As paired with the co-requisite Core Studio 3D, this course builds upon the student’s understanding of text-image storytelling and moves it beyond the page, or screen, into fully realized three-dimensional forms and environments to tell compelling stories. Emphasis will be placed on creating work geared for reproduction and distribution. The two courses will bring together reading, writing and making in a manner that is essential to the creative work of illustrators. The three-hour Core 3D Seminar will examine topics in 3-dimensionally based Illustration including toy design, paper sculpture, textile and needle arts, the book as object, surface decoration, toy-theater and puppet performances and other innovative practices within a cultural and historical context. In this Seminar, all of the projects for the semester will be launched and their conceptual underpinnings examined. The making of these projects will take place in the co-requisite six-hour Core Studio section. As each project progresses, it will be critiqued and evaluated within both sections. The Seminar will include a number of cross-sectional lectures relating to innovative practice and topics in Illustration. The lectures will relate to the projects currently underway. Students will be expected to respond to the lectures and discussion in text and/or image form in a Learning Portfolio. They will be expected to understand their Learning Portfolio as a tool for documenting, learning, reflecting and generating ideas, and to keep and use additional process books throughout their experience at Parsons.

As paired with the co-requisite Core Studio 3D, this course builds upon the student’s understanding of text-image storytelling and moves it beyond the page, or screen, into fully realized three-dimensional forms and environments to tell compelling stories. Emphasis will be placed on creating work geared for reproduction and distribution. The two courses will bring together reading, writing and making in a manner that is essential to the creative work of illustrators. The three-hour Core 3D Seminar will examine topics in 3-dimensionally based Illustration including toy design, paper sculpture, textile and needle arts, the book as object, surface decoration, toy-theater and puppet performances and other innovative practices within a cultural and historical context. In this Seminar, all of the projects for the semester will be launched and their conceptual underpinnings examined. The making of these projects will take place in the co-requisite six-hour Core Studio section. As each project progresses, it will be critiqued and evaluated within both sections. The Seminar will include a number of cross-sectional lectures relating to innovative practice and topics in Illustration. The lectures will relate to the projects currently underway. Students will be expected to respond to the lectures and discussion in text and/or image form in a Learning Portfolio. They will be expected to understand their Learning Portfolio as a tool for documenting, learning, reflecting and generating ideas, and to keep and use additional process books throughout their experience at Parsons.

As paired with the co-requisite Core Studio 3D, this course builds upon the student’s understanding of text-image storytelling and moves it beyond the page, or screen, into fully realized three-dimensional forms and environments to tell compelling stories. Emphasis will be placed on creating work geared for reproduction and distribution. The two courses will bring together reading, writing and making in a manner that is essential to the creative work of illustrators. The three-hour Core 3D Seminar will examine topics in 3-dimensionally based Illustration including toy design, paper sculpture, textile and needle arts, the book as object, surface decoration, toy-theater and puppet performances and other innovative practices within a cultural and historical context. In this Seminar, all of the projects for the semester will be launched and their conceptual underpinnings examined. The making of these projects will take place in the co-requisite six-hour Core Studio section. As each project progresses, it will be critiqued and evaluated within both sections. The Seminar will include a number of cross-sectional lectures relating to innovative practice and topics in Illustration. The lectures will relate to the projects currently underway. Students will be expected to respond to the lectures and discussion in text and/or image form in a Learning Portfolio. They will be expected to understand their Learning Portfolio as a tool for documenting, learning, reflecting and generating ideas, and to keep and use additional process books throughout their experience at Parsons.

As paired with the co-requisite Core Studio 3D, this course builds upon the student’s understanding of text-image storytelling and moves it beyond the page, or screen, into fully realized three-dimensional forms and environments to tell compelling stories. Emphasis will be placed on creating work geared for reproduction and distribution. The two courses will bring together reading, writing and making in a manner that is essential to the creative work of illustrators. The three-hour Core 3D Seminar will examine topics in 3-dimensionally based Illustration including toy design, paper sculpture, textile and needle arts, the book as object, surface decoration, toy-theater and puppet performances and other innovative practices within a cultural and historical context. In this Seminar, all of the projects for the semester will be launched and their conceptual underpinnings examined. The making of these projects will take place in the co-requisite six-hour Core Studio section. As each project progresses, it will be critiqued and evaluated within both sections. The Seminar will include a number of cross-sectional lectures relating to innovative practice and topics in Illustration. The lectures will relate to the projects currently underway. Students will be expected to respond to the lectures and discussion in text and/or image form in a Learning Portfolio. They will be expected to understand their Learning Portfolio as a tool for documenting, learning, reflecting and generating ideas, and to keep and use additional process books throughout their experience at Parsons.

As paired with the co-requisite Core Studio 3D, this course builds upon the student’s understanding of text-image storytelling and moves it beyond the page, or screen, into fully realized three-dimensional forms and environments to tell compelling stories. Emphasis will be placed on creating work geared for reproduction and distribution. The two courses will bring together reading, writing and making in a manner that is essential to the creative work of illustrators. The three-hour Core 3D Seminar will examine topics in 3-dimensionally based Illustration including toy design, paper sculpture, textile and needle arts, the book as object, surface decoration, toy-theater and puppet performances and other innovative practices within a cultural and historical context. In this Seminar, all of the projects for the semester will be launched and their conceptual underpinnings examined. The making of these projects will take place in the co-requisite six-hour Core Studio section. As each project progresses, it will be critiqued and evaluated within both sections. The Seminar will include a number of cross-sectional lectures relating to innovative practice and topics in Illustration. The lectures will relate to the projects currently underway. Students will be expected to respond to the lectures and discussion in text and/or image form in a Learning Portfolio. They will be expected to understand their Learning Portfolio as a tool for documenting, learning, reflecting and generating ideas, and to keep and use additional process books throughout their experience at Parsons.

As paired with the co-requisite Core Studio 3D, this course builds upon the student’s understanding of text-image storytelling and moves it beyond the page, or screen, into fully realized three-dimensional forms and environments to tell compelling stories. Emphasis will be placed on creating work geared for reproduction and distribution. The two courses will bring together reading, writing and making in a manner that is essential to the creative work of illustrators. The three-hour Core 3D Seminar will examine topics in 3-dimensionally based Illustration including toy design, paper sculpture, textile and needle arts, the book as object, surface decoration, toy-theater and puppet performances and other innovative practices within a cultural and historical context. In this Seminar, all of the projects for the semester will be launched and their conceptual underpinnings examined. The making of these projects will take place in the co-requisite six-hour Core Studio section. As each project progresses, it will be critiqued and evaluated within both sections. The Seminar will include a number of cross-sectional lectures relating to innovative practice and topics in Illustration. The lectures will relate to the projects currently underway. Students will be expected to respond to the lectures and discussion in text and/or image form in a Learning Portfolio. They will be expected to understand their Learning Portfolio as a tool for documenting, learning, reflecting and generating ideas, and to keep and use additional process books throughout their experience at Parsons.