EÜT221A

School of Architecture and Design \ Industrial Design

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Compulsory

Turkish

EÜT 122

Industrial Design Undergraduate Program

The Industrial Product Design Studio I course is a project-oriented class that teaches students how to design a product from start to finish and develop their practical skills. In this course, students explore topics such as mechanism design, conceptual design, the relationship between humans and products, creative processes, product language and aesthetics, and functional design.

There is no primary textbook for this course. However, students can benefit from the following books for Industrial Product Design I and II:
Product Design Styling (Peter Dabbs)
The Form of Design: Deciphering the Language of Mass-Produced Objects (Josiah Kahane)
Research Methods for Product Design (Alex Milton & Paul Rodgers) In addition, websites like Core 77, Coroflot, idsketching, Dezeen, Yanko Design, and Designboom can be followed.

The aim of this course is to help students learn and develop their product design skills and processes. In this term, the goal is for students to start forming their own design processes by questioning the relationship between form and function.

1. Design Process: Learn the product design process through assigned projects. By experiencing all stages from start to finish, they develop the skills to manage design projects.
2. Generating Alternatives: Analyze existing products and create alternative designs. By producing numerous sketches and working on structural solutions, they enhance their creative thinking skills.
3. Three-Dimensional Thinking: Develop three-dimensional thinking skills through models. They visualize and refine their design ideas using sketches and models.
4. Detail Analysis: Examine details in design projects by questioning materials, production methods, and component relationships. They finalize their products and prepare them for presentation.

1. Week: First Project: "Cutting or Serving Element – Cutting Board or Tray" Design - Research on the product and material relationships - Exploring alternative materials for these products and similar ones.

2. Week: Experiencing existing products and creating alternative designs - Using sketches and structural solutions - Providing feedback through wall critiques.

3. Week: Providing feedback through wall critiques - Finalizing the first project and preparing for presentation.

4. Week: Jury evaluation and second project - Second Project: "Thermometer" design - Importance of measurements and proportions - Research and consideration of technical issues - Inner-outer relationships.

5. Week: Creating alternative designs with sketches - Thinking in three dimensions using models.

6. Week: Creating alternative designs with sketches - Thinking in three dimensions using models.

7. Week: Detailed work on selected designs - Material selection, production methods, and component relationships - Finalizing the product and preparing for presentation.

8. Week: Jury evaluation and final project - Final Project: Selecting one of the products from the first project to design a product family - "Designing a product family from the actions of cutting or serving" - Exploring design values such as form, style, concept, and line.

9. Week: Reviewing and redesigning the first product - Solving the details of the product family and discussing functions - Searching for lines and producing alternatives for the product family - Using sketches.

10. Week: Continuing to design the product family with detailed solutions - Mock-up work.

11. Week: Model making and preparing presentation boards.

12. Week: Final preparations for the jury, presentation boards, and model critiques.