Category: Courses

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Quaker Oats: Final Pitch Presentation

Link to final pitch presentation! – FINAL PRESENTATION   Quaker Oats: It’s Always In Season A series of ad campaigns that shows consumers how they can have it all and do it all by starting their day with Quaker oats.  Project: During a busy morning, it’s easy to let breakfast fall low on your list…

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Transportation X: Advocation for Transportation

Link to final presentation for Transportation X: Advocation for Transportation! – New York Cities Final Presentation Phase 1: Research Identify a context: Where or with whom will you start your inquiry? We will start our inquiry with the accessibility of public transportation in New York City to those with disabilities.  https://ny.curbed.com/2017/9/21/16315042/nyc-subway-wheelchair-accessible-ada Secondary research: What is…

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Integrated Design Studio 1: Progression on Ceramic Plates

Starting out the plate mold (with pottery plaster): Pressing the clay into the plaster mold of the plate: Forming the plates: Matching and deciding on the underglazes:   Mapping out the geometric designs:   Painting the designs: Finishing the underglaze: Islamic calligraphy: Placing it to be bisque at cone 06:

Integrated Design Studio 1: Relief Prints in class

Class assignment: Relief Prints First print in purple was a form of a circular geometric design (not very clear) but as I kept on printing you start to understand how much pressure to add when you stamp to reveal a clear print. Second design was my name in Arabic, however I later realized that it would…

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Integrated Design Studio 1: Project Mind Mapping & Prototypes

Class assignment: 3 mind maps relating to themes represented in project –  Geometric Patterns: e.g. daily life, architecture, tiles, form of art, symbolism Islamic Calligraphy: e.g. form of communication/artistic expression, lifestyle, religious context, historical context Middle Eastern Culture: e.g. language, childhood, religion, environment, influences First prototypes of Ceramic plates with Geometric Designs & testing out Arabic…

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Sustainable Systems: Project #3

MONOPOLY For our third and final project in our sustainable systems class, we had to design our own version of a monopoly game that instead was based on an issue or an impact on the environment. It had to focus on sustainability, it could be based on a water shortage, solar power, sewage reconstruction yet…

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Sustainable Systems: Project #2

Material Flows Project/Presentation The Hidden Costs of McDonalds For our second project in our sustainable systems class, we had to come up with a project that investigates a problem with a product or company that has a negative environmental impact in terms of climate change or sustainability, and resolve the issue by creating an awareness…

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