Art Studio

This is a graduate level course in Fashion Design that is part of the Biennio program (equivalent to the Laurea Magistrale program). The course is intended for advanced level students only. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. The course is a year-long course that runs over the entire year. Part A, during the fall semester, is worth 6 quarter units and Part B, during the spring semester, is worth 6 quarter units. Special permission to take only part A is required. The course focuses on fashion and communication, and considers the relationship between art and fashion. Students analyze visual phenomena of behaviors present in society and research instruments available for recognizing new trends, such as cool hunting and trend setting. The course includes site specific projects – research projects in the area of space selection and installation projects for fashion events involving project design, photography, video, and applicable software. The course further discusses cross overs between art, literature, cinema, music, and fashion. Emphasis is placed on the role played by media in creating and promoting fashion trends beyond the clothing sphere through modes of communication, types of body language, and social behaviors and sensibilities. The course includes workshops and site visits to exhibitions, seminars, studios, laboratories, and fashion houses. Assessment is based on the completion, presentation, and installation of three personal works. Students also present a binder documenting the various phases of the work, both in digital form and paper based. Students are required to present a short research paper on a theoretical aspect connected to their work that is tied to the required readings.

This course introduces the basic elements and concepts of the creation of advertising works, design basis (basic composition), design expression skills (graphics, colors, fonts), design styles, and work group proposals. Students master the basic creative divergent thinking methods, as well as the implementation of creative ideas and final production through graphic design methods, and finally use a variety of methods to complete advertising design works .

This course examines the science behind the fundamental perceptual processes underlying your sense of vision, including: motion and time perception, luminance and contrast perception, colour perception, geometry perception, space and size perception, and face perception. Visual illusions will be used to highlight key features of these complex perceptual processes.

The course introduces many aspects of piano music culture, including elementary guqin playing techniques. It simultaneously studies both theory and practice and uses piano music as the starting point for exploration into the ancient Chinese classical music culture and classical music culture represented by the guqin. The course introduces the specific rules and regulations of playing the piano, and the aesthetics of piano music and ancient piano theory as a means to understand the cultural life paradigm and musical aesthetic interest of ancient Chinese literati and doctors.

This course presents various methods of drawing using pencil, charcoal, ink, and pastel, under constant supervision and instruction. Exercises focus on the perspective of depth, and students go outdoors to draw various things from real life. Students receive critique on style and on the ability to follow instructions.

This course explores the fundamental aspects of the theory and practice of scenery perspective. Topics include: application of perspective in the theater scene-- linear, aerial, and cavalier perspective; perspectives of a stage from its plan and elevation; visual perception and aspects of form-- scale, visual lines, and appraisal; architecture and scenography; perspective as stage language.

The course introduces the basic concepts and theory of ceramic art, ceramic molding, decorative techniques, and ceramic creation. It provides a systematic explanation of the development of ceramic art, the main style and genre, and its classic artists and works. The course includes ceramic training, handwork, and mold forming; decorating, glazing and firing; and a demonstration of the basic methods of pottery making.

This studio course examines human-centred design processes to create a multi-dimensional response to a specific brief. Using a human-centred approach, students will negotiate the opportunities and tensions inherent in the design of services and experiences, offering original solutions that explore current paradigms (including the dynamic interplay of production and consumption).