This assignment was pretty simple. We were to take pictures of letters and numbers found in buildings, nature, cracks in the pavement, etc. One of the main objectives of this project was to make us look more attentively to our surrounding environment, and to see everything with different eyes. After taking the pictures, we were [...]

For this project, we were told to look for patterns in buildings, nature, etc. and compile them all in a blog post. I was surprised at how many patterns there are in the wild! I guess it really shows that you need to pay attention. It was fitting for an exploration activity. I decided to [...]

For this assignment, we sat somewhere for an hour and recorded all the sounds that we heard in that time period. After that, we had to make the recorded sounds a visual concept and put it on our blogs. This project was completely open and we were free to do whatever we wanted with it. [...]

The goal for this assignment was to tell the story of Jack & Jill in any way we wanted on 8×8 sheets of bristol, while utilizing any of these dingbats: As this was a group project, every member of the team contributed something to the idea. Unfortunately, my input was very little, as I was [...]

For this assignment, we were told to go on a walk and document fifty things about it, in any way we wanted. I recorded my walks and selected fifty audio excerpts that conveyed what taking the walks was like. I can’t seem to embed the file so you’ll have to click here to hear it.

For this assignment, we were asked to convey six words through a design using only four black squares. There were no true “limitations” and the project was pretty open, but I couldn’t think of any positive design choices other than just having the black squares on a white background. Here are the designs I came [...]

Our second assignment was to take a shape and lay another shape on top of it. After that, we would subtract the overlaid shape to create a new one. This would be our “motif”. We were to take that motif and make both 1 inch and 2 inch versions of it. The professor then made [...]

For our first assignments, we were told to make a design using only lines. These designs were split into four different kinds of lines: vertical and horizontal, diagonal, curved, and a combination of all the above. We first had to make 25 thumbnail sketches for every kind of line, totaling 100 sketches. HORIZONTAL/VERTICAL   DIAGONAL [...]

Hello everyone! My name’s Enrique, but please call me Leo. It’s easier and I’m more used to it. I’ve always really liked art. When I was a kid, I knew there was so much more to animated films than just funny jokes for kids. I knew that there was a lot of work put into [...]