Creativity stems from your imagination from solving a design problem. My mother used to call me a perfectionist because of the fact that I would clean a lot and need to have everything organized. As I grew older, I started using my perfection in school projects. I realized I wanted to be a graphic designer in tenth grade when I took a design course at my high school. I love to design because it solves a visual problem and not just a problem on paper like in math.
In the Anything but a Box Project, the problem presented is that the box needed to disappear visually. In the end product, there was to be no box-like structure left in the design. I started with a regular shoebox. I researched different objects to see what other people created with cardboard. I took into consideration the size, the colors, and the thickness of the box. I made a list of possible objects to make from the box and sketched them out. My first idea was to make a waffle out of the box, but that turned into making an art desk with supplies and a stool.
The result of the project was pleasing to me, but I wish I would have taken it a step further in adding drawers to help add negative space. I was unclear that the result was to be an object that did not resemble a box, therefore my project does not meet the specified criteria. I also was unaware that I had to document each step of the process. What I learned from this project is that I need to be more prepared in the planning stages of the upcoming projects. I also need to think through each step of the process before getting started right away.
Your project has transformed completely the mass, structure and shape of the box chosen. In fact, through your lucid approach to color, lines and texture, you have organize all these visual elements into an interesting composition, complex and at the same time with a well achieved sense of unity. And as you mentioned , one that would make your mother proud as well! extremely well organized! I would like to have that desk!
ReplyDeleteDuring class critique, was meant to be discussed elements and principles of 3D design, and how the problem was solved around that. But never forget that this was a very particular, warming up project never discussed in class, and guidelines were delivered only online. It is understandable the issues unclear at that moment. Nevertheless, I am pleased and proud of the resulting outcomes in this class.
Although you missed documenting the deconstruction and reconstruction process, you have presented a very engaging narrative of the composition in itself, details, close ups and as a whole. Well chosen background also!
I believe these blogs are useful at many levels, for you to reflect in your own work, at your own time, and to develop an strategy of documentation that would stimulate critical thinking along the project at the times that provides interesting visual documents for your professional portfolio. For me, allows an space and time to observe and evaluate the conceptual, aesthetical and material process behind your work, that often reveals much more than what can be observe in a class critique. Well done!
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