Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Storytelling and Composition





For my design Visualization class we started out the semester with an array of interesting assignments. The first one called for us to create a two page layout displaying 5 illuminated objects having some form of value, including a quick description. We were also allowed to use pen and one colored pencil of of choice. Since my theme (cheesy, I know) was "off the beaten path" I added brown accents to my objects to make them appear a bit more "beaten"...along with a path that travels along the spread. The path served as the main focus of the layout, the words were important as well but serves more as accents much like the brown pencil i added does. The text is a curvy font that winds in and out at the ends of each letter, though the first letter of some of the descriptions is blown up like that in a fairy tale storybook with all its filled in designs that I took note of and incorporated in my spread. Each of the objects has varying importance but they all have some form of meaning to me as they came across my path.






"All I ever needed to know about composition...
I learned from flipping through the pages of magazines"
The next assignment was to tell a story of our first week back at school in the form of a magazine layout. I choose a spread from the "Dwell" Dec/Jan issue. The left side of the spread located as the fountain outside the school cafeteria, the girl came out looking a bit rigid and I added "brace yourself" at the bottom. The other pictures on the opposite page display several items that I associate with the beginning of a new semester.


Saturday, January 2, 2010

Mr. and Mrs. Blandings Lake House


Some of my plans...



Final Plan view







Above are the elevations of the north, south, east, and west walls of the Blanding's lake house.



The Blanding's 12 year old son's room. I consider this a very odd perspective as we are at an unsure height. 


A bathroom perspective...looks like a pretty big bathroom to me.






Draft and final section cuts.


For the final project in Design Visualization last semester, we contorted a basic house plan to get some practice drawing out architectural plans, sections, elevations, with two perspective drawings with people actually in the space we design thrown in there as well. It was an imaginary lake house for the imaginary couple, Mr. and Mrs. Blanding, and their twelve year old son. The order in which our class went about the various stages of this project was first in pencil (with varying line weights) to complete the plan, the plan with furniture (we choose personally), a section of two sides of the lake house, and then an elevation. After all of this was complete as our final exam grade, I completed the house plans in pen (again, varying line weights) and added two perspectives to the collection. This being my first time working on a project of this sort, it took me many hours to get everything to my satisfaction. Having this project as our final exam put the pressure on to make it as neat and well done as possible. I redid a few of my final drawings and certainly changed layout in the final drawings a good bit between the initial plans and the final's.  Though I was satisfied enough with these to submit them for a grade, there is always room for improvement.