Patrick Drake

[degree project] final presentation

Patrick — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:52:34 +0000

Well it seems the time has come for my final degree presentation…check out the project here.

[spatial experience] project 03

Patrick — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:18:20 +0000

Site ID
Sprint Center/College Basketball Experience Museum

The placement of our moment meets people in the mindset of ready to receive and experience college basketball. They may either be going to the museum or an event at the sprint center. Not only does it celebrate college basketball and the excitement of rivalries but its content focuses specifically on KU vs MU. Even those who may not automatically choose a side in this rivalry will appreciate the significance of the history and culture if they are a KC native.

Dialogue/Emotional Goals
conflict
interactivity
dependence
symmetry
equilibrium
counterweight
marry

*narrative stem from the desire of the college basketball experience and the history and content of the longest-uninterrupted rivalry in college basketball history.
As the semester comes to an end, we’ve got one final project in spatial experience design…and that is to create a monument. After a beautifully sequenced narrative on creating a monument. I feel as if there was one primary theme through-out the work mr.kidwell showcased, this I would qualify as substance. The monuments were all so [not so] obviously meaningful. Some had abstract depictions, some were more representational, but all were of value to a particular context… Therefore Matthew and I looked to create something that could resonate with the Kansas City community, something that had sunken its teeth into the fabric of the region. Therefore we decided to adventure into the world of the much disputed rivalry between the university
of Missouri and the university of Kansas…the two have duked it out for years and just recently MU transferred into a other conference forfeiting the future opportunity to wage war. Geographically, Kansas City is the largest meteroplex analogous the two schools and the population of each of the alma maters grows; this makes Kansas City the perfect place to commemorate the nations longest and most bragged about college rivalry… MU v.s. KU. The battle of the cat and bird.

For almost 150 years, Missouri and Kansas have played a part in one of the most intense, long-running rivalries in the history of college sports.
first meeting-1891

Longest consecutive games played in all sports in college-105 years

historical roots date back to 1850s with open violence involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery

as the years have progressed the stakes have become higher and higher

no matter the battle ground…

…wins and loses are the currency of bragging

last year missouri made the decision to leave the big 12 conference which they were both apart of in order to join the South Eastern Conference,

the two are yet to schedule another competition.

Concept

extend the rivalry and continues the Dialogue between the two teams

we are looking to embody: conflict , interactivity , dependence, symmetry, equilibrium, counterweight, marry

this is not to only celebrate Kansas and Missouri sports, but celebrate the fans and their involvement in making this rivalry one for the ages.

MU V KU by Patrick Drake

[degree project] 3.27 / 4.3

Patrick — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:39:50 +0000

Its been a busy couple of weeks for my brain. I am becoming more and more aware of the breadth that professional developers need to understand. Its a daunting task to accomplish the simple things that I set out to accomplish, but I feel as if I have covered a lot of ground. I guess I never expected to be a developer by the end of my degree project, I didn’t expect to be able to call myself a designoper either…But I certainly feel as if I’ve learned A LOT within the last couple of months.

The complexity of computer science is not something that is easily tackled but I feel as if I am developing[insert-pun] a vocabulary to be able to communicate to directly with developers.

The specificity of what I’ve learned is what I’ve been pondering how to demonstrate. After an exercise/conversation with a friend, in which I asked him if I could tell him “everything I knew about web design”, I realized the potential in transforming what I’ve comprehended about development language into a relatable diagram for those who may not be as familiar. Creating a tool for teaching a correlation between the code and the design. As well as displaying terminology and my understanding of it within the context of eaterykc.com.

[degree project] 3.13.13

Patrick — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:51:53 +0000

There’s been a phrase resonating with me very recently. “Get real fast”. Julie Beeler of Second Story in Portland came a gave an inspiring lecture last semester. Then miss lane repeated the phrase the in our recent mid-term critic. I think it super valuable. Context is eminent. So I’ve been thinking of this in terms of how I’m going about the design process. Therefore I’ve gone through with purchasing the domain, activating the hosting, and installing the wordpress platform. Now as I’m controlling the .css and manipulating the visual qualities I’m simultaneously learning different attributes and css hierarchy as well as progressing the development of the site. I was told to continue to push the visuals in the site, so it just doesn’t just look like blogger. Which I would never want to be the end product. That being said I think there is a pretty interesting dynamic happening between what I want to accomplish and what I can accomplish. I feel like I’m a pretty good lateral thinker so I find it vey educational to be discovering and learning while I’m creating.

Special thanks to google chrome’s inspect element tool[on right-click], which allows me to dissect and analyze. eaterykc as well as other sites, to observe how they accomplish certain things. Also it helps to be at DMH for an internship because the developers there are more than willing to explain more specific things. Suchas the two-x image needed for retna iphones/ipads to displat crispy images.

Type-Kits been coolin’ too.

[spatial] mid-term self-assesment

Patrick — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:58:31 +0000

Although we are only a little under half way through the semester I feel as if we’ve covered so much. I am really enjoying the format of the course! The lectures shown had profound influence on project one, which is the only project completed at this point. [segway] During project one working with Keaton was a good experience and I felt he and I had a good dynamic in the ideation phase. We ended up using Rhinoceros 5 to model the 3-d signs to perfect scale, which ended up being quite helpful. Rhino is a very powerful tool when dealing with direct mathematics in the drafting process and I feel it really aided our approach to form-making when exploring the different types of formal articulations possible, especially in a sign with such simple geometry. Our final superimposed location mock-ups were easier to create in Rhino because of the ability to export pngs on transparent and the orthogonal drawings could be exported directly from Rhino into Illustrator as strokes, making them easier to handle in the indesign document for the presentation book. This is way I intend to use Rhino as a drafting tool for the remaining two projects, not as a crutch to counter using another type of making, but because I feel its probably how the objects we’re thinking about making would actually be drawn for production. :)

That being said, I find myself more and more interested in continuing to think in sculptural conditions. Thanks for the challenges sir kidwell.