Research on Book Folding

The Process of Our Big Letters!

Parts of a Letter

Typography is one of those things that is very overlooked and forgotten about unless you are asked to look more closely at it. We see words everyday but we do not stop to think about all the different sizes and type design that we are looking at. Sometimes they are arranged so that it is much harder to understand or better make out what the word is, and sometimes they are very distinctive, such as a plane serif font. Until i read this reading on parts of a letter i did not know there were so many parts of a letter to be identified, and that just by making a stroke width thicker than the other, it creates a different design. Another thing that brought my attention is that all letters (are supposed to) sit on a baseline which reminds me of when i was first learning to right and we were always given assignments where our letters fit perfectly in the baseline, and now i seem to neglect that aspect of typography. Although i know that most people don't have a care in the world if a words letter has an apex or a bowl, or a bard, or crossbar, a word is a word and we read it all the same; however i do think it is interesting to think we don't read words any differently no matter what parts of a letter a word has or doesn't have.

FOLLOW

FOLLOW

v. fol·lowed, fol·low·ing, fol·lows v.tr. 1. To come or go after; proceed behind: Follow the usher to your seat. 2. a. To go after in or as if in pursuit: "The wrong she had done followed her and haunted her dream" (Katherine Anne Porter). b. To keep under surveillance: followed the suspect around town. 3. a. To move along the course of; take: We followed a path to the shore. b. To go in the direction of; be guided by: followed the sun westward across the plains; followed the signs to the zoo. 4. To accept the guidance, command, or leadership of: follow a spiritual master; rebels who refused to follow their commander. 5. To adhere to; practice: followed family traditions. 6. To take as a model or precedent; imitate: followed my example and resigned. 7. a. To act in agreement or compliance with; obey: follow the rules; follow one's instincts. b. To keep to or stick to: followed the recipe; follow a diet. 8. To engage in (a trade or occupation); work at. 9. To come after in order, time, or position: Night follows day. 10. To bring something about at a later time than or as a consequence of: She followed her lecture with a question-and-answer period. The band followed its hit record with a tour. 11. To occur or be evident as a consequence of: Your conclusion does not follow your premise. 12. a. To watch or observe closely: followed the bird through binoculars. b. To be attentive to; pay close heed to: too sleepy to follow the sermon. c. To keep oneself informed of the course, progress, or fortunes of: follow the stock market; followed the local teams. 13. To grasp the meaning or logic of; understand: Do you follow my argument? v.intr. 1. To come, move, or take place after another person or thing in order or time. 2. To occur or be evident as a consequence; result: If you ignore your diet, trouble will follow. 3. To grasp the meaning or reasoning of something; understand. n. 1. The act or an instance of following. 2. Games A billiards shot in which the cue ball is struck above center so that it follows the path of the object ball after impact.

IDEO

This video was extremely appealing to me because i did not know the extent of how long it takes to create a new product that is not only functional, but convenient, visually appealing, and realistic. IDEO also uses the strategy of a team, which is a great way to collaborate ideas, even if they are outlandish or ridiculous because you feed off of those crazy ideas to make genius ones. It also helped our group in vision how to work in a group for this $5 design project by dividing up the tasks to the strengths and weaknesses of each team member and coming together to help mesh them together. The IDEO video also showed the idea that any product can be redesigned into something better or more creative, such as the shopping cart, or the ice scrapper our group chose. Another interesting point the video made was that pretty much everything you see from day to day was thought up in the long thought process of recreating or creating the design of the product. Another thing i liked about this video was that even though it was labor intensive and a long process recreating the shopping cart, the whole team seemed to enjoy themselves, no matter how weird the next persons idea was everyone took it into consideration and played off of them. No one seemed to be shut down, or have a limit to their creativity on how elaborate the idea was. Our teams goal on our project with the ice scrapper is to bounce ideas around from each person and pick our the best ones, just like they did in the video. The IDEO video also showed me that you can take pieces and parts of each persons idea to create different aspects of our product, and that we don't just have to have one great idea of one object, but we can mix and match

Better Design for $5

Successful Object Drawings

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This series of drawing i chose as one of my five most successful because i think have very interesting view points, as well as a nice light and dark contrast which makes it intriguing to the viewer. Although the drawing in the bottom right corner is not as well done as the other contours, it gives the whole page a fascinating composition.

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This is one of my most favorite pages because all of the picture planes are different and there is a variety of different drawings. i particularly think that the drawing on the top left is the most successful because even though it is a scribble drawing it still gives the object shape and form through the contrast of lighter and darker scribble lines. The drawings on the bottom are very interestingly layer out on the picture plane which is why i think the whole page in its entirety is successful rather than just each individual drawing.

This scribble drawing is quite similar the the one above, and i liked the way the one  above came out so i decided to try a new one on a lager scale. I consider this drawing successful because it takes up most of the picture plane and really focuses on the light and dark points and the scribble technique gives it character. it also starts to show the form of all the curves on the shaft of the key.

This drawing is fairly different from the other four above because it doesn't fill a whole page and there isn't complete definition of shade on the top. It is simply just a mix between contour and cross contour and i think the simplicity of it is successful in  defining what the object really is and its shape. I also think this drawing is successful because the top is just a simple contour and there is no shading which allows the bottom to show emphasis of all the curves and detail.