idea program
Design Educator
1yr. 7mo.
September 2015 - March 2017
- Lead bi-monthly courses for three class periods with 90 students
- Review portfolios and provide guidance for college applications
- Plan instruction for courses on ideation, sketching, prototyping, photography/documentation, adobe software, Fusion360 3D modeling, constructive critique
- Worked directly with teacher and co-lead
Key Skills: Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Photography, 3D Printing, Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Google Apps: Docs, Slides, Teaching, Activity Planning
Sketching Workshop
Design process visualization - overview of how sketching can be used throughout the entire process, followed by practice with drawing basic shapes in perspective and tricks to add dimension and shading to thumbnail sketches.
Photography workshop
28 step, self-directed basic Photoshop lesson to accompany an in-class lighting and photography demo
Graphic Design Workshop
Quick introduction to basic design relationships in space using Paul Rand's work as an example, followed by a guided computer lab lesson on creating an InDesign document with text and images.
