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reflection: Overall I think I’m leaning towards a geometric/modern shelter. With it being spring and the weather getting warmer, I think the shelter should provide shade and a sleek environment to escape the heat. Along with protecting from the sun, I would like my environment to also use the sun to add another dimension to the project — how is unknown so far.

external links:

1. a lightweight shelter for desert environments

2. a shelter for inside of an apartment

3. a fireplace shelter for tiny house design

The objective of this assignment was to create a weather video using LATCH (locations, alphabet, time, category, hierarchy) structures. I chose to use Location, category, and Hierarchy. Conceptually I was approaching a futuristic design in order to fully attempt the futuristic weather report. I worked hard on my introduction, again my time management wasn’t very good and I slacked a bit on the actual LATCH structures. If i were to work on this project again I would focus more on them.

The objective of this assignment was to come up with a truism and create an abstract zine about it. For my truism, I chose “we are all just watching each other slowly die.” My concept behind this idea was to photograph a girl in a field of wildflowers, flowers being something we often watch die. The girl is facing the flowers watching them, representing my truism. We then had to print the zine on the Risograph which was exciting since it was our first time using that printer. Only using spot colors was challenging because we had to make color separations.

The objective of this assignment was to create a user interface for a Microsoft Word-like app. The designs had to follow the Google Material Design handbook and work on a smart phone. Coming up with a concept for this project was hard because every time you would come up with a design concept you would realize your design did not follow the handbook. It was hard to have creative control and I was afraid that if I made bold choices, I would not be following the handbook. I enjoyed the idea of following a handbook because it is something we will most likely have to follow at sometime in our career but I think it was especially difficult because it was a handbook we were really unfamiliar with and we didn’t have a lot of time to get and in depth understanding of it. My designs followed the rules and were appealing.

The objective of this assignment was to create a set of instructions by using the Pathfinder tool in Illustrator to decorate the Tungsten typeface and then draw the final product on posterboard using the Graphtec. The hardest part of this assignment was create a set of directions that somebody else could follow and properly replicate your own design but with their own creative touch. This project was frustrating because 1. We were plotting someone else’s design whether we liked it or not and 2. We were taught by each other to use the plotter so if the person who was selected to teach you incorrectly taught you something or didn’t feel like putting in the effort to explain it all, you were setback by somebody else which I think is unfair. My final print is a classmate’s design drawn using a metallic gold sharpie. I plotted the whole alphabet to get the extra credit however there were complications with the printing process, the design file has too many points on it which causes the Graphtec to have technical difficulties. I simplified the design as much as I could but the problems were not completely fixed because if I altered the design any more, I would not be following the original set of instructions. This was another frustrating setback I had to deal with because I was graded based on my print with somebody else’s design, not my own. I chose the gold metallic sharpie because I thought it looked nice with the design I was given, other than that I feel like I could not make many conceptual design decisions for the part of the assignment that we were graded on.