Emphasis is given to educational and experience requirements, personal qualifications, responsibilities and future outlook in environmental design. Utilization of tools, materials, and equipment to develop technical skills applicable to interior, architectural, and other related fields of design. Exploration of cultural heritage and psychological implication of color. This course is designed to introduce the basic concepts of visual merchandising. Utilizing basic techniques, the students create miniature displays, interior displays and full-scale window productions.
Students study current trends and analyze local retail displays.
This course gives instruction in home decorative arts and crafts. It is designed to give the student an opportunity to create useful and aesthetic crafts for the home as well as train students in saleable skills needed in the crafting business of marketing and selling crafts, cottage industries, and teaching in specialty areas of crafting. Emphasis will be placed on the elements and principles of design, fabric art, paper art, seasonal craft projects, creative gift items, and recycling ideas. This course gives instruction in home decorative arts and crafts and is a continuation of ID 207. It is designed to give the student an opportunity to create useful and aesthetic crafts for the home as well as train students in saleable skills needed in the crafting business of marketing and selling crafts, cottage industries, and teaching in specialty areas of crafting.