CONCEPT DESIGN - LABORATORY
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- Academic year
- 2012/2013
- Teacher
- GIOVANNI DE SANDRE
- Credits
- 13
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- ICAR/13
Training objectives
- This class aims at bringing students closer to a professional designer’s approach to a project. This through a series of lectures and exercises organized in a rich calendar of reviews and underway presentations.
The chosen topic, on which the two main exercises will be focused, is lighting design, one of the most rapidly evolving sectors in product design, meaning also one in deep need of research by designers.
Three leading companies will be involved to grant the students the necessary instruments to develop a coherent and conscious project: one of the world’s main producers of light emitting diodes will give a detailed report on state of the art technology while a leading brand in lighting design with Murano glass will be at disposal with all its knowhow for technical and market-oriented reviews. Prerequisites
- Ability to convey ideas through hand drawing. Ability to organize ideas in a coherent system and to develop them into a project through analytical/logical thinking.
Course programme
- History of lighting design
Experimental approach to the design of a lamp
Analysis of designing methods
Market analysis
Industrial and traditional manufacturing techniques in the production of glass
State of the art in LED technology
Designing technical illumination Didactic methods
- The teaching plan is structured in lessons, midway exercises and a final examination. The lessons aim to introduce the students to the main issues they will deal with during planning. Creativity and logical abilities will be developed and evaluated through the exercises. The final examination will be focused on the development of those skills which are needed when dealing with complex problems in a systematic relation.
Learning assessment procedures
- The final examination will be discussed with the professors and will determine the final grade together with the results of the theoretical/practical midway exercises.
Reference texts
- Bruno Munari, Da cosa nasce cosa – La terza, Bari 1993
Massimo Iosa Ghini, Sostenibile MA bello – Editrice Compositori, 2009
David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on advertising – Prion, 1983
Edward De Bono, Il pensiero laterale – BUR Rizzoli, 2000
Michael Erlhoff, Design Dictionary - Birkhäuser Architecture, 2003
Graphic design:
Paola Yacomuzzi, Progettare un logo – Logos, 2011
Gavin Ambrose & Paul Harris, The Visual Dictionary of graphic design – AVA publishing SA, 2006
Ridiculous Design rules (collana) – BIS Publishers
