Thursday, September 4, 2008

Class #2 / More info on my Brochure

Notes:
Sub-head: descriptive and short, punchy tag-line for the brochure. 1-3 words perhaps.
For under the Title.
-Scan some images (maybe 9-10) including a portrait.
-Platton: the glass plate on a scanner (profession designer term)
-Mies Van Der Rohe: German Architect that says that God is in the details meaning that creating a perfect recreation of an image needs a perfect touch.
Moira Lines/Patterns: The darker and lighter spots on a scanned image which is created when two groups of dots clash...this can be fixed by blurring a little bit.

Blog Presentations:
Design strategies created from future backwards.
-Says designers usually just try to do what's popular and trendy while at the same time this is very narrow minded.
-Instead of basing a style off of everyone else's and developing the same type of design or product, it should be based more on what people actually want.
(this can be seen in the music merch business how most of today's shirts feature brighter colors such as purples, pinks, yellows and neon blues, and bigger letters and images)

Nano: teeny tiny: 1 billionth of a meter
Micron: 1 millionth of a meter (39 millionths of an inch)



More Research for the Brochure:
-Upjohn's architectural style focused around Gothic construction. Many of his churches show similar ideas from older european cathedral and church construct styles.
-His earliest construction was performed on private houses in Maine.
-I will describe Upjohn's progress from these houses to the rebuilding of the Trinity Church; a typical look when we think of Gothic Architecture.
-Gothic influence in Upjohn's work can also be seen in St. John's Church in Maine designed in the early 1800's.
-The pointy structures on the middle and boarder of the churches are pointing in the direction of Heaven and generally have crosses on top of them.

-Church of the Holy Communion
-Church of Holy Apostles
-The Church of Ascension
-Trinity Church

Life: January 1802 - August 1878
President of American Institute for Architects from 1857 to 1876




Below are links to the photos of Upjohn and his churches:
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g231/DefyDestination8/Richard.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g231/DefyDestination8/TrinityChurchDrawing.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g231/DefyDestination8/TrinityChurchInterior.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g231/DefyDestination8/TrinityChurchOriginalDrawing.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g231/DefyDestination8/TrinityChurch.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g231/DefyDestination8/stpaulschurch-buffalo.jpg


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