House Design
Four Clients:
A) A young couple who have chosen to not have children. She works at home as a graphic designer, and needs an office clients can visit without going through the house.
B) A middle aged couple (50 years old) who have no children at home, but have elderly parents (85, 82) who are living with them.
C) A family with 2 adults and 5 children from 2 to 14 years old. One of the adults has SAD (seasonal affective disorder) and needs lots of sunshine in the winter months.
D) A blended family, with 2 adults, and four children from two previous marriages (2 children from each of 2 previous marriages) who live here every other week, and are with their other parents the other weeks.
Four Locations:
1) In Summerland BC, in a dry desert overlooking the Okanagan Valley.
2) On Cape Breton Island, NS, on the shore of Bras d"Or lake. There are many rock outcroppings on the land.
3) In Calgary, on an in-fill lot between two existing buildings. The lot is only 5 metres wide, but 60 metres deep.
4) In an old treed suburb in Port Credit, south of Lakeshore - a house has been torn down from the lot, and the family will build a new one.
All of the families share an interest in the ideals of organic architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright, and want to see some of his principles in their house.
The families have chosen to have an architect designed house so that they can take advantage of new green building ideas and technologies, and minimize their footprint on the world, even as they are building. Think Canadian, think local.
Sketchbooks:
In your new, small sketchbook, you are to make a series of 7 drawings this week. Each drawing is to show where you have found Times or Helvetica typefaces in your life or surroundings.
Words to know from class
serif
sans serif
ascender
descender
baseline
x-height
ambiguous
upper case
lower case
square
positive space
negative space
Times
Helvetica
Some Art schools to explore:
Ontario College of Art and Design
NSCAD University
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
Alberta College of Art
Sheridan College
Humber College
York University
Carleton University
University of Waterloo
University of Toronto
Ryerson University
Look for UNDERGRADUATE programs. GRADUATE programs are for students who have already graduated from a Bachelor's program.
Look for "Faculties" in an a school, a group of related classes.
Try
Architecture
Interior Design
Industrial Design
Advertising Design
Environmental Design
Urban Planning
Art and Art History
Photography
Media Arts
Film
The first group are Jeopardy Questions.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Gehry
Daniel Libeskind
Will Alsop
William Morris
Coco Chanel
The second group are ‘Masters’ in their respective fields
Saul Bass
Paul Rand
Ivan Chermayeff
Tadanori Yokoo
Milton Glaser
The future may include these folks:
Zaha Hadid
Stefan Sagemeister
April Greiman
David Carson
Neville Brody
Barbara Kruger
Karim Rashid
Les Usherwood
Douglas Cardinal
Good Morning, Class.
Today, as a timed task, I would like you to set up the following in InDesign:
Open a new file, a page 8.5 x 5.5 inches (140 x 216 mm). It should be a tall, thin page.
You may choose your own margins.
You must divide the page into 2 equal columns.
Onecolumn must befull of lines of text only. One column must contain 8 lines of text, and a photograph of a Cawthra teacher.Use Lorem Ipsum.
The page number should be page 24, and it should include today's date, September 24.
Use a quote from or about the teacher as a title or headline for your page. Put your name on the last line of the second column..
Once you have competed these tasks (on your own), raise your hand and I will come look over your shoulder to see it.
After that, you can continue on your own work.
Thanks. Try to have a little fun with this, if you can.
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http://www.commarts.com/ca/exhibit/101507/
In October, we will be taking a field trip to this exposition. There is a section for students online, and a chance to win a scholarship to a design program in Canada. Worth a look.
http://www.exploredesign.ca/