Design Studies

Code:

ED400

Acronym:

ED

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Design

Instance: 2019/2020 - A

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Design
Course/CS Responsible:	Communication Design

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
DC	50	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2017	4	-	15	120	405

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Objectives: The student will learn a set of critical and theoretical methodologies, organically integrated in the professional practice of design, its teaching and, specifically, in writing, editing and publishing.

Skills: editing, editorial design, writing, publishing, research, public debate, participation in collective projects.

Learning outcomes and competences

Learning outcomes: Having concluded Design Studies, the student will have an operative knowledge of design's theory and criticism, being able to do research work in academic contexts, as well as apply this knowledge to the professional practice of design. He will be able to take part in editorial, curatorial and critical projects, either as a collaborator or as an organizer.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Previous knowledge: editorial design, using appropriate software.

Program

The year's structure is divided into a number of self-contained workshops.

1 - Lecture on typography: the aim is to review and refine the knowledge acquired by students in this area, focusing on editorial matters.

2 - Workshop on editorial design: Indesign. Text editing in books and magazines. Bookdesign and design of publications with text and image using grids.

3 - Lecture on contemporary independent publishing, including a brief history and appreciation of several publications.

4 - Production of one colective publication.

5 - Final Individual Project.

Mandatory literature

VA; Looking Closer 3, Allworth Press, 1999
Vilém Flusser; The Shape of Things, Reaktion Books, 1999

Complementary Bibliography

VA; The Anti-Aesthetic, New Press, 1998
Arjun Appadurai; Dimensões Culturais da Globalização, Teorema, 1996
Jean Baudrillard; Para uma Crítica da Economia Política do Signo, Edições 70, 1995
Anne D'Alleva; Methods & Theories of Art History, Laurence King, 2005
Terry Eagleton; The Function of Criticism, Verso, 2005
VA; Looking Closer, Allworth Press, 1994
Harold Bloom; The Anxiety of Influence, Oxford University Press, 1997
Jacques Derrida; Gramatologia, Perspectiva, 1999
Benedict Anderson; Comunidades Imaginadas, Edições 70
Guy Debord; A Sociedade do Espectáculo, Mobilis in Mobile, 1991
Sigmund Freud; Civilization and Its Discontents, Penguin, 2004
Stephen Bayley; General Knowledge, Booth-Clibborn, 2000
Pierre Bourdieu; O Que Falar Quer Dizer, Difel, 1998
Anne-Marie Christin; A History of Writing, Flammarion, 2002
Gilles Deleuze; Conversações 1972-1990, Fim de Século, 2003
Terry Eagleton; A Ideia de Cultura, Temas & Debates, 2000
Alain de Botton; The Architecture of Happiness, Hamish Hamilton, 2006
Michel Foucault; L'Archéologie du Savoir, Gallimard, 2002
Alastair Hannay; On the Public, Routledge, 2005
Hal Foster; Design & Crime, Verso, 2002
E.H. Gombrich; The Uses of Images, Phaidon, 2000
Terry Eagleton; The Ideology of the Aesthetic, Blackwell, 1990
Michel Foucault; O que é um Autor, Vega, 2000
John Gray; Al Qaeda and What It Means To Be Modern, Faber & Faber, 2003
David Crow; Visible Signs, Ava, 2003
David Crow; Left to Right - the cultural shift from words to pictures, Ava, 2006

Teaching methods and learning activities

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho escrito	10,00
Trabalho laboratorial	80,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	160,00
Estudo autónomo	125,00
Frequência das aulas	120,00
Total:	405,00

Eligibility for exams

Evaluation of the investigative work weighted with class participation.

Calculation formula of final grade

Average of the work of every work developed. Média ponderada dos trabalhos desenvolvidos.  1/6 book. 1/6 grid design. 1/6 Colective publication. 1/2 final project.

Note: Work delivered late or/and not seen before will be penalized (3 grades in a scale of 20). The student can attempt to better his work in the fifteen days following the evaluation.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Students in outwards Erasmus semestral mobility, without assured equivalence at this UC: production of a work, during the recourse period.

Exam: a work produced during two weeks.

Classification improvement

A editorial work produced during two weeks.

Observations

Mobility students won't be accepted.