Tuesday, Sept. 1

• Announcements• “Artists and Ideas” Disc

ussion• Project 1 Objectives• ~~10-minute Break~~

• CorelDraw Review• How to Get Started• 1 hour -- Project 1• Project Development Ex

ample• 20-minute Challenge• Where to Find Inspiratio

n• Review

Announcements

• Check-in: quiz, homework (CD, artists), lecture notes

• Safety Quiz– Worth 20 points– Open until Sept. 7

• Where to put things in Canvas where you can find them?– Homework & Lecture Notes Assignments

• Remake “classroom” learning environment

Videos: Artists and Ideas

• Theo Jansen• Phil Hansen• Marco Tempest• David Carson• Paula Scher• Austin Kleon• Dale Dougherty• Adam Savage• Jaime Hyneman

• Wheel, the 11 Holy Numbers• Neurological damage• Recreating old art style• Respond to environment• Hated Helvetica• Writer’s block, theft• Don’t know what it will be• Science = art• Play, curiosity, silliness

Project 1 Objectives

Design and Cut Metal• Create a bracket or corbel

– A device that provides support • Use only basic shapes• Use only additive or

subtractive tools• May modify shapes in the

Property Bar• Submit DXF file to create cut

lines• Cut metal

Notebook (100 Points)• (10) Sketches or images used

to develop your idea• (10) Budget for business• (10) Project Timeline• (10) Invoices• (30) Cut evaluation – did the

cut turn out the way you expected?

• (30) Project self-evaluation – what did you learn? What would you do differently?

10-minute Break

CorelDraw Review

• Create New Document• Save File• Rectangle Tool• Ellipse Tool• Polygon Tool• Select, Move, Rotate, Skew

How to Get Started

• Research– Google, books, real life, notebook of ideas

• Hand sketching or collecting images• Create New Document• Set parameters: metal size

• Create File Folders on thumb drive/cloud• Work with shapes

Project Work – 1 hour

Project Development Example

20-minute Challenge

• Get into groups of 3• Get around a computer• Open up a search engine of your choice• Open CorelDraw• Use only the shape drawing tools to create a

farm animal• Work together to decide on what the finished

image should look like

Where do you find ideas?Where to Find Inspiration

• Shower (website)• Take a walk (exercise)• Take a walk (nature)• Play with children• Talk it out• Doodle• Listen to complex music• Play video games• Be lazy

• Accept impossible ideas as possible

• Establish “idea pools”• Establish “idea

networks”• Make it easy to

document your ideas• Make sure you get

enough sleep• Eat well

Review

• Inspiration doesn’t just happen.• Creating a project is a process that includes

inspiration.• Failure (making mistakes) is part of the

process.