For my proposed reading submission, I want to review the book “The Genius of Design” by Penny Sparke; 2009. What I enjoyed the most about this book was the part named “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” for many reasons. When the subject of the space moon walk in 1969 was introduced I thought it was [...]

In the lecture by Jamer Hunt, he basically starts off talking about Scaler Shifts & designs potentialities. He begins talking about portions & gives an example of how human beings grow in a un-proportional way to adulthood from toddlers. Jamer then talks about Tom Freedman & how he created the 1 ft ruler based on [...]

Hey everyone, so today I will be modeling an alien spaceship using what’s most commonly known as box modeling. I added a background after I finished modeling it. Final Render Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Step 12 Step [...]

In the lecture by Ted Byfield, he starts off talking about a map designed to represent a cross section of information about murders occurring in New York city. Everyday the NY Police department announces crimes happening in the city usually made from reports, news accounts & other reporting in general. The map shown to us [...]

The Social Life of Urban Spaces Hi everyone, so today I’m going to be reviewing an excerpt from the book “The Social Life of Urban Spaces” by William Whyte. Whyte starts off by talking a little bit about public city spaces & why some work to serve the people using them & why some spaces [...]

Okay I recently was working with Maya & here is a Parthenon I modeled. I’ll try to take you through the process I took to create it. Final Scene Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10

In the lecture by Clive Dilnot, he basically starts off talking about the artificial & how it is becoming ever more present in our daily lives to the point where the artifacts today will have melted away to absolve us from the organic tomorrow from the song lyrics “Artificial” by The Wailing Souls. He then [...]

Here is a greek building I modeled in Maya 2011. Still getting the hang of this software but overall I like the new improvements implicated by Autodesk. Wireframe build

Mashups: The new breed of Web App by Duane Merrill Hey, so this week I’m going to be reviewing the article Mashups: The new breed of Web app, An introduction to mashups: by Duane Merrill. Merrill starts off describing what are “Mashups” which are web-based data integrated applications that are becoming more & more main [...]

My group consisted of Michelle, Hildawg & me. Here’s our awesome drum-set we made. We started out experimenting with some ideas, but after testing the stuff we had I learned that some of the old junk worked better for this project then the others. I tried to build a computer from scratch for input to [...]