Sketch for Diner Disco Project

Just watched the video on the graphic designer. What I found to be interesting was that when designing, it's important no matter what field to have clear and direct design. The impact of graphics and the way people survive on them is as just as important as having good architecture. I feel with images bombarding us everyday that we need to use them sparingly before we use them so much there's no meaning at all in them. That is the responsibility of the designer, to not abuse the idea but to integrate into the everyday routine. Graphics can be street signs or road markings or signage, spaces that we need daily in places and it's the bridge between architecture and graphic design that will create a new type of space.

Some define success of architectural design through its ease of use. We also compliment the experimental for its ability to produce something new. But how do you give the average person an understanding of the space that they are in for the purpose of moving through it?
Through transparency, directionality, intensification, etc.
Easier said than done, especially when considering the programmatic and spatial complexity of spaces that we normally take for granted. The airport.
Trivial aspects of our lives are made better and more comfortable through design, stress free design means stress free living.
Here's a video on a designer whose primary goal is to create legible spaces through a language we all speak. Pictures
http://vimeo.com/6868536

Watercolors

2,000 watercolor images were hand-painted by Paris-based artist Irina Dakeva

Arch MUSIC VIDEO ~

SOOO HIGH ~ this is genius
by flipping the image it looks as if the buildings are floatin . . .
by the way watch full screen please~

Shinkansen ver.2 from daihei shibata on Vimeo.

Ideas

Extend the window!
Rucksack Haus by Stefan Eberstadt






Using the roof as living space!
Loftcube by Studio Aisslinger







Spontaneous spaces!
by Lambert Kamps

Visual Response

I agree that architecture is defined by the interaction between people and site. It's how we push forward what we've got that's the interesting problem. Do we just need lines or words painted on a street to designate a four square game or do we need a whole metal playground? Applying the stripped down idea, architecture is the solution to a program but it ultimately is good directing and a network of easy communication. Architecture is the physical and or mental projection of the human body in built or non built form (telephones, ichat, internet, spaces we use regularly that are not actually built). It's the direction and vision of the artist that perhaps most commonly constructs buildings that determine meaning in space. Whether one measures in inches, meters, or by the person, it's the goals of the project that represent meeting places, shelter, and daily life. If an architect feels paint on the street to guide traffic is the most effective form of architecture versus a huge skyscraper with a plaza, it is not a matter of what is better, it's the fact that both are architecture. Life is defined by the relationships we have, we'll mention the places we've seen, but only if the company is good.

strip it down
isn't architecture all about the relationship between human interation and site intervention ?
so with a video that has no physical model nor concrete drafting
would you call this architecture?

Faces and Landscapes from Romain Basset on Vimeo.

Building it up

The Genius of Design Ep.2
Amazing introduction to design, also check out Ep. 1 through vimeo's website.

mark ronson, q-tip & mndr [Bang Bang Bang]

where are we again?

2D vs. 3D

So with Shepard Fairey's graphics vs. metropolitan architecture, what has the most impact? Are both the poster and the building consider images? When the building is photographed it is 3D (real space) first and then converted into flat 2D space. In a world today that is connected to devices that project 2D images (internet, movies, TV) does a person actually have to be in the space to experience the effect? Does the image generalize the real experience?

The bigger question is, what is more effective: a 2D representation of an idea or the actual built 3D idea? Does it just depend on the idea and the context it's arguing, or does the form of the representation not matter as long as the idea/argument is articulated and easy to communicate?

where are we?

Scale

graphic is only 2D until you paint it on a three story nyc building or say the side of a new hotel at cooper square
mural or propaganda
pure art or hotly contested political topics
Take shepard fairey



http://www.thecoopersquarehotel.com/culture/10th-anniversary-sustainable-design-awards

i bet you all know him =]

Comic by MK

Comic Timing

From the past few posts, it looks like we are beginning to develop our curatorial tastes. With the Philip Zimbardo animation, it's important to take from academic fields in order to visually express an idea and move forward with it creatively. From the re-purposed bicycle Porsche to the Bauhaus ideals, good design comes with a good sense of humor. We as designers, have to act as many characters but most critically, we have to act as good human beings. The ability to laugh and make light of situations, ordinary or extraordinary, is an important factor in design because it is the result of two or more people interacting and engaging each other. What is shared between people are stories generally communicated through the verbal description of the experience. Art and architecture are catalysts to bring people together. Laughing can be any where and at any time, so how can design transcend itself into a way of living rather than just a temporary physical experience?

Summer Reading

Time

The new kind of porsche

Love how this concept has been experimented with various forms of design. Let's see how this idea can be interpreted into other fields. Imagine a disappearing painting..whoa.
Today and Tomorrow,My Modern Met

Patrick Griffins, Photography

seascapes

Giles Revell, Photography

manufractured

I was up in Sheboygan, WI and stopped at this art center where I got this book. It's just another example of what the Bauhaus established; the unity of craft, painting, and sculpture. All these arts considered to be forms of "building" therefore can be translated into architecture and design. The book has contemporary artists and designers, my favorites are the Campana Brothers and Marcel Wanders, and discusses the relationship between technology and art. The idea that all "art" is designed and constructed (whether built out of new or reused objects) is a good way to look at transdisciplinary design.

monotone

Karla's Closet,The Sartorialist,Selby

ted videos

So i'm a TED Geek, i love this site. I basically have been watching videos off of it since freshman year in highschool.
there's a bunch of videos by architects these days talking about their projects
i dunno if you've see them yet but here's a few

Archiecture

Elizabeth Diller from Diller & Scofidio



Joshua Prince from OMA on Seattle Library / REX



Thom Mayne from Santa Monica --> his Theory



Norman Foster's Green Agenda



this is just a few, once you're on the site you'll be link to other videos


There's David Rockwell, FRank Gehry
Videos on the recent Shanghai World Expo Danish Pravilion

the other videos are pretty cool too
there's one on this graphic designer called My Life as Five Artist
so let us ted

I've develope the habit of A TED A DAY
hope it can stick with you too. =]
Here are some more Arch inspirations