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The San Diego Supercomputer
Center, at the University of California, San Diego, and UCSD Extension
launch a new, year-round series of programming courses that focus on
digital design and fabrication in collaboration with San Diego's Fab Lab.
This exciting new series of workshops is open to middle and high
school students in grades 8 - 12.
UCSD Interactive Graphic
Arts and Digital Fabrication Series
What is the Fab Lab?
The Fab Lab is an advanced digital design and fabrication laboratory that
allows community members access to high-tech tools in order to actualize
ideas through design and fabrication.
The Fab Lab in San Diego is one of over thirty in the Global Fab Lab
Network, and the only on the United States west coast. Around the globe,
people have utilized the tools associated with the Fab Lab to create the
things that they desire or need. This has ranged from innovations related
to communications technologies to arts and handicrafts. Most of these have
been created by newcomers to such technologies, many by youth. To learn
more about Fab Lab San Diego, please visit http://www.fablabsd.org/.
Interactive Graphic Arts and Digital Fabrication: Vector
Art, Product Design and Production
Saturdays, February 26, March 5 and March 19, 2011
This workshop introduces a creative approach to the design process, with a
focus on thinking and designing in 2-dimensions as well as 3-dimensional
space by leveraging technologies such as computer-aided design programs,
vector editing software and computer numerically controlled machines.
Topics such as graphic design, stencil making, packaging, product design
and production will be explored in a hands-on setting. In addition to creating
vinyl decals and stencils for decorating surfaces, students will learn to
create vector artwork to that will be cut and folded into 3-dimensional
objects. This process can be used to produce interesting and useful 3D
forms, as well as understand the ways in which these can be used to promote
or package ideas. Through this course, students will learn about the ways
in which objects can be designed and constructed, leading to the creation
of their own unique final products.
The goal of this course is to create and design a comprehensive project
consisting of 3-dimensional folded forms and surface design elements that
consider form-making within the context of graphic and industrial design,
packaging, and messaging. In the process, you will also learn about the
communication of ideas through the presentation of form, as well as the
characteristics of complex shapes. The course will take you through
observation, documentation, investigation, and creation, and will conclude
with the production of a custom project by each student. While this class
is fast-paced, it is designed to be accessible and enjoyable for newcomers
to these topics, and we will review necessary fundamentals of graphic
design, packaging, patterning, and 3D modeling.
This course is open to middle and high school students.
Presented by Sandro Alberti, Instructor, Fab Lab San Diego
Course fee: $115.00 (includes $20.00 materials fee.)
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