Author felt it necessary to develop a sequential unit which made the students aware of design fundamentals as a tool for development of idea concepts. (Author/RK)

The forty-fifth National High School Art Exhibition revealed that students are no longer preoccupied with the disjunctions of the Sixties.'' (Editor)

Discusses the aesthetic experience of working with fused glass. Offers suggestions for lamination, firing, experimenting with texture and shape, decoration, modular construction and how they can be applied to a High School curriculum. (RB)

This article presents a revealing look at an old industry and its newly found popularity. (Author)

Describes how two practicing craftspeople in Great Britain designed a part-time adult education course to increase students' awareness of design in crafts as well as to teach them survival skills of promotion and marketing. (SK)

Describes how caregivers and their school-age children can make a "friendship quilt," outlining the basics of quilting, the materials needed, and basic patterns that can be followed. Includes detailed diagrams and patterns for designing and constructing applique and patchwork quilts. (MDM)

Asks ten questions about the future of art, crafts, and design education. Focuses on why art, crafts, and design education should be included in the curriculum; how the curriculum should be defined; and how art educators should respond to conflicting calls for cultural relativism and for cultural nationalism. (DSK)

Argues that it is good to incorporate students into the creative process of building a playground, especially when one of the structures is a complex sculpture. Describes how students participated in the constructing of a playground wall by embedding personal objects into the mortar as decorative embellishments. (DSK)

The paper presents the results obtained from teaching, learning and research associated with Surf Science and Technology (SST) course taught at the South West Campus of Edith Cowan University. The main topic discussed is Teaching and Learning with the Surfboard Making. It looks at a group of recent second year SST students who, after acquiring the…

The purpose of this study was to write a computer program that would not only output a color pattern weave to a cathode ray tube (CRT), but would also analyze a painted design and output a printed diagram that would show how to set up a loom in order to produce the woven design. The first of seven chapters describes the problem and the intent of…

Lists books into general categories of those useful for advanced technicians, and those useful for the hobbiest or sculptor-painter. Available from: Theatre Design and Technology, Journal of the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology, 1 Hillside Road, Newark, Delaware 19711. Subscriptions: subscription to Theatre Design and Technology is a…

We are all designers. Designing is a part of life. It is the way we make and assemble the things we need for the way we like to live, or have to live. It is a way of organizing both the tangible and intangible structures of our lives, the structures which we form and which then in turn form us. In designing these structures we balance an inward…

A description of a practical graphic design course for educational television production. (HB)

Discusses use of posters, bas-reliefs, and modern street blocks'' in teaching design to students at Julia Richman High School, New York. (DS)