Projects are provided to stimulate identification, exploration, and resolution of simple product designs. In addition, a one credit lab in the Art and Architecture shop is required. Reports, sketches, sketch models, production drawings and finished models are developed by each student. Assignments are designed to introduce modeling operations and to help students understand underlying principles. 3 credits Introduction to techniques, materials and tools involved in the making of functional and non-functional metal objects.
Students use techniques appropriate to their individual particular visual requirements.
Study of contemporary prints. Experimental attitudes are discussed and encouraged through examples of current work and slides of the old masters. Discussion of issues in art and articulation of individual problems and unique resolutions. European and Asian processes are explored. Discussions of the printing process and professionalism occur throughout the course.