Vignettes

In this assignment we had to draw somewhat larger objects and scale figures with much personality to interact with the larger objects. Again using watercolors to enhance the drawings.

This last one is the first one I drew, but I chose not to include water colors. I thought I would post it anyways.

Wearable Watercolors

For this assignment we had to draw three accessories of our friends along with the part of body that the accessories were on and use watercolor. I am not pleased with how mine came out. The watercolors kept smearing, and when I attempted to use colored pencil with watercolors, it just looked messy.

First Attempt at Water Colors.

I apologize Catharine, for adding at least twenty years onto your appearance. I didn't have a black.

Two Page Spread

Below is the image of where I got my inspiration for my two page spread. I enjoyed this layout because the text was the most important part of the spread. It is almost as if the text is drawing a picture itself. I also took Suzanne's advice about not having to show an entire view of something, but focusing on a particular part and zooming in.

Above image from Organic Style Magazine, March 2004. It's an oldie, I know.

Five Items From Five Members

For this assignment we were asked to draw five items that have importance to us. I chose five objects that were given to me through the five members of my family. In designing the two page spread we were asked to keep in mind the layout, color, text, and hierarchy. As far as the layout went, I tried to cover as much of the two pages as possible. I chose to represent my favorite object (in case you can't tell it's my red car Beatrice) by it being the only object where I used color. I additionally tried to keep the text minimal and focus more on the objects that have importance to me. I enjoyed being able to break out of the typical white and black drawings and add a little color!

LUMINESCENCE.

Final Luminaire

For my final model, I used one magazine that was still bound and cut it in a way so that when the pages were folded in, there was a hollow center to place the bulb.

Orthographic Drawings

Front View

Top View

Base

Underneath (where the bulb is placed)

TRIAL RUNS

This was my first rendition. It was made from two magazines but there was no where to place the bulb and was too dense to allow enough light to penetrate through the pages.

For my second try, I decided to only use a select number of pages to allow more light to filter through. But it wasn't quite what I imagined and was too flimsy, and all of the light poured out of the top. I then resorted back to my original idea, and made changes to make it work.

LUMINESCENCE. design research.

For our upcoming project, the task at hand is to create a luminaire. By using only 3 materials, 2 of which have to have been used in previous projects, we must "create a field of light that articulates the surface upon which it is cast." After receiving the guidelines, my first thought was to begin to think of what materials I would use. Much of my inspiration comes from using common materials, such as old magazines and books, and recycling them into a new form of an object. For this project, I hope to incorporate old books/magazines to form a luminaire. Whether this will turn out, we will see.

After researching different forms of light, I was inspired by the site starbrick.info. For the light source they developed, they used the idea of stacking. In the light source, three types of spaces were defined. The three spaces are defined by, "the solid structure of the module itself, the negative space at its core in the shape of a ‘cubeoctahedron’, and the polyhedric spheres that appear between the modules when stacked." I plan to incorporate all three of these ideas in my model.

Here are some photos that inspired me. I plan to use the idea of light peering through cracks and crevasses and light reflecting off of color.

Furthermore, here are images of actual objets and lamps that inspired me.