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Fabbing: parallelUniverses

March 26, 2024

Back to… 2D | point > line 2D-3D | line > plane 3D | plane > volume 3D-4D | implied motion Toward a Philosophy of Modeling parallelUniverses is a compendium of the foundational framework in which today’s practitioner of 3D modeling and fabrication operates, enhancing know-how knowledge typically found in software tutorials with a know-why reference source. Readings for… read more »

2D | Point to line

August 9, 2023

Fabbing 2D | point > line REFERENCES ||universes gestalt theory dynamic EXERCISES gestalt praxis line art type drawing ARTWORK personal logo vinyl fabrication Introduction Piet Mondrian had a style of painting that employed a severely simple visual grammar of lines, planes and primary color. From this rather depersonalized vocabulary he created a very personally identifiable… read more »

Blackbird

January 9, 2024

2D digital art 2 | 13ways blackbird Download template here Inspiration Re-reading First, re-read the poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. Based on your reading, prepare for a discussion of the relationship between poetry and visual art, and the use of metaphor. Hint: is the poem about blackbirds… really? Why metaphor works Consider why metaphor… read more »

Type drawing

January 9, 2024

2 | 13ways 2D | point > line type drawing Download sample file here Drawing with type The word typography means drawing with type. Our Latin alphabet evolved from systems comprised of simple pictures called ideograms, representing intangible ideas, or pictograms, representing objects. While phonetic alphabets representing sounds evolved in the West, poetically charged ideograms… read more »

Grid systems

July 29, 2024

2D digital art 2 | 13ways grid systems Digital Foundations We’ll visit Digital Foundations Wiki again, where we’ll learn how to use the type tool, turn type into geometry, and work with precision guides. Chapter 4 Visit the DF wiki and do the exercises in Chapter 4: Make sure to find and download the sample… read more »

Gestalt praxis

July 29, 2024

Back to… 2 | 13ways 2D | point > line gestalt praxis Digital Foundations We’ll visit Digital Foundations Wiki again for an exercise that will use what we learned about Gestalt theory. Chapter 3 Visit the DF wiki and do the exercises in Chapter 3: Make sure to find and download the sample file when… read more »

Gestalt theory

January 10, 2024

Back to… 2 | 13ways 2D | point > line gestalt theory Gestalt psychology and design The world is a chaotic place, yet humans seem hard-wired to divine order out of it. We can’t help ourselves when we look at the night sky: we know there is only randomness, yet we populate the heavens with… read more »

Looking

January 14, 2024

2D digital art 2 | 13ways looking Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird In our first vector art project, we’ll be creating a graphic work inspired by the poem below. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 1 Wallace Stevens1917 I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the… read more »

13 ways

January 9, 2024

2D digital art 2 | 13ways REFERENCES looking 2D basics gestalt theory EXERCISES gestalt praxis grid systems type drawing ARTWORK blackbird Introduction Who was Wallace Stevens? He was a radical, modernist American poet. He was also the mild-mannered vice president of an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. Polar opposites! We don’t think of opposing realities… read more »

rrDNA

January 24, 2024

2D digital art 1 | readymade rrDNA rDNA: a metaphor for collage The Recombinate … Recombinant DNA, or rDNA, is a synthetic variety of DNA created by combining DNA sequences that would not normally occur together. Science Gateway uses a metaphor of collage to describe the method of creating one new DNA sequence from fragments of two existing ones: The… read more »