In this course students learn analytical, and modeling techniques for representing abstract concepts, physical space and objects. The focus of this course is on the use of representation within design practice as a form of problem solving. Students work individually in workshop environments on projects to develop strength in modeling in a variety of media…….Continue Reading 3D Modeling Techniques
This course is an introduction to photography as a visual language and focuses primarily on image-making with analog media (film). Through demonstrations and the reviewing of historic and contemporary photographic work, students are introduced to the creative practice of analog photography and the evolution of the process and the art……Continue Reading Analog Photographic Tools
How and why have businesses developed common structures such as departments of production, marketing, finance, and human resources? How do the various functions and departments of a company interact and support each other to attain the goals of the company?…Continue Reading Basic Business Structure
This practical course provides students with basic communication and presentation skills specifically targeted to the business environment. Forms that are explored include on-line and traditional research techniques, professional writing, marketing, and presentations. Students will learn the essentials of accurate, clear, and effective communication……Continue Reading Business & Professional Communication
The course begins with an introduction to and discussion of some of the earliest known moving image experiments (broadly defined) and through individual and collaborative assignments, students will explore the continued impact that these early tests continue to have on contemporary video and film-based experimental practices…….Continue Reading Celluloid Experiments
This course is an introduction to creative coding and the use of tools like p5.js and the program Processing to generate interactive objects and experiences. Projects and sketches will explore the use of code to generate and manipulate image, sound and light and will provide an introduction to the open-source prototyping platform Arduino that can be used to create interactive electronic objects……Continue Reading Code Craft
This course is a total immersion in the understanding and usage of color. Students analyze the cultural, social, and psychological implications of color in everyday life. How do the current fashion and design fields incorporate and envision color trends over time in urban culture? How do harmonic complementary and discordant uses of color apply to nature? ……Continue Reading Color Across the Spectrum
In this course we will consider how comics work and how can we make them work in new ways. Mixing seminar-style reading and study with studio work, students will examine the elements of comics, learn how they work, learn their history, and read examples of groundbreaking comics by diverse artists. Students will also put theory into practice, creating a group of short comics……Continue Reading Comics: Theory & Practice
This course explores illustration for games and other concept art for media- including objects, characters/ creatures and environments. The course will consider the narrative development within games, mapping interaction and character elements. The illustrative expression of emotion and location will be explored in gesture, expression, texture and dimension…….Continue Reading Concept Art & Illustration for Games
In this critical studio course, we will investigate the significance of everyday objects through reading, writing and making visual works. In this way, we will examine the multiple and sometimes conflicting meanings hidden in objects and how the ways we collect, select, and curate our “stuff” is a reflection of selves, cultures, and the times we live in……Continue Reading Critical Studio: Everyday Objects
In this course a range of visual narrative techniques will be introduced that can be used to communicate through the educated use of typography, illustration, photographs, sound, and video. Solid research, strategy, and ideas are amplified by great design! Through foundational graphic design methodologies, students will learn to articulate concepts and communicate their ideas……Continue Reading Design for Presentations
This course brings together hands-on studio projects and seminars to provide an overview of design management; the industry’s scope, research methods and strategy, design process, and implementation. It introduces students to the intersecting domains of design, marketing, management, and social sciences…….Continue Reading Design, Strategy, and Industry
This course will introduce students to digital fabrication techniques as part of a thoughtful and iterative fabrication process. Students are encouraged to creatively explore theoretical frameworks and speculate wildly to develop project concepts centered around lines of critical inquiry and iterate prototypes using laser cutters, 3D printers, as well as introductory circuits and analogue and digital sensors……Continue Reading Digital Fabrication
This course explores the possibilities of using digital prototyping techniques such as laser cutting, 3D modeling and 3D printing to investigate and augment the human form. Body coverings, adornments, and extensions will be created using a diverse range of materials. The history and social context of wearables help to inform student projects….Continue Reading Digital Fabrication: Body
This course focuses on the basics of painting in a digital environment, with an emphasis on brush tools, color layering and composition. Acquiring painting practices with the Adobe suite, primarily in photoshop and illustrator, this course will build upon basics with a deeper dive into brush options and brush creation as well as advanced color tools. Students will begin the course with experiments and assignments……Continue Reading Digital Painting
This course offers an opportunity for deepened exploration of the practices and tools of digital layout. Students work across multiple software applications to create projects that communicate their content and point of view through a variety of forms both digital and in print….Continue Reading Digital Tools for Layout and Design
This course immerses students in a study of the human figure through projects that investigate both its form and its capacity to carry meaning within various cultural contexts. Perceptual observation, analytical structure, anatomy, motion, relationship to object, space, and other will be explored through a variety of techniques used to explore the body as the site for messages……Continue Reading Drawing the Figure
In this course, drawing is the root of all making. Students will expand their use of traditional imaging materials and methods by utilizing the hands-on and digital technology within the Making Center. This broadening of two-dimensional creation will come from the use of etching and mono printing presses, reliefs in clay, laser cutting, and graphic plotting….Continue Reading Drawing through the Making Center
In this class students learn analytical, and drawing techniques for representing abstract concepts, physical space and objects. The focus of this course is on the use of representation within design practice. Students work individually on projects to develop strength in a variety of media that will be applicable to their core studio work in the first year and within their discipline…….Continue Reading Drawing: Design Drawing
This course continues the drawing experience with an intensive investigation of the figure. Students focus initially on mark making and the application of various tools and techniques and work on projects that explore movement, gesture, shape, draped cloth, and an awareness of proportion….Continue Reading Drawing: Form & Fashion
In this course students will learn how to use the basic elements of design – line, shape, value and color on a variety of surfaces as communication tools to explain complex systems. The design activities will explore how to focus the contents of the message on an audience through a variety of forms. This would include service images, icons, mind maps, mood boards……Continue Reading Dynamic Drawing
Program, fabricate, and document electronic objects and build a better future. Gain an understanding of tactile, human-computer interfaces by producing evocative and functional devices of your own design. Design is the process of actualizing change to our current state. By imagining a potential future, we can create a context for designed objects that reflect on our current circumstances……Continue Reading Emergent Objects
This elective will expose students to a variety of design studios that focus on self-sufficient, in-house batch manufacturing and their models of self-production. Students will take on the design, development and limited production of a very simple, low-cost but provocative product that could be manufactured in an in-house studio setting. Topics covered will include market research, issues of efficiency in product, and basic issues of intellectual property….Continue Reading Entrepreneurial Making
Typography is an essential part of our everyday lives: in print, on screen, and in the built environment. This class explores the function and meaning of typography through an introduction to its history, theory, and practice in art and design contexts, including but not limited to graphic design, product design, illustration, architecture, and fine arts. Through short, conceptual exercises in collection, interpretation, type making……Continue Reading Explorations in Typography
This class explores the history of portraiture, the traditional versus the non-traditional in portraiture, and what a portrait can be and say. Students are introduced to working with natural and existing light to create portraits as well as the theory and practice of portraiture on location and in a variety of contexts. Practical assignments are given to help students understand……Continue Reading Exploring Photographic Portraiture
PUFY 1235An integrated studio exploring contemporary couture, designer fashion, and the influences they draw from. The cultural backdrop related to fashion history will be explored, placing the changes of styles within the social, political, and economic context. Studio work will involve creative interpretations of lectures to strengthen understanding of concepts and/or synthesize them with the…Continue Reading Fashion and Culture
This course examines game culture, theory, design and development. The principles of traditional games, sports games and party games will be analyzed and applied to designing games. As a class we will be playing games, making games and analyzing games in order to build a common and more extensive vocabulary to both discuss and understand the form. Included in our exploration will be play testing, pitching……Continue Reading Game Craft
While graduation may seem far away, it is never too early to begin developing your professional goals, skills, and materials. This course will prepare you to do so while demystifying the process of applying to internships, job positions, and award opportunities. You will simulate the search and application process by identifying a real-life opportunity as a model……Continue Reading Goal Setting and Professional Skills
“Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star’s stories.” This quote by the Muscogee Creek Nation writer Joy Harjo implores us to remember where we come from. In this home-based studio, students will explore writing and making using the stuff of their own lives and lineages as inspiration. Together we will mine ancestral stories, land histories, objects,……Continue Reading Home-Making: Storytelling Through Form
Taught in Making Center wet lab, students will learn the basics of designing and making ceramic objects. Skills covered will be an introduction to the various properties of different clay types, handbuilding, wheel throwing, plaster mold-making and slipcasting, etc….Continue Reading Intro to Ceramics
In this course students are introduced to the variety of building and manufacturing industries in and around the city through behind-the-scene tours. Students are exposed to a range of volumes of production including one-off, custom, artisanal craft, batch, and mass production. The physical scale of production is explored as well, from small parts up to the creation of architecture and urban infrastructure…….Continue Reading Make it in NYC
In this three dimensional project based studio, students will explore the relationships between materials, techniques and form to design and build meaningful objects, installations and systems. How can a material be shaped to represent ideas through form? Using an array of methods and materials students explore the logic, history and production of the handmade object…….Continue Reading Making Meaningful Things
This course is devoted to building your skills in observational drawing from life. Working directly from models, still-life arrangements and on-location, emphasis will be placed on recording firsthand visual experience using a range of drawing materials: pencil, pen, charcoal and others. Projects will focus on the problems of seeing and describing fully realized forms situated in space……Continue Reading Observational Drawing
This course focuses on the basics of painting, with an emphasis on technical paint handling, color, composition and materials. Acquiring basic studio habits and practices, students begin the process of a visual and conceptual examination of painting today. Individual and group criticism, combined with field trips and discussion, expands perspectives within historical contexts…….Continue Reading Painting
This course explores the role of the artist and making photographs in the face of the global climate crisis. Through the study of photography, art, activism, and writing students will explore the relationship between artmaking and the Anthropocene–our current geologic age in which human activity has resulted in extreme climate change…….Continue Reading Photo and Climate Activism
This course introduces 19th-century photographic processes while considering new image-making technologies. The history of photography is discussed in connection with the techniques taught in class, including photo transfers, cyanotypes, digital negatives, and more. Students are encouraged to explore these historical processes in combination with contemporary processes…….Continue Reading Photo Methods and Materials
This course provides an overview to the fundamentals of digital photography by learning mobile devices, digital cameras and printing techniques. This hands-on technical course provides students with an understanding of digital capture, mobile editing, and various outputs utilizing current equipment and mobile software. Students……Continue Reading Photo: Digital
In this introductory class, we will experiment with a range of creative strategies to examine ideas and current theories regarding and surrounding the medium of photography. In addition to developing of critical skills and vocabulary the course will be supplemented by the production of visual projects…….Continue Reading Photography Concepts
In this course students learn the professional roles and design methodology for the development of packaging design and its role as both a product in and of itself, and as a communication vehicle for goods and services. Students work individually and in teams on projects to develop strength in a variety of media……Continue Reading Product, Promotion & Packaging
“Utopia is a world I made up by combining utopia and dystopia – the imagined perfect society and its opposite – because, in my view, each contains a latent version of the other.”-Margaret Atwood. In this class, we will interrogate the implications of design and technology on society through the reading and watching of science fiction. As we dabble in these emblematic science fiction universes……Continue Reading Science Fiction, Utopia & Speculative Design
By exploring the relationship between 3D and 2D, the unique properties of soft surfaces, and the techniques for constructing with them, students will develop transforming pliable 2D surfaces into 3D objects. Students are introduced to sewing techniques with the goal of building an introductory knowledge of techniques and skills within the context of fabric as a medium of expression….Continue Reading Soft Structures: Sewing & Construction
This course takes a deep look at the way that sound behaves in space and provides an introduction to immersive sonic experiences. The class begins by creating sound for headphones, the media listening environment that we are most familiar with, and culminates in a spatial project that surrounds a listener in a real space using multiple speakers……Continue Reading Sound and Space
For generations, communities of color have used art and design as tools to create unfathomable futures in the face of systemic oppression. Artists and designers of color have made huge societal contributions by insisting on defining their creative practice on their own terms, despite statistics that demonstrate creatives of color are largely misrepresented, underrecognized and undercompensated……Continue Reading Unfathomable Futures
Transparent watercolor allows for freshness in its washes and wet and dry brushwork. Historically, Egyptians ground their pigments and used water-based media on papyrus, Chinese and Japanese masters painted on silk. This analog course will incorporate experimentation with the portable, alluring medium. We will explore the meditative, relaxing quality of water-based manipulation……Continue Reading Watercolor Explorations