Laboratorio de diseño: Haz que lo aburrido sea asombroso~

In this quirky, engaging, eye-opening STEAM visual arts club, learners will have a chance to brighten their lives and their environment by turning mundane, often overlooked everyday objects and materials, such as urinals, paper towels, cardboard boxes, and boring plastic mugs, into great expressions of art and functional design.

Every week, Mr. Dan will demonstrate to his students his battle-proven visual design techniques that can be applied under any physical surroundings and materials. Learners will be exposed to professional-level art skills that are forged from his years of rigorous education and professional experience as a concept artist.


TOPICS & SCHEDULES
Our sample breakdown of club meets will look something like below:

Block One: Having Fun With Materials!
Week of 5/22/25: The Do's & Don'ts of Designing Urinals
Week of 5/29/25: Foam Cup Re-Design!
Week of 6/05/25: Drawing On Cardboard Boxes
Week of 6/12/25: How to Draw on IV Bags
Week of 6/19/25: Napkin Sketches (Paper Towels Works Too!)
Week of 6/26/25: How To Develop A Sketchbook
Week of 7/03/25: Free Draw Lounge Time + Q&A

Block Two: Deep Dive on Manga!
Week of 7/10/25: The Do's & Don'ts of Drawing Manga Character Faces
Week of 7/17/25: Deep Dive on Manga Eyes, Nose, Mouth
Week of 7/24/25: How To Design Manga Hair Style
Week of 7/31/25: Simple Fashion Design Sketches
Week of 8/07/25: Building Story Tension - The Japanese Manga Way!
Week of 8/14/25: Story Layout - How To Use Cells to Build Tension
Week of 8/21/25: Free Draw Lounge Time + Q&A

Block Three: Basic VISCOM Skills
Week of 8/28/25: You Can't Go Wrong With Contour Drawing!
Week of 9/04/25: Dynamic Sketching - With Pens
Week of 9/11/25: 3D Perspective, Simplified!
Week of 9/18/25: Marker Rendering Do's & Don'ts
Week of 9/25/25: Basic Color Theory
Week of 10/09/25: Why Composition?
Week of 10/16/25: Free Draw Lounge Time + Q&A

Block Four: Innovate With Industrial Design
Week of 10/23/25: Intro To Design Thinking & Product Design
Week of 10/30/25: How to Draw Cars In 2D - Like A Pro
Week of 11/06/25: Simple Ways to Draw 3D Cars
Week of 11/13/25: How to Design Hand Tools
Week of 11/20/25: On Designing Shoes or Gears
Week of 12/04/25: Design Lab Challenge - R&D, Brainstorming, Initial Ideations
Week of 12/11/25: Design Lab Challenge - Final Ideations, Informal Presentation, Q&A


***Disclaimer: The order of schedules above may be altered at the instructor's discretion, to allow for flexibility and adapt to learner's overall learning needs or challenges. Although our lessons are organized into "Blocks", learners may join and leave at any time. Learners are encouraged to, but are not required to "follow the program".


CLASS STRUCTURE
Our Design Lab time is normally structured as follows:

Part 1: Rules, Warm-ups and Updates - Mr. Dan will briefly welcome the students, review simple class rules, and maybe start learners off with a quick warm-up sketching drill.

Part 2: Live Demo - The instructor will teach, via live demo, the week's unique lessons (see above).

Part 3: Lab Time / Hang-out Time / Q&A - The student, following the teacher's demo, will be encouraged to create something cool based on what they saw. Learners can also chill with us and work on their own projects, as well as ask Mr. Dan for input and support.