Fine Arts Program

This is an advanced course on the theoretical nature of art. The course highlights the rich diversity and complexity in art by looking into a wide and often remarkably insightful array of philosophical positions and aesthetic writings on the characteristics and importance of art in human experience.
 

This is a foundation course on drawing. Drawing in reality is the basis of all visual arts. It is an artist’s most essential skill to create fine art. This course also aims for you to re-examine with fresh eyes the fundamentals of drawing and its techniques: lines, volume, space, textures, and tonal values.

Study and manipulation of various elements of art in relation to visual perception and production

Collage, Photomontage, and Assemblage

The course is a survey of prehistoric, ancient, and modern art from the artist’s point of view. The course contents are organized chronologically in that it traces the evolution of art production period by period, and movement by movement. Individual works of art and masterpieces that embody the defining characteristics of each period or movement are highlighted and analyzed in detail to reveal how social, political, and cultural conventions of the time shaped art production, how artists influenced each other, and how the full meaning of such works can be interpreted in the context of history and culture.

Study and manipulation of various elements of art in relation to visual perception and production

Collage, Photomontage, and Assemblage

The course seeks to deepen the understanding of students on the different theories and methodologies that re/shape the landscape of design as a form of practice.  While it has been noted that design as practice is fairly new compared to other fields of scholarly discipline, there have been consistent and vigorous efforts by many design scholars and experts to put together a range of theoretical approaches through which design synthesizes into a form of discipline.

The course seeks to introduce to product design students the historical overview of design, the fundamental principles in designing objects as marketable products, and the basic structure of the design process. The students will be introduced to the process of creating design briefs and product design specification (PDS) as guide to product research and development. The case study for this course focuses on the problems of personal mobility and storage as defined and solved by bag design. 

Elements and Principles of Packaging, Packaging as Marketing Tool

What's worse than a loading icon? A loading icon that won't even load. 

Learn the essentials of intuitive user interface design and helpful user experience design methods to build a meaningful digital service prototype.

Survey of art historical periods and movements from antiquity to the Renaissance from across different cultural context.

An introduction to technical drawing and presentation rendering using traditional media.