Week 2

To tell the truth, I found myself a bit bored last week. A lot of the material was sort of just a review for me. My major requires an architecture history course which covered some of the material in Monday's lecture. I'm already pretty familiar with the Eames' work as well. As far as the "What do designers do?" lecture, I've studied architecture, am currently majoring in landscape arch, and have plenty of friends in visual communication design, industrial design, and fashion design. I'm not as familiar with interior space design, so that was pretty interesting, and I'd like to learn more about it. I'm doing a way-finding project in my other design class this quarter, so I'd like to do some interior design research (any recommendations?) this weekend. At any rate, I'm glad to be done with the boring stuff, and I'm excited about our upcoming projects.

Patterns, patterns, patterns

 One man's trash
Found on the smoking balcony of Knowlton.
I'm a big fan of purple and yellow and I like this because it's so unintentional. Found a few days ago.

 Op art 1
My girlfriend's researching optical art and I found this one while snooping through one of her books. Trippy
Found this weekend.

 Op art 2
Same book, opposite page. I like the color combination on this one. Also found this weekend.

 Grimy, but kinda cool

I like stuff like this, cause you wouldn't normally notice it. Something about it isn't really what I'd expect an air vent to look like. Found at a friend's house last week.

 My friends rent from Wes Anderson
Wallpaper I found at my friends' house. It makes me feel like one of the Royal Tenenbaums. Found last weekend.

2's and 4's
Installation piece at Knowlton. I like the use of rectilinear pieces to make a curved surface. Found yesterday. 

Elephants in the room

Simple pattern, but again, I like purple. I also like elephants. Found a couple of years ago at Import House.

 Memphis 1
We stopped in Memphis last spring on the way to a music festival in Mexico and saw these installation pieces on display. I love recycled art and this was made of street signs. Found last March

Memphis 2
Again, recycled art is cool. In this one you can see how the pattern is just the shapes, but what's inside each one is different. Found last March.

French accent in the kitchen
I like this one because it's kind of a pattern within a pattern. Each tile is completely symmetrical and they're repeated across the wall. Found last year.