Saturday, October 13, 2007

Layout Design Week 2 "Northwest"


northwest
Originally uploaded by Aro32
I chose this layout from many others because I like how it is minimal, yet there are many different photo's arranged together as if they were part of a puzzle. This is a neighborhood I lived in this summer, and I feel the way this piece is layed out, as well as the pictures they used, the small map, the title, and the text, truly represent the neighborhood well. I like how the text is NOT started in the dead center.

-Andrea Doric

Form & Space Week 2


This is the Opera House in Sydney, Australia; I really like the design of the building because it’s unusual. It’s made of concrete, and pre-formed concrete panels for the roof. The designer is Jorn Utzon, a Danish architect. I thought it was interesting that his design was used because he won a competition! It was a competition open to anyone for a suitable design for an opera house launched in September 1955. All designs were required to meet certain criteria including 2 halls, one to seat 3000 people and the other for 1200 people, and each must be designed for different uses including operas, orchestral choral concerts, ballets, lectures, and other presentation purposes. There were a total of 233 entries from 32 countries.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Cardboard House

Tod, this would make a good Form and Space project... (just kidding). The concept behind this design was that housing can be affordable as well as environmentally friendly. This particular one doesn't really seem practical, although it's a cool design; however, some of the other houses on their web site are actually usable: http://www.housesofthefuture.com.au
I might actually consider the steel house, if it were just a little larger... haha.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Form and Space


This dress is actually a design I created for my 3D class at HCC. The assignment was to create a 3D design that repeats itself for more than 3 times.
Since I always liked fashion I decided to create a dress that is a 3D design itself with repetitive patters on the bottom. The bottom part of the dress has the black laces that come out from the dress. The laces are sewn only on specifics parts to give this idea of a weird texture. The dress also has some flowers all around. The lace form many squares around the dress in a repetitive 3D design.

I chose this object because of its strange and appealing shape. It’s a flying alarm clock, which I also thought was interesting. It’s designed to represent a helicopter’s propeller and is successful in doing do. The round/ circular shape of it is what caught my attention the most. The top is indeed a propeller and actually works like one according to the designer’s description of the clock’s abilities; and the bottom portion looks more like an upside down cereal bowl, which reminded me of the funky helicopter hats that kids used to/ still wear..?

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Red Delicious


Red Delicious is a very provocative add, but the product gets lost in the layout. The designer put the product in a tray of apples, and next to the motor cycle where it looses its visibility. At first you may think its part of the cycle, I did! You have to really search for what their trying to push.
_Roni M

General Observation

Hello!

There are 3 classes equaling about 50 students that are expected to be posting.
With 1 a week, there should be 50 up already.
So far we have 1 posting and 1 commenting.
Problem?

This is a course requirement.

T

Monday, October 8, 2007

Form and Space


At first, what caught my attention about this flower were the colors, but after examining the pictures I thought the sense of depth was very well done. The many shades of pink are well represented to give that sense of depth and also the many shades of yellow give texture to the flower. The representation of how they designed with the grid system on the flower help us understand the 3 dimensional designs and how it was created.
The designer also add some letters and numbers to the flower according with the shades and lights on the flower. It is almost like a newspaper flower, the designer made a lot more interesting.

Form & Space/ 3D class