Finalized Eames Cards

My Name

Here is my name represented in abstract.

(1, 3, hose nosel, swingset, lamb, pool and lifeguard, hoola hooper, slinky)

 

Eames Cards

Theme 1 – Red : I chose to make a silhouette effect using red as the objects and white as the background

Theme 2- Holidays: I chose to represent 5 holidays; Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, Halloween, and 4TH of July

Open Mic

I’m starting to realize things about color I never really noticed before.  For instance, you go to Wal-Mart and just about every kids toy is some form of neon.  They are bright, joyful, and exciting.  Then you go into an electronic section and hit all the pastels, metallics, and blacks that give them a more sleek fancy look.  Why is it that sports cars are always shown as red, off road vehicles in earth tones?

Adding purpose behind color choice is fascinating.  I’ve always been the type to go,”Ooh I like that!” and just throw whatever caught my eye into the mix, but now planning out the scheme to use makes the outcome look better and function better.

Chapter 9 Exercises

Exercise 2

Exercise 4

Real Life Examples Of Color Schemes

Alternating                                           Tetradic

Analagous                                             Neutral

Monochromatic                                          Triad

Complementary                          Split-Complementary

Warm                                                     Cool

Line Drawings (Natalie Portman)

Ch. 5 & 6

Chapter 5

1.  Shape can be thought of as a combination of what two design elements?

-Line and the area enclosed by that line.

2.  What is the term for the shape of a three-dimensional object?

-Volume.

Chapter 6

1.  What is value as it applies to design?

-Value is the variations of light and dark areas within a design.

2.  What is Chiaroscuro?

-The variations of light and dark areas of an image, and how light influences the appearance of an object’s shape in 3D space.

Week 2 Thoughts

Space has been a big part of how I have designed in the past doing classes such as Drawing 1 & 3D Design at K-State Manhattan.

I used space in both of these projects.  The pencil drawing to form a 3-D hallway, and the painting to show depth and the illusion of 3-dimensionality.

This was one of my favorite assignments in my Drawing 1 class.  I spent 3 hours staring at paper bags, using positive and negative space to help give the bags their illusion of being 3D.

I think one of the major challenges that we face in New Media Design, is the task of fitting vast amounts of information and details into a small amount of viewing space.  Computer games are what I enjoy, but I always have the feeling I’m missing something just outside of view of my monitor.

Chapter 4

1.  A contour drawing is a drawing using lines to represent the “outside edges” of objects.

2.  Variations in line thickness can make objects appear closer or farther away, or sharper or blurrier.

4.  Hatching is the use of lines to create volume through shading.