ART 418 03: Version Control, and Design Practice in the Age of New Mediums

Monday, August 31, 2026 · Lecture

Twenty-five minutes on GitHub Desktop, and you set up the project repository in class. Then the lecture: how new mediums have changed design work, from the printed page to AI, and what design thinking is. Your personal statement is due today, turned in on Blackboard.

Read before this class

- Davis, Creative Strategy and the Business of Design. the rest of chapter 1, from Segmentation to the end, 12 pp.

Due

- Personal statement, first pass.

Assigned today

- The audience, due Wednesday, September 9, 2026. - Reading for Discovery Workshop, read by Wednesday, September 2, 2026.

Materials

- [The slides](/lecture/art418-s3.html). Design in the Age of New Mediums. Arrow keys, or type a slide number and press Enter. - [The slides as a PDF](/lecture/art418-s3.pdf). The same deck to keep, 68 pages, with every page of the Emigre 39 scans. - [Templates for framing, audience, and the brief](/course/business-of-design/handout/templates). Every template printed in a book you were assigned, with the authors' own worked examples. - [The worksheets, three pages to print](/handouts/ART-418-worksheets.pdf). The problem framing canvas, the five whys ladder, and the problem statement check. - [Jan Tschichold, The New Typography, 1928](https://library.wrkhrs.co/texts/tschichold-new-typography/tschichold-new-typography.pdf). The full book, in our collection. The plates in the lecture come from it. - [William Morris, Hopes and Fears for Art](https://library.wrkhrs.co/texts/morris-hopes-fears-art/morris-hopes-fears-art.html). Morris answering the machine, in our collection. - [Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art](https://library.wrkhrs.co/texts/kandinsky-concerning-spiritual-art/kandinsky-concerning-spiritual-art.html). In our collection. The painting in the lecture is his. - [Herbert Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial, 1969](https://archive.org/details/sciencesofartifi0000simo). Where the definition of design thinking quoted in class comes from. Internet Archive, not our collection.

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Class 03 of 28, ART 418, The Business of Design, Charleston Southern University, Fall 2026.