Class#8 Cooper Hewitt Design Museum Visit

Technical Drawing, Class#8 –Cooper Hewitt Design Museum 3:00pm-5:00pm

From now on in class, we will build on our working knowledge of technical drawing conventions to focus on drawing as it aids the processes of visual research, brainstorming, and design.  Please visit the below exhibitions:

BEAUTY—COOPER HEWITT DESIGN TRIENNIAL

ENERGIZING THE EVERYDAY: GIFTS FROM THE GEORGE R. KRAVIS II COLLECTION

MAKING DESIGN: RECENT ACQUISITIONS

TASK: Choose an object or image that most inspires you. It can be an object that you would like to make in your professional life, a piece that you connect to through personal memories, or something that you simply gravitate to because of its beauty, function, or originality.

1. Make sketches of the object in your sketchbook. At least 5 drawings, 30-minutes plus . At least one of them should be 15-minutes plus. Sketch your object from all angles. Do a couple quick gesture drawings, and some details. If the object inspires you, draw new forms inspired by the original.

Answer the following questions in your sketchbook:

2. Please give a detailed description of the object.  Write a whole paragraph,

Describing, shape, color, surface quality, labeling, weight, smell, any sensory details you can document about the object.

3. What are the object’s physical dimensions? Label one of your drawings.

4. What materials is the object made of?

5. Describe in detail how it was crafted or manufactured (based upon what you can figure out, or what is provided by accompanying information).

6. What aspects of its making are uncertain, mysterious to you? Be detailed.

7. What aspects of its materials or manufacture are inspiring to you, if any?

8. What aspects of its intended use or its design are new or inspiring to you, if any?

9. Why did you choose to focus on this object over all the others?

10. How does this object relate to what you want to create?

Take a lot of notes. Type up your answers (and anything else you want to write about the object in paragraph form) and turn in with your sketches for nexr week’s HW. Also bring your finished multi-view drawing.