The Last Blog

Sadly, this is the last blog I will write for this class because, my last day will be on Wednesday. This class has taught me many things; especially Ms. Leppla. Even though I was only here for about 2 months, I feel as though my work, and also my art, has improved. I learned to just go with the flow sometimes and also, a British accent makes everything more better:)

Thanks to Ms. L, you were great 

PROGRESS WORKKKK

So basically, I scraped all my other concept sketches and  started a new one. The new problem i have identified is track spikes are annoying as hell. Right, so, after a warm-up in your regular running shoes, you have to put on your spikes before you start your race. But really who wants to take on and off their shoes after a warm up? I know that when I did it, it was annoying. For one, when you run the grass with spikes, you fall because the spikes are embedded into the grass. From personal experience, this was painful as well as inconvenient. So my solution is to make retractable spikes and a cover on the bottom of the soles to keep the spikes from coming out when you are doing your warmup.

Problem solving

My concept map:

Essentially, I feel the solution for my problem is that more help should be available to students who seek it. Sometimes when I go to the academic counselors for help, they don't even answer my question and I come out of there more confused than when I went in. For this reason, I think the counselors should know exactly what information they are giving us because that is important for us to see where our futures can go.

Line Work

Lines are essentially the works of everything in the world; everything you look at has lines. Before starting this lesson, I always liked my lines to be perfectly straight unless you know, it's a curve. After the lesson, I feel like i don't need to be as accurate as possible with my art and that makes me happy to be improving.

For me, lines convey every emotion because it makes up...literally everything.

I can convey the feeling of being dark and mysterious, or I can convey the feeling of being happy.
An example:

My partner said that my line work was pretty done well but that I need to REALLY capture movement with gesture drawings. I thought the movement of smiling was already captured in my picture. 

Problems of the world

There are so many important things in the world that are important to me but the problem that I am passionate about is helping people with mental and eating disorders. The next thing is helping people map out their futures. For me, I feel like there is no structure in my life but then all at once, there is a mass amount of structure and pressure from my parents. My last problem is a personal problem. I don't have enough money to buy art supplies to satisfy my artistic aspiration.

Self as a Designer

As a designer, I guess a self portrait doesn't have to be an actual painting, drawing or sketch of a person. I feel I am person that likes conciseness and precision, so sometimes it actually is hard for me to step out of my comfort zone.

For my self "portrait" I drew a set of geometric buildings and how as a single person, I am insignificant compared to them. It just goes to show that as a designer, my interpretation of myself is insignificance compared to others aka the buildings.

Product Improvement

For this project, we were suppose to come up with a product that can solve other people's problem. Palavi and I were just talking about washing dishes and how its just a pain in the butt, so she decided that there must be something that can be better than washing dishes by hand. I asked if she ever heard of the "thing" with the sponge and handle that people use for washing dishes. She said ,"Yea but its such an inconvenience,". So I suggested that we make the head of the "thing" spin so that its easier to take stubborn food off the plate.

We first decided to make the product's head round and replaceable with different style of sponges such as a steel wool, sponge, green scrubs, and bristles for cups. We did however encounter some minor problems like, "What if people wanted to use the WD for washing cups?". I thought that we should have a separate head for cups but then I realize, who would want to change heads in the middle of washing dishes? No one. So Palavi said, "What if  we made just one head for cups and dishes?"

That was a great idea except we THEN realize that it was hard to fit a non-moving head into a a cylindrical cup.

So we came up with a movable 360 spin head that you can lock when you were doing dishes. Other than that the only other change we made was making the Wash Disher's head tooth brush bristles so it is compatible for dishes and cups.

The minor change we made after designing the product was taking out the water hose that would've connected to a faucet and filter water through  the hole of the head.

This product honestly is the most useful product for lazy people that still need to do chores.

Misscommunication

This should be a fun class, right, I mean, let me just start the year off by not following any directions to the first project. For this first project, we were suppose to create a product that can support people across the Grand Canyon. I was like, hey, lets make a hang glider to go across the Grand Canyon, but then my team decided that that was impractical, so I said, what if we made a zip line across? They said that would be cool but we didn't have any glue. So then it was back to brainstorming. 

Brainstorming was really hopefully when trying to come up with an idea because it gave us a perspective of what we can and cannot do. 

So then we decided to make a triangular bridge. We tested this idea with binder paper, and it works, so that was great. We then figured that we need to somehow secure the hanging piece of paper that was a result of folding so we put the triangles into each other and overlapped it.
The only thing that made this project unsuccessful was the fact that we didn't have any time, but other than that, our team work was on point. Katy and Palovi was on point.