Initiating Design Issues in Glass Studio
The aim of the Studio is to introduce students to fundamental principles of glass design and the basics of design drawing. Our objective is to stimulate students’ motivation to search for design solutions adapted to market needs and the expectations of potential users of glass objects.
The Studio programme covers issues related to functional glass design, enabling students to understand the properties of glass, shaping techniques, and decorative methods. Through workshop-based exercises, students explore the specific nature of the material, while design tasks teach them the relationships between material, forming methods, and the intended function of an object. A key priority of the Studio is to awaken and initiate a passion for exploration and to provide a solid foundation for addressing more complex design problems.
Classes in the Studio are based on design consultations, lectures, presentations, and a structured system of exercises. At successive stages of work, students analyse the formal, functional, and technological values of proposed solutions. The outcomes of design work include visual and technical project documentation as well as the realisation of workshop tasks in the material.
Subjects
- Fundamentals of Functional Glass
- Design Drawing
Enrolment terms
A compulsory course for first-year undergraduate (BA) students.
Reading list
- Józef A. Mrozek, A World to Be Designed
- Andrzej Pawłowski, Initiations
- Laura Slack, What Is Design?
- Lakshmi Bhaskaran, Design of the 20th Century
- Judith Miller, 20th Century Design
- Catherine McDermott, 20th Century Design
- Glass Technology, edited by I. Płoński, Arkady, Warsaw, 1972
- W. Nowotny, Glass Technology
- W. Nowotny, Glass Decoration
- M. Gwiazdecki, Professional Drawing in the Glass Industry
