Tessellation

Rectangular Tessellation
Triangular Tessellation


1. Which tessellation did you find more interesting to do? In what ways was it more interesting than the other? Please explain.
The rectangular tessellation was more difficult and it took more creativity to do. Even though it was harder to do, it was more interesting creativity wise. I also liked doing the triangle because we needed creativity to pick the spot of the picture that would make a unique tessellation. Over all, I think the triangular tessellation looks better as a finished product, just because it creates the unique shapes, and the colors go well together.

2. Look at your peers' work on the ning . Which two designs do you find the most successful? What qualities make them so successful?
The two designs I find is successful are Samantha’s triangular tessellation, and Adrian’s rectangular tessellation. Part of Samantha’s tessellation looks as if it’s glowing near the black color on her tessellation. The colors go well together, and it has a ‘crisp’ look to it. Adrian’s rectangular tessellation looks successful, because its colors are very bright and it’s eye catching. I like how bright it is, and the colors go well together.


3. Looking at the Grading Criteria for each design, how would you rate BOTH designs on a scale of 1-4, 4 being the highest? Please explain each grade.
I would rate it both 4, since Samantha’s design has cool shapes and colors. It’s unique, and eye catching. She made the dark part of the design eccentric next to a bright blue color. On Adrian’s design, her design was the most eye-catching out of the rectangular designs. It’s hard to incorporate many different colors without making it look awkward. I think the use of the rainbow colors were a great idea.

Intorudction to Tessellation

1. What is a tessellation?
Tessellation is form of art that represents animals or other living things in a mosaic floor that doesn’t overlap, has no space in between each tile, and is put symmetrical to the floor or a plane.
2. Write a couple of paragraphs describing the life and work of M.C. Escher. Pick out important facts that describe who he is, how he worked, and why he is famous.
M.C. Escher was born in Leeuwarden, Holland on June 17th, 1898. His family moved to Arnhem, and he went to a high school there. His art teacher in high school taught him linocuts, linocuts is a printmaking technique; and because he was talented at it, he was sent to one of the best graphic artists named Roland Holtz. He suggested that he try it with wood, but since he failed his school exam, Holtz suggested that he became an architect. From 1918 to 1922, Escher studied in the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem. He became close friends with his teacher, Mesquita who was later sent to concentration camp. And Escher developed his skills in woodcutting.
In 1922, he took a boat trip to Alhambra, Spain, which influenced him with many tiling patterns. He also visited Italy, and he met Jetta, who was to be his future wife. They got married and stayed mostly in Rome until 1938. During this time, he traveled around the southern coastline, and many of his landscape were influenced by it, like the Castrovalva. In 1925, he created his first tessellation, which is called Lions. It was not very successful. In 1937, his brother helped him out with wallpaper designs that were created by George Pólya. Professor F. Hagg also influenced him in developing the Layman’s Theory. He created about 137 tessellation designs before his death. His last tessellation was solution that he solved to a puzzle given to him by a mathematician names Roger Penrose.

Doodle For Google

1. Child hood
2. The theme of this design is that I wish the kids interact themselves with outdoors and fun activities. These days, kids seem to be occupied with computers and other electronics, they don’t enjoy the environment around them. I think it’s a waste to not see what the word has to offer.
3. I tried to improve on the design by making the theme clearer. I added in the second child fishing on the letter G. I also tried to make my letters give off a smoother appearance.
4. Three things that I learned from completing this assignment is the combination of colors, a way to make a design look stable, and a way to grab the audiences’ attention. I thought that the use of different colors are very important since it can make a design look attractive and eye catching. It’s crucial to make a design look more stable, so it balances out in pictures. It’s not always necessary that we use outrageous designs to catch the audiences’ attention, because simple designs can make designs look good.
5. I will give about a 3 on this, because of the effort I put into this design. It took a lot of effort to actually draw out all the components of this design. And it was hard to portray the themes in this design, because there are different things that kids might want to do.
1. Education
2. The theme of this design is that I wish people continued on with their education no matter how old they are. I believe that there are a lot of things to learn aside from education that you get from school. And people tend to take it for granted that we have the opportunity to learn.
3. I did not get feedback on this design, because I completed it after the class we had the feedback session on.
4. Three things that I learned from completing this assignment are the brush tool, and the magic wand tool, and simplicity. The brush tool was helpful in making the design, although it was hard to use it once in a while to get a straight line, it let me draw the designs the way I wanted to. The magic wand tool was also helpful in making the design, because it helped me draw the letters without having to draw them by hand. I also used the idea of keeping it simple and eye catching with bright colors.
5. I will give about a 3 on this, because I like how the design looks simple and clean. I also like how I used the colors of the Google, but it still looks eye catching. And I also got a lot more comfortable using the tools for this design, because there were a lot of parts of the design that needed different tools to be used.

Minimalism

Valentine

Type Design

Self-Assessment

1. Are you happy/satisfied with your design? What are some of the features that make it so successful? If you are not satisfied, what would you have done differently to make it more successful?

Yes, I am both happy and satisfied with my design. I think some components that helped me was that the color scheme was balanced well throughout the design. I also planned out how the design may have looked before hand. The use of the lines for our focal points were very helpful when I started my design. I experimented with color, opacity, and the position that the letters and the background were placed on.

2. List some of the tools that you learned and used in this assignment. Which ones did you find the most helpful and in what ways?

During the making of the type design, I learned how to use the eyedropper tool, the rectangular marquee, the paint bucket tool, and the text tool. All of the tools were important in the process of making the type design but in a lot of times, I thought that the eyedropper tool was very helpful in achieving the similar color or the shade with the color near it to balance out the design. The paint bucket tool was also helpful when we were making the color of the letters and the background layers, because we didn’t have to use the brush tool and color it in and waste time. The rectangular marquee was also helpful because we could make different sizes and shapes of rectangular we wanted for our designs. The text tool was also helpful, because it would be hard to create letters if we didn’t have it. I liked the fact that if we picked a font, we could just make it larger and stretch it out to fit our designs.

3. With what areas/aspects of Photoshop do you have questions? What activities would help you better understand basic design concepts, along with more Photoshop tools, tips, and tricks?

The areas or aspects of Photoshop that I have questions on are how to make the pictures look more natural. I think learning the basic background of some designs like we did with notan, will help us be better when we create a more complicated design. I’ve noticed that while we work on our designs, we get more comfortable with the tools that we have used before. We also get to practice using new tools when creating a new designs. I think it’s best that we learn the tips and tricks and just remember how we used them in order to be faster and a better designer.

Pop Art

Pop art represents short words, and it gives a bold meaning to them. The words are shaped into geometric forms.They are usually wooden blocks with bright colors to grasp the viewers’ attention. Indiana’s pop arts usually represent culture and life.

Stuart Davis-

Stuart Davis is an American painter, who was born in 1894. He had many influences while he was growing up, since his father was an art director for a Philadelphia newspaper. Davis later worked with Robert Henri from the years 1910 to 1913, and he created covers for a realist periodical called The Masses. After visiting Paris in 1928 to 1929, he learned the idea of cubism, where he used natural forms to express the characteristic of an American life. I like his work called Report from Rockport from 1940, because it really represents the way of life of a typical American. I’m assuming that it’s a street where people interact with their neighbors. You can also see the natural side of this drawing, where the clouds are represented with different colors. You can also see the landscape of mountains in the back. And People going on about their lives.


Robert Indiana-

Robert Indiana is an American painter who was born in 1928. He studied Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York, which led him to study in School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From the Institute of Chicago, he won a traveling fellowship to Europe, and ended up studying in Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. He got his ideas from Longfellow, Whitman, and Melville, who are known famous for their anti-transcendentalistic and transendentalistic ideas in writing. Indiana is very famous for his pop art designs for the words Eat, Love, and Die. And he is most famous for his pop art work for the word Love used on postage stamps in 1973. I like his work called The American Love from 1975. It represents his style of designing, which reflected upon the American pride. It is shown in the red, blue and white colors with the word Love formed into different forms. It also shows the ‘transcendental’ ideas from Whitman, which can be found from his poem I Hear America Singing.