DESIGN EDUCATION
Since early 2024, I've had the pleasure of working with Bishop Kearney, a local middle-high school, as a client within Command+g Design Lab. Along with creating Bishop Kearney, or "BK" branding, I've also had the wonderful opportunity to develop and teach a design education course for middle school and high school students.
Topics covered include screenprinting, logo design, typography, motion graphics, animation, photography, videography, and more.
About thirty students attend each session, ages anywhere from eleven to eighteen.
LOGOMARK WORKSHOP - PART ONE
The first session started off with a bang: Logomarks!
Alongside other mentors and RIT professors, I guided BK students in creating their own personal logo. Taking inspiration from existing brands, typefaces, and alphanumeric logotypes, students explored their own ideas by tracing letters into their sketchbooks.
LOGOMARK WORKSHOP - PART TWO
The next step was to digitize the sketches and add color in Adobe Illustrator.
In between the first and second session, I worked to take scans of the logomarks and transform them into editable vector files.
Students learned the basics of MacOS, Adobe Illustrator, and typography terms.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN DEMO
In collaboration with the industrial design department at RIT, BK students had the opportunity to experience a taste of industrial design, from ideation to final product.
Starting with a post-it note divergent thinking activity, students brainstormed different household items that could be improved with better design.
From there, students began sketching ways they could combine elements of an animal into a household item. Two examples include a vacuum cleaner combined with an octopus, then a pelican combined with a trash can.
Finally, students translated their 2D sketches into 3D by creating mini clay sculptures of their hypothetical products.
