Undergraduate Course: Drawing for Design Practice 1: Drawing for designing and making (DESI08110)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course introduces drawing as a navigational tool to develop your hand/eye co-ordination. This will be achieved through various practice led set drawing exercises and visual research methodologies.
The aim of this course is to develop drawing skills that will support designing and making. Design innovation is fuelled by a curiosity of the visual world and this course will embed an understanding of how visual research underpins design.
Through a combination of studio based assignments and location drawing visits you will cover a wide spectrum of different ways of observing and recording visual information within a range of media and applications. |
| Course description |
This course 'Drawing for Design Practice 1: Drawing for designing and making' is a series of weekly set projects that introduce a variety of media and techniques for analysing and capturing visual data especially pertinent to applied artists.
The typical schedule will include:
1) Studio still- life set ups
2) Life models
3) Mono printing
4) Stencil work
5) Wire modelling
6) Timed drawing projects
7) Organized visits to locations within Edinburgh and Glasgow
8) Organized visits to specialist drawing collection archives in Edinburgh
9) Visits to exhibitions
You are asked to work in sketchbooks, loose sheet paper and also written evaluation collating this work week-on-week for a formative and summative assessment. For the both assessments you are asked to select and present work both in written and visual format.
To develop this research further and help you to comprehend different drawing methods and practices. You will be asked in your self-managed time to visit museums and galleries as well as other sources to investigate other artists and designers. This may link to other studio projects, but should be recorded in no smaller than an A4 sketchbook format with reflective comments and analysis. You will be asked to present your documented work and reflective analysis of a selected artist or genre from this research for assessment.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | If this course is core to your programme you will be automatically enrolled. For all other students, including Design students, the course is open on a first come first served basis until the course is full. Where a course depends on some technical proficiency, PTs are encouraged to help students check with the appropriate Course Organiser regarding suitability, e.g. if student has previous external practical experience. The course will be open to enrolments from Wednesday 11th September at 11.00 am. Please sign up for the course through your own School (they will advise if this is done via your PT, SSO or Teaching Office). We do not currently keep a waiting list. |
| Additional Costs | Approximate costs for paper, sketch books and drawing materials £30 |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate an ability to investigate, gather and collate research themes relevant to the crafts & applied arts.
- Evidence a considered range of approaches to design drawing and making.
- Evaluate and select for a portfolio of work which professionally presents emerging personal research themes.
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Reading List
Cane, K. Making and Drawing. A&C Black Visual Arts (2012)
Drawing Projects an exploration of the language of drawing. Mick Maslen & Jack Southern. Black Dog publishing.
Simblet, S. The Drawing Book. London, DK (2005) |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Drawing skills;
Developing hand eye co-ordination;
Critical and reflective analysis;
Awareness of wider shared ethos of art and design. |
| Keywords | Drawing,composition,hand eye co-ordination,colour,form,texture |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Susan Cross
Tel: 0131 221 6238
Email: s.cross@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Georgia Dodsworth
Tel: (0131 6)51 5712
Email: georgia.dodsworth@ed.ac.uk |
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