Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Architecture and Arts :: Design

DESIGN DIGITAL - 2018/2019

3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 3

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Ana Quintas
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Ana Quintas

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

1. To conceive and design for digital environments.
2. To communicate in digital design.
3. To maximize experimentation and conceptual thought.

Specific Aims/Objectives

1. To know how to express creatively with digital tools.
2. To know how to create atmospheres and to express emotions in a digital environment.
3. To know how to design digital spaces.
4. To know how to apply digital software in a creative and original way.

Skills to be acquired

At the end of the semester the students will be able to:
1. Understand the proprieties of the elements in a digital environment.
2. Create digital spaces based on a creative concept;
3. Explore the creative possibilities of the digital tools;
4. Know how to work with digital tools to create a personal aesthetic.
5. Know how to use the computer as a means of creative expression.

Teaching Procedures

The teaching will have a theoretical part, where will be used the expositive and the interrogative methods, and a practical part, where will be used the demonstrative and the active methods.

Programme

1. Introduction to the properties of the digital elements.
2. 3D digital spaces: characteristics. Structure and modelling. Filled areas / empty areas. Scale.
3. Object modelling: form. Relationship objects / space.
4. Ilumination of a digital space: light, colour, shadows. Different ways of illuminating a space. Different types of illumination.
5. Materials in a digital space: texture, colour, self-illumination, reflections, refractions, brightness, transparencies. Relationship with ambient light. Maps.
6. The camera. Depth of field.
7. Render.

Evaluation Type

The students will be evaluated, throughout the semester, by the result of two written tests and the practical exercises done in the classroom. Participation, assiduity, interest, ability to surpass the problems, knowing how to work with the software programs, originality, ability to communicate an idea and the quality of the design are other relevant elements that will assess the students capacities.

Teaching Resources

Computer
Virtual space creation and renderization software
Internet
Projector
White board
Pen

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Design
Digital
Virtual space
Pixel
Computer

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