To start off the second semester, the freshman class built wearable plastic animals. For the first part of the project, we chose animals whose qualities represented ours, and constructed its form through containers of different shapes. The next step: designing a poster consisting of type and pictures of ourselves wearing the animals.
Game on!
The Freshman Designers have been hard at work for the past couple of weeks on their final Studio Project: A game project in teams of 3. Each team was assigned a theme ranging from “Boys vs. Girls” to “Artillery” and has to create an original game incorporating the theme. We’ve been busy prototyping ideas and play-testing with both Designers and other CMUers to refine game mechanics, and now we’re moving on to polishing the games’ aesthetics.
Be sure to come by on May 3rd to see and play our final games!
Pictured are some prototypes from different groups.
A panel of CMU Design alums who were here for Confluence recruitment sat down with the freshman class to answer questions and help them make a decision on whether to pursue industrial or communication design. Their biggest takeaway from CMU? Be nice to your friends, because you never know when you will run into them again!
The Panel (from left to right)
Stephen Lim (CD ‘09) - Lippincott
Josh Finkle (ID’ 10) - Little Tikes
Jeff Bricker (ID ‘96) - Radio Flyer
Lee Byron (ID ‘08) - Facebook
Reina Takahashi (CD ‘08) - Morningstar
Joannie Wu (CD ‘08) - Thinktiv
Andrew Mercando (CD ‘09) - R/GA
Do it for the kids
For the final show of their Charley Harper project, students from the children’s school were invited to participate in the making of the construction paper animals from templates that the students designed.
A Pinch and a Dash
The freshmen had a mid-project critique on their salt & pepper shakers this morning. The project focuses on the form of the objects, interaction and level of complexity between the two shapes, and hierarchy between the dominant and sub-dominant shapes.
Some shots from the critique led by Kristin and Wayne.
Generation Y
The First Year Designers just completed a research-focused project focusing on the problems of Generation Y. They collected information about Gen Y through research and surveys, and then chose a characteristic of the generation to explore in the present and the future. All of this came together in a poster with informative text and an accompanying (sometimes hilarious) image. Check out some photos of the awesome posters!
The first year designers recently completed letterform pop-up books, watch the awesome projects! Video by Linda Dong
