Final Project

It's our last day and I'm excited that I got to work and meet you guys. Here is my final for Project 6 hope you enjoy. I really had fun with this last one. See you next semester. 

Project 5 Final

Here is the completion of my project 5 designs. It took a lot of work and it was kind of difficult because my map wasn’t as traditional as everyone else but I had a lot of fun making it and expanding on an idea. Hope you guys like and let me know what you think could be improved upon.

Way Finding

When we started the way finding exercise I researched some systems that were already in use because the concept was a little foreign or so I thought. I didn’t realize that the impact that way finding has on us everyday. Although our way finding system seemed to be very challenging the actually concept was very easy but not in the traditional sense. Although when we look at way finding system whether we believe it was created to be more useful. Some interesting way finding systems that I saw were confusing and creative.  Here are some interesting designs.

I love that most of these system rely heavily on color to display there message. You visually communicate a message prior to the person reading the message. I'd like to thing that once a design is communicated once or to someone who repeatedly uses the system they would only need the color to understand the system without having to read the words. I think the use of color to identify different things is amazing. 

Project 4 Reworked

Here is my project 4 resubmission.

Project 3 Reworked

Here is my resubmission of project 3.

Project 2 Reworked

Here is my new version of project 2 let me know what you think. 

Project 1 Reworked

Hey everyone,

Here are my resubmission I wanted everyone to be able to see them as well so let me know what you think. 

Updates: On Project Four

Project four is coming to gather nicely. Once I found a system where I can have my design concept animated it was been a little easier. I am having some trouble getting the design set up correctly as far as timing. I think some parts may be to long but I'm trying not to have the audience be reading the screen for too long. Let me know if you have any ideas.

Lucky

 

Here are some quotes I love from the book Lucky by Alice Sebold. I think this book was on a list of book to read in High School which is strange now that I think about it because it is about rape but none the less it was one of the first books I actually wanted to finish, to learn more about the author and her life and how she coped with such a horrible ordeal.

 “I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand” 

“...memory could save, that it had power, that it was often the only recourse of the powerless, the oppressed, or the brutalized.”

Maybe it was because I was so young but this book really spoke to me and still stays with me on how your perceptions of the world isn’t the only one and how other people are effect by actions and words. How even when we feel alone we still try to get people to like us, accept us for who we are and who we could be.

Here's an excerpt from another one of here books.

“Buckley followed the three of them into the kitchen and asked, as he had at least once a day, “Where’s Susie?”

They were silent. Samuel looked at Lindsey.

“Buckley,” my father called from the adjoining room, “come play Monopoly with me.”

My brother had never been invited to play Monopoly. Everyone said he was too young, but this was the magic of Christmas. He rushed into the family room, and my father picked him up and sat him on his lap.

“See this shoe?” my father said.

Buckley nodded his head.

“I want you to listen to everything I say about it, okay?”

“Susie?” my brother asked, somehow connecting the two.

“Yes, I’m going to tell you where Susie is.”

I began to cry up in heaven. What else was there for me to do?

“This shoe was the piece Susie played Monopoly with,” he said. “I play with the car or sometimes the wheelbarrow. Lindsey plays with the iron, and when you mother plays, she likes the cannon.”

“Is that a dog?”

“Yes, that’s a Scottie.”

“Mine!”

“Okay,” my father said. He was patient. He had found a way to explain it. He held his son in his lap, and as he spoke, he felt Buckley’s small body on his knee-the very human, very warm, very alive weight of it. It comforted him. “The Scottie will be your piece from now on. Which piece is Susie’s again?”

“The shoe?” Buckley asked.

“Right, and I’m the car, your sister’s the iron, and your mother is the cannon.”

My brother concentrated very hard.

“Now let’s put all the pieces on the board, okay? You go ahead and do it for me.”

Buckley grabbed a fist of pieces and then another, until all the pieces lay between the Chance and Community Chest cards.

“Let’s say the other pieces are our friends?”

“Like Nate?”

“Right, we’ll make your friend Nate the hat. And the board is the world. Now if I were to tell you that when I rolled the dice, one of the pieces would be taken away, what would that mean?”

“They can’t play anymore?”

“Right.”

“Why?” Buckley asked.

He looked up at my father; my father flinched.

“Why?” my brother asked again.

My father did not want to say “because life is unfair” or “because that’s how it is”. He wanted something neat, something that could explain death to a four-year-old He placed his hand on the small of Buckley’s back.

“Susie is dead,” he said now, unable to make it fit in the rules of any game. “Do you know what that means?”

Buckley reached over with his hand and covered the shoe. He looked up to see if his answer was right.

My father nodded. "You won’t see Susie anymore, honey. None of us will.” My father cried. Buckley looked up into the eyes of our father and did not really understand.

Buckley kept the shoe on his dresser, until one day it wasn't there anymore and no amount of looking for it could turn up.”  - The Lovely Bones