Brainstorming/Self-Assessment

Favorite Classes:

Illustration Geology Western Civilization Typography
Animation Psychology Math Classes Engineering Drawing
Art History Earth Science
Favorite Projects:
My portfolio website (online).
TV Icons (TV Network Branding) (Animated)
Title Sequence Animated
Music Animation (Ghostbusters)
Lego Guys Illustration
Non-Human Seven Deadly Sin Icons Illustration
TRON (Fantasy Travel) Poster
To The Stars Identity System

 

Challenging:

Anything that requires excessive writing or reading
Art History at Nazareth.

 

Favorite Designers (Living and Dead):

Massimo Vignelli
William Golden
Paul Rand
Saul Bass

 

Greatest Design Influences:

Frank Lloyd Wright
Video Games
Norman Rockwell
Greatest Historical Influences:
Russian Constructivism
Space Race (Anything to do with space)
Military

 

Influences outside the classroom:

Animals Legos Cartoons SyFy Channel Astronomy
Star Wars Star Trek Halo History Channel Video Games
Father/Grandfather – Medicine
Grandmother – Artist
Grandmother - Paris

 

Why favorite:

Earth Science and Geology - because I love learning about how things work.
Lego Guys – I enjoyed figuring out how to come up with unique ways to combine the Lego characters with Business Spot Ads.
Art History – the class pushed me to study extremely hard and expand writing ability.
Massimo Vignelli – He had a way of making form and function work making things easy for anyone to understand but still be extremely creative.
Frank Lloyd Wright – His architecture and overall lines appeal to my sense of design.
Norman Rockwell – His amazing attention to detail.
Space Race – Anything related to space I just find very interesting.
Star Wars, Star Trek, Halo - They each provided great stories, design concepts, and present very imaginative abilities of designers. Everything is a bit “outside the box” and push people toward “hope” and expose new tech.

 

Who are these favorite designers:

Massimo Vignelli

 

What has he done: -Modernist

-Designed subway system in New York City
-Very influential in bringing Helvetica to America
-Created American Airlines Logo which lasted longer than any other airline logo (in fact it just changed last year).
-Designs have a sense of timelessness and purpose

 

Influence on me:

 I was not fully aware of all he had done till last semester; I like the sense of purpose, I realized that is what I have been striving for – balance between purpose
and creativity.

 

Influence on future: 

I want to find a way to use design to help people; I think it is its greatest purpose.

 

Theory vs. Practice:

Design Theory 

This is a difficult term to provide a definition….

 

Theoretical Project 

This would relate to something that has not been practiced or done yet and you do not know whether it will actually work.

 

Project Routed in Design Practice: 

This would relate to something that has been done and you have resources or references for the project.

 

Potential sources for design Research:

AIGA, Design books, video games, the things and people listed above that interest me.

 

Projects rooted in passion: 

Yes….Vignelli – the manner in which he speaks about the New York Subway system.

 

My own passion: 

How things work – understanding the world around me; I love to learn how things work.

 

Explore aspect: 

Yes, I think so – when I have to do a project on anything I have to do a tone of research on the subject to make a good design and project. This relates to my passion about learning how things work.

 

Hunt Statement:

I hope to incorporate my knowledge and skills from illustration, animation, static design, and interaction design. It is different than what I have done before, it is more developed and encompassing – I believe it will push my own critical thinking skills beyond the current level. As far as the challenges – I am attempting to incorporate all of the above and ultimately find a way to make the design inform people – I want to fight to make complex information simple.