This weeks concepts were a little harder for me to understand. I found the concept of design kind of confusing at the beginning. I couldn’t get a really good grasp on what it meant. After doing the readings and watching the films I believe I began to understand a little better. I felt like there was a lot of overlap between this week and visual week. Vignelli Canon’s booklet helped me to understand the meaning of design better and gave me a good idea of the concepts that it is composed of. It showed me that it is more than just taking photos, there is a certain way to go about looking at the structure of what you are trying to convey. The film that I watched was “Double Indemnity.” This film make me think about how the spacing and concepts of design can be applied to a story. I thought that the spacing and arrangements of the scenes could create a feeling that doesn’t have to be spoken. The design blitz was a good way for me try out the different concepts of design. I chose to represent dominance, color, proportion, and rhythm. I think I still need more practice representing these different concepts but the design blitz was a start. I thought it was interesting to find some of the concepts in nature as I did because I never thought of applying these concepts to everyday things I see in nature. The daily creates did not show as much of my creativity as the past weeks but they were still enjoyable. My favorite was the creative hands assignment because I got to share some of my favorite pictures. I thought the design assignments this week were fun to complete and I got to make some humorous pictures. Such as my photo of Professor Groom participating in American Idol as Simon Cowell. The assignments put my editing skills to the test but I think it improved them in the end. Finally the copyright readings and videos showed a different side of copyright I had never thought of before. I never thought to look at the argument that copyright hinders creativity. I always just saw it as a law to preserve rights. I think there are valid arguments for both sides of the debate and I agree with values form each side. In all this week was challenging for me but also gave me a better understand of the principal of design.

Thoughts:

http://sgrubbs2.com/thoughts-and-ideas/copyright-creative-commons/

http://sgrubbs2.com/thoughts-and-ideas/vignelli-canon/

http://sgrubbs2.com/thoughts-and-ideas/film-design/

Assignments:

http://sgrubbs2.com/assignments/design-blitz/

http://sgrubbs2.com/assignments/what-really-happened-in-the-titanic/

http://sgrubbs2.com/assignments/the-ultimate-merger/

http://sgrubbs2.com/assignments/jim-cowell/

Daily Creates:

http://sgrubbs2.com/daily-create/my-super-power/

http://sgrubbs2.com/daily-create/make-creative-hands/

http://sgrubbs2.com/daily-create/draw-a-david-that-david/