COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DESIGN THEORIES I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SER 5043 DESIGN THEORIES I ELECTIVE 4 4 0 8

Offered By

Ceramics and Glass Design

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR EFE TÜRKEL

Offered to

Ceramics and Glass Design

Course Objective

It s not possible to think the industrial and artistic productions as simply related to supplying the needs and a solid meta production. Both human needs and production to supply them are in a state of flux. In this context, design is a indispensable aspect for contemporary industry and production process. Everything we use functionally or visually throughout our lives, produced and designed by distinctive rules. This course, that is based on art and design, informs about these topics;
*Design Principles,
*Creativity,
*Esthetic Precision,
*Spatial modeling
*Solving Problems
*Modeling

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   At the end of this course these qualifications will be expected from the students; to have information about design and design principles and in virtue of this information to be capable of creating spatial designs
2   To be capable of advanced modelling by means of information that has.
3   To be capable of creating innovative designs by means of information that has.
4   To be capable of developing product technologies and funcionalities and to be capable of creating functional products by means of these information
5   To be capable of using these advanced information.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Interpretation of plan, idea, design and designing.
2 Design principles: Repetition
3 Discontinous repetition
4 Proportion
5 Contrast
6 Hierarcy
7 Dominance
8 Equilibrium
9 Unity
10 Sketches about repetition and discontinous repetition
11 Sketches about proportion and contrast
12 Sketches about hierarchy and dominance
13 Sketches about equilibrium and unity
14 Arguments on presentations.

Recomended or Required Reading

Text Book(s)/Required Readings:
Temel Tasar , Prof. Hulüsi Güngör, Afa Matbaacılık, Istanbul 1982
Temel Tasarım , Prof. Dr. Latife Gürer, ITÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi, Teknik Üniversite Matbaası, Istanbul 1990
Endüstri Ürünlerinde ve Mimarlıkta Tasarlama Metodlarına Giriş , Nigan Bayazıt, Literatür Ltd., Istanbul 1994

Additional Sources:
Tasarımda Evrenselleşme , 2. Ulusal Tasarım Kongresi Bildiriler Kitabı, ITÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi, Endüstri Ürünleri Tasarımı Bölümü, Istanbul 1996
Altın Oran , Mehmet Suat Bergil, Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, Istanbul 1988
Endüstri Ürünleri Tasarımında Sosyal Statü-Ürün Etkileşimi , Ufuk Ulusan, Marmara Üniversitesi, Güzel Sanatlar Enstitüsü, Endüstri Ürünleri Tasarımı, Istanbul 2007
Tasarımı Anlamak , Nigan Bayazıt, Ideal Yayıncılık, Istanbul 2004
Sanat ve Endüstri , Herbert Read, ITÜ, Teknik Üniversite Matbaası, Istanbul 1973

Complementary Materials:

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturer informs student about subjects of course by notes and various images. And after this phase, lecturer wants student to examine every design principles and also to create a ceramic panel in consideration of these principles. It s examined that all these principles are applied or not, on every sketch. If possible, practices of designs are made. Presentation is prepared by means of scripts, sketches and images.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
2 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) FCGR * 1
3 RST RESIT
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE RST * 1

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

: Attendence of lessons, qualification of given answers and presentations of student will be taken into consideration.

Assessment Criteria

Student has to prepare at least a presentation, a project and a seminar in a term.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

efe.turkel@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 13.30-17.00 PM

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 4 56
Tutorials 14 4 56
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparing assignments 1 8 8
Preparing presentations 1 8 8
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 198

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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