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Intro: who are you and who am I?

What is a costume? Why a costume designer?

Lecture: Reading the Play

Chekhov, Anton. "On the Harm of Tobacco."

Amazon logo Baker, Georgia O'Daniel, and Helen Redel Pullman. "The Basic Figure and How Clothes Fit the Body." Chapter 1 in A Handbook of Costume Drawing. Burlington, MA: Focal Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780240804033.

Basic Function of Costumes (PDF)

Reading the Play (PDF)

Stencil Rendering (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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Lecture: Psychology of Clothes

Discuss On the Harm of Tobacco lists

Perrault, Charles. "Little Red Riding Hood." (1697)
Baring-Gould, Sabine. "Little Red Riding Hood." (1895)
Sharpe, Anne. "Not So Little Red Riding Hood." (1985)
Phillips, H. I. "Little Red Riding Hood as a Dictator Would Tell It." (1940)

Taken from: Amazon logo Zipes, Jack. The Trials & Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood. New York, NY: Routledge, 1993. ISBN: 978-0415908351.

The Psychology of Clothes (PDF 1), (PDF 2)
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Discuss Little Red Riding Hood and the idea of concept

  
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Lecture: Script and Character Analysis; Research; Styles of Costumes

Discuss On the Harm of Tobacco renderings

Script, Character, Concept (PDF)

Research (PDF)
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Lecture: Translating Emotion to Visual

Visual Conversation exercise

Line/Emotion exercise

Amazon logo Edwards, Betty. "Drawing Out Insight." Chapter 7 in Drawing on the Artist Within. New York, NY: Fireside, 1987. ISBN: 9780671635145.

Boxes 5.A, 5.B, 5.C, 5.D, pp. 123-125 in The Magic Garment.
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Look at research for On the Harm of Tobacco

Lecture: Elements of Design

Elements of Design (PDF)

Fig. 4.29, 4.30, 4.31 in Costume Design.

pp. 72-73, 75, 92-93, 95, 101, 123-125 in The Magic Garment:
Box 4.A, "Aspects of Line."
Box 4.B, "Visual Effects of Shape in Costume."
Box 4.F, "Historical Color Symbolism."
Box 4.G, "Major Color Associations of Western European and American Cultures."
Box 4.H, "Effects of Texture."
Boxes 5.A, 5.B, 5.C, 5.D.
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Rendering exercises

Drawing lab

Amazon logo Hamm, Jack. "Building on the Double Triangle." In Drawing the Head and Figure. New York, NY: Perigee Trade, 1982, p. 45. ISBN: 9780399507915.
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Discuss line gowns

Watch excerpts of Hamlet by Zeffirelli and discuss idea of concept

"Hamlet." Directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Warner Brothers, 1990.

Boxes 5.A, 5.B, 5.C, 5.D, pp. 123-125 in The Magic Garment.
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Discuss food assignment with preso

Begin drafting unit: bodice and hip block

 Fig. 9.7, 9.8 in Costume Design.
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Discuss Hamlet collages

Continue drafting

Begin cutting and sewing muslins

  
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Discuss food assignment

Finish and fit muslins

Amazon logo Russell, John C. Stupid Kids. New York, NY: Dramatists Play Service, 2000. ISBN: 9780822216988.
12 Thrift store transformation workshop  
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Pattern manipulation and drafting

Discuss Stupid Kids

Introduce sloper manipulation project

  
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Lecture: Stylization and Abstraction

Wedding project

  
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Color workshop

Talk about garbage project

  
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Look at Stupid Kids sketches

Begin sloper manipulation project

 Maginnis, Tara. Kiosk Man.
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Look at group dynamics

Discuss final project

Continue sloper manipulation project

Amazon logo Goldman, James. The Lion in Winter. New York, NY: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004. ISBN: 9780812973358.
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Look at Stupid Kids renderings

Sloper project

  
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Look at Kiosk Man sketches

Discuss dynamics of play and characters in Lion in Winter

  
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Open shop: garbage project brainstorming

Sloper project

Lion in Winter questions

The Duct Tape Guys. "Duct Tape Fashion Gallery One."

Apparel Search Company. "Unusual Clothing - Tokyo Skirt."

Apparel Search Company. "Unusual Clothing - Baby Mops."

Apparel Search Company. "Unusual Clothing - Handy Support."

URBAN. "The White Collection." Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, 1997.

The Scream Online. "Hats of Meat."
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Texture exercise

Pinstripe Olympics

  
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Look at Lion in Winter preliminary sketches

Papers returned

Open shop

  
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Present garbage project

Look at finals so far if needed

Open shop

  
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Final project preso, Lion In Winter