DESIGN SPEAK: CAPTURING DESIGN

Listen to and watch the film expert

unviel how she captures design

in a film documentary!

DESIGN SPEAK: CAPTURING DESIGN

An Agnes B Cardigan Film Documentary

by JOANNA ARONG

19 August 2010, Thursday, 6:30 pm

Chiye Mori Design Library

Suite 204 Rivergate Commercial Complex

Gen. Maxilom Ave., Cebu City

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technical drawings

Just some images of atechnicaldrawing. Technical drawings are really meant to help us in visualizing a product. . Pls. check out these links for further readings :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_drawing

http://www.scribd.com/doc/8455804/Technical-Drawing

Minimalist house

Minimalist house by Japanese studio Shinichi Ogawa & Associates in Okinawa, Japan. the house is divided length ways in to a courtyard and living spaces.

Pls. check out photos and further information in http://www.dezeen.com/2010/07/14/minimalist-house-by-shinichi-ogawa-associates/#more-87101 .

rectilinear volumes - bookshelf

This bookshelf by Benjamin Hubert is based on rectilinear volumes. For more information http://www.benjaminhubert.co.uk/

design sponge

Pls. check out this web site http://www.designspongeonline.com/

Die Drei by Martha Schwindling

These tables are made by design student Martha Schwindling. The three tables with drawers twist or tilt open. I posted the photo because of the usage of rectilinear volumes to create furniture to learn more about it . Pls. check out http://www.dezeen.com/category/furniture/page/2/

Rectilinear Volumes, part 3

The following notes are from a book called Elements of Design: Rowena Reed Kostellow and the Structure of Visual Relationships. I have copied some pages purely for educational purposes.

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In Summary ........

The challenge here is to create unity from forms as essentially different in character as possible. Start by designing the dominant, then the sub dominant. Spend a little time on this relationship. Quickly complete the sub dominant element, and arrange in as three dimensional grouping as possible. This will give you a sense of the overall configuration. then you can begin to refine. Emphasize either the vertical or horizontal proportion in each sketch. All joining should be established. the design should look interesting and three dimensional from every position. It should achieve an effect of unity in which every part relates to every other part, and every design relationship contributes to the whole.

Unity is the visual glue that holds everything together. you know that you have achieved it when all the visual relationships within the design are organized in such an exquisite dependent relationship that every element supports and strengthens every other form and any minor change would upset the perfect balance and tension.

Take your best sketch and develop it in plaster. You may want to make your plaster sketch larger than your clay piece-perhaps one and a half or two times larger. Differences in proportion will become more apparent as you enlarge the design.

Enlarging isn't simply a matter of copying it requires you to pay attention to subtle changes in order to achieve a harmonious whole.