BAG (:

A long time ago before we did the iSkins, we had to make our own bag.  We had to make tesselations and put them on the bag.  Then we had to design them.  I thought it was cool to make because it tested our designing skills and pretend that you're going to be the next huge designer of a big company for bags.

Mine was a handbag, which is pretty cool, with zippers and safety pins, a taped-on label and a pretty cool tesselation.  And it was green (:  I really liked it because I thought it kind of expressed how I think of things, and I also liked the outcome of my design.

I can't really find the picture of my bag, but I tell you it's pretty cool.

Word Art (:

Our current project (well... Most of us are done with it.) is word art.  Its a picture with the name of the object hidden in the picture.  The picture has to be of something you can feel, touch, smell, anything.  Just not a feeling like hot, cold, etc.  You have to be REALLY imaginative and REALLY creative to make something that's awesome and will blow minds away.

STEP ONE.

Pick the four words that you want to do (or just one, if your first design was the one you likes the most.)

STEP TWO.

Pick one of your designs and choose the background color.  Draw your picture again in a bigger paper.  You don't draw the design on; it's a collage.  You cut them all up and then stick them together.

Then there you have your word art!  It's fun because you get all that creative juices in your brain to start working becaasue you really have to think about your design.  In the end it's going to be worth it since they'll be like "OMG, that is so cool!"

I don't really have a picture right now since I don't have time to get them from the shared file :P  But I'll get it as soon as I can.  It's really hard to find a word art design in the internet because all that comes up are fonts and not the actual project that we are doing.

HARMONY: The design must be together, not one is out of place or different with the other parts of the       design.

UNITY: Must be together, not one is apart from another.

REPETITION: Repetetive.

BALANCE: Equal in design.

EMPHASIS: Visually striking ot the eye.

Comment below if you know what it says (:

iSkins (:

iSkins!
What are they?
-They're a design you put on thigs to make your gadget look cooler (i.e. iPod, iTouch, Macbook)

How did we make it?
-On a draft paper, we had to draw four designs to pick from.  Each design had its own different theme.  For example, our class had to do one for elements of nature, garbage and pollution, personal design, and animal prints.
-After finishing all your drafts, pick the one that you like the most and experiment the colors by coloring it. After you're satisfied, transfer it to a bigger sheet of paper.  This will be your final.
-Think of tag lines to advertise your skin (:  Anything below 5 words to catch your reader's attention.  Then put it in a poster together with your final design for the iSkin.

ELEMENTS USED:
Harmony: all the things in the disgn must look good with one another.
Unity: designs are together; not one design is "left out"
Rhythm: repetition
Balance: equal in design
Emphasis: striking or interesting to the eye; different kinds of weight used.

My Little Poem/Jingle/Whatever you'd like to call it:

From a canvas it starts,

Paintings with different parts.

A new world starts from a rainbow,

Colors with a glow.

If you see with a keen eye,

You might see something a little more,

But start painting your skin,

That’s where you start it from.

Tessellations

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Yeah, I have to say that this is pretty cool.
Here, to my left, is an example of what you call a tessellation.  A guy that made this famous was named Mauritus Cornelius Escher (M.C. Escher).  You can learn more about him in one of my videos posted beloowww (at the end of this blog).

Let's say... How do you make this? Whaaat?
1.  Get a square pieces of paper.  Fold one of the papers into 4 small squares.
2. On one of the squares (folded), draw a pattern of some sort.  On the lightbox, unfold half of it, and turn it so that the pattern you just drew is facing down.  Trace the pattern again.
3. Unfold and repeat.  I think. Just trace it so that all four sides of the paper have the exact same pattern on it.

I was happy to make this project, I thought it was fun and all that stuff.  Making the pattern is the coolest part for me, but I regretted it the next 4 replicas I made after the original one.  It's good to have a really cool but then intricate and challenging pattern, but you HAVE to HAVE the patience to make all 6 of them.  Unfortunately, I'm not really the most patient person you've met. :( I'm a perfectionist like my mom (sadly.) so I sweat through ALL those tiny details getting the barcode pattern right, coloring in the right places (which I have failed at doing.  If you notice, the bottom left tessellation has the red and green coloring switched around.) but the whole process was fun and I would want to do it again. Maybe. I don't know.

It's cool actually, how the reds in the tessellation brighten up with the orange background.  (Maybe that's just because of the size of the picture... Hm.) And with the black background, everything kind of lightens up, even just a little.

IF I had to do it ALL OVER AGAIN, I would change:
-The pattern.  It looks tile-y to me and it's too hard to make it over and over again.
-Pay more attention to the coloring

ELEMENT OF ART USED:
Harmony(it can be put together), Unity (all connected together), Repetition (the squiggly things in the middle went throuhout most of the tessellation and everything was repeated on each side), Balance (every side had equal amount of shapes and designs), E...

A skill learned in the making of this project was the accuracy and precision of the patterns so everything woudl be good and identical.  A job that would use this skill would be a scientist or a mathematician.  Another skill was imagination and using a lot of ideas to design the pattern.  A job that uses this skill would be a designer of any type, an artist, or a painter.

Since the sound recording isn't uploading or working, what I learned in the making of the tessellation project was the meaning of the word 'tessellation.'  It means a collection of figures that fills a plane without overlaps and gaps.  Other things I leanred were how to make them and more about M.C. (Maurits Cornelis) Escher, the famous graphic artist who made tessellations famous.

LINKS:
Tessellation Artwork
M.C. Escher Artworks