DESN 1108 · Project Two · Product Redesign of an Everyday Object

Led by Donald Schön Simulacrum

1. Module 8 ○ Open

   Project Two · Product Redesign of an Everyday Object

   Led by Donald Schön Simulacrum

   The question

   The second of three short design projects — a product redesign of an everyday object. The module covers product design as discipline (the Bauhaus through Eames, Castiglioni, Rams, Ive, contemporary practice), the everyday-object exercise drawing on Norman and Petroski, sketching for product (thumbnails, perspective, orthographic), materials proposing form, and the iterative loop of sketch-foamcore-test-revise. The student produces a thumbnail set, foamcore prototype, and final prototype with a reflective journal that tests Schön against three-dimensional resistance.

   Outcome

   The student has produced a complete short product redesign (brief, sketches, foamcore study model, working prototype, user test) with a reflective journal. (Product redesign)

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