SPECIAL TOPICS – INTERIOR DESIGN

Fall 2020 Intro to Digital Layout & Design –
This course provides the student an overview of of digital design and layout using image manipulation, page layout and illustration software (ex: Adobe Creative Suite). Students will work closely with other Interior Design classes and produce final projects from those courses in this course. Additional design, layout and photography techniques will be covered to expand the student’s design skills.

Fall 2019 Manuel Drafting-
An introduction to drafting techniques that are used by interior designers to represent built environments, as well as the components found in them, with scale drawings. Instruction
focuses on understanding concepts and developing the skills needed to produce
manually-generated orthographic drawings, architectural lettering, and drawing composition.

Course Objectives and Rationale
1. Depict interior environments with scaled orthographic drawings.
2. Use basic manual drafting tools.
3. Understand and apply basic drafting concepts and conventions to develop orthographic drawings.
4. Generate architectural lettering.
5. Demonstrate mastery of course topics through various assignments.

SP19 – 2D Composition & Layout: This course will provide students with the strategies and practices used to create effective layouts and presentations. Students will use industry standard design software to study the relationship between type, image, and various grid systems. Emphasis will be placed on understanding typography, grid structure, hierarchy, layout, composition, and proportion. Students taking this course will use apply these skills to revise past and present studio projects including presentation boards, documentation booklets, digital presentations and more.