June 2012
1 post
May 2012
11 posts
Reading Response 16
The fear of failure is something that I have heard a lot about over the years. Many people have said that you only succeed through failures. W+K “fail harder” wall exemplifies this. I believe it is generally accepted that you are supposed to “embrace the failures” as Milton Glaser said in the video, because ultimately it will lead to success. It is interesting that even...
Reading Response 15
Chapter 2 has some good tips that I need to employ and would like to try out. I definitely need a deadline when I work. I need that pressure to perform (awkward). The one tip that really intrigues me is the leaving a project on a high note. I definitely work on a project and when it starts to slip I feel more anxious to keep working until I get the solution. It sounds like I should be trying to...
Reading Response 14
With reading 14 I totally can relate to not being respected and maybe it was because I spoke about what I thought the client wanted to hear, or working for cheap. I thought I was doing the guy a favor, but maybe I was setting myself up to fail because of a lack of respect from the client?
Another section of the reading that I understand but probably don’t do enough of is the research for...
Reading Response 13
Technology in regards to participation might be the way to get the most people involved in a project. Designers learning code as another tool but a very open tool and one that can be set to fit the designers style and personality are interesting concepts. I feel like it might be the next step in design. I have always thought that maybe Adobe has made things too “user friendly” and easy...
Reading Response 12
These answers by designers makes me think of the Study Partner workshop we had at PSU. I really didn’t understand at first what we were doing as we were describing our design. We choose words that described our style or design ethic into predetermined categories. Even by the end of class I still was 50/50 on whether I had just spent the whole day not understanding what was going on. But as...
Reading Response 11
Milton Glaser’s 10 Things
1. I can absolutely relate to this, one of the last times I tried to do work for someone I knew and I knew he was an asshole. Somehow I thought it would be better…..I was wrong. He was an asshole and I became a “creative arm” as someone put in class. It was the worst and was kind of the last straw for me.
2. I would love to never have a job. You...
I know we spoke about this in class....
Love letters to a city creator speaking about his project and daily paintings. I want to hang with this guy.
http://www.psfk.com/2012/05/steve-powers-espo-psfk-talk.html
care of Adam R. Garcia’s twitter
Have always loved this. →
Reading Response 9
Designing design was the thing that stuck out to me the most about this reading. He was speaking about design of the future and what designers would be designing. It is a response I feel to all the amateur designers flooding the world with bad design. When successful the participatory design is a higher level of design that someone untrained will not be able to pull off successfully. It takes a...
Schedule
I think this is close????
5/7 - 5/11 - Questions going to be asked written and done. Meeting with kids on Wednesday, hope to speak with at least 10 kids. Work on drawings.
5/14 - 5/18 - Meet with kids Monday ask 10 more kids. Wednesday meet with kids and ask more questions if needed. Work on drawings.
5/21 - 5/25 - All drawings done start on production.
5/28 - 6/1 - All production done
6/4 -...
April 2012
11 posts
Reading Response 8
The things in the article seemed like common sense teamed up with what we have gone over in this class about participatory design. The 2015 designer will need to have a good solid traditional design base. The next things like understanding of social issues, becoming an anthropologists especially due to the new global workforce environment that continues to grow, being on top of new technologies,...
Reading Response 7
I love the line in the reading “to create work that isn’t finished when it’s finished.” That has to be a real creative challenge for a designer but one that is probably the future of design. With customization showing up more and more it’s what are society is going to start to expect not be pleasantly surprised by. Individuality makes people feel important, like they...
Step 2: Focus P2
I would like to focus on these 3 artists. Adam Garcia, Pictory, and Something’s Hiding In Here.
Adam Garcia; Trust Me. This project looks like it was really a lot of fun. 2 month collaboration process, Adam asked for a unused or original piece that a creative colleague had worked on or created an original. Then Adam took that piece which had to still be in the final piece and basically...
Thesis Ideas
1. Ask kids at Helen Gordon Preschool a question. (like What is a good dream? What is a bad dream? What’s your favorite memory? Favorite thing at school? What is a graphic designer?) I would then illustrate their responses, and create a coloring book to give back to them.
2. With the kids at Helen Gordon, show them some pictures, have them create a story. Which then I would illustrate....
Week 3 Readings
Reading 5
Doing participatory design just because it is a way to express oneself creatively. They do not need to be complex digital pieces. One advantage to participatory design is that you can build a following before a product is available for purchase. The reading after this point really went into speaking with designers that are using participatory design in their design work right now. They...
Week 2 Reading Responses
2. Towards Relational Design and More on Towards Relational Design by Andrew Blauvelt. It was a very deep essay about design past, present, and future. Relational design the author calls it is obsessed with processes and systems to generate designs, which is different from how it used to be. It spoke about how design has always been relational in one way or another because of its function. Design...
Step 1: Investivgate
1. Adam Garcia; Trust Me. This project looks like it was really a lot of fun. Adam asked for a unused or original piece that a creative colleague had worked on or created an original. Then Adam took that piece which had to still be in the final piece and basically repurposed the art with his own take without any interaction with the original creator. The creators had to “Trust” Adam...
Sagmeister Reading
I like the fact that Sagmeister seems to want to bridge a gap between graphic design and art. I feel like I see many of the more successful designers today trying to do the same and have some success at it. People and projects that are usually the most successful are the ones where passion plays a huge role. The one thing that I think almost all the projects he felt a real connection with were...
