Designer Rob Giampietro has shared a list of one-week design challenges, that he created for communication design students at Parsons School of Design in 2005.
Your task will be to tackle nine one-week design challenges that are outcome-specific. Some of your solutions will be successes; some will be failures. All of the projects are designed to teach you more about your process. In the end, you will choose three of the projects to refine and complete.
Gianpietro explains:
Though this class only has nine one-week projects, I have an ever-growing pool of projects do draw from, depending on how the class is doing, individual needs, and my own intuition. They tend to be very simple, short, and open-ended. At least a few are adapted from some of the great teachers I’ve had over the years.
Some of the 18 projects:
- Make a map of your routes through the city during the next five days.
- Curate a timeline that includes all major projects from Parsons as well as all of your major visual influences.
- Design a mail-order catalog for the sale of everything in your bedroom.
- Write, photograph, and design a travel guide to the Eighth Floor of 2 W 13th St. [Note: it’s the exhibition space of Parsons School of Design]
- Make a presentation that explains a well-known psychology experiment. Think of Milgram, Skinner, Rosenhan, Festinger, Harlow, Kandel, and many others.