Project 6: Balance

BALANCE

Story of a father finding a balance between the time he spends on work and the time he spends with his daughter. Some frames explore balance as a principle of design.

Project 6: Variety

 VARIETY

A video montage of examples of variety as a principle of design. Variety explores multiple differences in color, texture, shape, size, etc. (and instruments, in this case).

Principles of Design: examples in library

Project 5: Space Animation

I decided to create a frame by frame animation on photoshop. Another student in the class got the OK to do this instead of creating the shapes in Adobe Illustrator, and I felt that I could produce a higher quality animation in a faster amount of time by doing this.

Project 4: Visual and Tactile Texture

VISUAL TEXTURE: Foam mat, owl sculpture, metal startfish ring, sneakers.

TACTILE TEXTURE:

VISUAL + TACTILE TEXTURE COMBINATION: The visual texture reminded me of stone and ancient patterns like those of the mayans or aztecs. So I used the visual texture of the metal starfish ring to create a kirigami temple.

Project 3: Notan Square, Painted Section, Laser Cut

I didn't plan anything before I started. I just hopped right into the project.
Then certain patterns began to appear; specifically the circles and the swirls. I recognized their existence, and I aimed to  make the visual relationship between the two a main theme throughout the project.
There were times when I had difficulty figuring out where to place certain pieces that were close to the corners. I laid them out so I could see different options of reflections, and finally decided that the end result created the best look.

I really enjoyed hearing that my notan square reminded the class of Hugo-esque gears/mist, lost underwater seaweed/city of Atlantis, and other settings of the adventure genre. I thought it looked like the middle of a toxic accident in a factory, or some other sci-fi adventure explosion.

The second part of the project was to select an area of the Notan square to paint. The composition I found was the most pleasing, and it had a nice balance between linear and curvelinear shapes.

The third part of the project was to create a laser cut pattern from a selection in our piece. The shape was simplified in Adobe Illustrator, then the paths were duplicated 100 times and sent to a laser cutter. The diamonds and lines functioned better vertically. Oriented horizontally, the thick implied lines would have weighed the piece down.

Presence Defined by Absence

The first thing that comes to my mind is clothing. The space in between the material is just as important than the material itself, if not more important. If shirts didn't have holes in the sleeves, then where would people put their arms? If socks weren't hollow, where would our feet go? The presence defined by absence in clothing is what gives clothes the ability to function properly and achieve their purpose.