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BFA Seminar: Spring '14

Description:

During the BFA Seminar, students take the research they conducted during the BFA Thesis class in the Fall and apply their findings to design solutions. Students will thoroughly investigate Problem/Solution scenarios, refine research as they explore designed solutions, and create an installation of their visual solutions for the BFA Exhibition in May..


Objectives:

By the end of this course, students will create an installation of their research, findings, hypothesis (and thesis) that will convey the impact of their ideas to both their intended users and the broad audience that attends the CIA BFA exhibitions.


Syllabus

(Below is a broad overview of the course. Please download the BFA_sp14.pdf file to see the most recent complete, current schedule.



Course Overview and Assignments

Intro:

Course Introduction:

BFA_sp14.pdf

 

1-15:

Recap of Midyears

Crash Course Design Experience

5 Manifestos

 

1-22:

Manifesto

p/s_Example.pdf

p/s_research.pdf

 

1-29:

Presentation 1

Rough Installation ideas and sketches due

 

2-5:

Preliminary Comps and Installation Ideas

 

2-12:

Professional Presentation Ideas and Packages Due

 

2-19:

Presentation 2

Presentation.pdf

 

2-26

Individual Meetings

 

3-5:

Second-stage Comps

Maquettes due

Sample Maquette

 

3-12:

Spring Break, no classes

 

3-19:

Presentation 3

Welcome Back Design Charette

 

3-26:

Individual Meetings

 

4-2:

Production

 

4-9:

First Draft of BFA Statement Due

 

4-16:

Final Class Presentations

 

4-23:

Individual Meetings, Spring Show

 

4-30

 

Work Day, preparations for BFA install - mandatory!

 

Week of 5-5—5-9:

BFA Exhibition (check full schedule for details)

 



"...one of the skills of design is to look at the world in new ways"

Ben Evans, Director, London Design Fesival

Soon Design Brading

Collateral for 2012 London Festival of Design, Pentegram


Course Extras

External Links

Marty Neumeier on The No-Process Process

Marty Neumeier on What Stops Imagination

d.school Complete Crash Course

Articles

Horst and Webber's Original Article

Buchanan's Wicked Problems in Design Thinking

Resources


resonate

Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform bt Nancy Duarte


patti smith just kids

  The Craft of Research by Booth, Colomb and Williams


The Psychopath Test Jon Ronson

  Design Writing Research by Ellen Lupton and Abott Miller


Atlantic Monthly July 2011

  Visual Research by Ian Nobel and Russell Bestley


Atlantic Monthly July 2011

  Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain