I am starting to get a little sick of these snow days.... especially since the due date for our project is coming up a week from today. It's making me a little nervous. Hopefully spring will come soon because i am ready for this warm weather!!!!

I've been working on my process book and have gotten as far as I can go on it. All I need is a work day to start working on my chair. I still used tape on this one, but I'm going to tab the top piece to the two blocks with the cylinders and then I am going to tab the leaves together and tab them onto the top piece. I'm only a little worried about its stability. I guess we'll see..

Well we had a snow day today! Yay! I wasn't able to get feedback on how to connect the "leaves", but i'm sure I will next Tuesday. Trying to figure out how to make a scale model for the chairs is a bit difficult. I find myself still using tape, but I have a few ideas on how to connect everything. I guess we'll just have to see how the final product turns out!



 Now I'm ready for sledding and snowball fights, maybe even building a snowman! The "snowpocalypse" is intense.

I've narrowed my design down to:

It is both organic, elegant, strong, and it is contrasting. The only thing I am still unsure about it how I am going to connect the organic "leaves" to the rest of the chair/bench. I know the dimensions and everything, I just need to figure out how to connect them. I'm not sure if I should some how wrap it around into the "leaves" or what. I'm not even sure how to do it. But I like this idea.

Brainstorming in studio time was a bit harder than I thought it would be. The relationship with my best friend Tiana is very crazy, contrasting, confusing, and strong. To build a chair from that relationship is a little hard, but I feel like I could do a lot of crazy things with the design of the chair. Here are a few models of what I came up with so far:

This chair amazed me today in class. I would like to see how he connected each piece of cardboard and how he thought of the idea. I even want to know how many of them he has sold and for how much. This is just a fun thing I thought I would share from class.

Martin Pureyear Website:

I liked how this website gave us background information about who Martin was and what he specialized in. However, I wish there was a bit more information on the website about his work he is showing us. You can tell that he studied Asian, African, European, and American cultures to create his designs. Each object shows parts of the culture of each country. He uses very unique shapes and uses the basket weave style a lot in his work. It is very interesting, but I want to know why he chose to do so many circles. What was his motive behind it? Not being able to see Pureyear's creations in person does alter what I could think of his work. I find it hard to put the objects into context and figure out what the object is especially when I cannot see it in person. His work is very whimsical to me because of the curves and swirls of some of his pieces. His pieces are created with various materials and consisted of a lot of pieces. This makes his work inspiring, to see how you can manipulate objects that way and turn them into something so amazing. His work is also very minimalistic. He uses pieces but only the bare minimum and by doing that he shows the object and what it is constructed of.

Kendal Buster Website:

What I like about Kendal's website is that it shows all sides of her work and gives the viewer a chance to really understand her work from different view points as if we were actually there. Her work was very intriguing and it kept me in awe. I liked how she described the project and gave the audience an overview of what she did. Her models were also life-size and took what is normal and manipulated it into the unthinkable, such as her Model City design with the camping tents. Her designs are also whimsical with the spherical shapes and curves. It even gave me a few ideas on ways I can construct my seat/chair. I also really liked how she designed things for the inside and the outside environment. Her work is very impressive and I am drawn to it. Even the colors of her pieces are inviting.

Today was a success. I really like how my final design turned out, and I think a lot of other people did too. Because AFH and basketball is such a big tradition here maybe I could sell my collage. :) but anyways I liked a lot of other peoples' collages as well. Some of them turned out better than I thought they would, and others fell a little short. But overall this project was very fun and I think I will be trying to do this collage with other objects and spaces now that I know how to do it and try to make some decorations for my home.

The new project sounds pretty stressful because, well simply, how on earth do you build a chair out of cardboard?? And how do you make it strong enough to hold someone? I'm a little intimidated. I looked at a few designs on Google and I am thinking to myself that those chairs are so complex and look so difficult to make, but I guess I will just have to try with paper and see how it all works out. I am a little nervous about having a chair due next tuesday, but I just need to have fun with it and play around with the cardboard and card stock and see what I can come up with.

Today was a success. I finished my collage and was able to finish my process book. A whole bunch of stress has been lifted off of my shoulders. Who knew design would be so tedious?! The project as a whole was a lot easier than I thought it would be...I think I just make things harder than they have to be. I had a lot of fun with the project and I hope the ones to come are even better!

Here's a look at my final collage:

Class on Thursday went very well. I have decided to take on the challenge of documenting Allen Field House as my photo collage. I am a little nervous because I only have one shot to get all the pictures I needed so I guess we will see how things go.

My two bigger collages were the tea cup and AFH: