Field sketching of St. Ignatius

This is my second time to come to here, and I still enjoy to visit here. St. Ignatius is a beautiful church and I really love to see how the designers use the light. The designers use different ways to bring the natural light go through the colorful glass windows. It not only creates the harmonious atmosphere but also gives the special religious meaning. Ko and I found that the orange light will occur in the center of church at twelve o'clock.  In addition, I really enjoy to look at the shape of ceiling and the movement when I sketched. It is a good experience to observe the well-designed space and learn the sketching skills from Bob.

Jim Olson: Architecture for Art exhibit at Museum of Art at WSU

This lecture talks about Jim Olson's career and his working experience. He really enjoyed his job and like to face difficult challenges. In addition, he would like to combine the art piece with his design. The art piece can improve the atmosphere in interior space, and those paintings or sculptures also enhance the aesthetics and function in the project. My parents also love to collect the art pieces. However, they do not know how to organize those things and how to put them in the right place. I hope that I can remodel my home after I graduate from WSU.

The experience of using wheel chair

The experience of using wheel chair is really unique and special. I have never used the wheel chair, and it can be a really excellent experience to understand the disable people's need. It not only helps me to think about those people's demand and imagine the problems they will face. In addition, it can help me to improve the traffic flow in my project and adjust a lot of mistakes in my design.

Seattle Field Trip

Ko and I went to the job shadowing on this Friday. We met Shannon in IA office, and she introduced to us about this company deeply. IA is a small size company in Seattle, especially in interior design business. Even though it is not a large company, it still has many good opportunities to do a big project. In addition, IA is a international company, and it has a lot of chances to corporate with foreign design company. She told us about how they develop the design concept and the process of the design. The project in IA can be done by individual worker or a design team, and it depends on the scale of the project. Moreover, she showed us how their material library work and how to organize the sources. And then she took us to visit their three projects and told us their design principle. Furthermore, she presented to us how to control the limit budget and time. She is really kind and friendly, and I really enjoy this activity. I think that it is really a good experience for us. I hope that I will have chance to visit design company in future.

Process Poster

This time I attempt to create a digital poster to display my process of the bench project. I used this poster to describe my concept development process and present how to create this concept model. This is my first time to do this kind of poster, so it can be challenge for me to design the lay-out of the poster. I think that it is really difficult to arrange all of the sketches and picture when you want to put so many stuff on it. I hope that I can clearly deliver all my design concepts and processes to readers.

Sketchbook

This sketchbook presents how I practice my sketch skills and test different methods to show my design philosophy. In this sketch book, I used cross-hatch and prospective technique to display the shadow and value. In addition, I try to use different line directions to present the drawing and learn how to use eraser to create the negative space. Moreover, I used the light and heavy line weight to present the high contrast and the value of space. I think that it is really interesting to use variable colors and different materials to describe the texture and shape of the object. I am also glad to use my imagination and creativity to finish this sketchbook. Furthermore, I enjoy exploring and discovering the design concepts and apply different design principal in my sketches. 

Outside macro sketch

This time I try to draw four different objects and found those objects' macro view. I found four objects which has interesting texture and surface. In addition,  I try to use many color pencils in order to show the abundant colors on the plants. It is really interesting to sketch and macro view of the plant, and I think that this practice can help me to develop the ability of observation.