Assignment 03 - Hunting Down Design

Team Members:
       Mary Polanski - http://marypo.tumblr.com/
       Aaron Gegas - http://superfantasticish.blogspot.com/

The first two clues were easy to find for us because two of the members in our group either took classes at the Knowlton School of Architecture or is an Architecture major. We also figured that the Barcelona Chair was in the Architecture Library because we knew that there is a collection of designer chairs in there. While in the Architecture Library, we all worked together to research the other 3 clues and made our way to them, going from the SAS Building to Math Tower then to the Wexner Center. To take the various pictures, we all took turns in posing so that we would each have an individual picture for each clue.

 

    

Journal 04

Faces

 

 

Reading Reflection 04

Chapters 7 and 8 discussed Identities and Systems. In the first chapter, Heskett talked about how different cultures, nations, and environments portray various things in the world differently and how many different objects hold identities for those people. Designers must take this into consideration. In the next chapter, he talked about systems, how many different objects and things can collectively come together to display a single idea as a whole. He mainly used transportation and road signs as examples but this can be seen everywhere there are people trying to communicate with other people or get a message across.

Class Reflection 04

I learned a lot this past week in class about accessibility and how designers should be designing universally and in ways that do not exclude certain demographics. The lecture on accessibility really heightened my interest for design because I believe that one of my gifts and desires in life is to be a problem solver, and knowing that the field of design has a great need for these types of problem solvers, it makes me even more excited to become some type of designer.

Reading Reflection 03

Chapters 4, 5, and 6 offer very interesting information that I never thought of before. All three chapters talked about how there is more to the objects that designers design than we think of what is even seen. So much more is taken into account before and during the design process of a single object or idea because the designers have to consider the many different ways the object could be used, can communicate ideas, and affect its surrounding. It seems like being a designer takes a lot more thinking than I first thought; none-the-less, it sounds very intriguing and exciting.

Class Reflection 03

I thought the lecture from last Wednesday was very interesting. After spending so much time in architecture firms and learning countless information about architecture processes and the profession as a whole, it was good to see another profession with a similar process of doing things. I was in fact surprised to find out that the Design process is very similar to the Architecture process of completing a project. This particular class definitely opened my eyes and mode me more aware of what kind of work I would be doing as either a professional designer or a licensed architect.

Journal 03 - Survey