Individual Design Review!

Today in studio was the individual design review for our on-going project with Mark Sloan and the Halsey Art Gallery.  Luckily or us Mark was able to attend the review and gave us all some really great feedback on each of our designs.  Each student was given ten minutes to present their idea to the group and [...]

Inspiration vs. Imitation

I have been writing over my past few posts on the topic of inspiration.  On this topic I first wrote about the passing of Steve Jobs, someone who's creative spirit and personal drive I find an inspiration, and last week I wrote about searching for inspiration in unexpected places and made the argument that the [...]

And then there were eleven…

For those of you who are not familiar with the process we will be going through this semester – let me summarize. We started with a group charette last Friday upon conclusion of which, inspired and excited, we were given nine days to develop our own personal individual design. On Monday that phase of the [...]

Keep Calm and Design On!

Hey everyone! Nice to be blogging to y'all again!!! But back to the important stuff! So far everyone is doing well with the individual designs! We are now moving into creating 3D models for our individual presentations. Today although class didn't meet, we were still busy working on our projects for our critiques tomorrow. Despite [...]

Gravity is over rated.

“Darn gravity got me again you don’t know how bad I wanted to sleep on the wall” -Mitch Hedberg I feel like with this project I might as well be trying to sleep on the ceiling. Every time I think I’ve figured something out and I work on it and work on it and then [...]