Project Three

Well, all of the parts of my project are now finally complete. All I have to do now is put them together and print off my poster. I think I'll put them together on the weekend and print it off tomorrow. Whew! Thank goodness this project will finally be over. I don't like this limbo of thinking about two projects at once-not to mention other class work!

Communication

Well, today I finally finished my last part of the poster and I am hoping that I will not have a lot of extra stuff that needs to be done for putting together the process book. Hopefully it will end up being easy after the awful time trying to get the placement right on the poster.

Illustrator

Well, after taking nearly 3 hours just to fix a few of my drawings on photoshop, it seems pretty apparent that I need a few more lessons on how things are run. Also, doing it on a Mac just helps so much for a PC person like me. Eventually, though, I did end up getting them pretty much done and are now getting ready to start some new drawings and possibly get into Illustrator and put them together in a poster style.

I don't know

I really don't know what to say now. Sketches are still getting up to par and I am very happy we don't have a Hallmark tomorrow.. and I hope I never have to sit with someone for the same lecture for nearly 3 hours- I love the environment very much, but her presentation was not selling it properly and it drew on too long. Gotta give her credit for the effort though.

Tallying up the pictures

Well, after spending Friday finally tallying up all the papers I had of the sketches and organizing them, I realized I had a lot of extra spaces to fill for the weekend. . . and I did manage to get the rest of the required sketches done... Thankfully that part is all done. Now it is time to take a break and put up my Halloween decorations...

Comic Reading

Now that I have finished my overview of the article, I am now going to start one of the many different million drawings I have to do for my project. I did enjoy finding random materials to work with, and I had no idea that a plastic cup holder would be so valuable in finding a good texture for drawing an ice cream scoop!

Comic Reading

Honestly, reading a comic book is a lot more interesting than reading a book. Listening to a cartoon man informing me about why illustrations are important could not have been better expressed, and it was very helpful to see the different aspects of how cartoons are so appealing because they are so rudementray that anyone can see themselves in them. I also liked how cartoons could depict an emotion or feeling just by what it looked like. The thought of triangles representing cold or lightning bolts representing sour do not imediately jump out as go to ullustrations for emotion, but they definitely make sense in the drawing. Another side note I enjoyed was the whole section on this is not a pipe, this is not a person, food, number, etc. It does make sense in the literal tense that things are not real on paper, but it brings to life a great idea to what a icon is and what it does.

Drawings

Getting my preliminary sketches done and using the ideas presented in class today to get it done!

Sorry this took so long-couldn't find my computer cable!

IDEO

The IDEO video discusses a thinking and prodding technique called the Deep Dive. In it, people are immersed in the process of idea making to create a solution to a desired problem. In this case, the problem was a shopping cart and the solution was that it needed to be redesigned. A very varietal team came together to present facts, problems, and good ideas for how to improve the design. Then, they had to create models/prototypes for the design and eventually came up with a basic idea of having a "cart skeleton" with detachable baskets for ease and convenience. In the end, it proved that the Deep Dive technique worked well and the finished product was something very useful.

My design improvement

I'm sort of glad that my wooden spoon is so simple because it makes it that much easier to find all the possibilities of what it could be. Something as simple as sanding it down or even the complex like adding mechanisms like springs or handle heating/cooling for convenience make all the difference.

Design Project 1 Over

Well, my design project describing a harpsichord is over and I am very happy to be moving on to project two.

Interesting Design

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