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DESIGN SURVEY (124-001)

Spring 2015, 3 credits

Professor: Jake Stroeh

Catalog Description

Design Survey is a survey of design disciplines and movements of the 19th, 20th, and 21^st centuries. Slide lectures include industrial design, architecture, graphic design, and design movements.

Prereguisites

Nonę. This course satisfies the university GER Arts requirement and all students are welcome. All Design and Visual Communication majors in the Department of Art and Design must achieve a grade of B- or better.

Course Description

Design Survey is an introduction to design thinking, contemporary design disciplines, traditions and historie design movements. Field trips, readings, assignments, and videos will complement Online slide lectures in order to expose students to design and its role in shaping culture and in our daily lives.

Students must use their UWM email addresses. When sending an email to the professor, use Design Survey in the subject linę. Remember all emails are formally written Communications and write accordingly.

Students must use the Design Survey D2Lsite, http://d2l.uwm.edu/. Syllabus, slide lists, course information, and assignment guidelines will be in the content section.

NOTĘ: Design Survey students should expect to spend approximately 6-8 hours per week on class course work and lectures.

Reguired Text

Stephen J. Eskilson, Graphic Design: A New History, 2nd edition, Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300172607.

Further required readings are posted in D2L.

Reguired Supplies

•    Smali design journal/sketchbook (blank pages, minimum 5 x 8”)

•    Camera (any kind, including phone cameras)

•    Microsoft Word and PowerPoint software

Course Learning Obiectiyes

Design Survey is an introduction to the design theory and methodologies, the designed world and the many ways in which design affects our lives. This course will provide a survey of historical design concepts, design’s primary movements and leading practitioners in order to establish a context for the emergence of design awareness in our present day. Emphasis is placed on defining and analyzing objects of design and architecture, as well as the study of design styles, movements and professional practice.