Fall 2023 Playlist
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | TED

Consider how the things that you notice or pay attention to reflect YOUR STORIES as a designer or global citizen. How do your personal experiences and your stories define your design ideology (beliefs) and design aesthetic (look & feel)?

Activities

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

1. Freewrite / Share– The Art of Noticing (10 min)

Photo of a smiley face sticker on a concrete block.
Photograph of sticker on lamp post.
Photograph of sticker on lamp post.
Photograph of sticker on lamp post.
Photograph of sticker on lamp post.
Photograph of sticker on lamp post.
Photograph of sticker on lamp post.
Photograph of sticker on lamp post.
Photograph of sticker on lamp post.
Photograph of sticker on lamp post.
Photograph of sticker on lamp post.
Photograph of sticker on lamp post.
Photograph of sticker on lamp post.

Prompt: In your language of choice, write continuously in your notebook for 5 minutes about what you noticed while looking for “stickers on lamp posts” and/or “spraypaint on sidewalks.” Don’t edit, or correct, don’t stop, just write. If you get stuck, just write the same word over and over until you think of something else to write down.

 2. Course Materials Overview (5 Minutes)

Please review the following sections of this site and familiarize yourself with the following course materials:

3. Review and Submit Your Learning Plan (15 Min)

Let’s read through the Learning Plan form together. Take a moment to review the questions and write a draft of your Learning Plan.

Before the next class, write and submit your Learning Plan.

4. Laying the Groundwork for Design Theory (30 Minutes)

Review the presentation below and then take a look at the graphic design history videos to help us lay the groundwork for studying design theory.

Laying the Groundwork for Design Theory

What is the Avant-Garde?

What is the Avant-Garde? National Galleries Scotland

Understanding the Significance of Avant-garde

Let’s review our first reading “Revisiting the Avant-Garde” and the annotations you’ve contributed.

As you watch the Graphic Design History videos below, consider the concepts and questions we’ve explored in Reading Response 1.

Key Points to Consider

Do you notice similarities between avant-garde movements of the past and the design field (or the world) of today?

Let’s define the following and then discuss the ways today’s designers participate in, facilitate, or reject the following?

  1. Authorship vs Anonymity vs Collective Authorship
  2. Universal Systems of Communication vs Personal/Cultural/Dominant Communication
  3. Social Engagement vs Corporate Consumerism/Social Detachment

What idea(s) or concerns do you think will drive the Avant-Garde of the near future? Who will lead the charge?

As you watch, jot down some notes to share within your Discussion Groups.

Graphic Design History Refresher

Many of you have taken the required History of Graphic Design course, so please consider the following set of videos a review for the upcoming readings.

Please login to LinkedIn Learning with your Public Library Card (see instructions here) and locate the Course: Learning Graphic Design History. Watch the video collections: Introduction, 1880-1912, and 1912-1930 and complete the ungraded quizzes to test your knowledge.

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Screen shot of LinkedIn Learning Course: Learning Graphic Design History.
www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-graphic-design-history/

If you have trouble accessing the LinkedIn Learning Course above, you can find it here on YouTube, but the quality isn’t very good, and you won’t be able to access the quizzes.

4. Discussion (20 Minutes)

Break into groups of 3 to share your Reading Response and any additional ideas that came up while reviewing the videos above. Identify a spokesperson and a recorder for your group.

Consider that as a discipline, communication design continually fluctuates between extremes of anonymity and authorship, the personal and the universal, social detachment and social engagement. Each new movement is a reaction to the status quo (the current state of social/political/cultural affairs).

Do you notice similarities between avant-garde movements of the past and the design field (or the world) of today?

What idea(s) or concerns do you think will drive the Avant-Garde of the near future? Who will lead the charge?

After you’ve discussed these ideas with your group, send your spokesperson to another group to share your ideas.

Revise and resubmit your Reading Response 1 comment with any new ideas that came up during your discussions.

5. Assignment: Reading Response 2 (1 Hour)

Follow these assignment guidelines: Reading Response 2 – – DUE Wednesday before the next class

Resources

Week 2 Agenda Checklist

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

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

Tasks from the Week 2 Agenda
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