470: Readings!

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We suggest that you purchase DESIGN STUDIES and How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing your Soul since we will be taking a lot of our readings from there.

Remember: respond to the readings on your blog!

reading 1
Due Week 1 • Thu, Sept. 30
Reading about Harrell Fletcher, psu professor, Social Practice. Posts a response (with images) to your personal blog.
“Loving Laura More” by Andrea Gover, Harrell Fletcher. (Text on server under ART 470, Charman)
“Designing for Improvisation” by Liz Danzico
“Rules of Engagement” by Frank Chimero

Download Designing for Improvisation and Rules of Engagement.

reading 2
Due Week 2 • Thu Oct 7
Choose from one of the following movements to research, focus on the social aspects of these movements: Fluxus, Situationists, Punk, Culture Jamming, Relational Art (or “Relational Aesthetics”), or art intervention (or Interventionist Art). Make a post based on your research (with images!) to your personal blog.

reading 3 + 4
Due Week 3 • Thu, Oct 14
Read BOTH of these readings and post a response (with images) to your personal blog.
“Audience as Co-designer: Participatory Design of hiv/aids Awareness and Prevention Posters in Kenya,” Design Studies (see server)
and Cultural Probes_Gaver.pdf (see server)

reading 5
Due Week 4 • Thu, Oct 21
Post a response (with images/notes/line drawings): “Directed Storytelling: Interpreting Experience for Design,” Design Studies

“Personas: Practice and Theory,”
Design Studies

reading 6 + 7
Due Week 5 • Thur, Oct 28
Post a response to both articles (with images/notes/line drawings):
“Reading Conveying Emotion Through Design,” Made You Look by Stefan Sagmeister

and Post a response to Intro + Fwd from How To Be a Graphic Designer…

reading 8
Due Week 6 • Thu, Nov 4
Post a response to Chapter 1, 2, 3 from How To Be a Graphic Designer…

reading 9
Due Week 8 • Tues, Nov 16
Post a response to Chapter 4, 5, 6 from How To Be…

reading 10
Due Week 9 • Tues, Nov 23
Post a response to Chapter 7, 8, 9 from How To Be…