dreams

I sent my mailers out the other day. I had originally designed a 17 postcard series with various posters on them. that didn't work out, so I decided to do some stickers.. those looked like crap, so I finally decided on doing a button pack.




Hopefully I can complete my website by tonight, and finish my print portfolio by spring break.

project idea

For my project I am exploring the ideas of; constants & variables, transformation of messages; collapsing of ideas, and random messages. I have not really zeroed in an a concrete idea yet, i want which ever direction to be based on still motion and stop motion animation. I am also interested in the image, word, symbol combinations.

i tried to catch a leaf in mid air

Exploration # 59
The language of Trees

Collect as many parts of trees as you can. (use things that have fallen naturally, you don't want to harm the trees.) Arrange your collection. play withit. hang it. study the shapes. do drawings.

(i tried to catch a leaf in mid air)
i couldn't




this is what i collected.

i'm sure that if i waited long enough and was in the right spot that i would be able to catch one.

Found Type

Exploration #13
Collecting Type
Document lettering you find out in the world. Take notes about where and when you found the samples.

TYPE GALLERY

I started thinking about found type, could i name the typeface? Was it being used in a way that the type designer had intended?

Animation Research

I am choosing to explore the animated GIF. There are a few different types of animation that I find interesting, stop motion, still motion, and wiggle stereoscopy.


Stop motion (or frame-by-frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved by small amounts between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames are played as a continuous sequence.


My record animation (10mb)
http://webspace.ringling.edu/~bmcnally/records.gif

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Still motion is a method of displaying many images one after another as frames, using the technique of "Frame-by-Frame", similar to the concept of Stop Motion. The difference between this and Stop motion, however, is that still motion is not a method of animation, but a style of editing. Each frame can be non sequitur. It is often used in horror films to create an intense effect, or used to recall memories. The most common form of still motion now exists as Adobe Flash or Gif animation.

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Stereoscopy is any technique capable of recording three-dimensional visual information or creating the illusion of depth in an image.

Wiggle stereoscopy
This method, possibly the simplest stereogram viewing technique, is to simply alternate between the left and right images of a stereogram.
Most people can get a crude sense of dimensionality from such images, due to persistence of vision and parallax.

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Various animations that are awesome.

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awesome stop motion short films

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MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

experience

Exploration #52
Miniature Ecosystem
Collect water from three different sites. These can include a lake, pond, stream, puddle, or similar. Combine the samples in a jar with a tight fitting lid. Place the jar in a sunny location and watch to see the ecosystem unfold. Soon this miniature world will start to organize itself and create some interesting results.

I took water from the Bayou at Ringling, a lake by my apartment, and a puddle by the tennis courts. The water sat in a jar in for one week a semi-sunny spot.(My porch is sunny from like noon to 5) I randomly took pictures to document it, and at the end, I wrote a phrase that summed up the experience. Absolutely nothing happened. (I think the freezing cold may have effected it).

I also read an article on design observer titled, "Designing through recession."

I made connections by writing some words on index cards and randomly pairing them with the words I had written before.

Here are the results. (index cards to come)

ABSOLUTELY rescession

NOTHING mind

HAPPENED patient


here are some of the shots from the experiment.

Experience 2.0

Exploration #11
Differences
Collect Multiples of one thing (such as leaves, stones, shells, seeds, tc.). Lay them out in front of you. Observe them in detail. Using the "object log," list the differences you see.

• Shape
• Color
• Hardness
• Fragment
• Fossilized
• Size
• Cracks
• Natural/Man-made
• Combination
• Spots
• Weathered, dirt/mold
• Texture
• Attractiveness
• Broken

I went around Ringling and Sarasota Bayfront Park and gathered rocks. I photographed these rocks and wrote down their differences/categories. I was reading How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul, and found a couple connections between the differences in the rocks and cultural awareness. Some of the statements that stuck out to me are:

"Politics
Entertainment
Business
Technology
Art
Ten-Pin Bowling
Mud Wrestling"

"cues and puns and symbols and allusions"

"Cultural awareness is vital for the modern designer"