Welcome!
Welcome to the Design Impact II course.
The teachers are Prof. Teemu Leinonen, Art Director and Graphic Designer Päivi Helander & Industrial Designer Irina Viippola.
We will meet on Mondays (mornings) and Wednesdays (full days) in different classrooms. During the Vappu-week we will meet on Wednesday and on Friday May 5th we will do a field trip to Fiskars Village.
The calendar will help you to find the right room. Please, notice that there can be some changes in the rooms, too. These will be announce during the classes.
WEEK 1
Monday 24.4. 9-12: Course Introduction
Three Work Packages and working groups, with several teams:
- WP1: Magazines / Zines (Päivi)
- WP2: Exhibition Design (Irina)
- WP3: Workshop Facilitation (Teemu)
Everyone will learn from all the three themes and contribute to them, but for each theme there will be a a core working group responsible of three deliverables of the course.Wednesday 26.4. 9-17: Publication Design 1 with Päivi
About designing publications, storytelling & introduction to InDesign
WEEK 2
Monday 1.5. Vappu. No class.
Wednesday 3.5. 9-17 Publication Design 2 with Päivi
Creating a publication, basics of editorial: grids, fonts, illustrative elements
Friday 5.5. 8-14 Field Trip to Fiskars Village
The bus leaves from the front of the Undergraduate Centre at 8! Bring your own lunch box. Do not miss the bus.
WEEK 3
Monday 8.5. Cultural and social value of design with Teemu
Wednesday 10.5. Publication Design 3 with Päivi
Deadline of the first essay draft (1000 words!)
Deadline of visual moodboard of the editorial.
Structuring a publication, look and feel, typography, scale and hierarchy
WEEK 4
Monday 15.5. Economic / monetary value of design with Teemu
Wednesday 17.5. Publication Design 4 with Päivi
Producing a publication, preparing files for print
WEEK 5
Monday 22.5. Planetary thinking and design with Teemu
Wednesday 24.5. Publication Design 5 with Päivi
13:15 Brief for the exhibition and workshop facilitation
- WEEK 6
Monday 29.5. 9:15. Workshop facilitation and exhibition design workshop 1
Wednesday 31.5.
9:15-12 Teamworking time
13:15 Checking the status of magazine and exhibition design and co-ordinating the visuality and presentation of the publications
WEEK 7
Monday 5.6. at 10.15 - 11.50: Exhibition and workshop team meeting with presentations for Irina in the FK Gallery (lobby)
Wednesday 7.6. at 10.30 - 12.00: Exhibition and workshop team meeting with Irina & Teemu
WEEK 8
FRIDAY 9.6. full day: FINAL EVENT: WORKSHOP + EXHIBITION
Preliminary program
9:45 Coffee & something small served / Kipsari
10:00 Opening speeches / Kipsari
11:00 - 13:00 Workshops and pizza / Homebase
13:30 Closing remarks & bubbles / FK Gallery
-> Exhibition (reading groups?)