Industrial Design BFA

Color is a powerful tool. Discover how color psychology, simultaneous contrast, proportion, desaturation, atmospheric depth, light temperature, composition, and harmony can greatly enhance imagery. You will utilize various color schemes to explore color harmony using digital media.

Unlock your creative potential by harnessing the power of the creative process. You will generate ideas to solve physical and conceptual design problems. Learn from faculty across different disciplines and engage with your peers to create innovative solutions through collaborations.

Build a solid foundation for visual communication by learning the linear perspective theory to accurately communicate your ideas through drawing! You will learn the theory through drafting exercises, develop freehand drawing skills, and produce quick digital sketches to accurately represent and communicate three-dimensional objects in two dimensions.

Develop skills in drafting and mechanical drawing to clearly communicate three-dimensional design ideas. Using industry-standard dimensioning principles and Autodesk Fusion, you’ll learn to translate concepts into precise visual representations.

The ability to communicate your design ideas in quick and accurate ways is a valuable skill. Through design and modeling projects, you will learn to make design models for industrial design evaluation.

Develop industrial design-quality drawing skills to visually communicate your ideas as three-dimensional forms. You'll improve the quality of your sketches and gain perspective skills by focusing on rendering, craftsmanship, accurate perspective, contrast, and composition.

Further your language of form and bring your ideas to life using various model making skills. Practice generating photo realistic finishes.

Practical freehand sketching abilities are a valuable asset. You'll apply line, light, shade, shadow, value and contrast to shapes found in manufactured products, and begin the use of color. (This course is cross-listed with IND 662.)

Learn the basics of graphic design layout, portfolio organization, and the importance and art of storytelling in your portfolio. You will develop a portfolio for BFA Mid-Point Review/AA Final Review and layout that is applicable for internship applications while learning the basics of graphic design and layout.

Learn how to prepare an Industrial Design portfolio for job application. You will be reevaluating your design projects generated in other courses and enhancing your design storytelling abilities. Your design pieces will be organized in a portfolio showcasing not just your design abilities but also various skill sets you possess.