Universal design - Insight

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Tutors: Yedidia Blonder and Shanit Adam

The core concept of a universal design approach is to harness into the design process the complex and diverse characteristics and needs of minorities in populations and create a deep, layered and meaningful research process that expands and sharpens the ways of observing and the proposed design solutions.

The course is conducted in the format of research and development teams, consisting of students, staff members and residents of a nursing home / sheltered housing. The teams will work together and design aids and products designed to improve lifestyle in old age. As part of the universal design concept, the products will be intended for the population at large, with an emphasis on a wide range of uses and capabilities.

Students will receive lectures and information on the challenges facing the elderly from a variety of professional partners, will visit and meet with professionals at Yad Sara and a nursing home.

3D Visualization for Presentation The ability to explain your ideas to others (and to yourself) is one of the most accentual tools in the designers toolbox. In recent years alongside the classical methods for developing and presenting an idea (like sketching and modeling) the relatively new field of 3D Visualization is becoming the industry standard of presentation. In the first half of the course we'll be working in Photoshop, learning the basics of 2D rendering and photo manipulation. In The second half we'll learn how to create a photorealistic rendering of your designs using KeyShot (which is one of the industry leading solutions for 3d rendering).

The main purpose of the course is to give to the student a very wide range of drawing technics, all of them based on the rules of both, linear and air perspective. With those skills, he can achieve a real freedom of expression as a designer.