We were given a project to take pictures of the alphabet and the numbers 1-9. We not only had to find these, we had to find them in their natural state. We could not create these out of anything. We had to look at things completely different to find letters and numbers out of objects. For my project, I decided to do a pronunciation booklet. I printed the pictures of my letters and numbers, put them on sheets and added the pronunciation of that character underneath it. I thought it was an interesting way to do a book, instead of just putting the pictures on some pages. I enjoyed this project and thought it was a fun thing to do. Here are my letters (some you may have to click on to get the full image, such as, the Z, 3, and E), a few pictures from my booklet and a list of where I found my pictures.
We had an exploration to sit in a place for an hour and listen and record the sound. For my project, I decided to sit in Forsyth Park. Since recording every noise was hard, I decided to record main things I heard as they were happening. I made figures for each thing I heard. It is slightly a mess, so bear with me! I sat in the park from 1:12 PM-2:12 PM on a weekday.
So, in class we were assigned a project to do whatever we wanted to a map. When I say anything, I mean ANYTHING. After doing whatever we wanted, we had to make something out of it. In my case, this project was difficult for me. There was no direction and no rights or wrongs of this project. This is hard for me because I am used to being told what to do and what not to do. Because of this, I was skeptical on what to do. I played it a little safe and just cut up my map in different shapes and sizes and crumbled it up a few times. I wanted to burn parts of it, but I am a very paranoid person and was scared I was going to burn my apartment down (silly, I know). After I cut up the pieces, I put some together and noticed that some pieces made pretty flowers. I really liked the way it came out of the map. I wasn’t quite sure where to go from there. I was under the impression that we could only use our map in the project. I wasn’t sure if we could use other pieces. I really wanted to use the flowers and glue them to sticks and put them in a painted mason jar that I had. Instead, I glued them down in a group and added pieces around it to make it into something more than just flowers on a page. During critique, Professor Waldvogel liked my mason jar idea better and said the pieces around the flowers did not work as well as planned. Another person said it was interesting because I said I was scared of fire, but it reminded him of fireworks. I loved making the flowers and wish I would have done something more with them. Overall though, I did enjoy completing portions of the project.
In class, we had to do a project on the old time tale of Jack and Jill. The interesting part was that it had to be a completely different insight to the story. We had to use the story line and use different characters and make the lines in the story mean something else. We also had to work in groups. I really enjoyed working in a group. We got a lot done and in the end, all of our creativeness came together and created a good piece. In my opinion, our finished product was well put together. All of our portions looked like they were all done by the same person, which was a good effect. We all contributed very nicely. Lauren and Christian made up the two ideas we chose from. We ended up using Lauren’s idea, which was the story of Adam and Eve in reverse. Adam ended up eating the fruit before Eve in this case. We all contributed to creating our designs and coming up with ideas to add to the story. I feel like the group we had was a success and it worked very well. We received both good and bad during critique. The focal point in our piece was overwhelming and the hills in each portion weren’t straight and equal to the others. They liked the way we created our people out of a square and circle. They also liked how we added clothes to our characters. Overall, I enjoyed working on this project and would gladly do it again!
So, during my blog research, I found several blogs. I am torn between two majors, which are Interior Design and Fashion Marketing. I didn’t find any blogs on Fashion Marketing so, I used just Fashion blogs.
www.thebudgetfashionista.com This is one I found on Fashion. I really enjoy it because it gives tips to put outfits together. It also gives good tips on how and where to save money when shopping for clothes.
www.designsponge.com I found this one on Interior Design. This blog really interests me because it shows different styles and ways to decorate. It gives me inspiration to decorate my apartment or my home in the future. I like the fact that they show pictures of different rooms with different color schemes.
www.theletteredcottage.net This is probably my favorite blog for Interior design. I love that the blogger shows different things that they have done personally. I also love the DIY projects that are posted. One of my hobbies is doing DIY projects.
www.savannahfashionblog.wordpress.com- This blog is based in Savannah, which is very neat and helps me relate to what they post. I love that there are posts about stores in Savannah. There are great clothes that I can access within my city.
It was slightly hard for me to find blogs that I liked. While looking for blogs for Interior Design, there were a lot of blogs that weren’t put together well and were visually hard to look at. There were also blogs that had unrealistic designs for people who would want to redo their home. While looking for fashion blogs, I found some ones that were unpleasant. I found blogs that were filled with nothing but pictures with no insight to what they were there to do. I did find blogs that I liked along with the four that I posted, but I wanted to keep it to a limit without going overboard on blogs.
Hello! So, we had to do an exploration using black squares. We had to make designs to interpret six different words: congested, bold, playful, tension, order, and increase. All we used were black squares. This is my design for order. I envisioned rows of squares that repeated themselves. They have the same size squares (most likely, I know my squares aren’t perfect) and the same order.
These are my designs for playful and congested. The first one is playful because it curves around, as if having fun. The second one is congested. It is a bunch of squares pushed into a corner as if stuck.
This is my design idea for increase, tension and bold. The first one is increase because the sizes increase. That was one of the ideas that came to mind. The second one is tension because the bigger squares are going to squish the little squares. The third one is bold because it’s…well, bold.
Hello all! So, here is my take on the repetition grid! First, to start it all, we had to make a motif to use in our repetition grid. Here is a set of motifs I chose from.
I had a hard time making a creative motif. I couldn’t figure out which one I wanted to use. Once I chose one, I made a grid of 25 on a 10×10 piece of tracing paper. I started placing the motifs on the grid in different ways. Here are a few different ways I placed them.
I ended up choosing the first one. I glued my motifs to the paper. I grabbed another piece of tracing paper and traced the outline onto it. Due to short notice of changing my whole motif, I came up with a few very quick inking plans.
After this step, I put the design on my illustration board by scribbling on the back of the tracing paper with the design on it. I outlined the design with pen and began inking. Once I was done inking, I went over the edges with the pen and cut out the design. Here is my final design.
I had a hard time with my project because when I chose my motif, I became dissatisfied with the outcome of my inking plan. So, I immediately changed to this and finished to the end. It’s not exactly what I wanted, but it does what it was supposed to!
In class, we had to make quick designs out of concentration and isolation. When using concentration, you want to make a design where the focal point is in a bundle of shapes. Your eye is drawn to that bundle. In isolation, the design’s focal point is a stand out shape or one thing that stands out. One or two of my designs, I’m not 100% on if they are right but, its what I thought of as quick designs that seemed to follow the rules. They aren’t perfect. They were done quickly. I didn’t focus too much on getting them completely straight, like the past project. The first two are my thoughts on concentration. The bottom two are isolation. Hopefully, I wasn’t too far from the correct way of these designs.
I already posted my final designs but, I have not blogged since we critiqued. One of the things I have address is why I chose the designs. I chose these designs because they were different. Out of most of the thumbnail designs, they were the ones that stuck out to me. The horizontal and vertical line design was really interesting to me. Somehow, the lines reminded me of buildings. It was interesting to my eyes. The curved line design was one of my favorites. I saw it in my thumbnails and thought it was weird. I didn’t think it looked good as a thumbnail. That’s the reason I chose it. I knew it could be better than it looked. The diagonal line design was also interesting. I felt it just came together as a piece. My weakest design was my design using all of the lines, I liked it because it seemed like it would be a cool piece on Bristol board with construction paper. Once finished with the design, I realized it wasn’t what I thought. During critique, I got critiqued on this piece. It came off to people as uneasy and had too much tension. My other design with the curved lines came off as whimsical and fun. I came up with two designs I would do to redesign my weakest piece. one of them I chose because it kind of kept the same sense of style. The other I chose because I feel it would look good redone into a Bristol board/construction paper design. I wanted to keep them interesting and original.
So, here are my final designs!