Abstract

This study proposes a method to enhance the efficiency of basic design education for students with little to no prior experience in design or fine arts. The proposed method focuses on applying essential formative design principles, referred to as formative BMS principles in this study. It provides concise information on a broad range of general design concepts such as proportion, contrast, balance, harmony, emphasis, unification, and change to support students in learning design principles intuitively, quickly, and easily. Moreover, tools, phenomena, situations, and so on that are commonly found in daily life are used as materials to implement design principles. Subsequently, cases of transforming daily materials into valuable design works are introduced to describe the relationship between these cases and formative BMS principles, which are explained from visual (quantitative) and conceptual (qualitative) perspectives in a way that facilitates a factual and specific approach to design. In addition, the proposed method comprises three processes that help students effectively learn about the relationship between design and formative BMS principles. This method enables students to recognize the significance of the comprehensive thinking required for design-based production, systematically develop practical layout expression techniques, and increase the aesthetic value of design outcomes, thereby amplifying design learning effects.

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