Course: BPDE 111 Introduction to Industrial/Product Design

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BPDE 111 Introduction to
Industrial/Product Design

This course seeks to introduce students to the subject of Product Design, the definition of product design as well as some of the ways design interacts in the societal and business environment, where the results of this activity permeate every sphere of our lives; in the home and workplace, in schools, factories, offices and shops, in streets and transport systems.

BPDE 111 Introduction to
Industrial/Product Design

The primary objective is to expose students to Industrial and Product design history, concept development, engineering drawings, design for prototyping, manufacturing and Product design as a business activity.

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Aaron Adjacodjoe

BPDE 111 Introduction to Industrial/Product Design

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The course will entail a review of the history of product design making throughout the world, up to the present with an indication of what the future possibilities might be. Such a review shall be conducted with some selections of traditional products used by culturally distinct ethnic groups and a sampling of contemporary product design.

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The course will be delivered through Lectures, demonstrations and video presentations.

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Heskett, J. (1985) Industrial Design (World of Art). Thames & Hudson.
Sparke, P. (1987). An introduction to design and culture. Routledge.
Heskett, J. (2003). Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Boradkar, P. (2010). Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects. United Kingdom: Berg Publishers.
Slack, L. (2010). What is Product Design?. Switzerland: RotoVision.
McDonough, W., Braungart, M. (2010). Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. United States: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Milton, A., Rodgers, P. (2011). Product Design. United Kingdom: Laurence King Publishing.
Ferebee, A. and Byles, J. (2011). A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present: A Survey of the Modern Style in Architecture, Interior Design, Industrial Design, Graphic Design and Photography (2^nd Ed) New York, W.W. Norton & Co.
Fiell, C. and Fiell, P. (2012). Design of the 20^th century. Taschen.
Norman, D. A. (2013). The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition. Norway: Basic Books.
Gantz, C. (2014). Founders of American Industrial Design, McFarland, Jefferson.
Marcus, G. H. (2019). Introduction to Modern Design: Its History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Aaron Adjacodjoe

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Duration 16 Weeks
Lectures 16
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Credit Hours 3

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