The first series in Design that I created was something I had to make by utilizing the space around me to create an experience that places a viewer in that space. What I chose to try and portray was a sense of reflection and repetition. I tried to use the repetition

of words to play on the

forms and shapes I saw within the images I took.One way that could have made my work better, was to create things that physically overlapped and the types of imagery that overlapped created a larger picture. I also thought about different ways people recall a place, there are different senses we use to remember something like sight and smell and taste and some things that could have helped portray my area. This series I created was at first depicting the shapes/forms and colors that I saw throughout the duration I was there. I wanted to capture

not only the illustrations of the place but possible feelings and depictions of images I saw. I thought that this could help me design my final pieces by using certain kinds of color to help reflect what I saw and what was really there in the space.

The second series in Design that I did was based on the changing of space itself. I thought a lot about the execution of the project - how and where it would be going and why that space. The place I picked was perfect because, I wanted it to be a space where it was open and enclosed at all times. The reason for this

was because It had interesting

light features that surrounded objects I placed throughout the space. When documenting my work I wanted to give a sense of the reason I was doing it. In the book I think a few ways that could have helped the book be more successful were: changing the book so that it is larger and full scale photos are used. Another thing would be to render the book so that parts of the pages interact with other parts of the book - so

instead of individual pieces of the book it is

more of a cohesive piece of work. One of the ways I thought of doing this was to actually sew the accordion book so that it is together but also separable.I think by making connections i can see different relationships within the book.

The third series of design lead me to think of a lot of different words at first. I was able to narrow it down to the word “Annoying” because, I felt that the word fit the object perfectly. I thought that this word fit it well because, a lot of small objects that aren't too useful (to me) are always fairly annoying. So, the first week I was experimenting with type itself, trying to find a

simple form

that i could maybe use for the final week.

That week I pulled from digital aspects of my studies, and handmade tactics from the crit and discussions within groups. The last week we had to make a “final” piece, I decided that I would try and make image - into type. Although I realized later this wasn't necessarily the objective, I quite enjoyed it. I feel that I learned from it because it wasn’t the right way of executing his objective. I think i’ve come up with better alternatives than the “final” I made. I want to try and utilize objects to create shapes

that resemble letters and could possibly resignate to the

viewer as actually “annoying”

or things they associate with that are infact “annoying”. Some ideas that I have thought about are: utilize things inside a room that people think are annoying to take the shape of the word annoying. Or going into an unknown area an assembling things that people think are annoying typically in a setting to take the form of the word annoying. I think that the things that we have been mentioning in class are helpful to further develope better versions or ideas of an original concept.

For the fourth unit of design we had to choose a word that brought up a lot of ideas for us, and for me I instantly after getting my word index, about organization and documentation. So I had went to the nature lab and documented many organisms, from there I thought of what I could branch off from there. I wanted to draw, I wanted to sculpt, I wanted to design, and I wanted to take photos. In the beginning a lot of my parts ended up being vectors of photographs, when I redid a lot of my parts I explored many more mediums. I ended up scanning a lot of things that I did or didn’t use, but I also included many smaller parts of those scanned parts that I thought incorporated well with my photos or designs. As we began to make our posters I at first wanted to create a really well organized

system of my parts and I wanted them to connect

systematically, not really based on content but organization

- relating back to my word. When

we ended up collaborating with our partners I really branched away from my concept I carried in my own posters and completely embraced the ideas and designs of my partners. I wanted to use my work to try and enhance their idea so I ended up only using my scans of body parts because, in my partner’s poster she focused on the word wet and the role that plays for human beings. This concept really made me think of skin, and water and warm and cool colors, so I tried to create a feeling the viewer could have when looking at these two posters - one warm and human feeling while the other feels more like motion based and heavily relying on water content/ or nature. I think critically I could have designed my second poster based on nature much more effectively, by trying to differ the images between the two so that they do not relate too well as they do now.

The fifth assignment for design was very interesting. I think that i mostly focused on the types of video i took and the angles they had. the things that I learned most from this assignment was mostly video editing I also learned about Perception and how to a sense of awareness and how time affects design.I learned about composition, in particular and how that affects the meaning of my video. and

Production To be subjected to and practice with movie editing software. In my one minute video what I believe a minute is as an artist is somewhat a counting mechanism for preparation and how we begin parts of creation. I

think that the way I created

it was meant

to be somewhat suspenseful in the kinds of cuts I created in my shots. Not only this, but I also wanted to show an interesting connection between all of the shots by this i mean the shots that have the same kind of angles, or ones that have the same kind of movement. I

wanted my video to be very cohesive in that sense,

but also have a variety of

differences within the one minute. I think the idea of a minute is also interesting in the way i tried to develope my thoughts on what I believed it to be, which is creation and vast ways of creation. This was the thing I learned the most from, which is the act of putting things together that may look different but have a very similar concept or action, in my case it was all of the shots I took to make the video.