J10

I really enjoyed this class as a whole! i came into the quarter with a very hazy view of what exactly are designers and have now left with a better understanding of what they do and how they do it, not a super clear understanding but a much better one then when i started.

i liked the fact that a lot of the work was in groups. some people dont enjoy groups and sometimes they can impair your work, but i have found that working with other people is very important in the design world. its good to have groups because it gives you people to bounce ideas off of and improve and fine tune ideas.

i read gabes finally thoughts for the course and saw that he purposely gave us lots of work all due at one time and i think thats smart, but a lot of that work turned out to be dumb busy work that got put on the back burner while doing the bigger tasks of the course and other courses work during the quarter and they ended up not getting done. this is of course all my fault as result of my lack of time management skills, but piling on busy work did not help.

besides that i really enjoyed this class, i looked forward to it a ton more then any other class

J09

My group for the Colman project were my fellow Jacks : payton, Audra, and Kylie.

Our product for this presentation was the U-Stem-sil, the multi use kitchen utensil

THIS  is our presentation that we used that Kylie put together on Prezi.

Our group worked very well together, we listened to each others idea, challenged each others ideas in a non-confrontational way, bounced ideas off of each other, and we used each others strengths to our advantage throughout the whole process.

At first our group was really centered on things that could work for the home and the outdoors. Some of the big aspects about Coleman that we wanted to incorporate in our project were things like being compact, having multiple uses, and being durable. A product that gave us our initial inspiration was the Swiss Army knife and its ability to have so many useful things packed into a small durable space. after coming up with many different options for products we finally landed on the U-Stem-sil.

My primary role in the group was to do the modeling that we used in the presentation. the program i used was google sketchup, which is a terrible modeling program but its free sooooo ya. Audra did work with who our User and Colman is, Kylie collaborated with Audra on that as well as putting together and organizing the final presentation, and payton did work on the logo and product. Basically we all figured out as a group what we wanted for each different section (product, logo, packaging, kiosk) and then each person got what they were going to do and fine tuned it to make it project ready.

here are pictures of what i worked on on Google Sketchup

CR05

I really enjoyed all of the presentations, i thought that everyone did a great job portraying what they wanted out of their project and what it should actually do. people seemed to miss out on why coleman would like their product/packaging/kiosk which is pretty big part of the presentation. i liked the fact that we had some sort of opinion in the grading, somethings that were said in a presentation probably made sense to some and just didnt make any sense at all to others and that will be reflected in the class grade portion. seeing all of the presentations gave me an understanding of what works and what doesnt in situations that will arise that are similar to these. all in all, no complaints about that last 2 days of class!

J06

Links to 5 outdoor manufactures and retailers:

Coleman

Bass Pro Shops

REI

Cabellas

Wenzel


Outdoor Expos







Indoor Links:

http://www.homegoods.com/index.asp

http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/default.asp?

http://www.potterybarn.com/

http://www.thegreatindoors.com/?i_cntr=1305003016804

http://www.ikea.com/


Home Good Working Definition:
Something thats design and intended use is for around but mainly inside the home area such as appliances and furniture.

Home Goods Expos:






 


3 possible home goods:

CR3

These past couple have classes have really gotten me pumped about design as my major! the presentations that we had from the Design Circle people and the Cobergo (i couldnt remember their company name) people. between talking about what i should expect to talking about the entrance exam, they both really got me looking forward to the future and also calming my lurking fear of the entrance exam and process. i also really enjoyed the video about girl talk! i didnt think a documentary could be so interesting, they are usually so dry and boring but this one made talking about copyright stuff really interesting. i also never thought about how much money mash-up artists like Girl Talk and Supermash Bros would actually have to pay for their songs, i think they shouldnt have to pay anything as they make new creations with the songs and dont just straight copy the whole song and ideas of the song. I'm Looking forward to what the future of the class has in store!

A04

For this assignment i went half and half on things outside vs inside, many of the things that were outside i found on my daily commute to campus and the things inside i recognized while just hanging around the house. i really liked this exercise as it made me more observant when doing mindless tasks such as driving home, almost giving me a new goal while doing things i normally do. 

For this assignment i found the following letters: A,C,D,I,J,M,O,P,S,T,U, and V 

also i will try to make an incredibly cheesy pun/joke/use the letter as much as possible for each picture... because i can.....

A

A(pun......) mailbox!

C

I hope those Corks dont Catch fire

D

This Door has got a pretty Dashing locky Do-hicky thing on it

 

i

The mailbox post has got a pretty Insane paint job......that was pretty bad.... :( 

J

Just Jiggle the handle and feel the Jolly that ensues for Justifying opening the door!

M

My gluteus Maximus Makes its home in this Marvelous chair (pic sucks, sorry)

O

This Old fan Operates at an Overly fast speed

P

The Postman Puts this Plastic down when he Pilages ones mailbox for their Packages 

S

I found this one as i Swerved down a Steep and Scary Side Street 

T

This patio was made from These bricks by peoples sweat and Tears (not really Tears)

U

Underneath the surface level appearance, the Upkeep at this old folks housing Unit is Unacceptable (its actually really good)

V

This is a bench turned upside-down, V is for Victory because this is the last letter!!!! i could not think of anything else that was even slightly clever...

aaaaaannnnnnnnnddddddddddd we're done, sorry you had to suffer through all those terrible descriptions!!!

A03

My team for the scavenger hunt was the Jacks: Kylie, Audra, Payton.  we busted out of the gates running (not literally) and headed over towards knowlton because we could knock out 2 of the needed chair requirements there, but we failed to realize in time that we straight up blew by the Wexner center for arts and the Thompson library. we figured out we needed them so we had to trek all the way back, stopping at the science and engineering library on the way to take that out. To figure out the answers to the clues we called upon the information we learned during our field trip to the Wexner and knowlton libraries and what we couldnt remember from that we got from using Kylie's phone.


CLUE 01)

Here Kylie is snoozing on the Barcelona chair which was designed by  Miles van der Rhoe, the chair itself looks super classy and is very comfortable. We found this chair in the Knowlton school of Architecture's library.

CLUE 02)

Also in the Knowlton library we knocked out clue number 2 by finding another interesting (not Barcelona) chair. We chose to use the Pastil chair which was designed by Eero Aarnio and is made out of fiberglass making it fairly weather resistant and able to float. in the picture Audra is taking a gander at the Harvard Design Magazine.

CLUE 03)

This picture was taken at the cool stair looking structure outside the Wexner Center for the Arts, which has the castle-esque look to it in honor of the armory that once was there before it was built. The building was designed by Peter Eisenman. Audra and Kylie are high-fiving as this was our last stop on our hunt.

CLUE 04)

On our way to Knowlton we stopped at the Science and Engineering Library (commonly known as the SEL). we stopped because it met the criteria for clue 4, which was to find something that was designed by Philip Johnson. there are lots of arches on the exterior of the building and the use of larger arches indicates to the public where they should walk through. 

CLUE 05)

The building in the background is Thompson Library, Ohio States 109 million dollar library located at the west end of the oval. Thompson was designed by Acock and Associates. this picture shows off my great height by showing me touching the top of the building. 

Journal 4

The Found Faces assignment.......

im going to group my faces into 3 categories followed by my best found face. the categories are as follows: Extremely complacent robot, Crazy Eyes, and Smilies

First category is Extremely Complacent Robots

Standard USB cord is so complacent......  :l

Such complacent storage boxes....... :l

Shelf drawer robot face could not give more of a crap..... :|

Now we move on to the Crazy Eyes category 

Washer & Dryer Face is straight Tripping...... o_0

looks like weight rack face cant hold those weights up for much longer........ o_0

Upside-down Oven Knobs Face is really Surprised!.... O_O

Time For SMILIES!!!!! 

This is a really happy clock....... :)

Look at this Lamp Shade, its so happy..... :)

The happiest Boccerball goal you'll ever see...... :)

This Random Piece of Metal is really really happy!... :)

AND MY FAVORITE FACE IS...........

WEIGHT BELT FACE!!!!! 

AO 2

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
You have to live under a rock if you have never heard of Frank Lloyd Wright, his work is some of the most highly regarded work ever done in his field. He was born on June 8, 1867 and died on April 9, 1959 during surgery to remove an intestinal obstruction. He was married three times and had seven children. During his lifetime he designed more then 1000 works and ended up completing over 500 of them, one of his most famous designs was Falling Water, which in 1966 was designated as a National Historic Landmark. He also did such notable works as the Guggenheim museum in Manhattan and the Price Tower located in Oklahoma (the only realized skyscraper designed by Wright). Wright promoted organic architecture, which is a philosophy of architecture that promotes the harmony between human habitation and the natural world (as seen in falling water), as well as Prairie School style architecture, which is marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with overhanging eaves, and windows grouped in horizontal bands.




"Frank Lloyd Wright." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 12 Apr. 2011. Web. 16 Apr. 2011.




RUSSEL WRIGHT
When looking around the library at the Wexner Center for Arts i found a journal talking about the 1953 American Home Expedition, which was a convention of sorts to show off the new housewares and appliances that people were going to be able to soon buy, and i found this designers name by a section for the silverware used in the Expo. Russel was born on April 3, 1904 in Lebanon, Ohio and died on December 21, 1976. He had one wife Mary Small Einstein and a daughter named Annie who still manages her fathers designs and products through Russel Wright Studios. Russel's method of design came from the concept that the table was the center of the home and he created layers outward from the table including tableware and furniture as well as architecture and landscaping, all which he did according to his concept of easy informal living. He is most known for his colorful dinnerware called American Modern, it was the most widely sold ceramic dinnerware in American history. 
Wright also did lines of dinnerware made of a plastic called Melmac and did early research with the plastic to make it ready to be used. His first line of melmac plastic dinnerware was called "Residential" and grossed over 4 million dollars in 1957. After he retired he returned to his home in New York and  built an eco-sensitive home named Manitoga and a studio called Dragon Rock, both are on the National Register of Historic Places.


"Russel Wright." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 4 Apr. 2011. Web. 16 Apr. 2011.


CHARLES AND RAY EAMES
The first i had ever heard about the Eames Husband and Wife Duo was in class as we went over the history of design and did the chair presentation and their chairs looked really bad-ass and comfortable so i decided i would dive deeper into the lives of these two influential American designers.


Charles Eames Jr. (Picture Credit)   was born on June 17, 1907 and died on August 21, 1978. He attended Washington University for two years on an architecture scholarship and was supposedly kicked out for his advocacy of Frank Lloyd Wright, some say it was because he also worked at an architectural firm during the two years and his work caused his performance to fall dramatically. While at Washington University Charles met his first wife Catherine Woermann, whom he married in 1929. A year later, they had a daughter, Lucia. In 1930 Charles started his own architectural practice with partners Charles Gray and Walter Pauley. In 1938 he moved to Michigan to further study        architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art where he would become a teacher and later the head of the industrial design department. While at Cranbrook he and Eero Saarinen designed furniture for the New York's Museum of Modern Art "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" competition using a new style of wood moulding that he would later use in many of his other pieces and projects. 


 Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames (Picture Credit)  was born on December 15, 1912 and died on August 21, 1988 (exactly 10 years after Charles passed). In 1933 she graduated from Bennett Woman's College, she moved to New York after graduating and studied abstract expressionist painting with Hans Hofmann, she later founded the American Abstract Artist group in 1936. In September of 1940 she moved to Michigan where she studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and met Charles Eames and assisted him with his projects for the "Organic Designs in Home Furnishings" competition. She Designed several covers for the landmark magazine Arts & Architecture as well as created two textile designs (Crosspatch and Sea Things) which were produced by Schiffer Prints.         


Charles and Ray married in 1941 and moved to California where they continued working with molding plywood and using it in Furniture Designs. During the war they were commissioned by the navy to make and produce molded plywood splints, stretchers, and experimental glider shells. During the 50's the Eameses joined in on the short film scene, creating short films ranging on the subjects of small sea creatures fo the workings of the computer. They also designed many exhibits for people such as IBM,  and the Smithsonian Institution; Mathematica, Copernicus, and the 1964 New York World Fair were among the exhibits. They continued making Furniture into 70' as well, two of there furniture designs that i think are really cool and sleek are the Eames Lounge Chair Wood (left) and the Eames Lounge Chair and ottoman (right), both pictured below. 
            




"Charles and Ray Eames" Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 12 Apr. 2011. Web. 16 Apr. 2011.
"Charles and Ray" Eamesoffice.com. Web. 16 Apr. 2011 

CR 01

I just saw that i forgot to do this but better late then never i guess! these first few weeks of design have been truly eye opening for me. My perception of design was always geared towards only the aesthetics of something and not towards the merge of form and function. I really enjoyed the video we watched with the guy that talked about "big design" vs "small design", he really put the field of design into a less blurry view for me, also in the video they showed some "big design" projects of the past which i thought was really cool. I like the idea of big design, the thought of my career being about only making products look better scared me with the idea that my work would be so trivial, but designers can truly make their mark on society through big design which is something im looking forward to. 


Also i never knew that chairs had such an interesting history!

Journal 2

1) The first pattern that i found was right after we had class, i went back to my car and realized that the cars grill was just a pattern of vertical lines i thought this was very interesting because i never looked at my car as anything other then a car

2) As i pulled my car into my garage i noticed the next two patterns for my list. this pattern is that of the tread of my riding lawn mowers wheels, its a very weird diagonal dashed line pattern

3) the third pattern i found was a tack board thing on the walls of my garage that had holes to hang hooks for storage of tools

4) i found this next pattern during the middle of the week when i was on my way to bed. in my family room we have an old phonograph player that plays the really super old thick records from around the early 20th century, and on the front of it is a very cool wood pattern.

5) last thursday when i woke up to get ready, i noticed that are carpet by the front door had a very cool argile pattern with little mini patterns in each diamond on it so i snapped a pic.

6) that same day when i went to let my dog Helen out into the backyard i noticed the screen door had this plastic mesh like protector on the bottom half of it. the pattern is just a whole bunch of lop-sided circles, almost hexagons, repeated over and over 

7) same day only minutes later, while watching tv i realized that the chair i was sitting in had some really weird but cool pattern on its fabric

8-10) these next and final three were taken on sunday when it was ridiculously nice and i went to the alum creek dam to hangout. the first is a telephone pole i think, i actually dont know if its telephone wires but none the less, its a giant metal structure made out of triangles and has wires on it. the second is the wires on the structure, they make a cool horizontal line pattern with a diamond in the middle when looked at correctly and the third is the back of a guard rail and the posts make a cool vertical stripe pattern.