So out of the possible directions for the museum exhibit, and the current events happening in northern Africa, I have chosen to do a Smithsonian exhibit about the Egyptian revolution.  The exhibit identity is currently being refined, but here is a look at it in its current state. The exhibition needs some work, but while [...]

Theories of design.  CONCEPT + FORM = Magic As a personal reflection of the semester, I think I grew more then I thought I would, but it took longer for the growing the kick in then it should have.  The prior knowledge of design that I had was holding me back on the possible growing [...]

Dirty Bath Water Where can I pour you?  Insects singing in the grass. -Basho This was our third and final project in Visual Communications 1. The project consisted of 5 parts -Picking a Haiku and creating a list of relating words from the poem. -From these words we had to find objects that derive from [...]

“Design is the synthesis of form and content.” -Paul Rand order variety contrast symmetry tension balance scale texture space shape light/shade color =language of form. Paul Rand’s work is beautiful because of his ability to control every element in a design.  Everything has a reason.  Form in this sense though, should not be thought of [...]

The final stage of the final project in Visual Communications 1 is moving our motifs which were created by conceptual mark making into time based graphics.  After we translated the hand made marks to either raster or vector (depending on subject) we are moving those images into flash and will be creating repeating animations from [...]

Dirty bath water where can I pour you? Insects singing in the grass. Final motifs created by marks made from tools relating to the haiku. A bath tub drain plug, a drain guard for a bath tub, and luffa, and a flute reed, were all things used to make some of my marks.  We experimented [...]

Sam Mak and I are creating a book for all our marks. Stab binding natural color pallete, browns, blacks, and greens. 8″x5″ format. Japanese style paper, with a natural raw material cover like chip board. The marks will be organized by the tool to create the mark then the mark making technique.

THE URGE TO MAKE THINGS is written by Leo Lionni, in the 1991 AIGA Journal of graphic design.  This article is an expression of Leo Lionni’s love for an unexplainable connection with tangible things.  It is from these things which he experiences an intimate relationship, one that provides him with a unification with the things [...]

Sam Mak and I were paired up to find two Haiku’s and develop word lists for both as well as bring in found objects, regaurding to the poems and the wordlist we generated. Our Haikus were Dirty Bath water where can I pour you?… insects singing in the grass -Onitsura Now in sad Autumn as [...]

Here is an example of the evolution a line in Project two.  It started as a basic line study of regularity, turned into a complex line study communicating progress (subtle).  Then the complex line study molded its self around a three dimensional surface through projection.  But for my final juxtaposition with a photograph the progression [...]