Linear Gallery Logo

For this exercise, I wanted to explore a logo design that more or less articulated the architectural quality of this gallery, as well as explore how the word "linear" could be expressed graphically.  When working through my iterations of text, I generally stuck with a very orthagonal and "box-like" font, and then drastically stretched the font to emphasize the sense of linearity.  This approach proved more difficult to exicute for the my graphic iterations due to the fact that the only thing that came to mind was a literal line.  Therefore I insted explored both how this graphic could be distinguishable as for the Linear Gallery, as well as expressing the architectural aspect of the gallery.

Project 9

For this project my main intention was to take my original model and transform it into more of an abstraction.  My original model was more or less a literal translation of my painting into a terrain like model.  With this in mind, I focused on how my painting could be turned into a physical model.

Original Model

As I began to model, I wanted to try to explore the characteristics of my painting as a whole.  I concluded that the more graffiti like characters where what made the painting, in conjunction with the layers of transparency. So for my first step of my model, i began by simply making a three dimensional version of that graffiti character.

Step 1

I took this method and duplicated it several times.

Step 2

Interested with the idea of making these shapes into a model, I began to explore how I could make an object out of these shapes.  Therefore, I began to rotate the shapes i created and explored how they could intersect with one another.

Step 3

I continued this process, resulting in my final object.  I was primarily interested how this model was both able to capture the graffiti expression of the painting, as well as demonstrate a method of overlap and intersection that was vital in the painting that inspired me.

Final Model

Project 8: Renderings

Natural Light

Artificial Light

Hybrid Lighting

Natural Lighting

Artificial Lighting

Hybrid Lighting

Project 8

For this project, I wanted to explore taking a painting of mine and abstracting it, ultimately resulting in a space.  For my process, I began with a picture of my painting.  I then took this painting and desaturated it as well as filtering it into fewer levels.

Once i had this image, i next took it into form z and created a terrain out of it.  In my analysis i explained this painting as one with layers, of which make it seem somwhat organic and earthy.  finally i extruded the higherarchical graphic shapes from the terrain, creating a "city like" space.  In my renderings i wanted to capture the city like quality of my model, and accent the contours of the terain model made.

For this Portfolio exercise, I was primarily interested in working in black and white and A-symmetry of the spread.  With these designs I focused on putting my large concept shot of the project on either side of the spread, and allowing the more diagramatic drawings face into the black border.  I wanted to be able to highlight my rendering skills with these spreads, which was my resoning for making those drawings clearly larger and more hierarchical. 

My intent of this project was simply to construct this bay to the highest level of detail and precision I could.  For this particular rendering, i chose to illustrate the scene as a night render.  I wanted to highlight the reflective quality of the glass, and by making a night scene, you are able to see the back wall in the reflection of the glass, which in my opinion helps give a better sense of the space.  By rendering with wire frame on the outskirts, i wanted to suggest to the viewer that the context of the window bay, is continuous, after all this is part of the linear gallery.  I didnt want to detract from the original bay i made, so by abstracting the space into wire frame, the general character of the context is expressed, without the need of immense detail.  

Linear Gallery Wire Frame