Well this is my second attempt at the pattern perception assignment. It is I admit a big improvement from the first one. My pattern started out as a picture of Washington D.C. when the Cherry Blossoms were in full bloom. I just used the mag. lasso tool and masked the part of the bloom that I thought was the pretties. I enhanced the cropped section using the Exposure adjustment. Then I copied and pasted multiple times and created my pattern. Then I inverted a few to add a little a little more interest to the peice.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Patter Perception II
Well this is my second attempt at the pattern perception assignment. It is I admit a big improvement from the first one. My pattern started out as a picture of Washington D.C. when the Cherry Blossoms were in full bloom. I just used the mag. lasso tool and masked the part of the bloom that I thought was the pretties. I enhanced the cropped section using the Exposure adjustment. Then I copied and pasted multiple times and created my pattern. Then I inverted a few to add a little a little more interest to the peice.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Arch. Response
A Thoughtful Reflection
There is no denying that we live in a world that depends heavily on computers. It wasn’t long ago that we thought the end of the world was soon to come because of the big Y2K event. So many advances have been made due to the invention of computers and computer aided design software, it’s hard to find flaws. But on the reverse side of that were do humans fit in?
Computer aided design software is highly effective and efficient, and has helped us to make huge leaps in our designs. Numerous design possibilities that 60 years ago would have been thought of as impossible, or time consuming have become a reality due to the computer, and its easy and fast calculations.
As a new designer I am only beginning to see how important computers are to the design process. Scanning a photo into a computer and clicking a few buttons to enhance it is only the beginning of endless possibilities the computer can offer.
On the other side I can’t see myself feeling as emotionally attached to a design that I sat in front of a computer clicking away at, as I do to a design that I have spent countless hours drafting out. Doing it the old fashion way and hand-drafting it out is by far the one time in my design process that I feel the most at ease, because I love to do it, and I’m good at it. But not only in drafting but also in hand rendering, there is just this personal touch that a client can see when you present your ideas. They can relate to the fact that this took you a long time.
As designers it’s hard for us in a time crunch to choose the slow way, by hand, rather than take the easy way out and use a computer. But also as designers I feel like it’s important for us to find that happy medium between computers and the human touch. We must look back to the past before we can move ahead.
There is no denying that we live in a world that depends heavily on computers. It wasn’t long ago that we thought the end of the world was soon to come because of the big Y2K event. So many advances have been made due to the invention of computers and computer aided design software, it’s hard to find flaws. But on the reverse side of that were do humans fit in?
Computer aided design software is highly effective and efficient, and has helped us to make huge leaps in our designs. Numerous design possibilities that 60 years ago would have been thought of as impossible, or time consuming have become a reality due to the computer, and its easy and fast calculations.
As a new designer I am only beginning to see how important computers are to the design process. Scanning a photo into a computer and clicking a few buttons to enhance it is only the beginning of endless possibilities the computer can offer.
On the other side I can’t see myself feeling as emotionally attached to a design that I sat in front of a computer clicking away at, as I do to a design that I have spent countless hours drafting out. Doing it the old fashion way and hand-drafting it out is by far the one time in my design process that I feel the most at ease, because I love to do it, and I’m good at it. But not only in drafting but also in hand rendering, there is just this personal touch that a client can see when you present your ideas. They can relate to the fact that this took you a long time.
As designers it’s hard for us in a time crunch to choose the slow way, by hand, rather than take the easy way out and use a computer. But also as designers I feel like it’s important for us to find that happy medium between computers and the human touch. We must look back to the past before we can move ahead.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Design Manifesto
A Design Manifesto
"Helping people protect, enhance, and enjoy the places that matter to them."
--National Trust for Historical Presorvation--
"When histoic buildings and neighborhoods are torn down or allowed to deteriorate, a part of our past disappears forever. When that happens, we lose history that helps us know who we are, and we lose opportunities to live and work in the kinds of interesting and attractive surroundings that older buildings can porvide."
--National Trust for Historical Presorvation--
..."see through to the past..."
-design is a process therefore it evolves.-
It is my belief that we as a society of designers are in one continuous design process. Many movements have stemmed out as we have evolved , movements such as bauhaus, art deco, cubism, impressionism, modernism, all of these movements have helped us get to where we are today as designers. This theory is the reason why I believe what I believe. Many designers can talk about being Green and going Green, I think that one of the most effiecent ways of going Green is by helping to restore what is already here. My career goal is to become a historic presorvationist. Its olders building, houses, and places that I draw inspiration from. Its the litte sqeaks in the floor or doors that I find the most interesting. Those peices of character is what draws me into a space. It's almost as if the house is letting me in on a secret, telling me what has happened in it's lifetime.
The idea of seeing into the past is what I protrayed in my artifact. We need to understand and connect to those things that have passed before us to truely be good designers in the future.
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