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)
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