Thursday, November 8, 2012

Chip Kidd

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Blue

Blue was a latecomer among colors used in art and decoration. Reds, blacks, browns, and ochres are found in cave paintings from the Upper Paleolithic period, but not blue. Blue was also not used for dyeing fabric until long after red, ochre, pink and purple. This is probably due to the perennial difficulty of making good blue dyes and pigments. The earliest known blue dyes were made from plants - woad in Europe, indigo in Asia and Africa, while blue pigments were made from minerals, usually either lapis lazuli or azurite.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Sassafras Tree Leaf

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth 

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

I chose this leaf because of the nice edging it has on it as well as the unique shading that the sun created on the leaf.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Thursday, October 4, 2012

I foud this logo design driving along the highway one day so I looked it up on the internet. It has an excellent representation of the meaning of recycle with the pictures of the environment embedded within the logo.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

This logo design from the Dasani water tent had an excellent display of design with the colors and symbols, in particular the water droplet that is substitued for the "o" in "drops"

Thursday, September 27, 2012

My favorite logo design on the web page.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

The above image represents focal point by stressing isolation on the black hole in the center.

This picture represents focal point by stressing contrast and and placement, along with the same isolation techniques represented above. This time, the isolation is represented on the lone rain drop towards the left of the screen.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

I think this is a very creative poster design simply because of the nice aspects it institutes. For example, the bursting light bulb add a nice design touch to accent the "spark" name on the poster.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Above is Paola Antonelli. I chose her becuase i particularly liked the topics in art the she talked about, and really love her intuitive design tatics.

An example of a poster I have that features great design techniques.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

This is the University of Georgia former running back Hershel Walker. I chose him for my project because of the accomplishments that he has had in his lifetime, particularly at the University.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Above is an example of a loose grid taken on the campus map across the street from MEP.

The picture above is Groover Hall that can be seen as an example of a tight grid through the representation of the windows and circle designs all in a specific line.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

The above picture represents repetition of form through the several pillars that are lined up and the shadows that are cast from them.

August 30, 2012 - Gestalt

Gestalt was very unique in his artworks, and he is probably one of my favorite artists to study. The ways in which he uses several different principles in his artwork is quite remarkable. Above, the panda represents a Gestalt principle because of the unity of the photograph. The black parts are simply shapes that are brought together to from the structure of a panda around the white background; however, there is really no definition of a panda there. It is simply our brain that fuses the two together into one picture. 

August 28, 2012 - David Smith

Above is an example of David Smith's artwork. He was a very unique artist and produced many phenomenal pieces of work. This picture is interesting to me due to the fact that it is out in the open environment with the open backdrop of the buildings behind it. In a sense, it just belongs in the position that it is in. 

August 23, 2012 - Design in Nature

Above you see one branch of the maple tree and its leaves. The seeds in particular are what serve to me as a design in nature. Though there are many examples of design in nature, this one stuck out to me because of the unique way that the seeds help the tree to survive in nature. As each of the helicopter-like blades (as pictured above) falls to the ground, theystart to spin just as if when a helicopter is descending. This process causes the seeds to fall slower to the ground than any other seed you might find, causing the seed to gain maximum distance. Gaining maximum distance allows for seeds scattered out to actually become another tree in a wide range of the landscape around them. When you think about helicopters in the real world, this seed makes you wonder if the helicopter design actually originated from the maple seed!

August 21, 2012 - What is Design?

Above is the Chicago Cathedral, and buildings such as this do well at asnwering the question of what is design. In basic terms, Design is simply the plan or creation for something one has thought up for any particular object, system, or whatever it may be. In terms of architecture, design can be defined as the "blueprints." Design can be releveant to many subjects in many more ways than just one as mentioned previously; however, when I think of what constitutes as design I think more along the lines of architecture. In the picture above, you can see many levels of thought and design that was put into making the cathedral look as antique as it does. Every piece of the building serves as it's own piece of art. Even just taking a quick glance at the picture you can tell that the building was carefully planned out and every little detail was constructed very carefully. The Chicago Cathedral and everything that was just mentioned describes what exactly design is not only in an architectural sense but in life overall.