Design and Technology: 100 DESIGNS DAY

Goals:

  • Produce between 40 and 100preliminary design possibilities before creating final lamp designs.
  • Open the mind for quick designs based on a variety of prompts
  • Lose any self conscious"I'm not creative / I can't draw" tendencies
  • Start thinking about forms, shapes and their interaction
  • Design with abstraction and representation

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Pre-Activity:

  1. Have lots of paper and pencils on hand. Use your sketchbook.
  2. Watch the timer
  3. Loosen up. Do something funny. A dance? Get pumped!!
  4. Be prepared to sketch quick but identifiable images. A variety of quick ideas are more useful then a few well rendered ideas. Things are going to move fast!!!!
  5. PROMPTS: Can’t think of anything? Use the page of prompts for inspiration!
  6. There’s 70 minutes of activities to be accomplished. Please stay focused.
  7. Are you ready!!!

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Activities:

Activity 1: Preconceptions / Timing: 2 minutes / Drawings Made: 1

Draw a lamp. Any lamp. The first lamp that comes to mind.

Activity 2: Fast Rendering / Timing: 2 minutes / Drawings Made: 4
  1. Draw the lamp from activity 1 in 60 seconds
  2. Draw the lamp from activity 1 in 30 seconds
  3. Draw the lamp from activity 1 in 15 seconds
  4. Draw the lamp from activity 1 in 7 seconds

STOP:Short Discussion: Compare your 5 drawings

Which drawing best communicates the essential formal elements of the lamp?

Think about how fast you were able to render this lamp. Keep that momentum for all the upcoming design activities!

Activity 3: Lamp based on a Cube / Timing: 1 minute x 5 sessions = 5 min / Drawings Made: 5

Start by drawing a cube on the page. Somehow, turn that cube into a lamp.

Repeat 5 times using only 1 minute per drawing.

Activity 4: Lamp based on a Rectangle / Timing: 1 minute x 5 sessions = 5 min / Drawings Made: 5

Start by drawing a 2-D or 3-D rectangle on the page. Somehow, turn that rectangle into a lamp.

Repeat 5 times using only 1 minute per drawing.

Activity 5: Lamp based on a 6 sided polygon / Timing: 1 minute x 5 sessions = 5 min / Drawings Made: 5

Start by drawing a 2-D or 3-D 6-sided polygon on the page. Somehow, turn that polygon into a lamp.

Repeat 5 times using only 1 minute per drawing.

Activity 6: Lamp based on a 6 sided polygon / Timing: 1 minute x 5 sessions = 5 min / Drawings Made: 5

Start by drawing a 2-D or 3-D diamond on the page. Somehow, turn that diamond into a lamp. Repeat 5 times using only 1 minute per drawing.

Activity 7: Lamp based on a5 sided polygon / Timing: 1 minute x 5 sessions = 5 min / Drawings Made: 5

Start by drawing a 2-D or 3-D 5-sided polygon on the page. Somehow, turn that polygon into a lamp.

Repeat 5 times using only 1 minute per drawing.

Activity 8: Lamp based on an Arc (of steel) / Timing: 1 minute x 5 sessions = 5 min / Drawings Made: 5

Start by drawing an arcon the page. Somehow, turn that arc into a lamp.

Repeat 5 times using only 1 minute per drawing.

Activity 9: Lamp based on an L (of steel) / Timing: 1 minute x 5 sessions = 5 min / Drawings Made: 5

Start by drawing an Lon the page. Somehow, turn that L into a lamp.

Repeat 5 times using only 1 minute per drawing.

Activity 10: Lamp based on an V (of steel) / Timing: 1 minute x 5 sessions = 5 min / Drawings Made: 5

Start by drawing aVon the page. Somehow, turn that V into a lamp.

Repeat 5 times using only 1 minute per drawing.

Activity 11: Lamp based on a spiral (of steel) / Timing: 1 minute x 5 sessions = 5 min / Drawings Made: 5

Start by drawing a spiral on the page. Somehow, turn that spiral into a lamp.

Repeat 5 times using only 1 minute per drawing.

5 MIN STOP:

Display a page of sketches (any page) and walk around to see other students’ sketches.

Activity 12: Design from Scratch
(And prompts if needed) / Timing: 1 minute x 6 sessions = 6 min / Drawings Made: 5

Starting with nothing on the page. Draw a lamp. Use a prompt(s) if that helps you get started.

  • Make 3 representational (they look like something recognizable)
  • Make 3 abstract (they look like something recognizable)
  • Only 1 minute per drawing.

Activity 13: Variations / Timing: 1 minute x 5 sessions = 5 min / Drawings Made: 5
  • Pick any one of your previous designs and do 5 VARIATIONS of that ONE design.
  • You can make small or big changes but in each variation, keep some core element of the original design

Activity 13: Combine / Timing: 2 minute x 2 sessions = 4 min / Drawings Made: 2
  • Take ANY TWO designsfrom today and combine them into ONE new design
  • Repeat with two other designs.

Total initial design count:62!!! In only 75 minutes!