Design by Maths: July 2006

for crafty's soft sculpture issue

sneak peek! here i generated a complex element then played around with it in Illy.. I just duplicated and scaled it. :)

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I've been trying to think of new ways that I can improve my concept. Here's one of them. The idea is that everytime you click the image, a random message will appear. Because you're the one that clicks it, it is your 'choice' in a sense, and whatever you get is your fault.

heheh.. well in theory. Problem is that I can't remember how to make it so that it only loads one message, and not all of them.. so instead you have a little mess of thoughts.

Still looks kind of cool.

oh wait.. my housemates came around and fixed it for me.. dang.. why do they have to go and be so smart... But now that I've seen it, I'm thinking I actually like the first one better.

man...

You have a breakthrough only to hit another wall..

I've managed to finally get my work to generate in a circle... So now I can do a circle, curve, straight line, and outright mess!
But I can't figure out how to put colour into it...

Ps I will email you guys the flash file, as I can't put it up here.

Achievements and yays this week:
- Learnt how to use a wacom tablet - see my oriental drawings
- Learnt how to generate things using more complicated Math functions
- Learnt how to export my work so I can print it at A1 or whatever ridiculous size
- Been inspired by Joshua Davis (again) (relayed back from Anthony/Semi 06)

Boos:
- Colour is not friendly
- Time is not friendly. I am like 10 years behind Josh Davis.
- Computer is lagging!! Probably because I'm spamming buttons.. PLAY PLAY PLAy!!!

I guess the easiest way to learn sometimes, is to imitate - ie you just learn the skill without trying to be too smart or creative or clever... and then when you know how to do it, you make it your own... The thing is, this is taking me ages, so I have to try and think ahead of what I want to do.. Drawing the shapes takes a couple of hours.. mixed in with stupid programming (or trying to program...)

another one

Here's another guy who's doing a similar thing... Cept he's been doing it for much longer! :)

http://www.presstube.com/project.php?id=98

His home website www.presstube.com is interesting as well. Every day he'll post a little illustration or something.

Check it out.

a new way to present your folio

Ok guys, I've set some goals
1. do one hour of homework a day
2. read my bible
3. develop my design skills
4. exercise

And when i told my housemates, they just laughed at me. So much for support! ;)

So I started mucking about and putting some of my work into MARCEL. For instance, these are elements from a series of badges that i made AGES ago.. but the right combination of images makes it look thematic.

Street: