Light Fixture

I spend way too much time on Pinterest, but by doing so, I've come across some pretty awesome light fixtures! This is one of my favorites.

Word Construction and Placement from Project Three

We had quite a few ideas as to how we could create letters to implicate the definition of displace, and decided on our final design as the most successful. We essentially created three-dimensional letters, but one of the sides was missing to each letter. This signifies the word displace because like the definition states, parts of the letters were ‘removed’ and ‘taken out of the usual or proper place’. We also painted the letters purple because our main location was going to be somewhere abundant in KU spirit, therefore the letters would look very displaced, or ‘put out of the usual or proper place’. So, we took a few pictures in different places with Jayhawks and KU apparel. We also took a picture o the word going down a busy stairwell in Budig; the word itself in this location was extremely displaced. This was reinforced by all the odd looks we got from everyone passing by! Another location was inside Strong Hall, where the word was sitting on the floor except the ‘P’, and the ‘P’ was up on the balcony above the letter. Therefore, the ‘P’ was displaced. An additional location we did was in the Watson Library. We scattered the letters down an aisle in the stacks because of the displaced and lost feeling most people get when they try to find a book here- I personally have felt very displaced in the stacks! Overall, we worked hard to incorporate the meaning of our word into every location we chose.

Reflection of Photo Reading

The photo op reading gave me lots of ideas as to how to take the pictures for our group, since that was one of my tasks. It became a good tool to use to make my photos more successful. I took photography classes in high school where I essentially learned these things, but it was nice review. The main aspects of photography I used in my photos were  repetition of color in my photobook, asymmetry in many of the pictures, close ups to define detail, and movement. As for the other article, I’ve learned an ample amount about photography in art history classes I have taken, but nothing in this much detail. It was fascinating to review the background of where it came from and peoples’ views on photography. Documentary photography has always been a particular interest of mine- I actually considered photo-journalism as a potential major. It is exceptionally interesting to me to see how one photo can not only connect to such a tremendous amount of people, but also provoke emotion from these people as well.

Reflection of Project Three

At first, this project seemed a little overwhelming; I couldn’t imagine how every group could possibly have room and time to make 3d three-foot letters and haul them around campus to different locations. However, this project ended up being really fun. The hardest part of the project did not even involve the construction of the letters, but multi-tasking one weekend when we had to finish our individual letter projects and focus on our group projects as well. Cutting the letters was a fast-paced part of the process, but that is what made the whole process intriguing. Scouting out locations with my team was also fun. It gave us a chance to put our creativity together and get to know each other much better. Overall, I really liked the hands-on aspect of this project, and although there wasn’t a tremendous amount of design involved, it was thought-provoking in a design-oriented sense.

Project Three Description

For the group portion of project three, we were assigned a word and were told to design three-foot high cardboard letters that spelled the word. The letters had to somehow reference the definition of the word. When the letters were finally constructed, we were assigned to place the word at different locations on campus and the locations also had to reiterate the meaning of the word. Because we were told to take pictures along the way through this process, our final project was to assemble a photo book that consisted of the process and final outcome of the group portion of the project.