THE END {project three}

THE hard work paid off for this journey of a project. From long nights to extensive group and class discussion, the final project proved that every member of my group learned from this experience. Personally, I couldn’t be more pleased with how my group went about interacting with each other, and completing our final piece as a team. I hope that when the pedestrians passed this out front of Watson library, they stopped to take a second to view and think about our creation. I like to think they did though, as it really was an eye catching piece of art. 

IN CONCLUSION, I really enjoyed this project and all the knowledge I gained from it. I definitely think this project and process will benefit my creative abilities as I continue onward in design school.

photo journal.

TO CONSTRUCT a photo journal, our class underwent a short lecture over the art of book making. I began with the basic folds as shown in the lecture, but was very dissatisfied with how simple they were, and how they lacked creativity. I promptly tossed them aside and let my creative juices take over. I constructed a “box book”, where the edges of my box expand to be photos, and the middle expands to reflect the graphics of my process book, with minimal information pulled from it. I had a great time learning about book making and constructing one of my very own. In the end I am quite pleased with how it turned out!

the process.

THROUGHOUT the study of the word obtain, myself & our group overcame many challenging obstacles. To make the process easier to tackle on a large scale, we each individually began the long project by constructing twenty different graphic arrangements of a single word. This gave us the ability to “see” one word many different ways, which came into play when we joined into groups to tackle the large word. From here, we each chose a letter of the word to individually construct to start experimenting with model building. These letters were then transferred to the three-foot scale letters of the final piece.

OUR final concept was collaboratively thought of by brainstorming how “obtain” is used in context. We came to the conclusion that in terms of college students, the majority of the time when one “obtains” is when obtaining information, commonly done at the library. Thus this became the location of our large model.

INSPIRED by the concept of the library, we chose to make our model appear to be a book, to fully engage in the location it would be placed in. To build this, we used many large sheets of cardboard that were scored, folded, cut, bent, painted, and glued. Oh, and a lot of teamwork, too.

the {group} word

OBTAIN

(verb): to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request.

Photography Essay

Steve Edwards discusses photography and its role in the everyday lives of modern society. Not only is photography part of daily life, but it is also a growing part of the culture that makes our society exactly what it is. Whether we know it or not, photographs effect people very directly. Although photography has this influence over the human race, oftentimes people misunderstand what exactly is happening within a photograph. Many times the photo is altered, so it is not a truthful representation of what is actually happening in the actual setting of the photographer. 

Edwards goes back and forth the ongoing debate on whether or not photography is considered an art. In my opinion, photography is an art.  Photographers have the ability to capture emotion and passion in a two dimensional portrait. Just as if an artist were painting or a drawing, a lot of creative thought goes into photography, and just as any other medium, has a long history and string of famous photographers to support it. 

Though we may not all be professional photographers, I truly believe that everyone should appreciate photography and consider it just as much an art as any other working medium. It is a core item of everyday life, and honestly, life would not be the same without it. If that’s not art, then I don’t know what is.  

PARTS OF THE letter

TYPOGRAPHY evolved from handwriting; handwriting evolved from a series of marks made by the hand-- therefore, the fundamental element in constructing a letter is a linear stroke. Each letter of the alphabet evolved from a simple mark whose visual characteristics separated it from all others. As a designer, learning this helps one understand and grasp the visual sensitivity and harmony of the actual complexity of our alphabet. 

pathfinder exercises

TO TAKE the next step onward with our individual discoveries, the class was assigned to experiment in Adobe Illustrator with the pathfinder tool to manipulate our word of choice further. Change was an exciting word to work with, because I was literally changing the word’s appearance.