Week 5

1.Post a total of 5 images, each of a very different version/design/iteration/interpretation of camouflage.

2.Post a total of 5 images of a functional object, like a teapot for example, each of a very different design/interpretation of the object, different interpretations of teapot for example. Make sure that the means of production span a broad range across your images, from artisan to industrial.

3. Post a few images from Yellow Submarine and discuss briefly what you find interesting in relation either to your own design ideas or in relation to the history of design.

I love the extensive creativity with the characters they created, they had no bounds and they look like something a elementary schooler would come up with. They took every day mundane things, people, plants, and words and made them into something fun and vibrant. Its like the creativity I had as a kid that I wish I could get back.

Their use of color throughout the whole show was splendid! I love the vibrancy and the way they used color in ways I never tried. I love to use color in my own work, the more color the better. And they didn't use them in a conventional way like most people would or prefer, but I think if they had, the show would not be as original as it was and creative. 

Week 4

+ Gestalt : Gestalt psychology or gestaltism (German: Gestalt - "essence or shape of an entity's complete form") of the Berlin School is a theory of mind and brain positing; the operational principle of Gestalt is that the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies. The Gestalt effect is the form-generating capability of our senses, particularly with respect to the visual recognition of figures and whole forms instead of just a collection of simple lines and curves. In psychology, gestaltism is often opposed to structuralism and Wundt. The phrase "The whole is greater than the sum of the parts" is often used when explaining Gestalt theory

+ Max Wertheimer
+ fission
+ stroboscope
+ perceptual consequences
+ psychological seeing and perception
+ non-related painting
+ andy warhol
+ integrated feel
+ Bridget Riley

HOMEWORK
- Find 10 images that relate to todays notes.-

Week 3

Notes


Bing and Art Neuve

+ liked japanese art
+ porcelin and ceramics gold award
+ japanism became popular cuz of him ( 1880 he went to Japan)
+ he bought up a lot of stuff in japan to sell later back where he lived
+ one of his close friends had property that was made to look just like traditional japan
+ Le Japon Artistique - a magazine he released
+ he made a revolutionary japanese expo with his friends
+ made a workshop where they made glass vases and window-glass art(stained glass)
+ had his workshop re-done by Vinye(spelling?)
+ bring together modern contemporary objects
+ after 1896 he wanted to start working with his own artists
+ started to make jewelery