Fine Arts Program

The course seeks to introduce to product design students the historical overview of design and its movements, the fundamental principles in designing objects as marketable products, and the basic structure of the design process: empathizing with users, defining design problems, ideating for solutions, prototyping the concept, testing the product and launching to the market.

Graphic User Interface and Experience Design (UI/UX)

Art periods and movements from ancient to modern art

The course is a continuation of D120 Introduction to Product Design 1. It seeks to carry on with the introduction of fundamental principles in designing objects as marketable products, and the basic structure of the design process: empathizing with users, defining design problems, ideating for solutions, prototyping the concept, testing the product, and launching to the market. The students will focus on understanding the problems encountered with everyday objects, and creating solutions for them through the design process.

Art Periods and Movements: Modern Art and Contemporary Art (Eastern and Western)

Critical theory in designing things 

Thesis Production

Mentoring within areas of specialization in a local design company in aid for thesis production

Body and Performance Art

Sculpture 1: Fundamentals of Aesthetics in 2D Form (Relief)

Sculpture 1: Fundamentals of Aesthetics in 2D Form (Relief)

Art Periods and Movements: Ancient to Modern Art 

Learn the art of moving things til if feels right.

An introduction to creative production in collaborative environments. It introduces students to recent practices and discourses that are relevant to socially-engaged or community-based art practice. This is in line with the realization that art or creative practice can encourage innovation, nurture a healthy working environment, and foster a socially responsive ethic.

The course is a study of theoretical discourses which shaped the contemporary mode of reception and practice of art. The course places emphasis on art theory from the point of view of art production. By doing so, it engages the imagination of students by encouraging them to think and reflect on their creative practice as a form of inquiry or research.

This course seeks to introduce to product design students various organic materials, its characterization and manipulation to create marketable products such as home decors, housewares, gifts, toys, accessories, etc. guided by the design thinking process.