Asymetry on campus

book set up

Summary of book project

overall i think the project was good. I enjoyed making my own layouts and getting to see the book come together. The hardest part of the project was combining everyones layouts together because we didn't design them together so the book didn't always look uniform. if i could change something about the project it would be to get the book perfect bound because the book looks more professional and nicer that way.

my designer ( Bruce Weber)

-Photographer
-born in pennsylvania in 1946
-studied at the new school for social research
-Uses mostly black and white photos
-likes to shoot outdoors and use natural light
-likes to shoot with film
-11 books published
- Pet shop boys music video won music weeks video of the year
-works for calvin Klein, Abercrombie & fitch, play boy
-fashion photography, album covers, webersodes. shorts, commercials

making a book description

Our assignment was to pick a designer and write about there life, accomplishment, medium, etc. After picking the designer and writing the story we designed to double page spread layouts. AFter combining the story with the layouts we then designed a title page, cover, table of contents, and a bio page. After creating these we combined our Double page spreads with about seven other students to create our own book

box pictures

box sketches

summary

            Overall I liked the project but it was still really challenging. One of the hardest things about my shapes was that it was all curved and there weren’t a lot of flat edges it was also just a difficult shape and design in general. The hardest thing was not being able to cut out the exact shape I wanted and having to sand it to turn it into curve I wanted because I could never get the curves exactly alike. Having a different design for the top of the box and the inside of the box was also difficult because it made it harder to line things up. Making the boxes out of two different woods was also difficult because the woods acted two completely different ways and it is really hard to get two things to go together if they weren’t originally connected. Also the top was challenging because the walnut was so much thinner than the other piece and it was really fragile.  Cutting the shape on the band saw was also difficult because when I was pushing the shape through I didn’t know the right way to push it through since it wasn’t a flat shape so I had some trouble with cutting it the way I had planned and the machine stopping as well as getting hit by the wood. Also sanding was really annoying because I had to sand both the top pieces and the inside pieces by hand to try to get them to fit into one another. Gluing was also difficult because there were no flat edges for the clamps to hold on to so I ended up having to apply pressure manually a lot. I think that my project came out okay but it would be easier now that I’ve gone through it once and know what not to do. Another hard part about my shape was making the stopper because the two parts of my lids aren’t the same and I also didn’t have that much wood left over after cutting since I had to cut more than I needed when I was cutting out the shape. Some of the things that I would change are having cleaner cuts as well as having longer sides on the edges. I also tried to use wood filler for the top but someone stole it so I think that using that would have also helped my project a lot. I also would have put the wax on before gluing the two pieces together because the two shapes were so close together that I couldn’t but wax on one side of the vessel.

making a vessel description

Our assignment was to make a vessel out of wood using the band saw. The vessel design was based off of an object that we picked. After picking the object we were going to design the box for we had to come up with an idea for the box that represented the object but wasn’t too literal. After making sketches for the ideas we came up with and picking our final design we drew what the sides, top, and bottom would look like to scale so we would have a plan to cut from when we were working on the band saw. After picking our wood and gluing it we cut the shapes out on the band saw. When the cutting and sanding was done, we re-glued the wood to make our box and finished it off with a wax.

Nature and aesthetics of design

            The point that he made about knowing your materials and what shapes you can and cant make out of them was a good point. Also he had an interesting point about how things are based on the economy and how people want to make what is cheap. It was interesting how he talked about changing the characteristics of a material by strengthening it or weakening it as well as changing the shape and size. My favorite part was when he mentioned construction was a way to make a whole object out of smaller or different parts because I feel like our project really focused on that idea. I learned you have to take the properties of the object including the ones you do and do not want. Another thing I learned From this article was that it was impossible for my shape to touch at all points because only flat surfaces can touch at all points.

Purpose of my vessel

            My vessel contains my IPod Nano and headphones. My IPod Nano influences my vessel because the idea for the shape came from the circle that is in middle of my Nano. I took the idea of the circle but cut it in half. From there the half circles became more like a U shape. After that I played around with the way the two halves could connect with each other until I came up with my final design. I think that my vessel is a good representation of what it holds inside because my headphones are also curved so the shape of the vessel is also a good way of representing that without the shape being to obvious about what it contains.

Kendal Buster

I really enjoyed looking at his work. I feel like his work has a lot of detail and I enjoy looking at all the lines in his work. I also like the fact that his objects are translucent and you can see everything that inside them. I also like that he has them in a place so you can see how they are supposed to be used. His objects are very modern and have the appearance that they are lightweight. I like that he seemed to do a lot of different experiments with the same type of material. You can tell he explored different shapes and cutting the material. He also used different patterns and used color to help his designs fit in with its environment. I like the idea that all of his projects look like they could have been made with his own two hands. The shapes of his objects are really intriguing. I like that fact that he seems to expand off of one shape and make it into something else. It is also cool that people can fit into his design and he makes the same thing out of different materials or makes it bigger. His work seems very modern. It’s so interesting that I feel like I could stare at it from different angles and discover something new from each view. I find his work very pleasing to the eye. Some of his pieces kind of remind me of origami. I can imagine the texture being very thing with a lot of lines you could feel on it.

Martin Puryear review

I didn’t like his work. I couldn’t figure out what it was or what it was supposed to be used for.  Design should serve a purpose and that purpose should be clear. The functionality of his objects was not clear. They had a very clean look to them, but with the way they were shaped you still couldn’t figure out what they were for. Also you couldn’t tell where you would put them or what kind of environment you would put them in. If I had to guess I would guess he was going for an outdoor theme because of the ladder and he had a lot of rock shaped objects. Also most of his objects were smooth. It reminds me of an Asian American and I can see these objects with a running river or to help the fung shway of a place. I can imagine a fresh clean outdoors smell with his collection. The shapes are all irregular shapes.

Day three of the chair assignment

After making prototypes the night before and coming up with an idea that  might work i went back to the idea from the first day of cutting the cardboard into strips to make a chair. After making this chair multiple times out of scrap cardboard and card-stock i finally came up with a final designed that worked.

day two of the chair assignment

day two i was back at square one. I spent the day going over research and trying to figure out a new way to make a cardboard chair. This time instead of going straight to the piece of cardboard i would use i made prototypes out of card stock and scraps of cardboard from the recycling ben. this time the idea i came up with was see if i could come up with a seat using the same technique as pop up art, however this technique also failed and i spent the rest of the night trying to come up with a solution and at the end of the day i   thought of one idea that just might work.

Day one of the chair assignment

The first day i looked for ideas and research about how to make a seat out of cardboard. I also made my first attempt at building my chair, unfortunately it failed. My first idea was to cut the cardboard into 5 different sections to get it to form a chair by connecting the different parts. However there was not enough support under the seat and the cardboard kept breaking. I ended the day frustrated and without any other idea about how to build a chair, although i knew it was possible from the videos i watched. I got my idea on how to build my first chair from these videos.

The Chair assignment

FOr this assignment we were to build a chair out of one 4 x 4 sheet of cardboard. We could not use glue or tape to make this chair. However we were allowed to cut the cardboard but couldn't cut anything completely off. the Chair must hold our weight for one minute when we were done building it

Summary of Photo Collage

Through this project I learned that you have to be patient and your first idea might not always work. I liked playing with reality and coming up with different photo possibilities. I would have liked more time to work on the project because it seems like it was rushed and there wasn’t enough time to explore all the possibilities and places. The most difficult part of the project was getting all the photos to line up right and putting them in an arrangement that looked good.

Description and Summary

For this assignment we were to take multiple pictures of a person or a place and combine them to make a photo collage. We had to use between 75 to 100 photos to display the relationship between time and space. There weren’t many restrictions and we got to be as creative as we wanted. The things I found most difficult about this project were connecting all the photos so that it would go together and show movement. Putting it in a structure that complimented the photos well was also difficult. Getting the photos to match up was also hard. When I first started this project I didn’t think it would be that difficult and even though it was challenging I really liked the assignment and being able to be creative and experiment with what does and doesn’t work.

response to ways of seeing

The most important thing I took from this video was that art could have different meanings based on their surroundings and how you see them. Changes in music, colors surrounding the artwork or what you see before them could all change the depiction of an artwork. The meaning of art can also change over time. Cameras make it so appearance can carried across the world.  The movie makes it so that the camera is a machine that determines what you see but the photographer is the one who decides what appears. Art can become a symbol or hold meaning. Art can have a certain attitude and influence the viewer. Camera has multiplied arts original meanings. Camera can change the meaning of a picture by cutting out other objects of the picture. Video can also change paintings in a greater way than cameras can. Details need to be selected and rearranged can apply to our photo project as well as paintings. I don’t think that this video had that much to do with our project over all. I felt that it was more about how pictures had changed and had things you could apply to photography every once in a while.