As they create in Parsons studios and out source to local manufacturers, students refine their prototypes with the goal of achieving a product that is ready for presentation to manufacturers. Students also work with instructors to determine a business strategy that is appropriate. Patents, copyrights, licensing and business plans are covered. A prototypes to further develop. Learn the process through concept drawings, mock ups and prototype education.
Work is reviewed in class every week.
Subjects include architecture, furniture, ceramics and metalwork. Trace stylistic and technical developments-as well as social and historical forces that have affected design. Study furniture, ceramics, metalwork and textiles of the modern era. Subjects include the Arts and Crafts movement, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, the Bauhaus, the Victorian era in the United States and England, nineteenth-century revival styles in architecture and the decorative arts, functionalism and the relationship between design and technology. Through an analysis of rooms from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries, develop an awareness of the chronology of styles and the differing languages of design with which they were made.