portfolio
"A set of pieces of creative work collected by someone to display their skills to a potential customer or employer"
Throughout the whole semester and a half we have been working on many different projects each week. The above image is an example of one of our assignments. Right from the start our teachers let us know how important it was to save all of our work not only for our own personal reflection, but also for future inspiration and reference. I followed their advise, so I kept all of my hard copies in a portfolio bag and put it all onto my blog to view it more readily.periphery
" The outer limits or edge of an area or object."
Most of the items included in my portfolio were drafting projects. When I first started drafting I started to view spaces differently. I started to think about exterior and interior, and like we discussed in class, what separates the two. When an object or space is hollow there is a boundary we see that separates the space from the outside world. This boundary is the periphery. With our portal project we experimented with how to make that transition from exterior to interior, or vise versa, easier, or more appealing.
perspective
"The state of existing in space before the eye”
"A mental view or outlook"
"The state of existing in space before the eye”
"A mental view or outlook"
The above image is a rendering of one of my projects from a tilted or axonometric perspective.
When putting a portfolio together, especially when the portfolio includes buildings or spaces that you’ve drafted, it is important to keep in mind how the person looking at your work will view it. Because we have knowledge that not all people have, we will understand things more easily, but when you think of the average person you realize you have to include more information so that they can understand what they are looking at. They have a different perspective of your work than you do.
Perspective can also be a physical placement. For example, when viewing a room there are many different angles from which it can be viewed, which will result in many different drawings, or renderings.
"The practice of drawing, as described by Vitruvius, also sounds remarkably modern, for he writes of ground plans (ichnographical) being laid out with compass and ruler, of elevation drawings (orthographic) being 'a vertical image of the front', and of perspective (scaenographia) with shaded and retreating lines converging at a vanishing point." [Roth]
process
"A series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end."
When putting a portfolio together, especially when the portfolio includes buildings or spaces that you’ve drafted, it is important to keep in mind how the person looking at your work will view it. Because we have knowledge that not all people have, we will understand things more easily, but when you think of the average person you realize you have to include more information so that they can understand what they are looking at. They have a different perspective of your work than you do.
Perspective can also be a physical placement. For example, when viewing a room there are many different angles from which it can be viewed, which will result in many different drawings, or renderings.
"The practice of drawing, as described by Vitruvius, also sounds remarkably modern, for he writes of ground plans (ichnographical) being laid out with compass and ruler, of elevation drawings (orthographic) being 'a vertical image of the front', and of perspective (scaenographia) with shaded and retreating lines converging at a vanishing point." [Roth]
process
"A series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end."
All of the work we kept was to, in the end, review our own work to see how we have developed over time. Looking at my sketchbook from first semester I’ve already seen an improvement in the way that I take notes. This process and development of my thinking and artistic capabilities will in the end make me a better designer.
In our portal project we had to go through a long process of designing a portal that fulfills commodity, firmness, and delight. The commodity part of this project was that this portal had to tie the work of each group member’s previous projects, and the temple of Queen Hatshepsut all together to make a visually pleasing and structurally sound portal. This was a very difficult thought process, along with physical process too. Coming up with the design was equally as difficult as creating the physical structure and installing it properly. It was a learning process.
professional
"Having or showing great skill"
(Image taken from: http://www.iparenting.com/graphics/dad0103.jpg)
professional
"Having or showing great skill"
(Image taken from: http://www.iparenting.com/graphics/dad0103.jpg) With all of these new skills that we're learning and developing our main goal for the end of this process is to become a professional. In this case this means mastering the art of drafting, drawing, developing art skills in general.
We are not only learning the skills that it takes to become professionals, but we study the people who have been professionals for years and how they did so. For example, when we took the field trip to Highpoint University a couple weeks ago we heard Alexander Julian speak. I really enjoyed this. It was so interesting to hear him talk about his own work; what he liked; what he disliked. What interested me most were the designs that were most successful. It was also interesting to hear how some of his previous designs that were considered radical, are very plain compared to today’s fashion. This just solidified in my mind how what we consider to be “good design” will be forever changing.
We are not only learning the skills that it takes to become professionals, but we study the people who have been professionals for years and how they did so. For example, when we took the field trip to Highpoint University a couple weeks ago we heard Alexander Julian speak. I really enjoyed this. It was so interesting to hear him talk about his own work; what he liked; what he disliked. What interested me most were the designs that were most successful. It was also interesting to hear how some of his previous designs that were considered radical, are very plain compared to today’s fashion. This just solidified in my mind how what we consider to be “good design” will be forever changing.
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