DESN 570 — APPLIED DESIGN IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY | F 2019 | F 9:00–11:45AM | SS/PA 102
D6 | CALL FOR PROPOSALS DOCUMENT
2 weeks
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Team Assignment
Based on discipline conventions, create a contextual document specifically designed to solicit highly-relevant submissions from designers. Widely known as an RFEI (Request for Expressions of Interest) or RFQ (Request for Qualifications).
The Call for Proposals closely relates to a design brief, however may be slightly different in that at this juncture you're now actually going public and soliciting proposal responses. Therefore, we now need to include information regarding the process for evaluation and selection of winning proposals. Is it a competitive process? Is it anonymous or for public review? What does the industry or company require?
Base your Call for Proposals on a Design Brief from the group (previous discussion).
Today, often times these will be hosted on a website with all corresponding content available for download in hard copy form.
Sometimes these will be platform specific, such as fundraising launch platforms like Kickstarter, or inventor's and/or crowdsourcing sites like
Edison Nation, Quirky, or OpenIdeo.
How many senses can we engage on this challenge?
Ask, what if it did...(hint: more)?
REFERENCES
See list of "570 Topics" links on right sidebar.
Dexigner Competitions / Graphic Design
Dexigner Competitions / Urban Design
Contest Watchers / Search various disciplines easily
Be sure to capture and download all files you can for your archive/records as much of it disappears once deadlines close.
Grid Systems/Theory - Organization systems for layout design
PROCESS & DELIVERABLES
All projects must include:
Student name, project name, project title, instructor name,
course name, and date.
- Individual Design Proposal
- 2-3 minute Video pitch - make the case for your proposal
- 10 pg Report (document)
- Prototypes (making physical studies)
- Images (photography, generally)
- Graphics (charts, maps, diagrams)
- Media (audio-video product)
EVALUATION BREAKDOWN
Project Evaluation for Proposal
points2020202020criteriaAdherence to project instructionsFormat & Structure of Document (shows process)Content/ResearchAbility to satisfy requirements of BriefAdherence to Design Conventions
Project Evaluation for Video
points25252525criteriaAdherence to project instructionsAbility to create an emotional response in viewerPlanning and ProductionVideo as tool to support Proposal
EXAMPLES
Some recent examples:
- CSULB Mascot Design Competition (closed)
- GM eBicycle Design Competition "call for entries" (closed)
- Oxford Street Christmas Illuminations 2018 [PDF] (closed)
- Nelson Mandela Memorial Design Competition (Dec 8, 2014)
Pentagram's Governors Island RFEI
- Download Full Brochure / Brochure Jacket
Left: Front cover, jacketBelow: First open appearance with jacket inside front left, and inside book on right.Below left, jacket has horizontal fold-overs.
Below right, full map is revealed when jacket is fully openedLeft, insert spreads,
the core of the content.
Page 1. TOCPages 2-3. Part 2: Governor's Island: A Historic OpportunityPages 4-5. Part 2 continuedPages 6-7Pages 8-9. Part 2: Project OverviewPages 10-11. Part 3: An Extraordinary PlacePages 12-13. Part 3 continuedPages 14-15. Part 4: The Centerpiece of NYC's...Pages 16-17. Part 4: Emerging NY Harbor DistrictPages 18-19. Part 5: NY's Strategic ProminencePages 20-21Pages 22-23. Part 6: Access and InfrastructurePages 24-25. Part 6: Regional Transportation, Pts of AccessPages 26-27. Part 7: Parameters of RedevelopmentPages 28-29. Part 8: Potential PartnersPages 30-31. Part 9: Review ProcessPages 32-33. Part 10: Submission ProcessPages 34-35. Part 11: Terms and ConditionsPages 36-37. Appendix I: BuildingsPages 38-39. Appendix I: Buildings2Pages 40. End page program credits with jacket overleaf10 - 21<>
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
2. Demonstrate understanding of Genre and Disciplinary Conventions through writing projects specific to the discipline of design as demonstrated through appropriate writing styles across a range of discipline specific communication tools.
3. Evaluate influence of context and assumptions on the cultural, social, environmental and economic factors that affect contemporary design as demonstrated through creation of communication tools customized to meet design project demands.
6. Prepare communication media based on a structured design process as demonstrated through the adherence to design-specific, professional-level-document conventions.
TUTORIALS & HOW-TO GUIDES
"We spend most of our time trying to get design out of the way."
—Jony Ive
* Estimate only. See instructor and calendar for specific due dates. Summer Session schedule is more compressed with one week equal to approximately two and half semester weeks.
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