Last semester through studio I became very inspired by the digital side of design through applications like Photoshop and Illustrator but even more so through 3-d modeling software such as Rhino, Maya, and the CAM Studio Laser Cutter. In conjunction with this inspiration my primary goal for this semester is to overcome my fear of trying new methods as the style indicator so rightfully coined me as a meticulous conservator, and become more adept in the digital realm as I aspire to be an environmental game designer. On the other hand, I would appreciate the opportunity to become more involved in the community of Greensboro and I hope that a future project will give me and my peers the chance to express our ideas while at the same time gives us a chance to communicate with others outside the design community.
While my goals were fairly simple to pinpoint, when given the opportunity to announce my strengths the task became much more complicated and I discovered that my peers seemed much more conscious of my style strengths than I had acknowledged or cared to admit. My personal list began with my competitive nature, my knowledge of history and ability to help others, and my drive for quality craft but then my mind drew a blank but my teammates were quick to react. They contributed to the list by recognizing my abilities to communicate my ideas on an individual level if not at the presentation scale as well as my meticulous attention to small details and my constructive criticism that encourages motivation. Yet they were also keen to point out areas of flaws in my process saying that my attention to detail works for me but also against me because sometimes I focus so intently on the small details that I fail to see the broad picture and my style can become to tight and narrow. It seems that my peers are not only a source for design inspiration and critic but for personal motivation and insight.
This is a painting by new york artist Vladimir Kush that I saw at a gallery while I was in Las Vegas this past summer and I was truly inspired by his fantastical display of color and his talent for creating morphing environments that seem to acknowledge the presence of more than one setting. His attention to every detail is a skill I have built upon over the past year and a half but the vision it takes to create these environments that seem to evoke a sense of fantasy yet appear so seamlessly real is a style I yearn to acquire. My style has always emulated a realistic impression and judged my work by the visual appearance of how accurately it resembled reality that it has become a very burdensome, tight style; the sense of fantasy that Vladimir Kush provides in his work gives me inspiration that my style can still appear real without being afraid to explore a sense of playfulness.
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As the project has been unfolding over this past week I feel the qualities addressed through me and about me really start to come alive and become a cognitive aspect of my design process. For example, instead of initially generating spatial experiences and sketches my meticulous and cautious nature began with generating sub concepts from the word spark and searching on dictionary.com for key phrases that my 'spark' an idea for a space. While I am attempting to stray from my traditional realm, I have become more aware of my intent concentration to detail by creating everything to scale almost immediately, making sure there is adequate space to circulate, and dimensioning every object before I have a solid idea. Even now, through writing, I am realizing that I need to take a step back and look at the broader scope and solidify an idea before I worry whether it is functional. After speaking with Claire, I feel my ideations were worthy for further exploration and I began 3-d modeling in sketch-up, which helped alleviate much of the dimensional workload with the guide tool and allowed me to focus on the spatial tectonics and qualities of my ideas. Reading Rengel and diagraming really helped with the essentials of the space from circulation routes to solids, bringing the ideas and technicalities full circle. All in all, I have become more vigilant of my qualities and and the details I get hung up on, which is where I feel improvement is being made.
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