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TOKEN: Making Money with Art
Upload your work to a public marketplace, and share the link. Sign up and upload at least two images of your work to a print on demand platform like Society6, RedBubble, or Zazzle. You can find a different platform (Cafe … Continue reading
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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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04-0 Gestalt Principles
Dear Students, For class 9, we will be discussing Gestalt Principles. Check out the optical illusions in the lecture below, and read the paper by Solso. Apply these principles in your luggage tag blogWork. Our class participation for Monday is … Continue reading
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BLOG: Thumbnail Sketches for Luggage Tags
This week’s homework explores our ability to visualize solutions to a problem. Often there is not just one design solution, but many. This exercise is designed to help us practice generating many solutions quickly and explore Gestalt principles at the same … Continue reading
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Unit 4: Patterns and Gestalt Principles
Explore… Read… Due… Watch the Gestalt video below Gestalt Principles by – Robert Solso BLOG: Thumbnail Sketches due Thursday 11:59pm QUIZ #4 on Bridges due Sunday 11:55pm
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