DES807M2

DES807M2
MODULE TITLE: Exploratory Design Practice
MODULE CODE:DES807M1

RATIONALE

This module enables students through studio practice to articulate and integrate design issues explored and proposed in DES806M1. Students will develop both conceptual and production skills via a portfolio of practical research and exploration.

AIMS

To advance the articulation of ideas and innovation through exploratory practice.To encourage reflection, and mirror that process through practice.To advance individual study approaches in the fields of:Graphic Design, Image-making, 3D Design, Multimedia, Moving Image and AnimationTo generate a portfolio of exploratory design practice.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

A successful student will be able to show that he/she can:

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

K1 Display an understanding of designs practical, cultural, economic and social contextsK2 Devise and apply appropriate exploratory practice and production methodologies

INTELLECTUAL QUALITIESI
1 Critically evaluate complex design problems and offer solutions
I2 Devise a rationale capable of sustaining exploratory practical studies
PROFESSIONAL/PRACTICAL SKILLS
P1 Deploy appropriate technical, conceptual and specialist production skills
P2 Demonstrate appropriate project planning and management skills
TRANSFERABLE/KEY SKILLS
T1 Demonstrate initiative
T2 Communicate with dexterity, listen, negotiate and make appropriate presentations
T3 Accept accountability for determining and achieving personal outcomes

CONTENT

Student will evidence a portfolio of practical work for Exploratory Design Practice.The list below will act as the common denominators for content on the module.
Idea generation,Concept explorationExploratory practice,Skills explorationInnovative practice

LEARNING AND TEACHING METHODS

Lectures will Enable students to place design in its wider cultural, economic context.Assist understanding of the principles informing design methodologies. Act as a precursor to design briefing sessions.

Seminars will..Enable students to devise and sustain arguments within their chosen discipline(s). Offer students the opportunity to deploy production skills prior to production.Offer students the opportunity to show accountability & determination.

Tutorials will...Offer students the opportunity to discuss the rationale behind their work.Provide a personal forum for qualitative feedback on draft design work.

will.Enable students to deploy IT/production production skills at the forefront of practice.Enable students to understand the implications of taking an idea from concept to completion and how the design process impacts on this.

Critiques will...Provide a group forum for qualitative feedback on the learning outcomesfrom both academic staff and the student peer group on draft design work. Offer students the opportunity to communicate with dexterity.

Students will be expected to take responsibility for the profile of books, journals and electronic sources on the field of their chosen design discipline(s).

ASSESSMENT

The module is assessed as 100% Coursework. Whilst qualitative feedback is offered during the teaching period to guide and assist students as they develop their specialist practice, marks are only awarded during the examination period at the end of semester. Students will be assessed according to set criteria detailed above and distributed to them at the start of semester.
100% Coursework 0% Examination

REQUIRED READING

Andrews P The Digital Photography Manual Carlton Books 2000
Banks A & Caplin S Digital Illustration / The Complete Guide ILEX 2003
Fiell P & C Graphic Design for the 21st Century Taschen Koln 2005
Gordon B Making Digital Type Look Good Thames & Hudson 2001
Katz S Shot by Shot / Visualising from Concept to Screen Braun Brumfield 1991
Patmore Chris The Complete Animation Course Thames & Hudson 2003
Poynor R No More Rules Graphic Design & Postmodernism Laurence King London 2003
Zeischegg F & Lewandowsky P A Practical Guide to Digital Design AVA Switzerland 2003

RECOMMENDED

Animation

Andersen Yvonne Make Your Own Animated Movies Little Brown 1991Culhane Shamus Animation from Script to Screen St Martins Press 1988Hallas John & Whittaker Harold Timing for Animation Focal Press 1981Laybourne Kit The Animation Book Three Rivers Press 1998Lord P & Sibley N Cracking Animation / Aardman 3D Animation Thames & Hudson 1998Noake R Animation Macdonald Orbis 1988Monaco J How to Read Film Oxford University Press 1981Pilling Jane (ed) A Reader in Animation John Libbey & Co 1997Pilling Jane Animation 2D and Beyond Rotovision 2001Wells P Understanding Animation Routledge 1998White T The Animators Workbook Watson & Guptill 1986Williams R The Animators Survival Kit Faber & Faber 2001

RECOMMENDED

Design

Bachelard G The Poetics of Space Beacon Press 1994Baines P & Haslam A Type & Typography Laurence King 2002Dondis D A A Primer for Visual Literacy MIT Press 1986Elam K Geometry of Design Princeton Architectural Press 2001Evans J & Hall S Visual Culture /The Reader Sage 1999Fella E Letters on America / Essays by L Blackwell 2001Frascina F & Harris J Art in Modern Culture / An Anthology of Critical Texts Phaidon 1995Friedman D Radical Modernism Yale University Press 1994Gottschall E Typographic Communications Today MIT Press 1989Harper L Radical Graphics/Graphic Radicals Chronical Books 1999Hauffe T Design A Concise History Laurence King 1998Helfand J & Maeda J Screen / Graphic Design, Media & Visual Culture Princeton Arch Press 2001Hellar & Drennan The Digital Designer Watson-Guptill 1997Hollis R Graphic Design / A Concise History Thames & Hudson 1996Johnson M Problem Solved / A Primer for Design & Communication Phaidon 2002Lunenfield P Snap to Grid MIT Press 2001Noble I & Bestley R Experimental Layout RotoVision 2001Margolin V Design Discourse University of Chicago Press 1990Margolin V & Buchanon R The Idea of Design / A design Issues Reader MIT Press 1995Maeda J & Negrponte Maeda @ Maeda Universe Books 2001McAlhone & Stuart A Smile in the Mind Phaidon 1999McLuhan M The Medium is The Massage Gingko Press 1992Marsack R Essays on Design 1 Booth-Clibborn 1997McQuiston L Graphic Agitation / Political & Social Graphics since 60’s Phaidon 1993Pipes A Production for Graphic Designers Laurence King 2001 edPapinek V The Green Imperative Thames & Hudson 1995Poynor R Typographica 2001Sparke P An Introduction to Design & Culture in 20th Century Routledge 2000 (reprint)Williamson J Decoding Advertisements Marian Boyars 1998Woodham JM 20th Century Design Oxford University Press 1997

RECOMMENDED

Image-Making

Barfield N & Whale G Digital Printmaking A&C Black 2000Barrett T Criticizing Photographs McGraw Hill 1999Bernardin S & Graulich L Trading Gazes / 1880 – 1840 Rutgers University Press 2003Clarke G The Photograph / Oxford History of Art Oxford University Press 1997Durham M S Powerful Days / Civil Rights Photography University of Alabama Press 2002Hedgecoe J The Photographer’s Handbook Edbury Press 1977Hirsch R Seizing the Light McGraw Hill 1999Howard B R Proust in the power of Photography University of Chicago Press 2001Marien M W Photography / A Cultural History Prentice Hall Press 2003Mitchell W J The Reconfigured Eye MIT Press 1992Orvell M American Photography / Oxford History of Art Oxford University Press 2003Paul C Digital Art Thames & Hudson 2003Rosenblum N A World History of Photography Abbeyville Press 1997Sontag S On Photography Penguin 2002Westerbeck C & Meyerowitz Bystander / A history of Street Photography Bullfinch Press 2001Willis D & Williams C The Black Female Body Temple University Press 2002

RECOMMENDED

Media

Barthes R Image Music Text Fontana 1977Bordwell D & Thomson K Film Art McGraw Hill 2000Codrington A Kyle Cooper Laurence King Publishing 2003Curran M Motion Graphics 2002Danino N & Maziere M Critical Writings on Film & Video Wallflower Press 2003Deveraeaux L & Hillman R Fields of Vision University of Chicago Press 1995Hedgecoe J The Complete Guide to Video Collins & Brown 1992Grau O Virtual Art / From Illusion to Immersion MIT Press 2003Le Grice & Cubitt S Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age BFI 2001MacDonald, K & Cousins M. (eds) Imagining Reality / Faber Book of the Documentary Faber & Faber 1996Manovich L The Language of New Media MIT Press 2001Meadows M Pause & Effect / The Art of Interactive Narrative MIT Press 2003Meyer Chris & Trish Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects CMP Books 2002Monaco J How to Read Film Oxford University Press 1981Ondaatje M The Conversations / Art of Editing Films Alfred Knopf 2002Raskin R The Art of Short Fiction Film McFarland & CoRieser M & Zapp A New Screen Media / Cinema Art Narrative BFI 2000Rush M New Media in Late 20th Century Art Thames & Hudson 1999Slar R Film / An International History of the Medium Thames & Hudson 1993Viola B Bill Viola / Writings 1973 “ 1994 Thames & Hudson 1995Woollman M Type in Motion Thames & Hudson 2001

OTHER

Baudrillard Fatal Strategies Pluto Press 1999Chomsky N Necessary Illusions Pluto Press 1989Klien N No Logo Flamingo 2000Lunenfield P The Digital Dialectic / New Essays MIT 2000Wilson B Technologies of Seeing BFI 1996

MAGAZINES Sources

AfterimageAmerican CinematographerAnimation MagazineApertureBaselineCar StylingCircaComputer ArtsCreative ReviewDesignDesign WeekDpictDV digital videoEyeFilm CommentFilm IrelandFilmmakerFormGraphisIDIdeaNew DesignSight & SoundSource
JOURNAL SourcesThe Design Journal (International Refereed on all aspects of Design)Digital Creativity (Proceedings & Conferences on Computers in A&D)Design Issues (MIT Press)Design Management Journal (Boston Mass.)European Journal of Communication (Sage Publications)Innovation (quarterly journal)Interactions (Industrial Design Society of America)Journal of Design History (Oxford University Press)Journal of the Print WorldJournal of the History of IdeasJournal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism (American Society of Aesthetics)Leonardo (MIT Press)

WEB Sources

Advertising Standards Authority:
www.asa.org.uk
Animation Library:
www.animationlibrary.com\
Animation World Network:
www.awn.com
Art & Design Index UU:
www.ulst.ac.uk/library/arts/cuttingsArt Guide:
www.artguide.org/ukArtdiary
:www.artdiary.netArtfacts
:www.artfacts.netArtists
Assoc of Ireland:
www.artistireland.com
Artlondon:
www.artlondon.com
Arts Council Ireland:
www.artscouncil.ie
Arts Council Northern Ireland:
www.artscouncil-ni.org
Association of Illustrators:
www.aoi.co.uk
Atom Films
www.atomfilms.com
Australian Film
www.cinemedia.net
Bad Designs
www.baddesigns.com
BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
Belfast City Council Arts
www.belfastcity.gov.uk/arts/
British Film Institute
www.bfi.org.uk
Centre for Sustainable Design
www.cfsd.org.uk
Chartered Society of Designers
www.csd.orgCirca Art Magazine
:www.recirca/com
Crafts Council Ireland
www.craftscouncil-of-ireland.ie
Creative Ireland :
www.creativeireland.com
Creative Northern Ireland:
www.creativeni.com
Creative Review
www.creativereview.co.uk
Crumb:
www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb
Design & Art Direction:
www.dandad.orgDesign Council
www.design-council.org.uk
Design Museum
www.designmusuem.org
Documentary Film :www.2.dox.dk./dox
Emigra: www.emigra.com
Envirolink:
www.envirolink.org
Exhibition Net:
www.exhibitions.co.uk
International Movie database :
http://us.imdb.com
Institute of Contemporary Arts
http://www.ica.org.uk/
Institute of Designers of Ireland:
www.idi-ireland.com
Irish Arts Review:
www.irishartsreview.com/index/htm
Irish Film and TV Network :
www.iftn.ie
Live Art Archives :
http://art.ntu.ac.uk/liveart
New Media Notes :
http://artistsireland.com/nmn/
One Dot Zero:
www.onedotzero.com
Pathe :
www.britishpathe.com
Photography on the Web :
www.photographyontheweb.org
Prelinger Archive Etc www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php
Re:Design :
www.redesign.org
Rhizome:
www.rhizome.orgWebmonkey/
Wired: www.webmonkey.com

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION

This module offers opportunities for design exploration through specialist practical projects proposed by the students. A research-based approach is encouraged, enabling the development of mature design outcomes towards pathways for meaningful exploration and experimentation.