The Industrial Design studio will involve three projects during the six-week period. The projects include using culturally-driven stimuli in the development of a toy design, a graphics problem and a furniture concept:

• The Toy design will be inspired and influenced by traditional / folk examples translated into new forms and materials. This is not limited to the design children’s toys.

• A Graphics project will include an optional design of a Czech stamp; travel / film poster; book cover (one choice per student) based on the students experience in and around the Czech Republic.

• The Furniture concept can take its cues from traditional bentwood (Thonet) forms transformed into metal tubing and plastic designs. References such as Adolf Loos's Müller Villa in Prague, the contemporary book - The Glass House by Simon Mawer, and Czech iconic designs are encouraged to be identified and employed.

• With a diversity of projects, involving product and graphic design issues, the studio should provide a rich immersion into the great history of Czech Design overall, and provoke interest in contemporary issues of both manufactured and handcrafted approaches to the production of goods and images.

Faculty & Instructors:

Haig Khachatoorian
Donald Corey