"A Cut Closer" >>> Inflatopia Process

Theresa and I cut all of the sides down to the right measurement and also rounded every corner on each side. And Amanda and Ashley began working on the tabs with grommets. So far, our project is going just as planned. Hopefully it will keep going this smoothly.

"Girls Do It Better" >>> Inflatopia Process

Team Name:

XXit

Team Members:

Theresa, Ashley, McKenzie, Agnes, Amanda

Team Logo:

The final choice was one of my logos.

Team Inflatable:

Our inflatable will give everyone a nice, relaxed, and refreshed feeling upon their xxit. There will be green tea available as well as free henna tattoos. Inside the inflatable will have inflated pillows, chairs, and hand fans. THe outside of the inflatable will be double sided with no roof. This will make the inside of the inflatable much more relaxing on a hot summer day. It will have five sides that are twelve feet long and ten feet tall. We will use steaks to pin down each side to make a "circus shape". The rope will attach to a grommet that will be hammered into the plastic. The sides of the inflatable will also have five buttons on them. This is to keep it from bulging into a huge blob. We will simply iron the two sides of the plastic together to for a button. And this will make a wonderful float decorated with floral designs with a similar warm color palette.

"Painting Doves" >>> Visual Haiku Process

I began some of my dove painting studies for my haiku. I had to do more than ten until I finally got my form down. I have been using some methods from previous projects to develop my sketches.

my haiku:

a swaying tree branch

swirling wind breaks the silence

the dove tightly clings

-mckenzie smith

Drawing Studies:

Form studies:

"Back To The Drawing Board" >>> Inflatopia Process

I refined our final logo for XXit and this is what it came out to be! The spacing between the letters are a lot more equal to our eyes. I also made the arrow congruent. So this is the logo we will use and construct a 3D model.

We are also running into many problems with our inflatable. We went back to the drawing board and refined our model. We are taking a different approach to it now. I feel like we are behind since the other groups have already began their inflatables, but we are running into our problems now instead of during the actual inflatable. So tomorrow in class we should be beginning our inflatable.

"Inflatopia Logo Design" >>> 2D Project: The Word As Form

Here is my final book with all of my logos. Originally, I created forty logos, and refined some of them. But as I began refining them I switched to tracing instead of cutting and pasting the papers. So after that, I traced more logos. I found it easier to trace them straight from the scanned image, than it was to cut and glue papers. And I also really liked how the sketched logos turned out.

My book with stab binding.

The first page in my book has thumbnails of all of the 30 logos that made it to my final book. Next to the thumbnail I described the fonts that I used. The first font is the larger text in the logo and the second font is the smaller text. Some of my logos used the same text for the entire logo. I can use this in the future to reference back to one of the texts that I would like to use in graphic design.

And just one of the pages inside my book.

"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.