Homework1!!!

1. Describe the design the design process; it's categories and how it is used.

•  Identify the problem: This phrase makes me think of one looking for trouble but it is just that. And when one looks for a problem the question becomes "is it worth pursuing?" and if it is how will it be solved?
• Generate ideas: there are several ways of coming up with ideas like brainstorming, retrospecting, researching, and thinking outside the box otherwise known as "lateral thinking."
• Brainstorming is when one is placed into group to discuss ideas and how to expand those ideas.
• In the text "retrospecting" is known as mental inventory. I say it is retrospecting because it challenges the problem-solver to look into their own past expriences to find a solution. 
• Researching is to look into history to find a similar problem and how it was solved to help come up with a solution in the present.
• lateral thinking- Sometimes something that has never been done before and seems completely absurd could be worth pursuing to come up with a solution.

• Sketches and Notes: to make the idea more tangible it helps to make a few sketches and some notes wouldn't hurt either.
• thumbnail sketches provide visual notes and 
• sketch models provide a three-dimensional note kind of like "testing the water" of the idea usually made with cheap materials like paper.
• Written notation, "thinking aloud," written notes usually associated the sketch.
• Refine and Analyze
• drawings can be made in two ways one is presentational drawings which are more visually more interesting while working drawings are more schematic.
• Models and Mock-ups, models made three-dimensionally at a smaller scale. Full-scale models are known as mock-ups.
• White models are made of paper and white foam.
• Create, Decide, and Implement
• Actually make the idea into a reality and decide if it's good enough to share and if it is Share Away!

2. Define three dimensional form.
       Three-dimensional form is something with height,width, and volume(depth).




 ki-oke stool made by shuji nakagawa, feb. 7, 2013


 Work from Song Dong, feb. 4, 2013

3. Define positive and negative space.
   Space is the area around and between objects
    Negative space is where no object is present and positive space is the space that is occupied.
 
 floating reflected temples by takahiro iwasaki, feb 1,2013
I feel this a good example of space because the negative space is activated by the positive space.
5. Define direction.
   Direction is the relation of one object to the other.
 

   Woven Walls by Wies Prejide, jan 28, 2013
6. Define Scale
   Scale is the size of a form as compared to the space containing it, to another form or to the human body.

Pentatouque by Fabien merelle, jan 30, 2013
7. Define Point-of-View and Frame of Reference
Point-of-view is determined by the viewer and/or creator in reltion to the objects used in the composition. Frame of reference is the format against which position, direction and scale are used in within the composition.

Marc Quinn's large-scale infant sculpture, jan 28,2013