ideals for modern living

(rome, one of my favourite cities)

Today was a good day to see how most of you had progressed in your design work. I have a number of things that I want to make sure you are all aware of and are going to respond to in your modelling assignments.

Firstly, be aware that you are being asked to make two digital models and two analogue models. If you do the modelling sequentially then the transistion between the designs goes digital-digital, digital-analogue, analogue-analogue. If your design is developing in sequential fashion, then you will become aware that making a shift between the mediums involves understanding how that medium works. For example, going from digital to card does not mean you are just making a 'copy' of the digital version. It is expected that you will try and improve (or further explore) aspects of the design that are unique to the medium.

Secondly, remember to try and capture aspects of your character in the house design. You don't have to turn the house into an architectural version of the character, but their 'presence' should be there somewhere in your design decisions.

Remember to think about scale. In digital models you can be infinitely close or far away from your model, so it is possible to attand to aspects of you design that are quite small (or even monumental).

Finally, the fact that you are asked to post 3x4 images on your blog should be thought of strategically. maybe you will show the same type of 'photo' of each of the 4. But maybe also you may wish to use the images to tell a story, develop a theme, explore a process, etc.

Overall, good work. Maybe we should watch a movie next week. Any suggestions?