Monthly Archives: March 2021

05-0 Sensing and Perceiving Where

Great job with the creature festival last week! The creatures enjoyed a Sports Day with Cotton Candy (sensorially fluffy), Scary Fest SpookOff Ice Cream (continuously chills the spine for hours), Halloween Cookies (scrumptiously symbolic), Mardi Gras BLTs (grouping of crispy … Continue reading

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BLOG: The nickel tour map

Your mission is to design “back of the napkin directions” or a “nickel tour” for a friend. Merely walking on campus from classroom to dorm does not qualify for this assignment. Make it fun and interesting for someone to visit … Continue reading

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Unit 5: Perception Models – Memory and Orientation

With mid-terms approaching in two weeks, it is useful to figure out how to design ways to improve one’s memory and sense of direction. We’ll draw a map to convey directions and also work on understanding how visual cues help … Continue reading

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Gestalt Festival Today!

Hey Comm165, Just wanted to remind you that today we’rre having a festival for the full class time. We’re switching up the meeting place. You can get to the class by going to comm165.com/meetbutter. Please use Google Chrome and have … Continue reading

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04-1 Gestalt Festival

For Class 10 , we will have a “Gestalt Festival!” From 5:25 pm the full class’ will explore the topics from the readings and then create some small work to explore the Gestalt principles. . Check out the reading notes … Continue reading

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TOKEN: Convert a scene into shapes

Shapes are in everything you see. Using lines, you can describe recognizable shapes. Look around to find ovals, rectangles, squares, polygons, etc. The goal is to become aware that our visual perception system processes the world as a collage of … Continue reading

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