Course Reflection 04

Accessibility is important when it comes to anything that is made/designed today. In a world that is becoming more and more aware of others needs, how we use the power that we are discovering, is important.
I really liked the lecture because I could really identify with disabilities. In high school, I worked with a lot of special needs kids, and they're needs were different then ours. I want to help to make things more accessible, and that is why I am leaning more and more to architectural or even space design.
Little things like the rafts that go on the back of a kayak to keep it from tiping, I saw when we went kayaking on a feild trip last year. I want to be able to help.
If I was not trying to become a designer, I would become a special education teacher. And pursuing a design major allows me to maybe dip my feet in both areas.

Found Faces

Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm going to guess and say that you are going to be getting a lot of Wright posts, and for that, I am sorry.
I commute from home and also go to the Delaware Center. I'm working on finding balanced time for each my classes, and I am getting there. So I have yet to be able to go the library rather, I am doing my study online, just so ya know.
Ok, here it is now:

Wright was an architect, interior designer, writer and educator. Wowza, doing all that I would be exhausted. But rather then all that he also designed more then 1,000 projects, with resulted in 500 complete works. He promoted organic architecture, lead a movement in architecture called the Prairie school and made the concept of the Usonian home.

The organic architecture can be found in his work Falling Water.

The home was built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run section in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains.

The house is listed on the Smithsonian’s Life List of 28 places “to visit before you die”. It was designated as a historical landmark in 1966.

The work was started in 1936, and when looking at this house, it seems almost futuristic, and the idea of it being built in the 30’s rather then the now, is astonishing! Even more astonishing is the cost! The grand total of the home cost a total of $155, 000.

The Prairie movement as exampled by his works Robie House, the Darwin D. Martin house and the Westcott House. The Prairie School architectural design became wildly known and used in the late 19^th century and early 20^th century in the Midwest United States. The work is described by having flat horizontal lines, or hipped rooks with broad overhanging eaves, grouped horizontal windows, integrated with the landscape, solid construction, craftsmanship and discipline. The horizontal lines where thought to resemble a prairie style-like landscape.

This is a picture of the Robie House built between 1908 and 1910. The home is located in Chicago’s Hyde Park at 5757 S. Woodlawn Avenue on the South Side. The home was made into a National Landmark in 1963. The home is a perfect example of Prairie home architecture, As Wright wrote in 1910, "it is quite impossible to consider the building one thing and its furnishings another. ... They are all mere structural details of its character and completeness.” Every element Wright designed is meant to be thought of as part of the larger artistic idea of the house.

The home was called the “measuring stick” against all other Prairie School buildings are compared. The significance of the style can be stated in the 1957 article in House and Home magazine:

"During the decades of eclecticism's triumph there were also many innovators--less heralded than the fashionable practitioners, but exerting more lasting influence. Of these innovators, none could rival Frank Lloyd Wright. By any standard his Robie house was the House of the 1900s--indeed the House of the Century."]

Above all else, the Robie house is a magnificent work of art. But, in addition, the house introduced so many concepts in planning and construction that its full influence cannot be measured accurately for many years to come. Without this house, much of modern architecture as we know it today might not exist."

Usonian Homes designed by Wright were typically small, single story dwellings without a garage or much storage. A strong visual connection between the interior and exterior spaces is an important quality. When speaking about coining the term Usonia:

"But why this term "America" has become representative as the name of these United States at home and abroad is past recall. Samuel Butler fitted us with a good name. He called us Usonians, and our Nation of combined States, Usonia."

–Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture: Selected Writings 1894–1940, p. 100.

 

Inside of the most famous Usonian home, Rosenbaum.

Side veiw

Wright’s work was ground breaking in his time. The clean lines and organized style led to visual appeal and cost cuts. Which in that time was a major plus. His work influenced many, and was the ground to many new designs. I enjoy the Prairie School look because we see a lot of that style in Columbus! I guess Midwest is the best! The idea that he dabbed his foot in many areas of design really influences me to not only focus on one area, and rather focus on several ideas. 

Olivier Mourgue

Oliver Mourgue is best known for his futuristic designs with a focus on furniture, but he is also a painter and landscape designer. He published a book which is called "Imaginary and Gardens and Little Theaters" for the Sainsbury Centre of Visual Arts. 

He studied interior design at the "Ecole Boulle" and furniture design at "L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs' (Little longer name then OSU...) in Paris. 

On of his greatest pieces is the "Djinn" chair. After working with the french manufacturer "Airborne International" he designed the chair, which was made famous by '2001: A Space Oddesey' by Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick created the futuristic rotating Hilton hotel in Space. The chair then has the smooth, wave-like, low-slung silhouette. The chair is named after a Muslim Legend, a spirit often capable of assuming human or animal form and exercising supernatural influence over people". 

http://www.architonic.com/dcgal/djinn-suite-christie-s/4105703

http://www.oliviermourgue.com/

Apostol Thokovski

I am not normally a fan of Lady Gaga. Although her fashion can be very interesting, other then that, I don't really rock out to her music. Then one day, last week, I saw the Hydra piano designed by Apostol Thokovski. I know that I was supposed to focus on a designer and then his work and some interesting facts. But I really want to show this design. I myself am a piano player, and when I saw this piano it blew my mind. So much different then the boxy piano we see, and that's what made Apostol Thokovski go to the drawing board. He thought that the boxy piano was not a good piano for Lady Gaga. 
 





The fluidity of the piece is amazing. Almost like pulling taffy, stretching it out. The glossy black and white make the piece visually appealing, it doesn't need big colors.  
The piece was based of the mythological creature "Hydra". Who inhabits under the sea thus the very smooth lines of the piano, an underwater like design. 
""Apostol Thokovski is a brilliant designer and has designed different products and made them visually very appealing. He believes that apart from the functional efficiency of the product it is important how good and appealing it looks. If he doesn't like the look of something he redesigns it increase its visual appeal."


http://oneclick.indiatimes.com/article/031B3CX6RtcQG
http://www.behance.net/gallery/HYDRA-2010/582217

Survey Piece

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1. Iphone or Android?
2. Do you use a planner for school?
3.Do you believe colors can affect emotions? (Ex. Yellow=Happiness)
4. Do you use Chapstick?
5. Planes, trains or automobiles?
6. Did the 80's have good music?
7. Film or digital photography?
8. Do you eat breakfast?
9. Mexican food or chinese food?
10. Are you happy?

Survey

Below are the questions to a survey I distributed to a hand full of my friends and my mother. I gave the survey to my mother at home, and gave my friends the surveys between classes.

1. Iphone or Android?
2. Do you use a planner for school?
3.Do you believe colors can affect emotions? (Ex. Yellow=Happiness)
4. Do you use Chapstick?
5. Planes, trains or automobiles?
6. Did the 80's have good music?
7. Film or digital photography?
8. Do you eat breakfast?
9. Mexican food or chinese food?
10. Are you happy?

Reading Reflection Haskett 4-6

I liked how each chapter focused on different areas of design. And I had no clue that Ferdinand Porsche was the grandson of the guy who designed the first Volkswagen "Beetle". I'm saying this because I have Jetta... and found it interesting!

I thought that butler was interesting, and oh so true! That products when they aren't being used, that they should blend into the background. 

And I loved reading about IKEA. I think that they are geniuses, even though sometimes assembling it can be a pain in the ass. But the efficiency and cost cuts make it worth while definitely.

I always enjoy looking at pictograms, and found communication with out boundaries very interesting. 

I already said before that I enjoy the enviroment that design can give. Teamwork and all :) And thought it was funny that I read that right after! 

Course Reflection 03

I really enjoyed the video that we watched "The Deep Dive". Working in that kind of environment would be amazing. Not only does it further you're creativity, but all the relationships in the video, were so down to earth. The video also made me further my questioning of what kind of designer do I want to be, visual, space or architectural. During the video I was thinking of my own ways I would try to make a shopping cart, and going through the process with the group. Thinking about safety, then how much it can hold, etc. Things like eliminating the wire shelf under the cart, and replacing it with the mesh like basket so that kids are less likely to stand and and hurt themselves! I still have some thinking to do of what I want to be, but this class is surely helping!

Different levels of design

Last week we studied what design courses Ohio State offered.

1. Industrial Design
2. Interior Space Design
3. Visual Communications

After learning what each course offered. I am really considering changing from what I have been focusing on, visual communications, to something else. I love to travel and I would like a job that allows me to see the world and help others. After learning what visual communication is, printing, photography, layout design, web design, I could keep adding onto this laundry list but I think you catch my drift. The lecture really opened my eyes to more possibilties and i need to think before I jump into any new ideas. I'm really thinking about interior space design, I loved to think about how a building was created and the design put into it.

long story short, I need to think!

Reading Reflection Haskett 1-3

Chapter One: What is design?

This chapter asks the question, what is design? Or what makes up design? The author points out that there are many levels to design and different groups that have expanded and no one person knows what design constitutes as anymore. This chapter also introduces the quote "Design is to design a design to produce a design".

Chapter Two: The historical evolution of design

The author states that the design has manifested itself in a variety of ways through out history (Page 8). For example the invention of farming tools, instead of using your bare hands. Abstractions, such as spears were used for hunting by Australian aborigines. As life shifted patterns, people had to find new sources. New design for the new technology, new market and new forms of business.

Chapter Three: Utility and significance

How a design is used. "Form follows function" (Page 25) Humans follow dreams or imagination more the practicality. Inspiration also teaches us to expand on ideas. Such as the toothpick and the many variations that follow the first example. There are also the ideas of different cultures. The first being, culture is the acquisition of ideas and or faculties expressed in certain styles or behavior believed to have particular value. That culture gives a design it's own style or meaning. The other being, that culture has the shared view of a community. (Page 31) That the design meets the demands of a certain social group.

Patterns

This photo was taken at Jeni's Ice Cream in Powell, Ohio. I've always loved the industrial look of ceilings. Jeni's is always good at keeping the integrity of a building. 

This is one of my best friends in the whole entire world. You're going to see more of him on later probably, so take him in. This is also at Jeni's, as you can see the obvious pattern behind him, well I hope you can. The white and blue... you see?

Once again, this nut. I love brick, I love it. It's probably one of my favorite patterns in the world, you can do so much with it. This is taken in Powell, Ohio.

Ah, this guy. Another good friend of mine. This is taken in Delaware, Ohio. He really fancies his new camera. Another pattern i love is wood. I love the texture.

Already professed my love of brick! Taken in Delaware, Ohio.

Another Jeni's shot, a lot of lines through out the store.

Whose that lady? Oh me? Yep. Close up of white and blue pattern.

Pretty sick icicles in Powell, Ohio.

Taken in Delaware, Ohio. More lines. Oh, and brick and wood!

Taken in Delaware, Ohio. More brick! Gotta love it!

What I found.

Although, this is late I still wanted to do the assignment, I really wanted to look at the blogs that were given. And although I am not planning on becoming a fashion designer, I appreciate the architecture that goes into making a single garment. I found an article on www.wallpaper.com about the avant-garde designer  Yohji Yamamoto. Something he said really stuck with me, The life or death of a garment depends on finding the point of rapture for that button. A garment may have three buttons, or six, but it is the location of that single button that is the key. The other buttons are but useful foot soldiers." This shows his belief that one button, one small object, can make or break a design or garment. I think that this is important that in the fact, that anything about anything, can make or break a design. The design has to be well executed of course, but we are rather looking at the usefulness or our one button, of the item before what we find to be our other buttons, or the look of our design. I would love to read his book and find out more about the way he works.

http://www.wallpaper.com/fashion/yohji-yamamoto-biography-my-dear-bomb/5055

Why I am.

I have to say, I am pretty excited for this class. And no worries, I'm not trying to become the "suck up". I truly and honestly am very excited. I love to be around people, although I am a pretty quiet person at first, once I get going, I'm pretty social. That being said, I love to help people too. And if there is a job where I can use my creativity and help people, sign me up! I didn't really think of Visual Communications until a couple months ago, and after doing some research on the course, I knew that I wanted to pursue this. Creativity is very important to me, if you take a look at my room, you'll see that :) I love getting ideas from movies, and I love color and shapes. That was another one of my random thoughts... just so you know.

Who I am.

Hello world, I am Anne Deis.
I'm sitting here at Panera between classes, and have paused for a long time thinking what I'm going to write next. I thought stating this would be suitable since my blog is called, "where my thoughts are organized." And that was a thought, so therefore it is organized into this blog.
Moving on,
I grew up in Columbus, right next to Riverside Hospital. Which allowed my parents to believe that every sniffle, or late night cough was meant to be hospital worthy. Yes, I know it only means they love me, taking me to the hospital, but it was never a fun experience. I went to Ecole Kenwood, a French primary school that was only a couple minutes from my house. It was a great experience, and it is pretty fun breaking out the little songs we learned in Kindergarten.
I moved to Dublin when I started 3rd grade and after my parents divorced, which was a slap in the face compared to Columbus schools. I mean, it was pretty different, and definitely missed my Columbus school friends a lot more. But the social butterfly I am, created new friends quickly.
High school was fun? I don't how to word it really. I attended a school that was fixated on sports, and although I played two years of golf during my years there, I was really never in love with the sport. Then I took photography my junior year, fell in love. Then took more and more classes with the art department, and the love just grew and grew.
I have a lot of interests, I love music and movies, but so does everyone else, right? I've been called an "old soul" since I do fancy the oldies more then the darn music the crazy kids are playing on the radio now. Al Green is one of my favorite artists, then for more contemporary, I enjoy Freelance Whales, The Swell Season, and gotta love that Kanye West, right? I enjoy art, I dabble in paint, but I prefer using my trusty old laptop and cam for creatin' the art too. I love movies. Uh, "An Education", "Amelie", "Once" just to name a few are on my list.
One last thought, there was an older man, like in his 80's that was ordering bagels and he had the classic old guy look with the hat, glasses and slumped shoulders. But I couldn't help but giggle when he said "ginger snaps" because, he kinda yelled it and wowza, this is the sorta stuff that is interesting to me.