Saturday, January 31, 2015
Niels Diffrient - Rethinking the way we sit down
Neils Diffrient lived for 25 years in Italy and America. His passion for planes started at the age of 6, he built model planes. As in college he took aerospace engineering as his major but instead he learnt maths and no drawing at all,soon he lost his passion for making planes and switched to art. There he studied painting, design, architecture and eventually became a Designer but business didn't go well and then he chose furniture especially office chairs - it was the product shaped by the human body and in order to do that he needed to learn about how to deal with body. After business ups and downs he designed a chair - a chair that balance your weight with no adjustment needed, with arm rest - move them up or down as you want. and head rest. In my opinion, his officer chair idea is amazing, so much so that I want to have these kinds of chairs that he designed because not everyone has the talent to do something amazing.
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How to Ruin a Great Design
Asma AbiBakar
How to Ruin a Great Design by Alice Rawsthorn
There are a lot of different types of bad designs. Bad designs can be the designs that do not show a clear message or are unnecessarily complicated. Then there are crimes against design or art, they deprive us of the joy of great design, by replacing it. For example, the sign that says “Diverted cyclists” it consist of two words, an arrow and a symbol of a cycle. They messed up this sign even though somebody else made this. They messed it up by making the “D” in Diverted much bigger than other letters, now this looks clumsy. Now this is a crime against design, which make people confuse when they look at the sign and it is hard to understand what the sign say. So In conclusion, to ruin a great design all you need to do is make it worse, add something that will look clumsy and that will be enough to confuse people.
How to Ruin a Great Design by Alice Rawsthorn
There are a lot of different types of bad designs. Bad designs can be the designs that do not show a clear message or are unnecessarily complicated. Then there are crimes against design or art, they deprive us of the joy of great design, by replacing it. For example, the sign that says “Diverted cyclists” it consist of two words, an arrow and a symbol of a cycle. They messed up this sign even though somebody else made this. They messed it up by making the “D” in Diverted much bigger than other letters, now this looks clumsy. Now this is a crime against design, which make people confuse when they look at the sign and it is hard to understand what the sign say. So In conclusion, to ruin a great design all you need to do is make it worse, add something that will look clumsy and that will be enough to confuse people.
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Questions
What is your computer experience?
I am on my computer almost everyday and I mostly work only on Word and play games. That's all.
What is your experience with Photoshop and Illustrator?
The last time I used Photoshop was in Senior Year of my High School and I have never worked on Illustrator before.
Do you have a computer at home? If so does it have Photoshop and Illustrator?
Yes, I have computer at home but it does not have Photoshop and Illustrator.
What is your major?
My major is Computer Graphics
What do you hope to get out of this class?
I hope to learn Photoshop and Illustrator, To be able to come up with new brilliant ideas for my projects.
Who is your favorite artist?
I don't have any. I don't like only one, I have few but they are all just fine.
Who is your favorite musician?
None
Tell me something interesting about yourself?
My Birthday is in 4 days on January 28th. I am from Pakistan and I can speak 7 different languages such as English, Urdu (My county language), Spanish, Malay (Malaysian Language), Japanese (A little bit, still learning), Chinese (In the process of learning) and Korean (Learning).
Write a five line story?
Once upon a time, there was a very stubborn,very proud, bad mouthed princess who lived alone with her father in a Kingdom. Her father wanted her to get married as soon as possible because of her bad personality, she was ruining his image as the King, her dad called a meeting at which the princess will have to choose her bridegroom/Prince but instead she insulted every single one of them, pointing out the flaws they had, her dad couldn't tolerate this embarrassment and promised to get her married to the first person who walks in the gates of the kingdom, next day in the morning. The next day, a beggar came in the Kingdom and her dad forced her to get married to him, she pleaded with him but she got married and kicked out of the kingdom, the beggar took her to his Village. In the next six months, the beggar treated her badly, and she hated him for that but actually that beggar was trying to change her personality because he was none other than one of the Prince that came to the meeting, and she insulted him so he changed himself into a beggar to teach her a lesson, at the end the Princess learnt her lesson and lived happily ever after in her new Kingdom.
I am on my computer almost everyday and I mostly work only on Word and play games. That's all.
What is your experience with Photoshop and Illustrator?
The last time I used Photoshop was in Senior Year of my High School and I have never worked on Illustrator before.
Do you have a computer at home? If so does it have Photoshop and Illustrator?
Yes, I have computer at home but it does not have Photoshop and Illustrator.
What is your major?
My major is Computer Graphics
What do you hope to get out of this class?
I hope to learn Photoshop and Illustrator, To be able to come up with new brilliant ideas for my projects.
Who is your favorite artist?
I don't have any. I don't like only one, I have few but they are all just fine.
Who is your favorite musician?
None
Tell me something interesting about yourself?
My Birthday is in 4 days on January 28th. I am from Pakistan and I can speak 7 different languages such as English, Urdu (My county language), Spanish, Malay (Malaysian Language), Japanese (A little bit, still learning), Chinese (In the process of learning) and Korean (Learning).
Write a five line story?
Once upon a time, there was a very stubborn,very proud, bad mouthed princess who lived alone with her father in a Kingdom. Her father wanted her to get married as soon as possible because of her bad personality, she was ruining his image as the King, her dad called a meeting at which the princess will have to choose her bridegroom/Prince but instead she insulted every single one of them, pointing out the flaws they had, her dad couldn't tolerate this embarrassment and promised to get her married to the first person who walks in the gates of the kingdom, next day in the morning. The next day, a beggar came in the Kingdom and her dad forced her to get married to him, she pleaded with him but she got married and kicked out of the kingdom, the beggar took her to his Village. In the next six months, the beggar treated her badly, and she hated him for that but actually that beggar was trying to change her personality because he was none other than one of the Prince that came to the meeting, and she insulted him so he changed himself into a beggar to teach her a lesson, at the end the Princess learnt her lesson and lived happily ever after in her new Kingdom.
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