Design Thinking

Description

Course Competencies

Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to:

• Analyze and define creative challenges.
• Apply the basic design process to specific goal-focused problem solving.
• Explore nontraditional design options.
• Integrate design concepts, materials and skills.
• Develop and use critical thinking in the design process.
• Identify and use appropriate research methods.
• Develop concepts from thumbnail sketches through comprehensive output.
• Develop an awareness of concept building using the visual and written word.
• Articulate the relationship of content/form + typography/image
  • Develop an understanding of an “arrangement vs. concept”
  • Abstract Thinking vs. Literal Thinking

This is a 10 week class with 1.5 hours per/week meetings, synchronistically via Zoom

Knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop