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The engages in Rudimentary technical drawing skills and hones practice in computer software introduced in FAA 231 and 232. Basic knowledge and applications of software for 2-D design and modelling will be the focus. Students are encouraged to explore the digital platform’s inherent potential to produce design sketches and diagrams for execution in metals and jewellery. Such sketches will be transferred to 3-Dimensional digital modelling skills and 3D animation techniques; introductory learning about contemporary 3-D design modelling and animation will also be engaged.

This course shall review a survey of basic terminologies, techniques, characteristics and processes as relevant to the graphic production as introduced in FAA 233.2, namely, the letterpress, the offset lithographic press, the gravure press, the process camera, and scanners for multiple colour print reproduction, and the digital desktop publishing interface as an independent publishing device vis-à-vis other contemporary product development. It shall, in addition, seek to develop basic skills in typography by exploring possibilities in hand lettering leading to digital type constructions. Basic print finishing techniques, ink, and paper specifications shall also be covered. Students offering this course shall essentially learn how to bring visual ideas to reality through the varied processes of multiple image-making through experimentations at the university press to enrich students’ experiences further.

The course focuses on the history, theory, and practice of designing, emphasizing natural fabrics and their use in clothing and fashion and environmental and general industrial applications through time. Assignments will identify natural and manufactured fabrics, pattern making, colour and pigment application, materials, and equipment used in the industry.

Commercial survey of designs and fabrics for fashion and interior and exterior design and decoration. Principles and structure of the textile market, clothing for future needs, fabrics as communication, and their need for various settings and the environment. The course incorporates respective aspects of planning, purchasing, allocation, and promotion of the merchandise of fabrics. The communicative and critical applications for achieving results in the textiles industries involving merchandising, consultancy and advocacy, come into focus.

Engaging the taxonomy of the exterior and exterior spaces of human interactions, green and sustainable designing are core to this course. The ideological underpinning from the above strategies is applied to soft furnishings, canopies, drapes, and props for the environment to meet sociological and psychological needs. Design adequacy for space and purpose is integral to the course, focusing on the material, structure, structure, task, and semantics of space.

This course examines such topics as the conceptual framing of art and the artist through the ages how the artist impinges on the society and the ethos of his milieu. The place of the artistic experience, grounds or errors in projecting the creative mystique upon reality in the conception of the artistic personality, investigating the place of artistic inspiration considering the common saying that the artist gives back to the society what the society created. It accommodates the platonic argument and psycho sensory rationalizations of Sigmund Freud Karl Jung and the place of the artistic metaphor and its origin in the socialization of Jacques Lacan and Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of art within the frames of habitus, cultural and symbolic capital.

The course provides an in-depth understanding of human anatomy and other life forms. Lecture time involves a study of models in various poses aimed at entrenching a mastery of form. Such sculptural concerns as portraits, total figures, torsos, expressive gestures in hands and limbs, single and multi-figural themes shall be explored to yield various personal experiences. This course would include collective critical evaluations that involve the students and the course director to hone professionalism through shared experience.

The course is designed to provide knowledge on different kinds of clay and their characteristics concerning their chemical composition, physical and working properties. Plastic and non-plastic ceramic materials, quartz invasion, thermal expansion, and shock. Clay formulation and bending – line and triaxial blending in clay. Reasons for formulating and blending the clay bodies. Englobe, glaze, and their composition with silica. Various types of glaze, their chemical compositions, and make—materials for ceramic and their characteristics concerning their chemical composition, physical, mechanical, and thermal properties.

The course provides a survey history of metals and basic metallurgy of noble metals, iron, aluminium, copper and its alloys, alloy calculation and chemical and mechanical properties of metals, identification of metals, and assaying processes. Studio assignments will focus on workshop methods/processes such as etching, metal lacquering, embossing colouring, heat treatment of metals, hardening, tempering, normalizing, metal joinery techniques such as brazing, soldering, welding and more like it.

The course focuses on theories that govern the decorative process and decorative options: Gem setting, aluminium fabrication and finishing, electroplating, refining of precious metals. Gemmology; stones; synthetic and imitation. Calculation of alloys of noble metals; calculation of gold alloys. Raising and lowering of determined precious metal weights. Calculation of solder alloys/ steel alloys.