Design Principles | Project 2: Sense of Place
|| 19/05/23 – 09/06/23 (Week 7 – Week 10)
|| Liau Kah Man, 0339084
|| Design Principles
|| Project 2: Sense of Place.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
4. Feedback
5. Reflection
6. Further Reading
1. A RECAP OF PROJECT 2 BRIEF
Project 2: Sense of Place (30%)
Observe your favourite place, the place you hangout the most, or the current location you're at. By having the sense of the place, illustrate it with the design principles learnt.
- Project 2 – Sense of Place blog link
- JPEG image of the final design, labelled as <Your Name_Project 2_Title of Your Final Design>
- PDF of Project 2 blog
- Considers the references made to clarify the message/ purpose. Uses the design principles to enhance the work.
Marking Rubrics
- Beginning (0-6) - Idea is not fully realized and execution is poor.
- Developing (7-9) - Limited success in expressing the idea visually. Lacks sense of the overall composition and how it communicates.
- Mastering (10-12) - Expresses intention with moderate success though not fully in control of outcome.
- Outstanding (13-15) - Identifies the problem critically with an insightful solution that clearly communicates the intention.
Learning Goal
- To apply design principles covered during the semester to your work.
- To create an awareness of how materials and composition are critical to your communication.
Timeframe
Week 7 – Week 10 (Deadline on Week 10)
2. DESIGN PROCESS
2.1 Visual References
Figure 2.1.1 Mind map, Week 5 (3/5/2023).
MY ROOM. Lived in the same small room (hostel) for 4 years till now. But since I usually went out in the morning and back at night, I only had the chance to spend more time here due to lockdown in 2021. I get to notice how the light shining into my room (the shadow) and sky color changes from morning to evening.¶ I have a funny hamster with some human habits as companion. He can sit, lie down and head leaning against something like a human.
ADP CLASSROOMS. Studying here especially during the free period after class and before sectional practice, then having the practice here too. Also had some bonding sessions of the club here, e.g. monthly birthday celebration of the members. The atmosphere here is somehow different maybe because it's at the basement floor. Each classroom designs here are quite different and interesting, some have spotlights, piano, a door to access rooms beside.
Figure 2.1.1 Mind map - study room, Week 5 (3/5/2023).
STUDY ROOM. If I'm on campus and no classes, study room is the place you can find me in the morning, afternoon, night and even midnight (also only if I need to rush my assignments and lectures for the week). Most (all) of my friends don't like study room because they think it's very cold here, easily distracted with people walking in and out, the photostat machines noises, and people here tend to talk more than in library. So usually, I go there myself.¶ For me, I like it here because the possibility of the study room to be full is low-to-none, compared to the library, although library has way more seats. The one time there's no seats in study room is during exam seasons at night and you'll be surprised of how many students are still there at 12am.
Every day is different in the study room, and I enjoy capturing them:
- Morning/Afternoon/Evening
- Sunrise & sunset
- The :) on the bag of a random person
- The ghost emoji bag
- The skateboards they temporary parked beside the study room.
- The air freshener smell they just changed last year.
- Friends passing by entering/leaving the library.
- Workers cleaning windows outside.
- A worker came in to sweep the floor in study room.
- Night/Midnight
- One day I accidentally slept and someone off the lights on my side, leaving the decorative lights on, I woke up due to the lights off and that's the day I actually noticed the decorative lights.
- The line of "dots" (lights)
- Renovation of the area beside library, now is called Arcadia and Bellevue.
- Fullhouse at night in exam season
- The security guard chase us out to lock the study room at 2am - still don't know why
- Was too cold so I studied outside study room, then some security guards went in for aircon (probably checking if there's people inside).
2.2 Idea Exploration
Figure 2.2.4 Draft 2 for Study room, Week 10 (8/6/2023).
Self-comments: Looks like having a war outside, mostly due to the clouds? Maybe the clouds are too low, making them looked like smoke coming from the ground.
Therefore, I decided to change the artstyle.
Figure 2.2.5 Progress on the sky, Week 10 (9/6/2023).2.3 Final Outcome in JPEG
Figure 2.3.1 Final self-portrait -- "My 24-hours camping site", Week 10 (11/6/2023).
Overall the colour pallete is quite harmonious with specks of yellows and oranges as highlights. The clouds of the both sides are asymmetrical. The illustration has also shown some contrast between the night and dawn sky, as well as the sky, human and birds. The stars are placed to balance out the overall composition and colour distribution of the illustration.
2.4 Feedback
Week 6: Sketch 1 (Figure 2.2.1) has a strong message, portraying the time passes, the amount of time spent in study room.
Week 10: In draft 2 (Figure 2.2.4), due to the black color, the human has more contrast than the tables, thus the focus is mainly on the human and different times of the day. A little advice: need the contrast to be brighter at the morning sky to see the transition better. Avoid black for unnecessary attention, use dark blue, and perhaps the grids as dark purple. Need to make a timeline more indicative, even showing some rays of the sunlight would be great. Can make the plants go up higher (to the purple parts) as the this down right corner side looks too heavy. Start the darker coloured tree from the lighter coloured tree. Try to make the tree more gradient.
3. REFLECTION
This task is also about spending time to recall my memory to understand myself, specifically my favorite place. Through this task, I realized one of my strengths would be being an observant person, however I do need to work on how to add in the details that I've observed. Lesson of this task probably is to be brave enough to dump the previous illustration (of the sky) and try a different art style --- Well, I do glad I changed it hahah xD
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