Registration is open for Design Camp 2012
We’re very excited to announce that registration is open for our 2012 Design Camp! This is our fourth year of offering Design Camp at the UO’s White Stag Block in downtown Portland, OR. Each year, we invite practicing designers to teach our camp and introduce students to the fields of Architecture, Digital Arts, and Product … Read more
Day Five: July 15, 2011
Day Five of Design Camp was an opportunity for students to concentrate on finishing their vinyl sticker signs, food containers, and site plans for the food cart pod. Alison and Colin demonstrated how to peel and place the vinyl stickers. Some of the great sticker signs, as seen through the semi-opaque paper backing. Campers photographed … Read more
Day Four: July 14, 2011
Day Four of Design Camp was primarily focused with creating architectural site models for the hypothetical food cart pod at O’Bryant Square in downtown Portland. Students chose materials and spent some time making site model components such as trees and people. Meanwhile, campers also toured the Fab Lab and got a tutorial of the laser … Read more
Day 3: July 13, 2011
To get everyone warmed up for a long day of design work, the instructors presented two drawing challenges. First, campers were asked to draw the negative space around the complicated form of a Frank Gehry Cross Check chair. The next game was the Surrealists’ favorite, the Exquisite Corpse, which always has hilarious and surprising results. After … Read more
Day Two: July 12, 2011
Day Two of Design Camp focused on development of food cart concepts from Day One, as well as fun design challenges, research, and skill building. Campers warmed up with exercises like portrait-drawing and group Pictionary. On Monday, campers created inspiration pages that identified the type of food served at their conceptual food cart, and a … Read more
Day One: July 11, 2011
Design Camp 2011 Theme: Food Cart Communities The Design Camp 2011 theme is Portland food cart communities. Portland is famous for its food carts, housed in anything from VW buses to gussied up gardening sheds, and serving every type of food imaginable. The food carts, which represent an idiosyncratic and imaginative divergence from traditional fast … Read more
Meet the Design Camp instructors and staff!
Colin Williams — Digital Arts Colin Williams received his MFA in Digital Media from the Rhode Island School of Design, and BFA in Digital Arts from the University of Oregon. Using digital and a variety of other means, his work focuses on different ways of representing Americana. He has shown throughout the country and has … Read more
Design Camp 2011
Dates: July 11-15, 2011 Days and Times: Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Cost: $700, Non-credit UO in Portland, White Stag Block Architecture, Digital Arts, Product Design. Meet great people. You will get to know local design professionals and visit their firms. You will see award-winning sustainable urban design—here in the city of Portland. Our faculty members … Read more
Day Nine — August 6th
Today was the last day of Design Camp, and a chance for all the students to present their hard work on their studio projects in design reviews. Presenting and participating in a design review is an important experience for design students. It is a chance to present work to instructors and peers to get feedback … Read more
Day Eight — August 5th
On Day Eight, campers worked on finishing their studio projects for the design review the next day. The Product Design students designed and sewed bags for their water bottles. The Architecture students had a special treat with a visit to the construction site of Holst Architects’ Resource Action Center (RAC). The RAC will provide facilities … Read more
