Reality Transcends As Madness: September 2007

Saturday, September 22, 2007

सुर्य कि किरणें

The sun's rays. Surya ki kiranein.
Zack finally put up 2 of the audio clips i had produced. That's some good news, in between walking 8 km up and down a day. Hopefully, i should be able to figure out a way to publish my website soon. Or perhaps I'll go get myself a domain name and jazz it up. Yashas liked the initial stuff he saw. I hope he like the final web page as well.
I'm anticipative of tomm. It's a long day ahead, I have to finish 2.5 projects tomorrow and hit the bowling alleys and fuga.

HAPPINESS!!

Therein lies my happiness, and hopefully, my professional future. It's really nice when someone puts up your work, when you are a student, especially in a big, introductory and documentary web page such as cema's. Perhaps this is the specialization I've been searching for, for so long! It's a hybrid of other forms of design and art. And I can always be a visual communication designer, if nothing else. I can't even imagine what all I can learn in experimental media arts!
:D

Friday, September 21, 2007

Pictionary in Symbols

I started my assignment to convert Dmitri Siegel's Please CARE article into symbols with trying to search for the key words in the article. Eventually, I decided on the following words/phrases- Expansion, Design Education, Structuring, 4-step process. Conceptualization, Articulation, Research and Execution.
We had already discussed in class that the human brain finds it easier to recognize preset patterns, and that what may appear as a pattern to me, may not hold the same meaning for someone else. I decided to deviate from the process of generating my own symbols, which I was initially doing, to trying to put familiar symbols into this context. This would make it easier for others to understand the basic keywords of the article, and hopefully that would get the concept across.
In my final composition, I created a hierarchy in which the first 4 phrases- expansion, design education, structuring, and 4-step process fall under one another vertically, in the order stated above, the order in which they are mentioned int he article. I did this to create and introduction- the reason for the need of a 4-step process such as CARE. The fifth level I created was by placing all the terms which form care at the same level under 4-step process, in order to signify thier equivalent importance and to visually show that together, they form CARE.