Independent Study for Week 7

• Complete and hand in Assignment 1!
• Collect your laser cutting content from the Design Lab
• Print your poster in colour
• Assemble your 2.5D poster
• Submit your final PDF version of your poster to emustore (along with any 3D models, illustrator files, InDesign files, videos, etc.) in a folder labeled with your student ID and name. (eg. 1234567_YourName)
• Refine your blogs, ensuring you have all task outputs posted.
  
• Refer to the Assignment 1 Marking Schedule to ensure you fulfill all requirements!
• Meet in the FBE Gallery at 1pm for next week's Studio Class.
  
• Bring your 2.5D poster along to Studio for pin-up and review. (Friday 4th September, Week 7)
• Good Luck!!!
  

Week 6 Studio Tasks

Peer Review

• Peer Review two of your fellow students work. Use the peer review Marking Schedule from Courses on the Web.
• Peer Review the person above you and below you within your tutor group lists from the Course Blog.
  
• Fill out all fields and, ignoring the Submission Requirements_, Overall Impression_, and Final Posters_ sections, and grade them as if they were being grade on there final submissions.
• Post images of the reviews that you do on other students to your blogs.

Other Tasks

• Work on getting your blog up to date, using the marking schedule as a guide to what requirements you should have.

If everyone is up to date, and we get around to it, we'll have another try at...
DIGITAL PICTIONARY!!!

• RULES
• Split into groups of 4-5.
  
• All drawings to be done in Sketchup in 3D.
• No gestures, text, or generally any dodgy stuff!
  
• 4 minute time limit, (use the online count-down as a timer) .
• Winner keeps the card and writes their name on it.
• Winner Draws the next word!
  
• If the word is not guessed card goes back into the card pool for another group to attempt, and another word is attempted by the same drawer.
• Save each sketchup file that you draw, and post an image of your pictionary model, along with the word that it was based on to your blog.
• Person with the most wins (cards) by the end of class gets the Prize!

Independent Study for Week 6

• Hand in your laser cutting Illustrator files to the Design Lab by Monday 24th August to be laser cut. (You need to give them time to cut your content, so you can get it back and assemble your poster.)
• Research two significant pieces of Architecture that you are interested in. Find drawings, sketches posters, models etc. relating to you chosen buildings and post all information to your blog.
• Write 100 words on each building commenting on the visual styles used to represent the architecture.
• Use your research to help you refine your posters, in terms of the visual styles that you discover.
  
• Refine your poster design, and produce a second draft of your poster, developing your layout and content.
  

Week 5 Studio Tasks

• Tutors will be checking the blogs at the start of class, and anyone who is not up to date with all Studio tasks and independent tasks will be asked to leave.
• The first half of class will be spent in feedback on your poster design and laser cutting files, use the advice given to develop a second, more complete draft of your poster in the coming week.
  
• Second half of class...
  
• DIGITAL PICTIONARY!!!
  • RULES
  • Split into groups of 4-5.
    
  • All drawings to be done in Sketchup in 3D.
  • No gestures, text, or generally any dodgy stuff!
    
  • 4 minute time limit, (use the online count-down as a timer) .
  • Winner keeps the card and writes their name on it.
  • Winner Draws the next word!
    
  • If the word is not guessed card goes back into the card pool for another group to attempt, and another word is attempted by the same drawer.
  • Save each sketchup file that you draw, and post an image of your pictionary model, along with the word that it was based on to your blog.
  • Person with the most wins (cards) by the end of class gets the Prize!
• You can only play if your blog is up to date!
• If your blog is not up to date you will be asked to leave to get your work up to date! Once your blog is up to date, you can come back to class and will be marked as present.
• It is good to remember that if you are marked absent for 3 Studios it will be an instant fail for the course!
  

Independant study for Week 5

• Do the first three Illustrator tutotials on the Swinburne University website, a link to the Illustrator Tutorial page can be found on the Courses on the web page for this course.

• Read through all the Laser Cutting Info on the FBE Design Lab web pages, and familiarise yourself with the process. You will have to submit your Illustrator files to be laser cut by Monday 24 August, to ensure your material is cut in time for you to assemble your poster before final submission.

• Download the 'laser-Cutting Order Form'.docx, 'Laser-Cutting Checklist'.docx, The Basics of Laser-Cutting (PDF) and the FBEDWS_LaserTemplate.zip (zipped Illustrator Template) from the FBE Design Lab pages.
  

• Complete your draft A2 poster in InDesign of your final design considering 2D layout and the way laser-cut elements will be incorporated into your 2.5D poster.

• Create an Illustrator file (using the design Lab Laser Cutting template) of elements that you would like to have cut for incorporation into your 2.5D design poster.

• Post an image of your draft poster, and an image of your Illustrator Laser Cut drawing to your blog for your tutor to check next week in Studio.
  

• Source materials that you would like to use for your laser cutting process. The Design Lab sells a limited selection of materials that you can purchase from them, and has information on suppliers in their documentation, though if you would like something more specialised you will have to consult with staff at the desugn lab as to its suitability to be laser-cut.
  

Week 4 Studio Tasks

• Do the Augmented Reality for Sketchup Tutorial from the Courses on the Web page for this course.

• Play around with Sketchup and BuildAR trialing a few different .3ds models, sections, tranparent, wireframe etc. considering the best way to display your work in a group situation.
  

• Present your creature habitats/dwellings to the class using a combination of Augmented Reality and Sketchup.

• Capture images of you holding your Augmented Reality model (Print Screen, and crop in photoshop) to post to your blog.
  

• Extract relevant plans and sections of Sketchup environments in DWG format to be imported into Illustrator for enhancement and laser cutting.

• Do a few rough sketches exploring the layout of your design poster. Refine your ideas in preparation of creating a Draft poster for next weeks Studio.
  

Independant study for Week 4

• Scan and post good quality images all of your physical sketches from Studio, and image captures of your developing Sketchup environments.
  

• Take your chosen habitat/dwelling to a high level of resolution in Sketchup, including site context and materials. Make sure to consider your creature's personality, and where and how it might like to live.


• Develop both the interior and exterior of your dwellings, and the surrounding landscape of your environment. Be sure to consider the basic construction of your dwellings, with elements such as wall thickness, doors and windows (if any), how it relates to the landscape, and any other aspects of your designs that are relevant. Also consider the habits of your creature, eating, sleeping, recreation (dancing), and any other behaviours you may envision.

• Extract and post images to your blog of a minimum of one plan and two sections of your Sketchup model, showing elements such as wall thicknesses, floor thickness, space layout, levels etc. These can be simple line extractions at this stage.
  


• Take at least 6 well framed (and good resolution) image captures of your building, considering interior and exterior, and post them to your blog.

• Outputs to be posted to blog for next week:
  

• Physical and digital sketches of two creature's habitats from Studio.
• Images of the processes of your developing ideas for your developed dwelling/habitat.
• Minimum of 1 x plan extraction image of your developed Sketchup model
• Minimum of 2 x section extraction images of your developed Sketchup model
• Minimum of 6 x well framed image captures of your Dwelling/Habitat.
  

Week 3 Studio Task

• Give your blog address to your tutor, and show your tutor your 5 creations from last weeks tasks.


• With the help of your tutor, pick two of your Creatures that you are most interested in developing habitats/dwellings for.


• Do quick sketches of a habitat/dwelling for each of your two chosen creatures, using a drawing implement and paper. Think of your creatures as your clients, creating a space which captures the personality of your creations.

• Start with some expressive sketching that explore the emotive themes of your habitat/dwelling for each creature.
  

• Then sketch a rough site map, a minimum of two sections, minimum of 1 plan, at least two perspective sketches that capture the main elements of your ideas for each habitat, and a minimum of two details of your environments.

• Do the previous two sets of drawings for each of your creature's habitats.

• These sketches should convey a solid understanding of your environments, and should all be little pieces of art in their own right.
  


• As your ideas develop on paper, start to transfer your sketched ideas to Sketchup as rough 3D sketches which you can use to assist your understanding of the 3D nature of your creatures' habitats, creating a 3D dwelling for each of your 2 creatures.

• Alternate between your sketches and Sketchup to refine and develop your ideas.

• Be sure to capture images of your developing Sketchup environments that show the progression of your ideas.
  


• In consultation with your tutor, choose one of schemes to continue to develop outside of class.