Design Communication I Course

Program Overview

This introductory interior design course teaches fundamental drawing and drafting skills, covering concepts such as composition, proportion, and form. Students explore various sketching and drafting tools to create drawings that convey both information and emotional depth. The course emphasizes the U.S. standard measurements of feet and inches.

Program Outline

Outline:

• Course Description: This beginning interior design course focuses on basic freehand drawing and drafting.
All the components essential to good drawing are presented and discussed. Working almost exclusively in black-and-white, students embark on a series of exercises that introduce important visual concepts--composition and design, contour and line, proportion and scale, plan and section, form and space, tone and shadows--plus the ability to create drawings that are rich in both information and psychological content. This class is based on the U.S. standard measurements of feet and inches and not the international metric system. Media covered include a variety of sketching and drafting tools.
• Course Objectives:
• Explore all the components essential to good drawing
• Composition and design, proportion and size, and form and space
• Gain the ability to create drawings rich in information and psychological content
• Course Schedule:
• Lecture 1: Introduction to drawing and drafting
• Lecture 2: Basic shapes and forms
• Lecture 3: Perspective and proportion
• Lecture 4: Light and shadow
• Lecture 5: Composition and design
• Lecture 6: Freehand drawing exercises