Networking

While on the net and looking at the 3 blogs (Product Design forums, Core77 and Derestricted) I found many other blog sites and was able to then come into contact with people in my class an acces their blogs. This whole networking system is really cool because it allows you to look at other peoples work and get ideas and inspiration.

Process

This image shows some of cuba street and expresses the real life interaction people have with one another and the places on Cuba Street. This image was one of my first attempts at photoshop

While on the net the other day i came across 3 interesting blog sites. Product design forums (http://www.productdesignforums.com/) is a blog site where people can post thier new design ideas and get feed back from the public and other designers on the next step they should take. Another site that i found really interesting was core77 (http://core77.com/) which is a design maganzine. Not only does this site allow people to spread thier concepts, this blog site has design firms and job opportunites for bloggers to look at. The last blog site i came across that i really liked was (http://blog.derestricted.com/) this site has a bit of everything from design and motorsport through to travel and the outdoors

Abstract Feelings

For the first semester of Architecture I took a class called ARCH111. This class was challenging because I struggled with the concepts and how we were to present them, but by taking this class it allowed me to see certain things in a different ways. During this semester I was given a project where I had to express my feelings and emotions about a space. These traits were to shown in a sculpture form but, the sculpture was not to resemble the area.

To begin with I struggled with having to create a sculpture about the way I felt, let alone having to make it abstract at the same time. The space that I chose was an alleyway. It was very dark, smelly and co strophic in some areas. The alley was behind shops so there was rubbish and tagging everywhere which made you feel weary about passing foot traffic. When standing in the middle of the alley and looking up you could see the sky, to me, this opening in an intimidating space made me think trying to escape. So when I created my sculpture I tried to express this.

I used mixed media which involved clay, glass, spray-paint and wax. I chose to use a broken beer bottle, this allowed me to show what the area felt like.

Hey,



I'm Connie and i am currently studying at Victoria University, in Wellington, at the school of Architecture and Design. I am now in my second semester of my first year at Vic and have decided to make a change in my degree plan. After studying architecture for the first semester i found that i no longer had the desire to become an architect. I have always been interested in cars and yachts so i have changed to design so that i can fulfill my dream of becoming a super yacht or car designer.