This summer, I have had the great opportunity to teach high school students design, as part of a college Young Artists Residency program at the Art Institute of Boston @ Lesley University. Students of my Graphic Design Techniques course collaborated with students from another graphic design course, and a fashion design course, to [...]
I had the pleasure to attend the 2011 Design Senior Exhibition at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. There I found great work and a great turnout. Highlights for me include some extremely nice branding and poster based graphic design work from Stephanie Young, and two iPad apps developed by
This assignment has students create a real-life object intended for human interaction. They have one week to complete a prototype and presentation. The goal of this assignment is to have students break from using their laptops and Adobe software suite, and exercise their resourcefulness muscle.
Students created a variety of items from disposable trash cans, [...]
Februrary 7th, 2011 – Marc O’Brien of Project M talks with the students of the Introduction to Web Design course about mobilizing your ideas. Ben and I were thrilled Mark could make it! After this talk, a group workshop commenced and we had some wild results. – http://www.marcobrien.net
“Project M is an [...]
Interactive Projects – January 26th, 2011
This clip is from a facilitated discussion dealing with developing goals and objectives as they pertain to interaction design. Students in this session collaborated on determining what objectives would be needed to developed to attain a common goal of “Graduating from the AIB design program”
Once a consensus [...]
Pretty regularly, I lead a workshop for incoming design students at AIB called “Designers make things that make things happen”. This workshop gives the incoming students an introduction to the concepts of design thinking and rapid prototyping. In this workshop I facilitated an ice-breaker exercise and lead the students through a design-thinking exercise called “Thinking [...]
So, my summer classes are over, and it’s been fabulous to say the least. I completed teaching three courses this summer..Graphic Design Techniques, Market-Design-Promote, and Digital Imaging with Photoshop. Two of the three are part of the Young Artist Residency program for High School Students at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University (AIB), [...]
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