241 - Concepts Done.

I finally finished my first 3 concepts for the first project :) I have three main ideas and I applied all of my inspirations to my concepts and I think its actually pretty clear how related they are.

Here it is:

Now, I am sure that in 3D they might look way different and even way more develop. But at least now I have a good base to work on. I've reflected upon my ideas and it feels like I at least have a way point.

CCDN 271 - Assignment One

Everyday Design:

In the very early stages of text messaging development, around 1993, SMS – Short Message Service – was considered to be something relatively minor, but just like many other technologies, the power of ‘txting’ was only discovered by the users. The use of a cell phone to transmit data without having to make much physical effort caught the attention of many people and became very popular due to its convenient use. Even though SMS was only considered part of GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), the concept was pressured to be further developed due to its massive and successful use. The book “Cell Phone Culture” elaborately explains how text messaging became a part on people’s quotidian and how it shaped social, media, and cultural practices through its everyday use. The book gives emphasis on the fact that instant messaging was actually an incident and provides several rather insightful elements about its history.

Reference:

Goggin, G., (2006). Cell phone culture: mobile technology in everyday life. New York, United States: Routledge.

Critical Design:

Since the 17^th century women have been embedded to the idea that their perception of reality is generally naïve or contained, however, in some cases this has been their source of inspiration to express their opinions by painting and designing unexpected as well as criticizing art-work, some of which have taken place into history. The book “Danger! Women Artists at Work” cites nine different moments in history where women that felt oppressed by their own surroundings or went through unfortunate life experiences expressed their emotion-driven standpoints through mediums of art. From the early years of the 17^th century until the 20^th century, artists such as Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1654), Käthe Kollowitz (1867-1945), Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985), Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), and Marina Abramovic (1946), have explored the idea of not playing it safe. They created provocative and incendiary art-work that transmitted very strong meaning through appealing aesthetic. Their views were represented with the exposure of shock and pain which they found the most appropriate to represent their rigid opposition.

Reference:

Mancoff, N. D., (2012). Danger! Women artists at work. London, England: Merell Publishers Limited.

DIY:

In the book “Interior design of the 20^th century”, Anna Massey (1990) explores the different interior decoration’s stages on a before and after schedule. She comically refers to the profession as a mere exchange of antiques before the twentieth century and the reason lies within the inexistence of the specialisation in the time period. The convincingly pattern of well-executed interior decorations were only recognised after the First World War due to a series of social and economic changes, when men came back from the war and incentivised woman to spend more time at home. Massey quotes Jacob von Falke (1879) agreeing that the good taste of design is natural to the female gender, and even though the elaborate decoration that was executed at the homes of Victorian middle-class women was well respected and gave them control over the environment, most of the lower class was encouraged to work in factories during the war, thus having very little opportunity to express their gifted handicrafts. In 1877, Candace Wheeler (1827-1923) took a step further and opened the first establishment targeting the exploration of the specific subject, and since then the profession has gained its well earned recognition and added a whole new perspective to the professional world of design.

Reference:

Massey, A. (1990). Interior design of the 20^th century. New York, United States: Thames & Hudson Inc.

Google Warming:

Ubicomp, as well referred as ubiquitous computing, is the main subject of the book “Divining a Digital Future”, written by Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell. In the chapter “Rethinking privacy”, several arguments towards the unawareness of technological privacy within our global society seem to have proven that when it comes to Google Warming, the subject of largest importance – not only as the stand point of the book, but also throughout the history of computer development – is how much people value and understand the flows and exchanges of their given information. People’s concerns about their own privacy are clearly expressed and identified in numerous cases; however, their acknowledgement on the several risks that are linked to the slow paced but continuous development of the unnoticed ubiquitous computing is quite superficial, and as the book suggests, the interpretation of the restricted self-data’s concept does not go very far since it lies within a “specific series of cultural and legislative frames” (Dourish & Bell, 2011, p. 139).

Reference:

Dourish, P. & Bell, Genevieve. (2011). Divining a digital future: mess and mythology in ubiquitous computing. London, England: The MIT Press.

MDDN 241 - Concepts Sketches

Here are my hands on sketches of my first ideas.
It puts my creatures into context and gives them a better idea of shape throughout hand drawings.

MDDN 241 - Concepts.

So I have started building up/drawing my concepts for the first project and for that I had the idea of mixing different natural as well as artificial organic forms.

Here are the different inspiring images that led me to create my concept forms.

They also helped me a lot with the idea of colours, also how the shapes affect the colours.


This first image is just a teardorp. But what I like about and what Id like to use on my concepts is the unique organic reflection that it creates by having that round shape which has a very thin starting point.

This one brings a little bit of humour into the table which also caught my attention. Since I'm looking for something blobby, I like on this one the aspect of a material naturally moving inside of another material. And this other material would be in this case, the green blob.

I was also looking for organic shapes made out of precious metals and jewellery. This is an example of a golden container, which I find quite nice and it could be really effective to have some other material inside of this container that would be changing throughout the different stages.

This image caught my attention due to its combination of organic forms. Here we have a spider and some jewelry. It is the combination of materials that I thought it was quite intriguing. I might combine something like that, use the shininess of the ruby with my blob idea.

This is a simple paint blob, or splatter if you may say so. I just like how it spreads around like water but with a lot more density and in a slower pace as well, giving it a more alien-like appearance.

This is a diagram of a neuron that caught my attention as well. Now, this one is not so round as the other forms, however, something about ending point that look like 'unleaved' trees with one having a nucleus caught my eye. I think its rather interesting, I might apply the idea of a nucleus to my concepts.

This is another simple example done with paint blobs/splatters. However, this one gives a bit more shape and by looking so perfectly and organically round and tracing a track out of it, it almost look like it has life in it.

Another kind of form that I am also interest on are the way that plants grow. The natural spread of a living organism. Because their growth is pretty much based on the nutrients gathered from sunlight, they always grow upwards and due to gravity they end up spreading side ways and once they have achieved a more bigger/advanced stage, they started falling downwards.

Now, violets follow the same growing structure since they are also plants and what I really like about them is the natural colour that they have which creates a good contrast that I might use for my concepts as well.

Relating back to golden shapes, this is a smashed golden container. I thought of having that one material inside it, but in order for it to change over time, maybe it should harshly damage the container in different organic ways.

These are just appealing visual with opacity, lighting and nice colour that I found to be very awesome and it might take some effect and influence my concepts due to its awesomeness.

This is a very interesting form that I found on the web. What I like so much about it is the fact that its made out of industrialized materials, however, its shape relates so much to organic shapes that it almost looks like a paint natural plant or resource.

This kind of relates back to that neuron I posted, but this one is almost the combination of that with a plant, but its made of glass...?? I know right, what the well. I thought it was really cool combination and this is probably my last image. :) Cheers

MDDN 241 - Salvador Dali

So since I had to choose an artist to base my first ideas on, I chose the grande Salvador Dali. His works involve a lot of abstract organic forms, and I would love to add that concept to my 3D models.

Here are a few images by Salvador that really caught my attention:

DSDN 112 - Final Video.

Here is my final video. I hope you enjoy it :)

DSDN 112 - Semi-final Video.

Here is the semi-final video I did for the 3rd project. It was missing the tank render I wanted to add to it.