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A Student Portfolio

By: <cite>Fast Company</cite> StaffWed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:20 AM
Assignments from "Essentials of Industrial Design."

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Write a paper in the voice of Charles or Ray Eames describing his reaction to a particular product.

The A+ : A draft for a movie script about four products, complete with handwritten notes in the margin--a savvy choice, given the Eames's use of film as a creative medium.

Identify the golden mean (based on Fibonacci's theory), and find examples of beautiful things that correspond.

The A+ : A CD on which a student sang Gregorian chants whose rhythms correspond to Fibonacci's ratios.

Write a paper on The Creativity Priority, by Jerry Hirshberg.

The A+ : A mock menu from a Chinese restaurant with dishes such as "creative abrasion dumplings: a delicate mixture of right-brain thinking soaked in a thick gray sauce of new ideas and unexpected connections."

Topics:

Design, Ethonomics, Design in Business, School Reform, Ray Eames, Culture and Lifestyle, Classical Music, Jerry Hirshberg, Cultural History

From Issue 115 | May 2007

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September 24, 2009 at 5:11pm by Markus Hierit

Interesting post. Thank you for sharing this information.

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