At the beginning of the week, I wrote a list of all the design elements we had to find so that when I had some spare time or thought about it, I could snap a picture. The first picture I took was that night, after my friend and I had dinner, and I saw the design of the shopping center’s sign. The typography is very reaccuring for higher end shopping centers. They emphasise the name of the shopping center by making the name very large in proportion to the rest of the words on the sign, but with an elegant font. I figured this was a great example of a typography that is used to project a certain viewpoint to the viewer, so I snapped a picture. Unfortunately, the bright type against the dark sky made the words blurred, so what it says is “Stonebridge at Patomac Town Center” on top of a columned tower on a building.

Later that night, I found another example of a design element on my Mom’s head. In the city of Washington DC, there are 2 important figures: the President, and the Quarterback of the Washington Redskins. Robert Griffin III, or who some refer to as RGIII, is one of the most iconic sports figures to hit the city, and he’s only a rookie. The symbolisism of his name, along with the iconic feathers down the side of the R resembling those of the Redskins logo come together to make a powerful symbol of Robert Griffin III, the quarterback of the Washington Redskins.

The next day, I was at my friends house and took notice of one of his mother’s candle holders. The candles in the holder were similar in color and shape, but one towered over the other, giving the whole contraption a specific interesting look. I took the flash off my camera so that I could get the shadows with the candle and snapped the picture.

Finally, I stepped outside and noticed that his mother had a very strange design to her garden; maybe by accident. While all the plants were green, there was one single rose that was extremely red. The dominance of the red over the rest of the plants immediately catches your eye, so I wanted to portray this by getting a close up of the rose against the rest of the garden.

The blitz assignments for the last two weeks, the DS106 Photoblitz, and the Design Safari have been very effective for me to start looking at everything around me as potential art, or someone more special than common.