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Urban Artifacts Phase 1 : Plays with your problems Blog

September 11, 2016 / / 0 Comments

img_3363https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pier+A+Harbor+House/@40.7044182,-74.0200907,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25a1274e145eb:0xcf6e2ea789847aa7!8m2!3d40.7044182!4d-74.017902As I was walking pass my old house and block I saw the grass shrubs coming out of the concrete , the grass reminds me of peom . Concrete may be thick but anything hard and still be broken threw which means that life may be hard at times but you can always push threw to see the bright future ahead of you to bigger and better.   also this art work I saw in staten island is very comforting , it gives and feeling of trust but also illusion it comfortes the state of mind . the https://www.google.com/maps/place/Stapleton,+Staten+Island,+NY+10304/@40.626492,-74.0863962,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c24e4c91b84def:0xea0d730625a4a0a7!8m2!3d40.6264929!4d-74.0776414

img_3362-1grass shrubs https://www.google.com/maps/place/1093+E+35th+St,+Brooklyn,+NY+11210/@40.628061,-73.9442166,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c244ac7fcb9213:0xb7eadedbea940078!8m2!3d40.628061!4d-73.9420279

COMD Class 4 | Figure-Ground Compositions

September 11, 2016 / / 0 Comments

September 12th, 2016

Due THIS CLASS:

Materials Needed (check Supply List):

Show and Tell

Critique

  • Students present Digital Sketches to the class for critique.
  • Why critique?
  • Review critique guidelines (see Commenting in Design Process).

Lab

Individual Meetings / Lab Time

  • Meet with Professor review Phase 1 and Phase 2 of Project #1 — and to make sure you are on the path to success in this course.
  • If you have questions or need extra help, now is the time to ask!

Homework

  1. Complete Project #1: Phase 2 – Define.
    If you don’t have access to Photoshop or similar, plan to work at school in one of the computer labs.

  2. Come prepared with required materials and print outs of your completed Digital Sketches to work on Phase 3: Develop.
  3. If you haven’t kept up with COMD posting and commenting on the PLAY WTH YOUR PROBLEMS blog. Points will be deducted from your grade. … ASK FOR HELP!
  4. Materials Needed (check Supply List):

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Urban Artifacts: Phase 2

September 11, 2016 / / 1 Comment

Hours worked on this project: 3 hours

Urban Artifacts: Phase 1

September 7, 2016 / / 0 Comments

TRain StationMAPBUILDING SHAPETo me these three pictures summarize New York. From the different trains, the building shape, to the map. New York is all about buildings, everywhere you go you see incredible different types of building structures. When you go to a train station you always see the trains there are to take on that station. Trains is a broad way of transportation for all in New York. From the many ways to get around for all the people in this city there are always maps and help for the citizens of this place.

Urban Artifacts: Phase 1

September 6, 2016 / / 4 Comments

Shared Google Map

 

When I walk around New York City, litter tends to be a very commonly seen object as I pass by. However, today will be different because of a curiosity as to how it got there in the first place. For instance, it puzzles me as to how that pigeon died. It could have died from old age, poisonous food, or even murder by another creature. Then there’e the M&M cup, which seems to be completely intact despite being tossed to the ground and neglected. I wonder if it went through the same events that most food packages go through in being opened, used and eventually thrown away. It must have gone through a different course of events from the broken fingernail. I imagine that a great amount of care and effort went into it for the fingernail to have been left on the floor looking like it just came off someone’s hand. Either way, it’s interesting to think of how these objects have reached their current situations.

Urban Artifacts: Phase1

September 6, 2016 / / 2 Comments

The splash of gum and crooked pin are organic, the straw wrapper is somehow a geometric shape. The gum had been blended into the floor, it shows that it had been on the floor for a period of time.The crooked pin had been stuck in the slit on the floor.The straw wrapper had been sitting on the floor, seen to be just thrown on the floor, Since there are people cleaning the floor in the subway. All of the artifacts are stable because they stand out from the floor when you look down.

These artifacts had a similar ending to them, which they are useless after people use it. For example for the splash of gum, owner done chewing it and spit it out, which means it’s life is done. The pin is the same when it crooked, the user throw it away. The straw wrapper was the same, it’s life was to protect the straw from the outside, when people use the straw, they don’t need the wrapper anymore. Things’ life are done when their owner don’t need them anymore.

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Urban Artifacts: Phase 1

September 6, 2016 / / 0 Comments

In New York City everyday people decide to liter, and they don’t really give a response to why they do. If you don’t know littering could be defined as making a place untidy with rubbish or a large number of objects left lying about. One day I was walking along Jay St. where I stumbled across several things that were quite interesting,. First off I spotted a sign that read ”CUNY NEEDS A RAISE”, this was something that really stood out to me. Someone was really passionate about the message they were trying to get out there, which was possible because it was written in bold. This was something that was really creative and it is viewed as geometric, in which it also had some color involved. Something else that stood out were the rocks that were spread all over the ground, they looked as if they were meant to be in order. Usually I don’t see rocks in the street, so this was actually a unique artifact for myself. The final artifact was a bottle cap, now obviously someone finished their drink and decided the cap wasn’t necessary to have in their possession. I would expect to see the bottle of whatever the person was drinking on the ground, but why the cap?  It was sitting there so lonely, while life and people just passed on right by it. These artifacts were unique to see in my opinion, especially the CUNY sign.

COMD Class 3 | More Figure Ground

September 6, 2016 / / 0 Comments

September 7th, 2016

Due THIS CLASS:

  1. Completed Project #1: Phase 1: Discover
  2. Have your original full-resolution artifact photographs available to work with. (via Dropbox, Google Drive, flash drive)
  3. Materials Needed (check Supply List):

Groupwork Vocabulary Review (15 min)

Goal: To better understand the Project 1 Principles.

Activity: Break into groups of 3-4 students, review and present project Principles.

Your group will be given one of the following compositional concepts to present:

  • Obvious Figure-Ground Relationship: An obvious figure-ground will have an imbalance of figure and ground (70/30), wherein the ground “supports” or surrounds the figure.
    OR
  • Ambiguous Figure-Ground Relationship: An ambiguous figure-ground will have a closer balance of figure and ground (50/50), wherein the differentiation between figure and ground become unclear. Often elements of the composition will intersect the boundaries of the frame.

Research and discuss your group’s concept. Following these guidelines and outcomes:

  • Designate 1 speaker and 1 idea recorder
  • Make a free-flowing list of ideas related to your concept.
  • Refine definitions in your group’s own words and find examples of your concept (student work, drawing on chalkboard, book, magazine, or online images)
  • Present the definition and at least 2 examples of the principle.

Critique (30 min)

Project #1 | Urban Artifacts Posts and Map Contributions

  • Based on the Project #1: Phase 1: Discover guidelines, discuss what is successful and what needs improvement.
  • What does your blog post communicate? How could the presentation be improved?
  • Take notes. Plan to improve your posts and map contributions based on feedback before next class.

Demo (15 min)

Lab (1 hr 30 min)

Homework

  1. Complete Project #1: Phase 2 – Define. Come prepared to present your work. If you don’t have access to Photoshop or similar, plan to work at school in one of the computer labs.
  2. If you haven’t kept up with COMD posting and commenting on the PLAY WTH YOUR PROBLEMS blog… ASK FOR HELP! You will have until next class to do so and then points will be deducted from your grade.
  3. Materials Needed (check Supply List):

Download PDF

Urban Artifacts: Phase 1

September 4, 2016 / / 1 Comment

 

 

I took 3 pictures of Urban artifacts on the trip. The first picture was a dead bird. The dead bird signifies how Mother nature work. The bird will decompose and transfer energy through the soil to help the tree grow that will give life to other things like worms and so the circle of life repeats. The bird is a stable picture because it only shows a dead bird. The bird is organic because it has curves on the wings to actually make it fly with many dimensions. The second picture was a random paper plate on the floor near the sidewalk. That can have a lot of meaning like how the paper plate got manufactured by a factory and distributed to a restaurant to use the paper plate. The paper plate looked like it was from a pizza shop due to the grease on it and someone just threw out the plate when they finished eating the pizza.The paper plate is organic because it doesn’t have many line figures and instead a point that is semi big. The paper plate is also  Organic because it has a stain on it that can have more of a meaning to it. The last picture was a missing tile on the sidewalk. I don’t know how a cemented tile can be missing in the side walk besides no one ever putting one there. The tile is Geometric because it usually have lines that help it make it into a square that turns into a tile. The picture is stable because it doesn’t show much besides a tile missing. They all have something in common though. They are things that us humans take for granted. Life of the bird means life in general is taken for granted by people and not know how to take advantage of being alive. The paper plate is a privilege to have because some people don’t have plates to eat on and some just don’t take care of the Earth because they don’t really think of the bad consequences there are to littering. The tile shows how unimportant and little something missing can do so much like cause an accident just on a missing tile, yet it is something small that can turn into something big.

Urban Artifacts: Phase 1

September 3, 2016 / / 0 Comments

 

The cigarette stub lies on the sidewalk as a geometric circular shape. It is a stable figure that blends in with the outside floor. The trash scattered next to the trees are organic shapes. The objects blend in well, making it a stable figure.  The plants next to the seats give off a geometric shape since they grow symmetrically. It is an ambiguous figure, since it is out of place from the background.

When the person was smoking, the cigarette accidentally fell on the ground. This explains why the paper didn’t completely burned off.  The plants were added in that area to make it more lively, since the area is surrounded by construction and buildings.The snacks and cigarette was the result of someone on their lunch break, looking to relax after a long day of work.

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