ART 2365 - FURNITURE DESGN & CONSTRUCTION II

credits: 3.0
Through semi-open ended assignments, students explore and develop creative solutions to functional and aesthetic design problems in furnishings. Students identify, refine and communicate the conceptual underpinnings of their projects as expressed in the discipline of furniture design. Emphasis is placed on original concepts, identifying personal aesthetic, providing solutions and the importance of effective self-direction. Students will continue to learn the use of hand and power tools as well as various techniques of joining, laminating, fabricating and carving. Emphasis is placed on originality, individual concept and design, while working three-dimensionally. Students will be strengthening their inventiveness and creative thinking which are essential to the learning experience. Work will be discussed and reviewed in a critique forum upon completion of the project. Students will design and construct one original piece of furniture. The work of art will be functional, original in design and have a high level of craft. Objectives: A) Demonstrate and employ the ability to communicate ideas through creating full-scale (1:1) furniture; B) To demonstrate and employ the ability to use drawing, both half-scale and full-scale, as a tool for thinking, forming ideas and gathering information to apply to their full-scale designs; C) To demonstrate and employ the ability to use a variety of advanced hand tools and power machinery for performing specific tasks and techniques; D) Demonstrate and employ the ability to incorporate criticism and learn how integrate it into their own designs; E) Demonstrate and employ the ability to develop a piece of work emphasizing a personal design aesthetic; F) Demonstrate and employ the ability to design and create furniture beyond the basic level to an increasing sophistication and competence in terms of design and execution; G) Document student’s own finished art through digital photographic media. Method of Instruction: This course will be taught using in class lectures and demonstrations, group and individual critiques, readings, slide lectures, and course projects. Method of Evaluation: Studio participation, etiquette-clean up 10%, Preliminary and final design of furniture 20%, Final piece of furniture 60%, Research and Research paper 10%. Course Fee: $125.00.

Prerequisite(s): ART 1362 - FURNITURE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION I