Tuesday, May 31, 2011
J010 - Reflection & Review of Design 200
I liked Design 200. It was better than I thought it was going to be. A lot of the assignments were fun and manageable.The group projects were cool but it was hard to schedule to meet outside of class but that is why I am glad that we had so much class time to work on our Coleman project. The information we learned through the powerpoints was interesting and I learned a lot I did not know before. I also liked that you got the powerpoint information done early and spent more time on assignments. I also liked the videos we watched throughout class, like the TED talks and the manifesto video.
Reading Reflection 04
I thought these chapters were somewhat interesting, focussing on the context and future of design. Chapter nine, about design contexts, talked about how different countries have created organizations to group design capabilities. These groups give designers an outlet to reach out to government, industries and others, and the groups can have a general or specific purpose. The tenth chapter was about the future of design. I think this chapter is important because it will affect us all as future designers. The book pointed out that computers were changing how we design, but drawing is still instrumental in the design process. Over this book was a good way for me to get better aquatinted to design and the design process, will definitely help me to continue to grow as a designer.
Chewie's Course Reflection On Classes 17 & 18
I learned a lot from this class and I am glad that I enjoyed it without getting tired and bored. I enjoyed all the presentations I guess the reason was that no one was interested in design and took this class mostly to fulfill GEC requirements. Overall I think the course was a great starting point to learn design. It made design processes, creative thinking towards design and design in business/industry accessible to us.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Chewie's Course Reflection On Classes 13-16
The past two weeks we have just been working on our Coleman for the Home project. We are all working in different programs to create our final product. I like my group a lot and we created a very useful Facebook page that we post on. We quickly figured out that we all needed to have our laptops with us in class every day to have a productive work session. Our project is more elaborate than what I had initially pictured when the project was assigned but I think that will make it stand out more. Hopefully our final product turns out well because we all have diverse interests in terms of design.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Chewie's Peer Dialogue 03
Erica T's letter form blog was interesting I thought. My favorite picture was the letter "L" because of the height, angle and shading all make the letter really pop out the picture. The indoor/outdoor assignment was pretty cool as well.
Scott's letter form pictures are friggin sweet...I like the fact that you spelled design and then drew the overall shape of the object so that way it showed the letter better. I like letter "G" picture cause its creative and I don't think many people would look at that and see the letter form.
Justin's letter form post was cool cause you found all 26 letters of the alphabet, but my favorite was the "Q" picture cause I really don't see a lot of key holes like that. The slide show and the overall organization of the post was very professional as well.
Scott's letter form pictures are friggin sweet...I like the fact that you spelled design and then drew the overall shape of the object so that way it showed the letter better. I like letter "G" picture cause its creative and I don't think many people would look at that and see the letter form.
Justin's letter form post was cool cause you found all 26 letters of the alphabet, but my favorite was the "Q" picture cause I really don't see a lot of key holes like that. The slide show and the overall organization of the post was very professional as well.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
J06 - Online Scavenger Hunt
5 Manufacturers or retailers who specialize in outdoor camping and recreation products.
Bass Pro Shops
Eddie Bauer
Columbia Sportswear
Gerber Gear
Eureka Tents
3 Images of trade show / exhibition booths from the outdoor recreation and sporting industry.
Bass Pro Shops
Eddie Bauer
Columbia Sportswear
Gerber Gear
Eureka Tents
3 Images of trade show / exhibition booths from the outdoor recreation and sporting industry.
5 Manufacturers or retailers who specialize in indoor home goods products.
3 Images of trade show / exhibition booths from the indoor home goods market.
A working definition of what an "indoor home good" is?
Is a product you see in a typical household that is there to assist, entertain or comfort an individual.
3 Images of different types of possible home goods.
Chewie's Course Reflection On Classes 09-12
I thought the letter form assignment was really interesting. Like once I started the assignment, surprisingly I found tons of letters right around me that I would never have noticed otherwise. I thought the design circle speakers were informative about the three different design areas. The Eames short films we watched were also cool and provided a lot of information in a short amount of time. It was also interesting to hear about the company Cobego and what different projects the speakers/designers of the company have worked on. I also liked seeing some of the things they worked on while at school here at Ohio State.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
Chewie's Reading Reflecton 02
Chapter 7 Heskett's book talks about the intersection of design and corporate, national and personal identity. Mostly he talks about how designing globally or across cultures is becoming increasingly difficult because of increasing globalization and interconnectedness thanks to things like the internet. He says it well when he says, "it is possible to be at the same time a member of one culture and a member of one or more subcultures that might have little in common with the dominant form" (Heskett 85).
Chapter 8 talks of systems and how design attempts to tackle systems and changing systems, sometimes unsuccessfully. What I found most interesting was his discussion of new and old systems. He says, "As so often in history, new technologies tend to be defined initially in old forms and a transition period seems to be necessary before new forms are evolved. Typical examples are the horseless carriage before it developed into the automobile, or desk-top computers, basically a television screen and a typewriter, which still awaits resolution" (Heskett 96).
I thought I was aware of all the toxins but the introduction to cradle to cradle said otherwise. I actually found this to be somewhat ironic because were living in a society moving more and more towards creating a "natural" world with foods and products that are processed as little as possible, but most of us rely on products that are incredibly processed and contain so many harmful things. I think McDonough makes it clear just from the introduction that one of the main motivations behind of this book will be design focused on bringing together what he describes as two separate worlds, industrialization and nature. My favorite point that he made is at the end of the introduction where he comments on how ants have a biomass greater than that of humans and yet their impact on the environment is quite the opposite of ours. It all comes out to saying that people do have a problem with design, not nature.
Chapter 8 talks of systems and how design attempts to tackle systems and changing systems, sometimes unsuccessfully. What I found most interesting was his discussion of new and old systems. He says, "As so often in history, new technologies tend to be defined initially in old forms and a transition period seems to be necessary before new forms are evolved. Typical examples are the horseless carriage before it developed into the automobile, or desk-top computers, basically a television screen and a typewriter, which still awaits resolution" (Heskett 96).
I thought I was aware of all the toxins but the introduction to cradle to cradle said otherwise. I actually found this to be somewhat ironic because were living in a society moving more and more towards creating a "natural" world with foods and products that are processed as little as possible, but most of us rely on products that are incredibly processed and contain so many harmful things. I think McDonough makes it clear just from the introduction that one of the main motivations behind of this book will be design focused on bringing together what he describes as two separate worlds, industrialization and nature. My favorite point that he made is at the end of the introduction where he comments on how ants have a biomass greater than that of humans and yet their impact on the environment is quite the opposite of ours. It all comes out to saying that people do have a problem with design, not nature.
Chewie's Peer Dialogue 02
Well I liked all of them but the one of Erica T's pictures that I really liked was the burger and streak face . . . one because it's food and two I LOVE food. The DJ table face I really couldn't see but the pictures were still creative; and with Erica being so small, she has the advantages to get in small places to get those great shots.
With The Scherp's blog, pictures aren't pictures . . . they're magic! The face pictures he put up were interesting, like the four blocks of wood he used to get a face. One face that I noticed that he had that pretty much everyone had was the outlet face . . . if you don't have an outlet face in your face journal, YOU ARE A LOSER!!! . . . B)
With The Scherp's blog, pictures aren't pictures . . . they're magic! The face pictures he put up were interesting, like the four blocks of wood he used to get a face. One face that I noticed that he had that pretty much everyone had was the outlet face . . . if you don't have an outlet face in your face journal, YOU ARE A LOSER!!! . . . B)
Monday, April 25, 2011
Chewie's Course Reflection On Classes 05-08
In the past couple of weeks we have talked a lot about different goals of design. My favorite lecture was on the Design and the Environment. I for one am all about going green. Today many people use whatever the market designs, so designers are collaborating to create products that will reduce the environmental harm at a cheap price. For example, the video about the clean water bottle design; the lack of clean water is one of the world's biggest problems right now and people are working hard to fix this global problem.
The lecture on accessibility was interesting but I am not handicapped so it really didn't apply to me. You do, however start noticing a lot of the handicap accessible places. The scavenger hunt was cool popsicles because I got to talk to other people in my group and got to know them I guess on a nice day in Ohio surprisingly.
The lecture on accessibility was interesting but I am not handicapped so it really didn't apply to me. You do, however start noticing a lot of the handicap accessible places. The scavenger hunt was cool popsicles because I got to talk to other people in my group and got to know them I guess on a nice day in Ohio surprisingly.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
J04 - Faces iN Life.....SWEEEEEEEET!!!
The Face of Poseidon - Looks real creepy yo!
Faces On The S.E.L. - Anime Face LOL
Outlets At Kroger - Outlet Twins Anybody? They're Watts of Fun LOL....lame, yes I know! {sad face}
Saturday, April 23, 2011
A03 - Hunting Down Design: Clues
Erica and The Blob Chair
Well I don't know who the designer is but this chair was in the Knowlton School of Architecture’s Library. In this chair we have featured Erica Thorson, relaxing luxuriously while reading Plastic Design . . . in German might I add . . . . . . . . impressive much!
Justin and the Student Academic Services Building
Here, Justin Rodgers is standing in front of one of the local architects Acock & Associates most interesting buildings. Well besides the building looking like a chunk of swiss cheese, another thing I find interesting is the glass wall/extended window that Justin is standing next to because of the fact that the upper part of the building looks as if nothing is supporting it.
Justin and the S.E.L. Archway
Justin is standing in front of and in the marvelous archway of The Science & Engineering Library was created by the architect Philip Johnson & John Burgee of Collins, Reimer & Gordon Architects in 1992.
Scott Scherp and the Barcelona Chair
The Barcelona chair and Ottoman were created by Mies van der Rohe in 1929 for the German Pavilion. I like the fact that the chairs look kind of retro but they are just okay to sit in though as The Scherp lounges in the chair gracefully.
ShamWow and the Wexnor Art Center
I'm just doing my thing in front of the art center, which was designed by Peter Eisenman by the way; but come at night and its a different show because the walkway in which you see me getting zee grove on in front of, lights up like a Christmas tree and you don't even have to know the Green sisters, Mary and Jane, to be amazed at the sight.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Chewie's Reading Reflecton 01
The first six chapters of Design by John Heskett had me thinking what it means to “design.” In the first chapter Heskett somewhat outlines the main characteristics of design. “Design is one of the basic characteristics of what it is to be human, and an essential determination of the quality of human life. It affects everyone in every detail of every aspect of what they do throughout each day.” A true qoute by the man himself. I think this quote helps people understand the depth of what it is to design, considering every day you face challenges that require problem solving to overcome. Chapter two talks about how design has changed over the years to become the concept it is today. Chapter three then moved into describing the differences between the words function, utility, and significance in relation to design, with the words "utility" and "significance" being broken down from "function." Chapter four was mainly about product/industrial design and covered a range of different products and companies with some of their designs. Chapter five was on visual communication design and would probably be my favorite chapter, being that I'm a visual communication design major. The last chapter covered the last major sub-divion of design, interior space. Miriah said that she read that this sub-divion, can be broken down even farther into the decorative layout design of spaces as well as those who are interested in the original creation of spacial concepts and layouts.
Chewie's Peer Dialogue 01
When I was reading Scott Sherp's post about the different patterns he encountered, I was like some of these pictures would be cool to stare at if a person was tripped out on something. For example the black and white optical illusion picture, tell me you wouldn't get lost in there in a certain psychedelic was placed promptly into your system. Same goes for the DJ lights picture....that sh*t is hot like homeless guy breath.
On Sydni's design blog, she had a post about Jonathan Ive, the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple, reporting directly to the CEO, that I found interesting to read for the fact that I love apple products, more specifically the iPod Touch.
Lastly I read Miriah's post Reading Reflection 01. This one took me forever to read so it was the last one I read. Miriah says that after she read the first six chapters of John Heskett's Design, I have learned a lot about many of the ideas and principles behind the different types of design. Now being that I thought the post was interesting, it was still long as hell so I'm just going to sum it up the best I can. According to Miriah's description, Chapter one covers the basic stuff, for example - the question "What Is Design?". Chapter two talks about how design has changed over the years to become the concept it is today. Chapter three then moved into describing the differences between the words function, utility, and significance in relation to design, with the words "utility" and "significance" being broken down from "function." Chapter four was mainly about product/industrial design and covered a range of different products and companies with some of their designs. Now from what Miriah said about the chapter, chapter five visual communication design would probably be my favorite, being that I'm a visual communication design major. The last chapter covered the last major sub-divion of design, interior space. Miriah said that she read that this sub-divion, can be broken down even farther into the decorative layout design of spaces as well as those who are interested in the original creation of spacial concepts and layouts.
On Sydni's design blog, she had a post about Jonathan Ive, the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple, reporting directly to the CEO, that I found interesting to read for the fact that I love apple products, more specifically the iPod Touch.
Lastly I read Miriah's post Reading Reflection 01. This one took me forever to read so it was the last one I read. Miriah says that after she read the first six chapters of John Heskett's Design, I have learned a lot about many of the ideas and principles behind the different types of design. Now being that I thought the post was interesting, it was still long as hell so I'm just going to sum it up the best I can. According to Miriah's description, Chapter one covers the basic stuff, for example - the question "What Is Design?". Chapter two talks about how design has changed over the years to become the concept it is today. Chapter three then moved into describing the differences between the words function, utility, and significance in relation to design, with the words "utility" and "significance" being broken down from "function." Chapter four was mainly about product/industrial design and covered a range of different products and companies with some of their designs. Now from what Miriah said about the chapter, chapter five visual communication design would probably be my favorite, being that I'm a visual communication design major. The last chapter covered the last major sub-divion of design, interior space. Miriah said that she read that this sub-divion, can be broken down even farther into the decorative layout design of spaces as well as those who are interested in the original creation of spacial concepts and layouts.
Chewie's Designer Investigation
Adrian D. Smith
Adrian Smith is an American architect who has designed skyscrapers including the Burj Khalifa, Jin Mao Tower and Trump International Hotel and Tower. Smith attended Texas A&M University, pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture while being involved with the Corp of Cadets. He did not graduate, however, and instead left A&M to work at SOM in 1967. He finished his education at the University of Illinois - Chicago and graduated in 1969.
Adrian Smith was a Design Partner in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill from 1980 to 2003 and a Consulting Design Partner from 2004 to 2006. Adrian also served as the SOM’s Chief Executive Officer (1993 to 1995). He was the Chairman for the SOM Foundation (1990 to 1995) which serves to recognize and nurture students in architecture, design, urban design and structural engineering. After nearly four decades with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1967–2006), Smith left and with Gordon Gill and Robert Forest to found their own firm, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG). AS+GG has declared that it will focus on design of high-performance, energy-efficient and sustainable architecture on an international scale. His most recent work ,that he is acknowledged for in a group effort, is the Burj Khalifa.
The Burj Khalifa is currently the worlds tallest building at 2,717 feet tall. Construction began on 21 September 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. The building officially opened on 4 January 2010, and is part of the new 490-acre flagship development called Downtown Dubai at the First Interchange along Sheikh Zayed Road, near Dubai's main business district. Source Cited <http://smithgill.com/>
Joe Oros
You can thank Joe Oros, the father for the original Mustang design. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1917 and his parents were both non-English speaking Romanians. He showed incredible artistic skill in elementary, so much so he was moved from 3rd to 5th grade even though his math and science skills were questionable. Joe was Ford Motor Company's lead designer for over a 21 year period. Oros first worked for GM in the 1930s and early 1940s, then joined the independent George Walker group that shaped the vital all-new 1949 Ford and the cars and trucks that built on its success. When Walker became Ford's in-house design vice president in 1955, he made Oros an assistant, then named him to head the Ford Studio in 1956.
Though Oros would supervise the design of almost every U.S. Ford-brand vehicle over the next dozen years, the Mustang was his biggest success as studio chief. Oros is now 93 and lives in Santa Barbara, California where he lived with his wife Betty Thatcher Oros, until she died in 2001. His house is full of his own artwork, including paintings and sculptures. Oros is currently working on a 3D model of the earth depicting, all the original settlers. He is about 1/4 of his way through it and hopes to finish before he dies. Source Cited <http://blogs.mustangmonthly.com/6658995/miscellaneous/joseph-oros-weaved-the-mustangs-magic/index.html>
Neville Brody
Neville Brody was born in Southgate, London on 23 April 1957. At school, he studied A-Level Art, very much from a fine art viewpoint. In 1975 Brody went on to do a Fine Art foundation course at Hornsey College of Art, once renowned for its late sixties agitation, now part of Middlesex University.
In autumn 1976, Brody started a three-year B.A. course in graphics at the London College of Printing. His tutors often condemned his work as "Uncommercial", often putting a heavy emphasis on safe and tested economic strategies, as opposed to experimentation.
By 1977 punk rock was beginning to have a major effect upon London life and, while this had a great impact upon Brody's work and motivation, was not well received by his tutors. At one point he was almost thrown out of the college for putting the Queen's head sideways on a postage stamp design. He did, however, get the chance to design posters for student concerts at the college, most notably for Pere Ubu, supported by The Human League.
Neville Brody continues to work as a graphic designer and together with business partner Fwa Richards launched his own design practice, Research Studios, in London in 1994. Since then studios have been opened in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and New York. The company is best known for its ability to create new visual languages for a variety of applications ranging from publishing to film. It also creates innovative packaging and website design for clients such as Kenzo, corporate identity for clients such as Homechoice, and on-screen graphics for clients such as Paramount Studios, makers of the Mission Impossible films.
Neville Brody is a world renowned designer, typographer, and art director and brand strategist and in addition to lecturing and contributing to a variety of cultural and educational initiatives, he works alone or with a group, regardless he's still an inspiration to the design world. Source Cited <http://www.archive.researchstudios.com/home/006-neville-brody/NEVILLE_home.php>
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Chewie's Course Reflection On Classes 01-04
Design in general is an interesting topic, but when you start to break it down further you discover a lot more than art in the topic. For example, math plays a big part in design if you're architect. Science would play a big role if you were trying to create a new product to help society. In the 17 minute video TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, Tim Brown - the CEO of the innovation and design firm I.D.E.O., says the design profession is preoccupied with creating cool, flashy objects. When questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play, he calls for a shift to local design thinking. Designers do a lot in this world but to put it simply . . . they create stuff, from something as simple as a spoon, to something as exquisite as the Dubai arch bridge; from a couple splatters on a canvas, to Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night. Whether you're an architect, painter, a graphic artist of some type, interior decorator or even a photographer, design covers a broader area of today concept of art vs. engineering.
Chewie's 10 Favorite Patterns
This is a picture of a whirl pool, tantalizing isn't iT? I was just playing some hover bball, with my new hover ball and shoes, on this water planet when came across this magnificent image. The beauty of the pool is intoxicating and draws you in so seductively and sexy like that you forget about the fact that you could drown if you were to get to close.
Yes this is a giraffe, but what you didn't know is that this is my pet giraffe Twinkle (I didn't name him, I bought him when the Neverland Ranch went under), who was casually strolling by when I was trying to take a family photo.
When I had went to the beach one day the clouds made a nice pattern in the sky. Also the guy in the cow suit makes the photo that much better!
This is when I, the chewmaster, was on the set of the worst movie to come out EVER . . . Sex and the City 2. You may notice that one of the girls is missing, that would be Sam (see pic below). The girls had some very interesting articles of clothing on, but who am I to judge, I'm a 7 foot walkin', talkin' throw rug . . . [kanye shrugg] ¯\_(¬_¬ )_/¯
This is Sam, same set different scene, and I guess she was trying to get her 80's on (clearly didn't work). The patterns in hers clothes were interesting to say the least though and I have no idea whats up with dude in the green shorts or why he has a boner . . . [akward]
The next five pictures I will just show you and some it all up at the end on what the pattern was if you didn't see it already.
These pictures were taken at a party that I got invited to, where the chewnificent went 9-0 on the table, Arrawarrgh graa! Arrarroowwrrerr graa! Holla at cha wookie! But the patterns in these pictures if you haven't guessed it, is the consistency of one black person in each picture. Every party needs a token black guy and this party had THE COOLEST one there is.
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