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.

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.

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..?

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

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

Form n Space Floral blocks

Hey!

Anyone find the 8 x 8 blocks?

If you are stuck you have options.
- You can glue [elmer's is fine] smaller sizes together
or
- You can get the next size down which is about 5 x 5.

**** The 5x5x5 blocks are available at Micheal's! Thanks Meghan!
Get one for class . A 5x5x5 block will suffice.

The benefit of the larger block is that you have more room to work, since the medium doesn't allow a lot of detail.

Let me know by commenting to this post.

thanks,
T

Foam Blocks for Form N Space

This came in from Katie;

superwalmart, not regular walmart, seems to be the only place that has the 8in cube. the one in pinellas park had a place on the shelf for them, but they were sold out. so it is possible to get them, but just may take some driving to find one in stock. katie

If you find a source, post it here as a comment to help everyone.

Type is lost in the abyss

This layout is from a CD. I like the lines created by the crowd and the goofy brush strokes, however I think that the type is too easily lost in the confines of the design. This totally bums me out. _Chris Rambo

grid

There are so many different things on this page it could have been crowded and hard to read, but it's not because they used a grid layout. There's also a diagonal line created by the text blocks that draws your eye down. The leading is equal in both text blocks, which makes it easier to read. This ad also uses negative space well. There's just enough to catch your eye without the page looking empty.

poor 'n' dangerous

I thought this might be appropriate since were developing cd layouts this is part of a fold out booklet for Big L's 1995 debut album. note the very dated typography.

happy place

The grid layout here is very effective. The top left photo block has the most detail and is where your eye naturally begins reading. The text and the other large picture lead your eye down and over, helped by the diagonal arrangement. Then the two smaller pictures point your eye over to the text at the bottom.