Course detail

Industrial Design I

FSI-YA1Acad. year: 2023/2024

The course is concerned with basic methods and habits that are necessary for the work on a design project. During the semester students are assigned tasks to design products that have a simple function. Suitable topics as design of hand tools such as hand saw for wood or metal, electric drill or a jig saw. The design project itself is documented by drawing sketches, plan documentation, perspective views, and a three-dimensional model of final solution. It is expected that students will use digital technologies for visualization and animation at the working out of the current project.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. akad. soch. Ladislav Křenek, ArtD.

Department

Institute of Machine and Industrial Design (ÚK)

Entry knowledge

Students are assumed to have mastered the fundamentals of drawing and moulding necessary for project presentation. It is also necessary understanding of the basic spatial creation, art composition and realization of three-dimensional models.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Graded course-unit credit requirements: attendance at lessons, handing over assigned projects by the deadline in a sufficient quality. Presentation of an elaborated project. Design and the level of presentation of each project are evaluated separately.
Resulting evaluation consists of evaluations on projects and exclusive tasks. In total it will be possible to aquire 100 points. Resulting classification will be defined by the ECTS scale.
If some of the projects are awarded less than half of the maximum pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed".
According to the article No. 13 of Study and Examination Rules of Brno University of Technology ECTS evaluation degree scale is used. . If some of the projects are awarded less than 50 pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed". The course is evaluated with the following grades: ECTS EVALUATION DEGREES / PTS. RATING / NUMERIC RATING: A / 100 - 90 / 1 / Excellent; B /89 - 80 / 1,5 / Very good; C / 79 - 70 / 2 / Good; D / 69 - 60 / Satisfactory; E / 59 - 50 / Sufficient; F / 49 - 0 / 4 / Failed.
Compulsory attendance at seminars. Education runs according to the week schedule. The way of compensation of missed seminars is specified by the tutor.

Aims

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the basic attributes of industrial design at solving simple design products and encourage the emergence needed habits, procedures and basic skills. The aim is to respect and emphasize technical, operational and technological aspects of design.
Acquiring basic skills for an elementary product design taking into account the ergonomic context, the functional aspects and the definition of the selected target group of customers.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

DREYFUSS, Henry. Designing for people. New York: Allworth Press, 2003. ISBN 1581153120.
NORMAN, Donald A. Emotional design: why we love (or hate) everyday things. New York: Basic Books, 2005. ISBN0-465-05136-7.
PELCL, Jiří. Design: od myšlenky k realizaci = from idea to realization. V Praze: Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová vPraze, c2012. ISBN 978-80-86863-45-0.

Recommended reading

Design trend: evropská revue soudobého designu. Brno: Design centrum České republiky, 2007. ISSN 1210-1591.
FIELL, Charlotte a Peter FIELL. Industrial design. Praha: Slovart, c2003. ISBN 3-8228-2426-7.
MALANIUK, Bohdan. Design v architektuře a stavebnictví: z dějin průmyslového designu. Praha: ČVUT, 1991.í

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-PDS-P Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Studio work

78 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Jiří Tauber, Ph.D.
akad. soch. Tamara Buganská

Syllabus

- Project assignment - design of industrial product.
- Problem analysis, information and basis acquirement.
- Design sketches, first correction, /clausura project.
- Next sketches and drafts, model sketches.
- Final version approval, model construction.
- Model construction, 2nd project assignment.
- Model construction, follow-up correction, 2nd project analysis.
- 1st project presentation, 2nd project - sketches and drafts.
- Sketches and drafts to 2nd project, model sketches, / one day workshop.
- The final version approval.
- Model construction, follow-up correction.
- 2nd project completion and submission.
- 2nd project presentation /workshop project/.