Design fundamentals

Overview

Syllabus 10

1. Basic understanding of various shapes, forms and their structure
   • Visual Proportion
   • Form structure
   • Various shapes
   • Figure and ground relation, types of form
   • Inter-relationship of form and shape
2. Understanding basic principles of perception including depth and its representation
   • Visual principles
   • Application of figure and ground
   • Visual perception
   • Perspective
3. Introduction to different mediums, and tools to create surface textures
   • Surface textures
   • Use of lead and graphite pencil
   • Use of pencil for creating texture
4. Developing basic drawing
   • Lines
   • Semantics of lines
5. Nature drawing - to study form and structure and various shapes
   • Structures of shapes and its applications
   • Sketching
   • Creating depth in nature drawing
   • How to draw still life
   • Understanding of basic shapes
   • Observation
   • 3-D layout
6. Representation of basic 3-dimensional forms: cubes, cylinders, cones, spheres etc
   • Looking at object
   • Vision(in visual context)
   • Convergence
7. Memory drawing and quick sketching
   • Memory drawing
   • Quick sketching 1
   • Quick sketching 2
8. Introduction to basic principles of design using the visual elements- point, line, plane and volume
   • Visual elements 1
   • Visual elements 2
   • Visual elements 3
9. Attributes of the visual elements for an understanding of the visual principles
   • Principles of composition 1
   • Principles of composition 2
   • Order and Chaos
10. Introduction to fundamental principles of colour, colour theory: hue, value, saturation, gray scale,
    • Basic colour theory
    • Understanding colour in design context
    • Colour interection
    • Colour contrast
    • Visual weight of colour
    • Pattern and texture 1
    • Pattern and texture 2

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Taught by

• Dr. Utpal BaruaIIT Guwahati