Benjamin Allred

Lovely experience with Benjamin Allred. He's very passionate about his work and this course + he brings cupcakes/ chocolate to "winners" of each week's assignment. Easy and friendly to talk to. The course is a studio course, little lecturing; The projects consist of drawing and model-making, so very hands on. Each assignment spans roughly a week and students are expected to produce 2 drawings, 2-3 concept models, 2 iterations, and a final model for each assignment. You're given time to work on these in class but a fair bit of out-side time is expected (I usually stay after class from 4:15pm and work until dinner). I really really enjoyed this course and the things I produced made me happy.

Lovely experience with Benjamin Allred. He's very passionate about his work and this course + he brings cupcakes/ chocolate to "winners" of each week's assignment. Easy and friendly to talk to. The course is a studio course, little lecturing; The projects consist of drawing and model-making, so very hands on. Each assignment spans ro …Read more

Ben is great at teaching this class. He is very kind and supportive. When it comes to design, he never tells you what to do, more rather with what we want to do and his knowledge on how to make it possible, he helps us learn by supporting us.

Requires a decent amount of work outside of the class, as it is completely project-based, but it is fun work because you are just building models. Professor Allred is very engaging, and the long classes go by quickly because he is fun and engaging. I took this class thinking I might be interested and ended up deciding to major in it because it is so interesting and fun. No readings, the only homework is building models and working on projects. Highly recommend.

Requires a decent amount of work outside of the class, as it is completely project-based, but it is fun work because you are just building models. Professor Allred is very engaging, and the long classes go by quickly because he is fun and engaging. I took this class thinking I might be interested and ended up deciding to major in it …Read more