Inspiration

Prototyping for Project Three

initially for a jayhawk necklace 

first version of the seashell

first attempt at vessel prototyping

second attempt of the seashell

third attempt made with clay, the object, shells, and orthographic

glueing cardboard

copy of prototype in the process with cardboard

The second part of this reading touched on the reason behind why we make art and how art relates to the aesthetics of design. With this vessel project  we are making a piece of art to shelter a sentimental object of our choice. I am drawn to the beauty of seashells and that is why I have chosen to make one out of wood for this vessel project. If beauty had no importance then I would be making a simple box to  put my object in, and this reading argues such. Art reaches across generations future and past. It gives us a connection to the artist that is immediate and intimate. Beauty is the outlet into our belonging in the world. It helps us feel apart of our environment in a way that is spiritual and freeing. The reading goes on saying that design's purpose is to generate happiness. It is not any means to a solution to happiness but rather a link. According to this reading beauty has value because it is the opposite of social ills like hunger. Happiness is meant to encourage different perspectives for everyone, it is subjective and something that is added to us. Design can generate beauty which can in return make people happy. By constantly enriching the environment design becomes art.

Reflection Part I

The Nature and Aesthetics of Design by David Pye 

A technique embraces a group of systems which causes some specific change in the characteristics of pieces of material- any material.
At first men did not use technique to alter the qualities of any given material, instead he used it in the state it was naturally formed in.
-He did not alter qualities such as hardness, strength, shape, or size
-Now we no longer leave it be because there has been men that have invented different techniques like; wasting, forming, casting, and constructing
-the technique used is based on the material's characteristics. For example process material is melting steel, and fibre out of glass.
-Wasting is another word for sawing away pieces to leave what you need.
-Construction is glueing parts together to make whole out of them and connection is using joints, rivets, weaving or welding to joint together.
-Forming is changing shape by bending, pressing, forging ex clay
Casting is pouting liquid into or over mould allowing to harden into a shape of the mould
Polishing is not its own technique rather a combo of formation and wasting.
- We still need more process techniques to make more shapes
-There is also a deficiency in corrosion techniques used to prevent unwanted changes of material.
-The sizes available influence what material is used not only the knowledge about them.

This knowledge is used to have when for this vessel project because we limited to one material. With the wood as the choice of material given to us it is determining what we make and how we make our vessel. We must consider its properties and characteristics. We will be cutting the wood block into pieces then constructing them back together with glue and also wasting technique because we will not be using the entire block of wood.

Word list

Word list: Littler Mermaid pin

• flounder
• crab
• fork
• seashells
• rock
• ocean
• fin
• crown 
• water
• seahorse
• music
• king triton
• love
• marriage
• singing
• bubbles
• seaweed
• octopus
• castle
• sharks
• curses
• Ursela
• ships
• mute
• rainbow
• sand
• starfish
• wedding
• prince
• princess

Memory Brainstorming

Dog Tag
My first very own dog was a black lab puppy
I named him Fabrizio, breeze for short after a band member of the Strokes.

Hair clip
worn by my sisters and I growing up had another one of a dinosaur, but lost it.

Little Mermaid pin
Got on a family vacation to California at Disney Land.
It has never been worn. 

Dog tag

• My dad brings home a puppy from his friend's litter
• testing to see if he was comfortable at our house
• my dad telling me we were not getting another dog
• begging to keep to the puppy, promising I would take care of it.
• Letting the dog meet my mom
• My mom getting frustrated that the dog was on her bed, and complaining about all the hair it sheds
• falling in love with it instantly
• staying up all night because of his barking
• taking him out to pee every hour throughout the night
• my dad giving him away because he chewed up everything in his garage (moped, lawnmower, etc.
• crying and watching out the window when the new owners came to pick him up

Hair clip

• Sharing with my sister
• wearing it to school in elementary
• trying to wear it as a teenager to be cool, but it never closing.
• falling out of my hair because its too thick
• putting it in my jewelry box for safe keeping
• friends complimenting me on it.

Litter Mermaid Pin

• seeing a kiosk filled with buttons with disney characters
• choosing one with the little mermaid on it
• Helping my sisters choose theirs
• my sister putting her alice in wonderland on the cork board bulletin in our kitchen
• breaking my paul frank sunglass on the way to disneyland
• being disappointed that the cinderella castle was under construction during our visit.
• flying on the plane for the first time to San Diego, ate at a mexican restaurant, I ate a chimichanga, it was delicious, went to flea market and sea world, stopped at crispy cream donut hot of the press
• standing in line alot, getting scared in a haunted house
• got a pair on pink and green converse
• drove home from california, stopping at 

Ethnography Interviews

Ethnography for Prototyping 

Interview #1 

-Noticed the lines on the wall, but not the sign on the wall
-Does not see a need for way finding system in the tunnels
-Parked in red parking lot and was traveling from the Spencer Museum from class

Interview #2

-Excited to see new changes in the tunnel
-Never sees people down in the tunnels while traveling through
-works in the bookstore

Interview #3

-grad student, female 23
-known about tunnels since she was eight
-showed to her by mom
-ideas for getting people to travel through tunnels: advertise it on bus system or through at the U because she did not see the tape lines until she'd entered
-Noticed the lines once was inside
-thinks way finding would be useful for freshman, but argues it might be a right of passage to know the tunnels existence.

Traffic Count
People           Dog
24                    1

wayfindspiration

This color scheme is fresh

love

direction text

helpful

sound way finding

makes arrows interesting