Art Studio

The course adopts a broad perspective of design art, encompassing dual aspects of appreciation and creation. Grounded in art historical contexts of styles and schools, it traces the origins and underlying trajectories of the Constructive notion, while guiding students to study fundamental visual vocabulary, principles and methods of form-making, perceive the characteristics, techniques and performance of material construction, develop abstract modeling thinking, explore spiritual expression through artistic practice, ultimately experiencing the joy of creation.

This course offers students the opportunity to engage with art thinking and art practice. It proposes a collective and experimental space based on the individual projects of each student. This course strengthens an analytic and experiential perspective regarding art practice as a method of research and its potential to understand our relation with the world from different disciplines and practices. 

This course presents western sketch and Chinese white sketch as the simplest forms of expression in painting, with plaster and still life as the main objects of expression, and introduces artistic quality of monochrome expression in painting. The course is a combination of classroom teaching and studio practice.

This course focuses on objects and space. Through exercises, experiments, and various situations, students graphically present natural or constructed objects (observed or imagined) and represent space according to prospective codes of different eras and places. Additionally, the course discusses color theory. Students create a notebook for observation and research as a tool to support various exploratory steps and reveal an investment in a diversity of practices.

This course offers a study of the digitization and processing of still images. It covers structure and manipulation of static bitmap and vector images as well as file input, output, formats, and conversion

This course looks at how colors, materials, and finishing (CMF) is applied in the design industry, in particular to consumer products. Students learn how to rationalize the best choice of colors and materials to engage the user. They will be able to objectify how the colors, materials and finishing that strongly link to the context of the design.

In this studio course students explore and articulate issues and creative considerations through illustration. Students develop and apply techniques, skills and processes in the use of storytelling in their drawing practice. Topics: narrative theory to the relationship between creative work and audience; storytelling and narration; skills and processes of storytelling in the production of creative work.