Sketching for Communication was one of the new courses introduced into the Industrial Design curriculum this Wintersession. The course, taught by graduate student Gunther Chanange alongside teaching assistant Jackson Seidenberg, aimed to provide students with skills in visual communication for conveying their ideas.
Chanange took the initiative to teach what he considers an invaluable skill, describing a sketch as “the primary form for the visual communication of a sketch, serving as a tool for creative thinking, exploration, and inspiration.” Opportunities for students to teach classes in the department don’t happen very often and Khipra Nichols, Graduate Coordinator to the Industrial Design department, described Chanange as “very talented and conscientious.”
For their final assignment, students were asked to complete a real life exercise on product design by redesigning one of the two leading models of humidifiers for their 2016 line. A culmination of the course, the final project was to utilize all elements learned in the class from diagram techniques depicting a system or process, visualization techniques to communicate market, 3/4 views, detailed views, as well as exploded views to describe the final product. Chanange also had students do their drawings on 8.5×11″ landscaped sheets — being the most commonly found drawing surface to quickly communicate ideas.
Below are images from the final critique as taken by Grace Canaan, one of the undergraduate students in the course.
The students’ work will be on exhibit in the ID Gallery, located on the second floor of 161 South Main Street, until February 25th.
Posted by Carly Ayres | Date Posted: 17 February, 2011