Colour & Structure

11B0145

Bachelor

German

5.0

only winter term

1 semester

In addition to the skills of drawing, sketching, and illustration, the essential competences of two- and three-dimensional representation and creativity include the competence of model representation.

The color and structure of the animate and inanimate world are among the most important characteristics of a designed system. The competence to display and the effect of the surface is one of the fundamentally important skills of designers.

The representation of an object, the precise description of structural and textual facts, surfaces, and colors, as well as the connections with its environment represent a key function in the early phase of idea and concept creation.

In the further course of design development - up to the finished product - color and structure are essential product characteristics, also from the point of view of sustainability.

Color systems, history of color, use of color, handling color on media, sensitization for nuances, effect, basic psychological parameters of color, exercises in the use of color and structures.

Awareness of texture, structure, and haptics, creation of structures, selection, research, industrial contexts, emotions and surfaces, physical and physical peculiarities.

Sustainability and responsibility. Color and Structure in Cultural Context.

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Work practical

The work samples are made continuously during the semester.

The documentation of the practical exercises consists of 10 pages.

Prior knowledge is not required

The students gain initial experience in dealing with colors and the use of two- and three-dimensional structures in terms of haptics, optics, and emotionality.

You will be made aware of the responsible use of colors and structures in the product development process.

The students learn how different colors and structures are perceived and interpreted in different cultural contexts.

Sensitization through the experimental use of color, and application of different structures and textures on surfaces.

Extension of experimental techniques in the use of colors and structures.

Colors and structures in an industrial context.

The students who have successfully studied this module can argue the use of colors and structures and visualize them analogously or digitally.

You have the ability to communicate and work purposefully in the field of design and in interdisciplinary and intercultural teams.

Graduates can apply what they have learned to professional activities (interdisciplinary field of activity) and positively influence problem-solving through a wide variety of color and structure assignments.

In doing so, they not only inspire non-specialists and pass on their knowledge, but are inspired themselves and thus develop stylistically.

In the course of the increasing digitization of industrial product development processes, graduates continuously find optimization potential for the contemporary use of colors and structures.

In interdisciplinary and intercultural cooperation, with other subject representatives, the students can responsibly illustrate, communicate and solve tasks related to color and structure in the product development process.

The students can justify the social and cultural relevance of the use of colors and (surface) structures in an industrial context.

At work, the students can independently assess and decide which colors and structures are used in the respective context.

They are constantly evolving. Professionalization takes place through constant contextualization of their work and its critical questioning/evaluation. This applies in particular to the issue of sustainability.

The module forms an essential knowledge base for the modules with a design background in the entire curriculum of the Industrial Product Design degree program.

• Industrial Product Design B.A. (01.09.2024)

• Dziubiel, Marian

• Dziubiel, Marian