Project 4

In class we were introduced to our project 4. Using color was one of the topics discussed. It does not look difficult after being shown exactly what to do. I look forward to working with illustrator again and improving our words we chose.

"Change"

On tuesday we turned in our posters and process notebooks for project 3. After that we critiqued our word we were supposed to choose and express it in a form of communication to viewers. It was very interesting to see what everyone else created for their word. I enjoyed working in class and coming up with many different ways to communicate the word "change."

What Language Looks Like

Today our assignment was to express the meaning of a word. I expressed the meaning of the word "change" using 2 dimensions on flat piece of paper. I really enjoy this assignment so far. Most of class we cut out the word we had printed off and placed them in a 6 x 6 box any way we wanted to. Everyone did a great job with their words. However, I was unsure of how many boxes we had to do. 

Critique

Today was the final critique for our hand tool project. I am still finding trouble with Illustrator and how to crop scanned images. I have discovered Livetrace which will hopefully help me with cropping. I love everyones projects they are very unique and creative. The critique helped me a lot with changes that need to be made. I am looking forward to finishing this project and seeing how my images end up.

Illustrator...

Working with Illustrator is very frustrating. When designing my graphical and geometric shapes pages I found it extremely easy to complete. When I began my other pages however, it was a nightmare. I have spent more of my time trying to figure out how to do things and correcting my mistakes (which were a lot). I found it very helpful to see other peoples designs for their object and I was very glad to have Margie come around and give me good advice.

Critique

In class today we critiqued our 16 different representations which identified the concept of the object we chose. I chose to do "Wite-Out." You wouldn't think it would be very difficult to come up with 16 different representations of a simple bottle of "Wite-Out" however, it was. Finding different ideas for the index and hybrid of my object was the most challenging but after seeing everyones ideas it helped me come up with some ways to draw out the index and hybrid of my object.