Last Day of Class

Well all in all, we are as ready as we can be since we didn't have a lot of time and our materials were spotty, so buying more would have been a huge expense! So we stuck with what we had and we arrived early to set up in a classroom, trying to use the rope line in the middle to support, as well as us not being afraid to help support it while we had to let people in and out. So we'll see how this pans out in the end. My fingers are crossed that I didn't fail....

Part two work day

We worked really hard Friday, and Saturday to find that we were having extreme difficulties in making our inflatable room stand up by itself. And in the end, we think it was the tunnels' fault, though we had to have tunnels or openings for people to get in and out.  So we changed it, to where there was only one opening. Other causes could also be that our dome was very tall and not very wide, so it was having trouble supporting itself and also, our material may have been a bit heavier plastic.
 

Part two

We were tasked with creating an inflatable room that describes our word— surprising or jarring, so we cam cup with three different ideas.



Our first idea was to build a room that had a tropical scene (or some other scene) with music on the outside that was something different than what you imagined the inside to be. For example, if there were rock music on the outside, you may expect there to be a disco ball or strobe lights, except when you got inside, you'd be surprised to see a beach scene.

Our second idea was some sort of crawling maze. Where the people would have to craw everywhere and go through jarring obstacles.

And our third option was to build a dome with tunnels on the sides and there be something surprising, like balloons or something on the inside.

Part 1

After small exercises, we started brainstorming about what we wanted to do to convey about the video in a way that made a heart tug. So we created a plastic gravestone. The gravestone symbolized the dying of humanity and plastic bags taking over.

We spent a lot of time on the first part of this project. 

Final Project

We were assigned to create an inflatable scene based on a video we watched in class about a plastic bag. The plastic bag video displayed a plastic bag floating through the wind, wishing it were dead because it's owner has disregarded it.

So we created models of our rooms to show spacial value and positioning of features in the room. 

 I spent such a long time creating this chipboard model, glueing and re-glueing, until it stuck together. We brought it into class the next day and we barely even looked at it. It was purely just for learning spatial positioning. So frustrating and useless.

Note to the Editor

Here's what my addition said:

As this semester started, I had no idea what I was getting into. I knew I would like the concepts of design but I did not really understand what it would take or the process to become a designer. My mother is in business as a marketer and sales director and my father is in engineering, so I have not had any previous experience or influence in design. Since this is the last process book for the semester, I can truthfully say it has been challenging and a lot of late nights were put into this class, however, in the end, I loved it. Of course there were those nights where I hated staying up to construct small three-dimensional letters and working on process books and taping giant three-dimensional letters together, but like I said, at the end of the day, it was a class I enjoyed. At the end now, I feel like I have learned a lot about design and it as been a fulfilling process overall. Given the outcome, I am glad I chose design and I am glad I will be working with it throughout my lifetime. 

I hope you have enjoyed this book! 

Editor

Maddie Hughes

 

Beautiful Solutions Layout and Addition

I thought my layout kicked ass!
 
Here are just a few images from my process book. 

I even made an editors page at the end, not only to add a page but to also say something about myself and about my time in the design class.
 And it's so cute! (: