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CDF - ideas

Ideas for color

aged maps - Throughout the centuries, there have been a good many maps that have been produced. Old maps always have a quite distinct color. they often have very rich, interesting, and beautiful colors.

fruit - fruit is something which has a good deal of variety in shape and especially color. there are many different textures on fruit.

old posters - Old posters/lithographs are things that have an incredible use of color. Earlier through history they start out with a rather simplistic use of color, and later color in poster design becomes more complex.

CD&F update october 12-16

This week was spent on continuing our understanding of certain different visual concepts. During the continuation of the project that had begun in the previous week - where we were instructed to create digital, photographic imagery of our 3D letter form - I finally became considerably more acquainted with these many different ideas.

Despite how much time I spent thinking about how to make a three dimensional letter form convey the idea of transparency, or minimal detection was something of a challenge. My particular 3D letter form had it's own certain hinderances which became problematic as it inevitably lacks some dimensionality. However, getting feedback from the critique this friday helped me almost completely understand the idea of these concepts. As a result, I now feel a good deal more confident as I make my final iterations for my accordion book.

a: first image - the complete letter form

b: balance - stability

c: balance - instability

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Possible titles:

a city in kansas

lines and curves of kansas city

kansas city north and south

basic bits of kansas city

elements of kansas city

juxtaposition in kansas city

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Kansas city is a place with many beautiful locations. From north to south, the old part of the city is simply seething with

old, ornate architecture and modest but pleasant sky scraping skylines. Lines are in fact what actually define these characteristics of a place. By understanding the basic lines of the city, we begin to discover things that we've never seen before.

J + S

The simplicity and imagery of this 1930s poster is very appealing. The close proximity and the similarities in how each transportational device is visually manipulated makes for a good example of how one might use juxtaposition. The correlation of the car, train, plain and globe all going the same direction clearly and instantly communicates to any viewer the idea of motion and efficiency. The major similarity of each object in the image is the solid colors.

The text on the bottom nicely completes the image, with it's own juxtaposing aspects.

COLOR DRAWING FORM update oct. 12 - 16

This week, in Color, Drawing, and Form, I was able to continue and finalize my three dimensional letterform. It was a good exercise in understanding how to better develop my creative process.

After a series of refining events, I was able to come up with a more or less final solution as to how i was going to finalize my 12"x 14"x 6" three dimensional 'F'.

Naturally, there were a number of iterations and major decisions I had to make as I was finally assembling the sculpture.

Here are a few images of the sculpture (and tool that i used) which I was able to take during the work process:

COLOR DRAWING FORM update oct. 12 - 16