Project Navigation

The Navigation is the visual map to see the message. It draws the path for the viewer and suggests where to go after each section. and what to raed after one another.

I-Pad Application: For the Project Navigation, an I-pad application was designed and the target audience for this application was the normal people who are not designers but still wants to know what designers learn in the designing school. " The journey of the semester I" is the title of the application.  All the description is non designer so that people can understand in general what all the elements of design are there around them. Whole design was divided in two parts: Black & White and color. Here black and white part shows the learning stage where the elements are not arranged properly or without designing while the colorful part shows how and where the designing capacity reached after getting knowledge. On landing page the two different buttons are given which will take directly to the stages named
"Learning" and "Designing". The black and white images changes dramatically with a tint of color and ends up with a colorful world. This is a surprising element which draws the viewer's attraction.
The navigation is showed with the square block of solid color or with the negative space. The navigation path draws the attention of the reader from page to page though no page is divided in page after page manner.
All the information or the pictures are from the blog but still the information is different due to different target audience.
A bunch of squares takes the reader to the blog for some more information regarding that element and a diamond near the name of the element, takes them to the project which was done for that element.

3D: For the 3D project the whole application was presented in a way that one can touch and feel what is it all about. To Continue the square theme, the dice was taken as a product and the outer part was designed with black and white learning stage. One side is with tint of some color, encouraging the viewer to open that box. While he opens the box, again the world blast with color and ends the journey from black and white to the colorful world and the dice became box, inside out folding. The joints of the box is stick together with magnets so it will allow the box to be converted inside out and black and white dice will become the colorful box. 

facts behind gaining weight

Are you doing everything to lose your weight and still gaining weight? Are you strictly eating everything that says ‘low fat’, or have a diet of two tomatoes and 1 boiled potato per day?

People have always associated fitness with fat loss or weight loss. In the struggle to achieve success overnight, they tend to subject their bodies to several kinds of abuses including rigid crash diets and ‘low fat’ binging. However, they don’t realize that bad eating, wrong diets and above all several other factors, non-related to food could be the potential reasons for your weight gain.

Let’s elaborate top six of them.

What happens when you diet
If you think that by eating sparingly for fifteen days, you will get back in shape, then its utter rubbish! Bodies that go into sudden starvation mode tend to save more calories than burn it. The body is like a system, which needs fuel to conduct basic metabolic activities, including burning of fat. Hence, when there’s no food or fuel, as the body saves the existing energy instead of utilizing it.

Watch what you eat!
Similarly, binging on ‘low fats’ labelled food, is bound to make one gain weight. Most of such food products have high levels of sugar, which add to the calorie count and therefore, explain the weight gain. Hence, instead of going for such foods, resort to fresh home cooked foods for weight loss. Don’t forget to avoid the junk food at all cost

Sedentary lifestyle
Maybe you are eating right, but are simply failing to shed those kilos. It’s time to pay attention to your activity levels. Having a sedentary, lazy life or being a couch potato can be one of the reasons behind those excess tiers around your tummy.
Switch to an exercise regimen that is well suited for your body. If you are not an exercise person, then cultivating a few sport activities may be helpful. Try yoga, swimming or jogging or dancing to lose weight. A simple brisk walk of 45 minutes a day can help you as well.
Check your medicines
Some medicines have side effects of weight gain. You need to check with your GP, to confirm your fears. If possible, get him to prescribe other medicinal substitutes that do not have such side effects.
Sleeping patterns
Are you becoming an owl lately? Maybe it’s the reason behind your saddle bags! Switch to normal sleeping routine. Irregular sleeping patterns disturb body metabolism and result in weight gain.
Quit drinking
Excess drinking spoils and fattens the liver, making it sluggish in process. Being the chief blood detoxifier and fat metaboliser, it is unable to perform both the functions. This results in gaining weight and skyrocketing new heights of obesity.
Next time, when you feel you are fat, just try and throw some light on the above mentioned factors. If everything is fine, then maybe it’s time to get yourself medically checked for a better understanding of your body’s metabolic health.

Charles and Ray

Charles and Ray Eames are among the most important American designers of this century.  They are best known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design (e.g., the Eames Chair), industrial design and manufacturing, and the photographic arts.

Charles and Ray married in 1941 and moved to California where they continued their furniture design work with molding plywood. During the war they were commissioned by the Navy to produce molded plywood splints, stretchers and experimental glider shells.  In 1946, Evans Products began producing the Eameses' molded plywood furniture.  Their molded plywood chair was called "the chair of the century" by the influential architectural critic Esther McCoy.  Soon production was taken over by Herman Miller, Inc., who continues to produce the furniture in the United States to this day.  Another company, Vitra International, manufactures the furniture in Europe.  In 1949, Charles and Ray designed and built their own home in Pacific Palisades, California as part of the Case Study House Program sponsored by Arts and Architecture Magazine.  Their design and innovative use of materials made this house a mecca for architects and designers from all over the world. It is considered one of the most important post-war residences built anywhere in the world.

 Tic Tac Toe Fabric Design by Ray,
circa 1947, ink on gold paper.

 Ray holding Dot Pattern
Fabric Design,
circa 1947, photograph.

Ray's Desk,
1976, photograph.

Layers

The idea here was to represent the two parties of Republicans and Democrats with their corresponding mascots. All of the text that makes up each of these animals is words that either the candidate or party have said regarding the upcoming election. The idea of the two images butting heads shows that this competition is a healthy “fight” between the candidates. 

Hierarchy is used in three ways. First in the images themselves. That is the first thing the viewer will look at and recognize the two images. Second, in the thought bubbles above that plays as the second focal point and guides the viewer to read further into the piece. Lastly, the hierarchy created through the sizes of type. 

Voice is somewhat both serious and humorous - in that there is a fight, but also represented in a humorous way with animals fighting, and their thoughts. The typeface helps to control the rather calmness of the piece and not have it be too serious or too humorous. 

Scale is important here because of the drastic changes in type sizes, but controlled as it is within the largest images. Scale is used here to help emphasize the hierarchy discussed above.  

Type was the key element in this piece. The main image is made only out of different sizes of type. The typeface chosen, Helvetica, helps keep the piece stable with so much happening with the movement of the text. 

Image is represented by how all the words come together to create the image of either an elephant or a donkey. 

Rhythm is mainly shown in how the different sizes of type are laid out. The focal point has the very smallest type size then grows out into the medium size and finally the largest. This patten is seen in both images and shows that the spread comes from the focal point. 

Grid is shown in the placement of text in how it mirrors the sizes in each image. 

The issue covered here is Jobs with regard to how Obama has handled this issue in 2012 and how he plans to handle it if reelected to be president til 2016. The message being delivered to the viewers is about Jobs + Obama + his choices from 2012-2016. 

Hierarchy is represented in the topic of JOBS. That is what this piece is about. The next emphasis is on the years that pulls out the data from past and future condition and then the minor details are shown.  

Voice is split into two parts. The word “JOBS” shouts at the viewers with the large and colorful word. And then in contrast is the rest of the type as solid black or white text in a simple easy to read layout. This second use of voice shows the reader that the piece is indeed serious.  

Scale is used in three sizes, and each size takes the viewer further into the piece. The largest is the word “JOBS,” then Obama’s face with the years, and lastly the information. This is how the viewer is to see and read this piece. 

Type is used as the bookends of the piece. It is the opening with “JOBS” and the closing with the information. It catches the viewers attention and if successful in this regard, will then encourage the viewer to read further into the information area.

Image is only shown here with the face of Obama. He is the one who is responsible for all of our information in this piece and thus his image is the only one shown and in the center.

Rhythm is reflected both vertically and horizontally. 

Grid can primarily be seen in the evenness of the middle section of 2012-Obama-2016. However, the larger word in the back too plays into the grid but more as a wallpaper that helps the focal point become prominent. 

The excitement of voting! Save the date..for voting. The idea of having many pieces of voting papers flying into a voter’s box represents the people from all over the country that will be participating in this event, and encourages viewer too to be involved in this exciting time!  

Hierarchy comes into play here like nothing else!  The two leading features are the word “VOTE” and all the voting papers that come flying into the box. The date, is the secondary focal point so that it can immediately give information to the targeted people.

Voice is extremely loud in this piece. The huge type certainly shouts at you, but because of such an even typeface the shout is indeed loud, but serious and not obnoxious. The obnoxious feature is the flying voter tickets. They are exiting and almost like lots of little voices saying, “I voted, so should you!”

Scale is pushed to the extreme here. Starting from the largest size of “VOTE” to the smallest words on the collaged voter’s box. It helps guide the attention and in what way the viewer is to read the piece. 

Type is used to both speak a message and to help emphasize the element in front of it.

Image plays as a side element. It works almost like brackets to the central feature of the voter’s box. 

Rhythm can be seen vertically as everything is aligned centrally.  

Grid is reveled in the layout of the larger, medium, small, and smaller aspect of the piece.  

This piece takes the text of the previous one to much more of an extreme. Before the voting tickets were flying out of the installation, this one has the text bursting out and the collage image as a background that almost swallows the viewer up. 

Hierarchy  is used as the key to the “layers” idea here. Because of this, your eye is drawn to each element and layer but is lead back to the focus of the pieces in 11-06-12. 

Voice is definitely loud and shouting, but once again, because of the typeface it is not annoying but just really really excited! In the last installation the tickets were the annoying voice of the piece, and here the tickets have become the background and still have that same tone of overly excited and a little annoying voice. 

Scale is what creates this piece’s hierarchy. However, the largest scaled pieces have the least hierarchy. So scale is used to focus you down to the smallest and most important aspect. 

Type, if you consider the background collage of words as “type” then this entire piece is only made up of type! Amazing what type can become. 

Image is only used in the background. In the previous installation the images we used were used like supporter material, and here we have taken that same idea and used image as again supporter to the main focus.

Rhythm is consistent throughout the entire series. If you split this piece down the middle horizontally or vertically you can once again see the rhythm. 

Grid is extremely structured here. In lines both vertical and horizontal you can see the grid.

 

Sister Corita Kent

Sister Corita Kent is famous Internationally due to her spiritual art and her commitment to social justice. Her designs speaks her expression towards society and government. She freely expressed all the things not by speech but by designs. She also ran and Art department at Heart College until 1968 and afterwards shifted to Boston, Back Bay.

She made so many commissioned works- Book Jackets, Text book illustrations and her own serigraphs.
For her all the designs the freely used color and shapes speaks the voice of freedom. She used exuberant splashes of color to make her work introspective.
She also remained alive in social causes and for those causes she designed billboards and posters. Her random meaningful work was full of colors and multicolored designs attracts the viewer to just give a thought.
Her work is still being maintained by the Corita Art Center globally.

Layers

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http://fineartamerica.com/images-medium/layers-lxxvii-diana-durr.jpg

Scale

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Sol LeWitt

 Sol LaWitt

Sol LeWitt is known as one of the most important artists in the Minimal and Conceptual art. Since 1960, LeWitt has worked in a variety of media including sculpture, prints, and photography. He has work from photography to on paper and wall drawings, and includes 3-dimensional structures that explore different geometric forms such as pyramids and cubes. His work has been shown in hundreds of museums and galleries around the world.
The most attractive part of his work is the use of color and the geometric shapes, colors and black and white 3D paintings. The large paintings displayed on walls in the MASS MoCA is an installation done not only by himself but also (under his guidance) by his assistants.

Some of the paintings of Sol LaWitt at MASS MoCA

The paintings are the most important contribution of Sol LeWitt but Sculptures with geometric shapes like cubes and pyramids, open and closed, uneven structure is another big contribution to the art world. The white cube construction is as attractive as a colorful construction of uneven parts.

Some gimps of his Sculptures.

Photo: Jason Wyche

He also recognized the benefits for artistic productions and publication. To produce the books and performance based display, he used his inherent element of photography and organized them in a system.

Sol LeWitt
Autobiography Sol LeWitt 1980
New York, Multiples, Inc., 1980

An inspirational sentence said  by Sol La Witt dedicated to all artists  :
(I am most inspired by )

“Try and tickle something inside you, your ‘weird humor.’ You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.” 

“You are not responsible for the world — you are only responsible for your work, so do it. And don’t think that your work has to conform to any idea or flavor. It can be anything you want it to be.”

“Conceptual art is not necessarily logical,” 

“The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.”

• From an article in Art forum magazine in 1967