FACULTY OF DESIGN
Important Information: Degree Requirements
Advertising
ADVR 2K01 Advertising Concept 1 (cancelled 2011-05-05)
ADVR 2K02 Advertising Concept 2 (cancelled 2011-06-08)
ADVR 3B04 Advertising Copywriting 1 (cancelled 2011-04-28)
ADVR 4B04 Advertising Copywriting 2 (cancelled 2011-05-05)
First-Year Design
GDES 1B00 Drawing: Concept and Practice
GDES 1B11 Drawing as Graphic Visualization
GDES 1B14 Draw Like Leonardo
GDES 1B23 Design Process
GDES 1B24 Colour & Two-dimensional Design
GDES 1B25 Form & Structure
GDES 1B26 Introduction to Experience Design
GDES 1B27 Graphic Communication (section added 2011-05-24)
GDES 1B28 Objects & Environments
General Design
GDES 2B03 Think Thank: Awareness
GDES 3B02 Editorial & Publication Design 1
GDES 3B05 Sequential Narrative 1
GDES 3B06 Guerrilla Entrepreneurship
GDES 3B10 Art of Presentation
GDES 3B20 Small Object Design: Virtual to Reality
GDES 3B48 Illustrative Activism
GDES 3B59 Urban Design Ecology
GDES 3B63 Cities for People/Summer Workshop (cancelled 2011-05-09)
GDES 3B68 Design (As) Research
GDES 3B72 Understanding Wood (cancelled 2011-04-28)
GDES 3B91 Special Topic: Introduction To Data Visualization
GDES 3C01 The Future Of Inhabited Form
GDES 4B03 Internship
Graphic Design
GRPH 2B06 Typography 2: Structures (cancelled 2011-05-05)
GRPH 2K01 Graphic Design 1
GRPH 2K02 Graphic Design 2
GRPH 3B14 Typography 3: Advanced Structures
Illustration
ILLU 2K01 Illustration 1 (cancelled 2011-05-09)
ILLU 2K02 Illustration 2 (cancelled 2011-06-08)
Interdisciplinary
INTR 3B90 Special Topic in Art: Gibraltar Point: A Living Labratory (added 2011-04-26)
Material Art & Design
MAAD 2B01 Intro to Fibre
MAAD 2B08 Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Casting
MAAD 2B14 Intro to Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Fabrication
MAAD 2B15 Intro to Ceramics
MAAD 2B26 Fibre: Explorations (cancelled 2011-05-05)
MAAD 2B29 Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Fabrication 2 (cancelled 2011-05-05)
MAAD 2B30 Ceramics: Intro To Throwing
MAAD 3B01 Fibre: Dyeing
MAAD 3B40 Ceramics: Throwing Workshop
MAAD 3B41 Silversmithing
ADVR 2K01 (cancelled 2011-05-05)
Advertising Concept 1
0.75 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 17:30-21:30
Instructor: TBA
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio (including GDES 1B27 Graphic Communication with a minimum grade of 60%), 1.0 credit of first-year Liberal Studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Conditions: Requires a minimum grade of 60% to advance to ADVR 2K02 Advertising Concept 2.
In this introductory course, students will begin to understand issues of communication in the context of contemporary advertising. Through case studies and assignments, students learn the importance of assessing, and responding to, consumer needs in the development of creative and effective advertising. Strong emphasis is placed on concept development and students are introduced to the importance of marketing communication. Typical assignments will include newspaper, outdoor, magazine and other media projects. The course will be delivered using lectures, in-class discussions and one-on-one consultations and critiques. All studio-based assignments require research and presentations that include verbal, written and visual components.
ADVR 2K02 (cancelled 2011-06-08)
Advertising Concept 2
0.75 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 4 - August 19, Tuesday & Thursday, 17:30-21:30
Instructor: TBA
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio, 1.0 credit of first-year Liberal Studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and ADVR 2K01 Advertising Concept 1 (minimum grade of 60%).
Conditions: Requires a minimum grade of 60% to advance to ADVR 3B02 Advertising Concept 3.
This course introduces students to the subject of branding and an understanding of what consumers will respond to. Case-study analysis will deepen their comprehension of how to reach a specific audience. Students will study and research brand positioning, strategy development, idea/image creation and the development of innovative and effective advertising solutions. Project assignments will address a variety of media, including newspaper, magazine, poster, broadcast, and the Internet. Issues of art director/client responsibility, ethics and legal requirements will be discussed. A high degree of responsibility is placed on students to inquire, create, execute and present their work. The course will be delivered using lectures, in-class discussions and one-on-one consultations and critiques. All studio-based assignments require research and presentations that include verbal, written and visual components. Project assignments of varying lengths and complexity address the issues and help students refine their communication skills.
ADVR 3B04 (cancelled 2011-04-28)
Advertising Copywriting 1
0.5 Credit | Studio/Seminar
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: TBA
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits).
The goal of this course is to instruct would-be copywriters in the essentials of effective writing for advertising. The course also recognizes that professional art directors and designers are better equipped to express their visual ideas coherently with a firm sense of the role copy plays. The power of the written word in all advertising media is of course a key pillar in this course, providing students a firm understanding of the relevant rules of writing within every form - broadcast, print, on-line, outdoor, etc.
ADVR 4B04 (cancelled 2011-05-05)
Advertising Copywriting 2
0.5 Credit | Studio/Seminar
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: TBA
Prerequisite: 14.0 credits, including all first-year and second-year requirements (10.0 credits), and ADVR 3B04 Advertising Copywriting 1.
As an essential skill for both art direction and copy-focused students, this final-year, advanced course in writing advertising copy helps students polish their skills. Classes include lecture material and assignments based on writing compelling and memorable headlines and varied lengths of advertising copy, created according to strategies and objectives and in a variety of media. How the specific merging of words and pictures informs and motivates consumers, is a central theme of the course.
As an extension of Advertising Copywriting 1, the course further deepens student exposure to and agility with English language copywriting and crafting a polished portfolio.
GDES 1B00
Drawing: Concept and Practice
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 1: May 16 - June 3, Wednesday & Friday, 11:30-17:30
Instructor: Salina, Joseph
Note for First Year Art Students: To receive an equivalency for GART 1C00 (1.0 credit), you must enroll in and successfully complete both GDES 1B00 (0.5 credit) and either GDES 1B11 or GDES 1B14 (0.5 credit).
Relevant to all disciplines. Focusing on objects and human figures, this course is designed as an introduction to 'drawing as seeing', 'drawing as visual language' and 'drawing as manipulation of surface and spatial illusion'. Important elements of the course include: material exploration, drawing accuracy and heightened sensitivity to observation.
GDES 1B11
Drawing as Graphic Visualization
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 4: June 6 - June 30, Wednesday & Friday, 11:30-17:30
Instructor: Salina, Joseph
Note: This course will be recognized as the equivalent to the winter semester drawing course requirement for all Year 1 Design programs.
Note for First Year Art Students: To receive an equivalency for GART 1C00 (1.0 credit), you must enroll in and successfully complete both GDES 1B00 (0.5 credit) and either GDES 1B11 or GDES 1B14 (0.5 credit).
Working from life and still life - with emphasis on drawing as seeing and drawing as conceptual and analytical interpretation - from 3D realism to shape abstraction. The power of composition and cropping/framing/viewpoint are explored as key image-making tools. Via a variety of drawing projects, the student develops an understanding of simplification/abstraction/flatness/illusion as important aspects of visualization and conceptualization. Experimentation with a variety of materials and techniques explores the expressive capacities of drawn line, texture and value to engage the emotions as well as the intellect. Process work with roughs, thumbnails and multiple images develops the working skills important to graphic designers.
GDES 1B14
Draw Like Leonardo
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 4: June 6 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 11:30-17:30
Instructor: Popvassilev, Vassil
Note: This course will be recognized as the equivalent to the winter semester drawing course requirement for all Year 1 Design programs.
Note for First Year Art Students: To receive an equivalency for GART 1C00 (1.0 credit), you must enroll in and successfully complete both GDES 1B00 (0.5 credit) and either GDES 1B11 or GDES 1B14 (0.5 credit).
Well, at least learn how to draw in a way that supports 3D idea exploration and communication… Beginning with basic three-dimensional prismatic forms of cube, pyramid and cone, students explore the abstract world of geometric solids as a foundation for three-dimensional creative work. Topics include: how to use perspective, axonometric and orthographic drawing (freehand/sketch mode) to generate and explain ideas; perceiving and rendering shade, tone and shadow to add to the effectiveness of a drawing; choosing views, exploded views, doing sectional drawings and arranging multiple views for effective presentation.
GDES 1B23
Design Process
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 14:30-17:30
Instructor: Girling, Candida
Design methodology and process are studied in different contexts that include manual and digital processes. These open up a constantly expanding range of creative possibilities, to analyze, fully integrated, improve the overall performance and work, What is ‘design’? Who is design for? What issues are important to contemporary designers? What do the terms ‘humanistic’, ‘sustainable’ or ‘universal’ design mean? What is ‘good’ design? How does OCAD’s Faculty of Design Mission Statement frame questions and attitudes we need to adopt as designers? How is a solution to a perceived need found?This course answers these questions, and is an introduction to Design as a creative practice which utilizes both knowledge and imagination. The design process itself is the central subject matter of the course. Students from all disciplines work together, learning approaches to creative thinking and problem-solving. Design processes - including ‘problem’ definition (or finding the right questions to ask), design criteria development, research and observation, ideation, brainstorming, divergent and convergent thinking, cycles of testing and refinement - are discussed and practiced through a variety of studio projects.Central to the completion of assignments is students’ understanding of the cultural and environmental context of contemporary design. Course work explores various design strategies within the context of our rapidly changing world.
GDES 1B24
Colour & Two-dimensional Design
0.5 Credit | Studio
This course will not be offered in the summer semester. First Year Design students may take GART 1B04 Colour & Composition as an equivalent to GDES 1B24. (see course description under the Faculty of Art listings).
GDES 1B25
Form & Structure
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Elson, Christine
Note for First Year Art Students: This course will be recognized as an equivalent to GART 1B05 Form and Structure.
Students develop a visual language capable of shaping and expressing clear and creative ideas in three dimensional forms. Using a variety of materials including analogue and digital technologies the course introduces students to the conceptual elements, organizing principles and creative processes used in the development of form. Students also examine the meanings and association of forms, along with the underlying structural principles affecting their creation. Also central to the course is how concept, idea, form, material and process are all inter-related. Through questioning and a developing awareness of contemporary design practice, students develop the confidence to produce meaningful forms in three dimensions.
GDES 1B26
Introduction to Experience Design
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 4 - August 19, Monday & Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Ascencao, Teresa
Prerequisite: GDES 1B24 Colour & Two-dimensional Design or GDES 1B25 Form & Structure or GDES 1C02 Visual Forces.
Note: This course is part of the First Year software program.
This course integrates principles of design process with an introduction to time-based media and the methods used to design new interfaces, environments, services and products, through the orchestration of user experience. Students are exposed to the characteristics of new design opportunities made feasible by digital technologies and the pivotal role of time, attention, and interaction in contemporary design. Through lectures, analysis of a wide range of examples in communication and interaction design, and through studio projects that provide practical applications and insights, students are lead through the basic concepts, methods, tools and techniques used in the definition and design of interactive experiences.
GDES 1B27
Graphic Communication
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 4 - August 19, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Mccrum, Guy
Duration 5: July 4 - August 19, Monday & Wednesday, 18:30-21:30 (added 2011-05-24)
Instructor: Corsano, Otino
Prerequisite: GDES 1B24 Colour & Two-dimensional Design or GDES 1C02 Visual Forces.
Conditions: This course is required for 2D Design students. (Advertising, Graphic Design, Illustration). Requires minimum grade of 60% to advance to Year 2 core studio.
Building upon knowledge obtained in Colour & Two-Dimensional Design, beginning illustrators and designers will now engage in graphic/visual communication. Comprehensive communication design vocabulary, project-solving theories and methodologies essential to organizing and presenting visual information in two-dimensional spaces will be introduced. Students will generate original solutions to visual communication projects utilizing learned vocabulary, words, analogue and digital images, illustrations, intuition, aesthetic judgment and spatial sensitivity. Lectures and assignments on form development, layout, letterforms, applied colour and grid structures will prepare students for studies in design. Fundamental communication strategies will be juxtaposed to design processes, communication theories and technological advances to assist students in understanding how contemporary design issues relate to present-day consumer needs and design practices.
GDES 1B28
Objects & Environments
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 4 - August 19, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Jacob, Marco
Prerequisite: GDES 1B25 Form & Structure or GDES 1C02 Visual Forces.
Conditions: This course is required for 3D Design students. (Industrial Design, Environmental Design, Material Art & Design). Requires minimum grade of 60% to advance to Year 2 core studio.
The forms that adorn and beautify, the functional objects people use and the spaces they inhabit provide the focus of this studio course. With emphasis on problem solving and design methodologies, students use discovery, sketching, technical drawing, traditional and digital model making, and basic fabrication processes to visualize functional three-dimensional design solutions. Student projects consider the social, economic and cultural context of the intended user of objects and environments. Students research and develop design solutions for problems common to environmental, industrial and material art & design.
GDES 2B03
Think Tank 1: Awareness
0.5 Credit | Studio/Seminar
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Ebrahim, Zahra
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year Liberal Studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: All Think Tank courses are intended to augment and inform the core studio classes from each of the six design disciplines and to introduce students from the Faculty of Art to the Faculty of Design’s underlying philosophy.
This interdisciplinary course examines the social condition of where and how we live in the context of the Faculty of Design’s primary mandate ‘Design and Humanity’. The significant impact that intelligent and sustainable design can have on people’s lives and the considerable responsibility that the designer has to society are critical factors in shaping behaviour and turning research and perception into action. Strategies for change are channeled into potential project solutions in this course through the research, discussion and debate of current societal issues.
GDES 3B02
Editorial & Publication Design 1
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Talaie, Borzu (updated 2011-05-13)
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits).
This studio course provides an in-depth study of systems and structures fundamental to publication design. Students learn to analyze, evaluate, design and/or redesign actual publications incorporating typography, photography, illustration, charts and graphs. Through a series of exercises and small publication design projects students are introduced to the rich history, current practices, and the future of magazine, book and corporate publication design.
GDES 3B05
Sequential Narrative 1
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 4 - August 19, Monday & Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Drawson, Blair
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits).
Illustration's role in contemporary book design is explored. With both the child and adult reader in mind, the focus of this course is the sustained relationship of text and image. Principles of traditional storytelling and visual narrative structure form a major component of this course. Students will produce a short self-authored book proposal.
GDES 3B06
Guerrilla Entrepreneurship
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Adams, Kathryn
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits).
In response to the growing practice of artist-produced objects (e.g. books, zines, apparel, accessories, housewares, linens, toys, games, etc), this course acts as an introduction to creative entrepreneurial activity. Students learn of the various media and techniques available in self-publishing and production, and of proven DIY marketing tactics and venues. Students will produce individually, and in groups, a number of small, reproducible, marketable items.
GDES 3B10
Art of Presentation
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 14:30-17:30
Instructor: Cohen, Arlene
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Cohen, Arlene
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits).
A brilliant idea without acceptance will never solve a design problem. Therefore, creating acceptance for a design solution is as important as the solution itself. The primary tools for garnering this acceptance are through formal and information presentations.
Delivering persuasive presentations is not always intuitive. As a design professional, important skills are required to plan, build and then deliver presentations. This course teaches the skills necessary to sell important concepts and ideas by carefully crafting and telling stories.
Presentation strategy and the creation of a presentation narrative through traditional and digital media techniques are thoroughly explored in this course.
GDES 3B20
Small Object Design: Virtual to Reality
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30-11:30
Instructor: Jackson, Jesse
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits).
Note: This course has a materials fee.
This course will introduce students to designing small scale products and jewellery using 3-dimensional modelling software. Through various project assignments and design exercises, students will become familiar with basic operations in constructing 3-dimensional computer models. "Virtual" objects will be then translated into finished works using rapid prototyping as well as standard fabrication processes and materials (moldmaking, casting, etc.) Students will begin to understand some of the advantages that new technologies can bring to the field of small batch production design. They will learn about various Computer Aided Manufacturing operations (Rapid Prototyping, CNC, Laser Cutting, etc.) and will consider the implications that CAD/CAM technology has on future design and Manufacturing.
GDES 3B48
Illustrative Activism
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 4 - August 19, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Zaharuk, Michael
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits).
The use of Illustration to express dissent and improve established conditions enjoys a long and kinetic history, ranging from Victorian era Punch cartoons to contemporary multi-million-dollar ad campaigns. The illustrator’s heightened awareness of social and political issues, coupled with unique communication skills, provides otherwise unrepresented and disenfranchised citizens with a powerful and provocative voice. This course focuses on the illustrator as ‘activist’, achieving positive change through the effective and subversive use of images in the global arena of national and personal politics, social movements, and environmentalism. Posters, billboards, newspaper and magazine ads, editorial illustration, annual reports, flyers, t-shirts, buttons, ambient media, and the web represent media applications explored and discussed in this course.
GDES 3B59
Urban Design Ecology
0.5 Credit | Studio/Seminar
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Gray, Ian
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits), ENVR 2K01 and ENVR 2K02.
Urban Design Ecology looks at the city through the lens of Environmental Design with the intention of understanding and designing for the integration of urban and natural systems. The course will examine the way that urban development patterns interact with ecological systems. Students will examine precedents of ecological urbanism such as manufactured nature, green infrastructure, and landscape urbanism as well as broader ecological concepts applied to coupled human-natural systems. Through readings, lectures, seminars and the development of case studies students will examine the relationship between urban form and the environmental context in which it is generated.
GDES 3B63 (cancelled 2011-05-09)
Cities for People/Summer Workshop
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 14:30-17:30
Instructor: Micallef, Shawn
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits).
Notes: “Cities for People” takes to the streets of Toronto, walking its neighbourhoods and discovering the people and places where design is changing the city.
This course can be presented as a ‘Professional Research’ opportunity for students who wish to explore the urban fabric from a holistic perspective, and undertake primary and secondary research, using Toronto as a laboratory. The main premise of the course is to develop an understanding of the issues and opportunities for healthy community development throughout the city. Topics can include social / cultural aspects such as community gardens/farming, bicycle and pedestrian pathways; economic aspects such as green enterprise, sustainable business. Students will have the opportunity to meet with some of the champions of green enterprise and community development; they can work on strategies, which can increase stewardship and awareness through the integration of ‘ecorevelatory’ art and design projects.
GDES 3B68
Design (As) Research
0.5 Credit | Studio/Seminar
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Desjardins, Michael
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits).
Antirequisite: ADVR 3A02, ENVR 3A02, ENVR 3B07, GRPH 3A02, GRPH 3A03, GRPH 3B20, GRPH 3B17, INDS 3B09, MAAD 3B05 (updated 2011-04-21)
Note: This course is an approved equivalent to: ADVR 3A02, ENVR 3B07, GRPH 3A02 & GRPH 3A03, INDS 3B09, MAAD 3B05 (updated 2011-04-21)
This third-year course will explore practice-based research techniques in design as ethnographic methods to prepare students for their graduate year thesis or core projects. Small research projects will be used in this course to pursue three objectives: research to inform the design deliverables (the outcomes of design practice), research to educate the designer/researcher for future practice (tacit knowledge) and research to inform the professional design, academic and wider communities (explicit knowledge). This course will inform both internal and external audiences that design is, in itself, research.
GDES 3B72 (cancelled 2011-04-28)
Understanding Wood
0.5 Credit | Studio/Seminar
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 08:30-11:30
Instructor: TBA
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits).
Course is to be offered and taught jointly between the University of Toronto Faculty of Forestry and OCAD University. The course will teach the fundamentals on the properties of wood with a capstone project in which knowledge of the properties of wood can be applied in practice. The instruction of the course will be specifically designed to include class room instruction as well as forest learning experiences.
GDES 3B91
Special Topic: Introduction To Data Visualization
0.5 Credit | Studio/Seminar
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Davila, Patricio
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits).
The growing complexity of issues in the environment, technology and society requires designers to learn a variety of skills including collaboration, critical thinking and technical production. In this course, students become multidisciplinary design researchers/creators who employ research (ethnographic, archival), design (graphic, interactive) and computer programming to create a concrete data visualization project responding to a specific issue. Students will collaborate, learn to program small applications, gather and visualize data sets and critically reflect upon the visual representation of data.
GDES 3C01
The Future Of Inhabited Form
1.0 Credit | Studio
Duration 7: June 20– July 8 [Updated: 2011-03-29]
Instructor: Reid, Stuart
Prerequisite: 13.0 credits, including all first-year and second-year requirements (10.0 credits) and at least one third year core/major studio course or by special approval. [Updated: 2011-03-29]
Note: A minimum 70% average is required in order to qualify. Spaces are limited, and will be assigned by the Faculty of Design.
Application Deadline: March 15, 2011
Notification: Students will be notified by March 22, 2011.
The course is open to students across art and design disciplines at OCADU who are interested in innovation in architectural and urban design.
Inspired by the rich world of art, design and architecture in London, England and the opportunity to interface with world-renown architect Will Alsop at his studio, students will explore ideas for an innovative future of ‘inhabited form’. Engaging in Alsop’s cross-disciplinary design methodologies (including drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, performance and social interaction), students will engender new formal and conceptual possibilities for architecture and urban environments.
The group will gather on June 11 in London for two days of pre-studio acclimatisation to London, and then students will dive into a charette at Will Alsop’s architectural studio in Battersea. An evening of public presentation will be the culmination of this intensive week’s work. The following two weeks will be focused upon directed studio/research projects investigating new directions and methodologies for architectural innovation. Students are expected to bring their own research interests to the course, and will be expected to commit to full-day working sessions in studio for the 3 week duration. Guest lecturers and critics will be part of the process in ongoing intensive studio work. Weekends will be free time for all.
The course process and work will be documented as an integral part of the studio project, and a publication will be produced as one of the final outcomes of the studio.
Application: To obtain an application form, send an email to Design 3D Program Assistant Daryl Bruce at dbruce@ocad.ca. A maximum one page statement of interest with 3 – 5 portfolio images is required with the application. Students should state their own personal research interests and background in relevant work, with supporting images.
GDES 4B03
Internship
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 3: May 16 - August 19, Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Tranum, Sarah
Prerequisite: 14.0 credits, including all first-year and second-year requirements (10.0 credits).
Note: Registration in this course requires prior approval by an Associate Dean, Faculty of Design. This internship must be appropriate to the student's major or minor.
Conditions: Only students with a 70% average will be eligible to take this course.
Through a guided self-directed initiative, the senior student will research, propose and contact a practicing professional in an individual studio, gallery, educational institution or professional organization to search out an intern position of 60 work hours. This actual "real world" work experience will develop networking abilities and provide the student a glimpse into the design studio or art related environment and prepare the emerging artist/designer for employment upon graduation.
GRPH 2B06 (cancelled 2011-05-05)
Typography 2: Structures
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Grezova, Mariana
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year Liberal Studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and GRPH 2A04 Typography 1: Letters and Words.
In this course students will explore typographic structures, focusing on normative and conceptual principles. An in depth analysis is undertaken in this course that explores the letter relationship to the word, the word relationship to the line, lines in relationship to column and the way these elements activate a particular space. Students will be introduced to the basic principles of visual hierarchy and grid structures, as well as the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic qualities of typography.
GRPH 2K01
Graphic Design 1
0.75 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 12:30-16:30
Instructor: Thorne, David
Duration 5: July 4 - August 19, Monday & Wednesday, 12:30-16:30
Instructor: Grezova, Mariana
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year Liberal Studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and GDES 1B27 Graphic Communication (minimum grade of 60%).
Conditions: Requires a minimum grade of 60% to advance to GRPH 2K02 Graphic Design 2.
This course will introduce students to the knowledge and skills needed for the purposeful implementation of contemporary communication. In the context of cultural/societal issues, students will learn about the impact of effective communication on people's lives. Through a variety of exercises ranging from the development of graphic form to composition and colour, students will develop a visual vocabulary and an aesthetic understanding of how content and message impact on form and communication. The course will be delivered using lectures, in-class discussions and critiques. All studio-based assignments require research and presentations that include verbal, written and visual components. The course will be supported by guest lectures and digital tech support designed to introduce current and appropriate software.
GRPH 2K02
Graphic Design 2
0.75 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 4 - August 19, Tuesday & Thursday, 12:30-16:30
Instructor: Lau, Terry (updated 2011-06-30)
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year Liberal Studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and GRPH 2K01 Graphic Design 1 (minimum grade of 60%).
Conditions: Requires a minimum grade of 60% to advance to GRPH 3K01 Graphic Design 3.
Two-dimensional space is examined through the application of graphic grid structures and conceptual design ideas. Students will be encouraged to develop an independent voice while respecting historically proven and effective practices. The course focuses on idea development, methods of research, word/image interaction, meaning, hierarchy and the impact of colour and form on effective communication. Students will learn to distill complex ideas into concise and convincing graphic elements. The course will be delivered using lectures, in-class discussions and critiques. All studio-based assignments require research and presentations that include verbal, written and visual components. The course will be supported by guest lectures and digital tech support designed to introduce current and appropriate software.
GRPH 3B14
Typography 3: Advanced Structures
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 4 - August 19, Monday & Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Young, Jackie
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits), and GRPH 2B06 Typography 2: Structures.
Students will continue to explore the design of organizational typographic structures in this course. The presentation of complex information in a clear and engaging manner, servicing utility and where appropriate, beauty, is the primary focus. An increased emphasis on content, concept and type’s association to imagery for specific target audiences will be addressed through a range of projects that will focus on corporate and publication applications.
ILLU 2K01 (cancelled 2011-05-09)
Illustration 1
0.75 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 17:30-21:30
Instructor: Oakley, Jacqui
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year Liberal Studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and GDES 1B27 Graphic Communication (minimum grade of 60%).
Conditions: Requires a minimum grade of 60% to advance to ILLU 2K02 Illustration 2.
This course introduces students to fundamental theories and practices in the field of contemporary illustration, including all aspects of ideation: visual problem solving, mind mapping (diagramming word/image association to text), brainstorming and picture-making fundamentals. As the program's core studio course, it will provide students with information about different approaches to narrative documentation and concept development in the context of book, magazine, advertising, corporate, institutional and web/interactive applications. The course will be delivered using lectures, in-class discussions and presentations of best current and historical practice. One-on-one and group consultations and critiques will address the issues and help students to develop their communication skills. Students are taught to propose creative and effective solutions to defined projects using various media. All studio-based assignments require research and presentations that include verbal, written and visual components.
ILLU 2K02 (cancelled 2011-06-08)
Illustration 2
0.75 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 4 - August 19, Tuesday & Thursday, 17:30-21:30
Instructor: Milic, Dushan
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year Liberal Studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and ILLU 2K01 Illustration 1 (minimum grade of 60%).
Conditions: Requires a minimum grade of 60% to advance to ILLU 3K01 Illustration 3.
Building on the ideation principles learned in Illustration 1, students will continue to expand their knowledge base and further develop the skills needed to produce creative illustration with a purpose. Students will explore how rapidly-changing societal needs affect the complex issues involved in contemporary illustration. Strategies and techniques specific to creative problem solving will be addressed. Skills learned in the supporting Media Studio 1 will aid students in making decisions regarding the appropriate use of media and style. Course content will be delivered using lectures, demonstrations, class discussion, group and one-on-one critiques. All studio-based assignments require research and presentations that may include verbal, written and visual components. Through assignments, drawing skills will be developed in a studio environment where students will develop concepts, prepare linears and produce creative and effective illustrations as solutions to stated objectives. Best current and past practice will be explored.
INTR 3B90 (added 2011-04-26)
Special Topics: Gibraltar Point: A Living Laboratory
0.5 Credit / Studio
Duration 1: May 16 - June 3, Tuesday & Thursday, 08:30-14:30
Instructor: Cooper, Tara
Prerequisite: 8.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits), at least 0.5 credit second-year Liberal Studies and Contemporary Issues: Art Today (CRCP 2B01, DRPT 2B13, INTM 2B22, PHOT 2B12, PRNT 2B25, SCIN 2B09) or GDES 2B03 Think Tank I: Awareness.
Note: This course has an accommodation fee for the residency at Gibraltar Point.
Using Toronto Island as a living laboratory, students work in collaboration to produce site-specific artworks or design solutions. During the first part of the course, students conduct research in support of their projects through readings and day trips to the island. The second part of the course focuses on production. During this eight day incubation period, students and faculty live and work on the island residing at Artscape’s Gibraltar Point. Evening programming supplements the day’s activities through the coordination of meals, screenings, lectures, readings and discussions. As the residency concludes, students participate in group critiques where material documentation of their work is presented. This interdisciplinary initiative embraces collaborative and community building methodologies within studio production.
MAAD 2B01
Intro to Fibre
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 3: May 16 - August 19, Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Morris, Kathleen
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year Liberal Studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has a materials fee.
Conditions: Requires a minimum grade of 60% to advance to further Material Art & Design studio courses.
This course introduces the students of Material Art & Design to the possibilities of fibres. The class addresses two major areas of concern within Fibre: interlacement, encompassing hand manipulated construction techniques, and surface design, which includes print and dye. Parallel with these technical studies will be work with concept development to evolve a visual vocabulary suitable for design and/or art based works. The course will be delivered using visual presentations, demonstrations, hands-on production, in-class discussions and one-on-one and group critiques.
MAAD 2B08
Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Casting
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: McKenzie, Van
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year Liberal Studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has a materials fee.
Conditions: Requires a minimum grade of 60% to advance to further Material Art & Design studio courses.
This course introduces the traditional casting processes of lost wax, delft clay and cuttlefish and investigates the technical, aesthetic and cultural aspects of body adornment. Students explore carving, model making, mould making (rubber and wax) and finishing in relation to the casting process. Although working in wax is vastly different from working in metal, the projects have been designed to interpret this change of material through readings and visual examples. This change of material and the creative use of these different processes are explored in-depth. The course will be delivered using lectures, readings, demonstrations, in-class discussions and one-on-one (individual) critiques. Students will be exposed to professionals through in-class workshops.
MAAD 2B14
Intro to Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Fabrication
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 3: May 16 - August 19, Wednesday, 11:30-14:30
Instructor: McKenzie, Van
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year Liberal Studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has a materials fee.
Conditions: Requires a minimum grade of 60% to advance to further Material Art & Design studio courses.
This course explores the aesthetic, technical and cultural aspects of body adornment. Fabrication skills such as silver soldering, piercing, forming, elementary stone setting and surface treatments are covered within a series of projects designed and produced by the students. Students are also encouraged to reassess their concept of jewellery. Writing, drawing and modelmaking assignments dealing with conceptual and experimental approaches are part of this course.
MAAD 2B15
Intro to Ceramics
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Moriyama, Joni
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year Liberal Studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has a materials fee. This course is open to Art and Design students. (Art students - please contact the Design office for access.)
This introduction ceramics course emphasizes hand-forming and wheel-throwing techniques for both pottery and sculpture. Slide presentations and ceramic study pieces introduce the student to historical and contemporary ceramic work.
MAAD 2B26 (cancelled 2011-05-05)
Fibre: Explorations
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Wassink, Laurie
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year Liberal Studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has a materials fee.
Conditions: Requires a minimum grade of 60% to advance to further Material Art & Design studio courses.
In this course, students will explore alternative approaches for creating textiles, namely paper making and felt making as well as machine stitchery, fabric manipulation and assemblage. Projects are designed to implement these techniques and to challenge students’ creativity and concept development. The course will be delivered using lectures, demonstrations, in-class discussions and one-on-one and group critiques.
MAAD 2B29 (cancelled 2011-05-05)
Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Fabrication 2
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 3: May 16 - August 19, Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Batcher, Gillian
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year Liberal Studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and MAAD 2B14 Intro to Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Fabrication or GDES 3B34 Jewellery Design 1: An Introduction.
Note: This course has a materials fee.
Conditions: Requires a minimum grade of 60% to advance to further Material Art & Design studio courses.
This required course is a continuation of the jewellery portion of the MAD studio rotation in the fall semester. The course leads students into more complex technical and skill-building, concept-based projects. Students will submit drawings and models of all projects and produce an artist's statement-of-purpose for class critiques. Independent technical research is encouraged and is included as a building block and a significant element of the major project of the term. The course will be delivered using illustrated lectures, including video presentations of current work from Canada and abroad, demonstrations, in-class discussions and one-on-one (individual) and group critiques. Projects are designed to implement the students' new skills and challenge their creativity and concept development. Students will work in teams to develop metal alloys and will share the results of their collective labour.
MAAD 2B30
Ceramics: Intro To Throwing
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 3: May 16 - August 19, Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Clennel, Anthony (updated 2011-05-13)
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year Liberal Studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course is taught concurrently with MAAD 3B40 Ceramics: Throwing Workshop. This course has a materials fee.
Throwing is the action of making forms on a rotating wheel using only the hands. This course trains students to use the wheel as a forming tool, explores a variety of techniques and familiarizes students with the vocabulary used in the development of functional and sculptural pieces. Students will experiment with colour and texture using decorating, glazing and firing techniques. They will discover a holistic view of clay making, where techniques both inform and produce the final product. Related topics such as context, concept, function, glazing and firing are also considered. This explorative engagement with the wheel aims to open up new creative and technical possibilities within the student's process of clay making. The course will be delivered using illustrated lectures, demonstrations, in-class discussions and one-on-one and group critiques.
MAAD 3B01
Fibre: Dyeing
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 4 - August 19, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Wassink, Laurie
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits).
Note: This course has a materials fee.
Conditions: Requires a minimum grade of 60% to advance to further Material Art & Design studio courses.
This course investigates colour theory and dye techniques as applied to fibre. Studies will include both traditional and experimental dyeing, interlacement and the use of transparency on woven and non-woven textiles. Students develop their colour sense as well as mastery of the technical aspects of colour with fibre. This course is designed for students working in both printed and woven and structured fibres.
MAAD 3B40
Ceramics: Throwing Workshop
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 3: May 16 - August 19, Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Clennel, Anthony (updated 2011-05-13)
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits), and MAAD 2B30 Ceramics: Intro To Throwing.
Note: This course is taught concurrently with MAAD 2B30 Ceramics: Intro to Throwing. This course has a materials fee.
This course teaches the process of making objects with clay using the potter's wheel. This method can quickly create basic forms which can be transformed into useful objects with specific needs in mind. In this context, throwing is used as an important vehicle of expression. During this course students are encouraged to further investigate the creative and/or production potential of this process in the hope of gaining a totality of clay making. Wheel throwing can both inform and produce the work and will be integrated with other aspects of the process such as context, concept, function and texture.
MAAD 3B41
Silversmithing
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 4 - August 19, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Morrow, Ross (updated 2011-04-28)
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and MAAD 2B14 Intro to Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Fabrication or MAAD 2C04 MA&D Studio.
Note: This course has a materials fee.
Conditions: Requires a minimum grade of 60% to advance to further Material Art & Design studio courses.
Through the use of hammers, steel and wooden forms, the plasticity and malleability of non-ferrous (copper, brass and silver) metals are explored. Forging, sinking and raising metal forms are the major techniques covered in this course. One project asks the student to explore their own personal design process through writing, drawing and modelmaking and subsequently create a piece of flatware related to their own experience.
Last Modified:1/24/2012 12:57:30 PM