Program Overview

Program Overview

The Laboratorio di Disegno program is designed to teach drawing from a semantic perspective, focusing on the development of a language that enables effective communication and project realization. The program aims to provide students with the skills to observe, comprehend, and represent the essential characteristics, components, geometry, proportions, and ergonomic features of objects and spaces.

Objectives and Contents

Educational Objectives

The program proposes a practical and experimental approach to acquire expressive skills in the field of representation. The curriculum is designed to develop research and graphic projects, verifying results progressively. Particular attention is dedicated to the knowledge and control of objects of various dimensions, pursued through graphic analysis of forms, mechanisms, and colors of materials.

Detailed Educational Objectives and Learning Outcomes

The educational path begins with improving students' manual skills to confer greater expressive security to their graphic sign. Representation must become an immediate tool for translating and communicating thoughts and projects effectively.

Prerequisites

The program has a propaedeutic requirement, meaning that it is a prerequisite for other courses.

Teaching Methods

The program consists of 100 hours, divided into:

• 20 frontal lessons/seminars on descriptive geometry and representation techniques
• Exercises and projects to apply the concepts learned

Program Content

The program will cover various topics, including:

• Techniques of representation: pencil, pastels, ink, pen, pantones, and hatching
• Descriptive geometry: orthogonal projections, exercises on solid compositions
• Orthogonal projections: true form, exercises on representing the true form of an object
• Successive projections, exercise on representing an object
• Orthogonal projection, solid interpenetration
• Axonometric projections
• Theory of shadows
• Descriptive geometry: perspective
• Theory and practices of representation: structural theory of colors, perception, Gestalt theory
• Lettering and typeface poster
• Analog rendering of a promotional poster
• Object survey for the final elaboration
• Lesson on object survey for the final elaboration in A1 format - study of compositional schemes
• Extempore drawing test from life at Ikea

Texts and Bibliography

• T.E. Bertoldo, Tecnica Grafica, Ed. Atlas Istituto Italiano, Bergamo, 1971
• L. Galloni (ed.), Disegnare il Design, Ed. Hoepli, Milano, 2001
• D. Sigona (ed.), L'immagine oltre il Design, ED. Alinea, Firenze, 2008
• I. Medola, M. Petri, Free Hand Design, Hoepli, Milano, 2014

Teachers and Commissions

• Sara Eriche
• Office hours: by appointment via email request

Lessons

Start of Lessons

The lesson schedule is available on the EasyAcademy portal.

Exams

Exam Methods

• Presentation of analog graphic elaborations, interview
• The final evaluation consists of the average of the individual evaluations of the first and second semesters; two extempore tests; final A1 format elaboration

Verification Methods

• Intermediate deliveries of graphic elaborations in the first and second semesters; two extempore tests; final graphic table.