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PROCESS INSTRUCTIONS (time required: 2 to 4 hours over a one week period): This is the final sketchbook assignment and it combines all of the techniques and theories you have learned this term. In this assignment, you are your own public relations assistant. … Continue reading →

(sorry this got posted a day early to the site!)PROCESS INSTRUCTIONS (time required: 3-4 hours over 2-3 days):  You are tasked with designing a  personal statistics poster as part of the Quantified Self Movement. RIMOSA has asked you to draft a … Continue reading →

PROCESS INSTRUCTIONS (time required: 1 to 2 hours over a three day period):You are an expert in something. Use your first-hand experience or observation to create a unique visual explanation of your insight. Use  annotation, storyboarding, sketching, and visual perception … Continue reading →

Process Instructions (time required: 2 to 4hours over 1 week period): Imagine you’ve been hired by a small independent toy company as part of the advanced concepts group. The C-suite is interested in whimsical designers like Lisa Frank or Paul … Continue reading →

Process Instructions (time required: 1 to 2 hours over 2 day period): This assignment requires two final storyboards.  First you’ll analyze existing comics. Then, you create your own and analyze it.  HINT: Before creating your storyboards, use your sketchbook to work out … Continue reading →

Process Instructions (time req.: 1 to 2 hours over one week period): Create a wordless diagram that demonstrates: “How to make cookies “ Imagine you work for a Magazine Publishing company that is creating a new product for non-English speaking … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

Look around a novel environment and seek examples of pre-attentive features of  color, shape,  line, relative size and the division of space (structure). You are encouraged to go somewhere unfamiliar (off-campus, outdoors, not your dorm room or apartment!!!)  to more … Continue reading →

This assignment is about exploring our subconscious in the role of creativity for problem solving. Please follow the process carefully so that your subconscious has time to work. The challenge is to create a MindMap to solve a serious problem … Continue reading →