Product Design
INT 270 F; Cr: 3; Contact hrs: 90 The course aims to introduce the students in the world of product design, giving them the instruments to evaluate how to develop a project, expressing them own creativity. The course is divided into different parts. First the students will be introduced to the basic knowledge about design, its definitions, and the most important phenomena that have characterized its history. The students will also be taught about the materials, both traditional and modern, and the technologies that are used to realize industrial products. The teacher will show the students the transformation of some products, from their birth to their present situation and characteristics. During this theoretical analysis students will be asked to sketch their own interpretations of objects described by the teacher, and to realize a book of all their projects. A theme will be assigned and developed individually with the teacher’s help. The students will complete sketches, renderings, technical drawings with the appropriate dimensions, and 3D drawings in addition to realizing their final book, complete in all parts. They will also make a model in the material of their choice.
Prereq: Interior Design or equivalent.
