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Design 001 Fall 2009 - Midterm Review
(made by a student; includes many terms from Lauer's
Design Basics
)
Not fully reviewed by Dr. Housefield
Names
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Kostas Terzidis – Etymology of Design,
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signare
(Latin) – to mark or to sign,
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schedon
(Greek) – nearly, almost, approximately. Once had but have no longer, look into past.
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Jeunet – Director of
Amelie
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Charles & Ray Eames –
Design Q & A
, working with constraints, design is made of history & people,
nature is the ultimate designer
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McCloud –
Understanding Comics
, connects with gestalt, making sense of the world: perception,
thought & action. Visual literacy, Design Process:
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Idea / Purpose
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Form
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Idiom (type of communication – process more important that product)
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Structure
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Craft (quality)
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Surface (skin, appearance)
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Magritte –
The Treason of Images
, 1928-29, word & image
juxtaposed
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Ferdinand de Saussure – Semiotics (study of signs), signifier (mental concept) & signified (material
aspect) relationship of concept & image, they are inseparable but closely tied together.
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C.S. Peirce – Semiotics, making meaning of marks:
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Icon – pictorial, readily understood (picture of an eye)
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Index – direct physical relationship (fingerprint)
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Symbol – Distanced from original object (a cross)
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Cy Twombly – Mark making, uses signs & letters, no pattern
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Lynd Ward – Illustrator, woodcut artist,
Frankenstein
,
“storyteller without the use of words”
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see McCloud
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Will Eisner – comic book artist, his books coined the term "sequential art"
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Development of language and visual communication historically mixed
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Pictogram (Dog) + Ideogram ( No sign) together = No dog sign
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Andy Goldsworthy – finds inspiration outside of himself: works with nature, makes ephemeral art
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Jackson Pollock – painter, composition artist , it is what it is
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Lisa Hoke – paper cups - array of colors in an installation. Hoke rhymes with Coke (cups!!)
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Tara Donovan – plastic cup cloud, huge cube made of toothpicks
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IDEO – Bay Area design group which uses
design thinking
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Field research
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Understanding Problem
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Idea
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Prototype (1
st
test or model)
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Feedback
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Repeat
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Tom Friedman - makes self portraits & art with everyday materials: aspirin, laundry detergent,
toothpaste & construction-paper crime scene
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Karl Aspelund – The Design Process
1. Inspiration
2. Identification
3. Conceptualization
4. Exploration & Refinement
5. Definition & Modeling
6. Communication
7. Production
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Goethe – In 1787 painting
Portrait of Goethe
by Tischbein; quote: “Feeling is All”, Romanticism,
aesthetics & writing & Gestalt, subjective nature of perception [Snuggie!]
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Rodin –
The Thinker
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parts speak for the whole
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Yazoo (Yaz) – Music group, gestalt Dalmatian album cover designed by the band
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Christine Gambito –
Happy Slip
, example of social media
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Jastrow –
Psychologist & friend of Peirce, 1899, duck vs. rabbit, gestalt
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Wittgenstein – philosophical explorations of language, duck vs. rabbit, gestalt
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