"Small Scale Sucks" >>> Inflatopia Process

Just some ideas for the inflatopia:

Making a maze with different games to play along the way.

A tent looking box with a roof made with draping material.

And after a bunch of ideas we finally decided to use this structure...at least as of right now. It will be double walled and have an opening roof. We figured it would have gotten WAY to hot for people to stay inside of it.

And we have already run into a few problems. But I guess it is better to on the model, than on the actual flotopia. Our pattern is changing a little bit, and we are sewing the sides together in a variety of methods to see what work the best.

"So many Decisions" >>> Inflatopia Logo Process

Each group members top two logos combined together for the final picking.

After we agreed and disagreed on many of the same logos, we finally decided to take a vote on the best logos. And these four logos ended up winning.

And again, after many more confusions we picked the final logo. the X'x looked very much like chromosomes, which is the point of our entire group name. And I like the arrow on it as well, showing we are "better than the rest". But I have to refine the logo some, which I am currently working on. The spacing between the i and t are odd compare to the other letters. And the arrow is not congruent, which I will fix as well.

"Down By Two" >>> Inflatopia Logo Process

My group then went around helping each other narrow down the logos to the top two. It took a few votes to find my top two, i was not very sure of the ones I wanted to use. But we ended up choosing these two. I like both of them a lot, and they display different messages. I love how the logo with the arrow has "XX" that look like chromosomes. And i like the second logo because of how large and powering the it is. The fonts seem to go together well.

"My Top Eight" >>> Inflatopia Logo Process

These are my top eight logos that my team members picked. Most of them did not need and refining, just a few changes like shifting letters and straightening out letters.

And here are the eight logos refined. I decided to trace each logo on to some heavy computer paper. I am coloring them in with black colored pencils.

"Texture Accordion Book 2" >>> Texture/Color Study: 2D Project Part 2

Another accordion book I made. This one has 14 textures in it. I got the idea of the book from the internet, but I changed it up a little bit. I love how it looks like a real book on the indie, and then it turns into an accordion book. This is the first book I ever made with a spine on it. I'm proud of how good it came out, but next time I hope it opens a little bit nicer.

It still looks like a normal book...

But it turned into an accordion book!

One of my favorite texture from this book.

"Texture Accordion Book 1" >>> Texture/Color Study: 2D Project Part 2

This is one of the accordion books that I made. It contains twelve different textures in it.

I really like how the book is tied together. I'm glad I completely chopped up my nicely made accordion book! I love how its bulky and flappy.

One of my favorite pairs of textures.

I really like using these grommets, and the corner rounder. Both of these things work wonders on papers!

"Texture Swatch Book" >>> Texture/Color Study: 2D Project Part 1

Here is my final swatch book containing about fifty swatches. After making the swatch book, I felt like it needed its own box which I made using one of the textures I had previously made in class.

I went to Kinko's to ge a hole drilled through the entire book and inserted a bolt.

My color palette consists of blue, brown, and pink. The picture below shows the colors progressing as you flip through the book.

"XXit" >>> Inflatopia Process

The forty sketches our group XXit. I came across some really neat logos for the group. But I felt like some of them were starting to be repetitive, maybe because I did not take a break while creating all 40 of them...

Some of my favorite ones that I ended up with:

i found out a very good way to make my letters really big when they were printing. But I think I will have to redo them all when making my book, they could look a little nicer than they do!

"Menil Sketches" >>> A Day At The Menil Collection

Here are all of my sketches from the Menil Collection. Some of them were a little difficult to find, but I eventually found them all. And below are my responses to the writing assignment.

a) What was the most enjoyable thing you saw? Why?

I enjoy looking at paintings more than sculptures, which is why my favorite piece was a painting. The painting Glider by Robert Rauschenberg was very interesting. I loved the different geometric shapes that made up the massive painting. It looked very architectural, something you would not normally think of when painting comes to mind.

b) What was the most disturbing thing you saw? Why?

Many sculptures at the Menil were disturbing, but one of them stood out among the rest. The untitled sculpture of the girl on the crucifixes by Maurizo Cattelan was absurd. I felt like the piece was making fun of Jesus; I do not think the artist intended this, but I felt it was unnecessary. The way her head and other body parts were twisted was strange, especially the bolts that did not even touch the wall.

c) What piece in the museum is the most like something you might make yourself, or would like to make?

The painting Periscope by Jasper Johns was very oriented with a variety of things. I love mixing text with paintings, which is what made this painting stand out from the rest. I am not a big

painter, but when I do, I paint with lines and blobs, not actual human beings. I could see myself making a painting like this one because of the stenciled words and the use of blue hues.

d) What made

you curious, what do you want to know more about? Why?

As I continued through

the museum, I realized all of the sculptures which I made a weird face to are constructed by Maurizo

Cattelan. Although they were all disquieting, some of them made me very curious. The room filled with “bodies” covered in white blankets was very alarming, but it also made me want to lift up a cover to see what was truly beneath the blankets. I was very curious as to wondering if the room was filled with plastic or maybe even real humans; I will never know.

e) Which of the Menil’s buildings fit the art inside best?

The Rot

hko Chapel definit

ely worked the best with the artwork inside. The room was octagon

al shaped, with plain black paintings on each section of the wall. I think the room might have been built, knowing exactly where each painting was going to hang. It seemed very well planned out; I think I got goose bumps in the middle of the room.