Gianni Yarto's Blog

This project was the most time consuming of all the projects so far, I tried to stray away from using “go to” objects to like sticks of cracks in the ground to form my letters and numbers. After several hours of walking all around Savannah I think I’ve come up with a fairly original set of images.

When told to get a map I instantly thought about driving seeing as though thats what maps are primarily used for. I first cut out all the states I have lived in Texas, Colorado, and Georgia. I then taped the map to the wheel of my car thinking it would give it a nice “distressed” look, instead my map looked like it was mauled by bears. So then I thought it would be wise to burn the map a little, once again I failed and ended up with a bag of ashes. So I got to thinking and I ended up using my ash to tone a piece of water color paper. I then used the states I had cut out before as a sort of stencil or resist if you will and wiped away at the ash with a shammy. This was what i ended up with and I’m very pleased with the overall execution and aesthetic of the piece.

Critique Notes

• Make sure the story line is coherent to your piece.
• Really think about if some element work towards or against finishing the piece.
• Always have your piece properly presented.

This project was an interesting twist on a familiar childhood story. At first our group struggled to collaborate and sort of warm up to each other, but once we figured it out i was pretty pleased with our overall piece.

Critique Notes

• Avoid repeated compositions i.e. use of diagonal lines in more than one composition 
• Always remember Economy less is sometimes more and k you should really think about if each piece is absolutely necessary to your overall piece.
• No focal points right in the middle its hard for the viewers eye to stray away from that one spot.

The problem assign was to portray the words

-Bold   -Order   -Increase

-Congested  -Playful  -Tension

through the use of flat black squares. Here are my designs.

BOLD

ORDER

INCREASE

CONGESTION

PLAYFUL

TENSION

This are the process pictures for the assigned “Repetition Grid”.

Here are my motif thumbnails.

Then came the playing around within the individual “cell”, and final motif inking options.

Here are my five motif placement plans.

Here’s my final motif placement.

Here are my three inking plans.

And here’s my final inked design.

Critique Notes

1/30/13

- Avoid centered focal points.

- If your design consist of a repeated pattern still keep in mind you can have variety within a pattern.

-Craftsmanship goes a long way when it comes to the overall aesthetic of a piece.

-Remember “economy” when deciding if your piece needs a border or not.

Final Thoughts

I thought that this project was difficult especially when it came down to the placement and inking of the motif.

Not only was the actual inking hard, but making sure that your plan looked deliberate and added to the overall piece was also pretty difficult .

Isolation

Concentration

• Don’t have too much or too little contrast.
• Don’t fill corners just cause your design doesn’t already occupy them.
• Divide up negative space and avoid having continuos negative space.
• Split negative space in to shapes or their own (sub-dividing).

My new design makes better use of the diagonal lines by not blocking of the corners.

I choose my final four designs on the basis of originality, balance, and line. I think the four chosen best exemplify these three design elements. I’m pleased with the overall project and think I accomplished everything within the assignments guidelines.

                     My name is Gianni Sebastian Yarto. I’m not Italian. I lived in Dallas, TX for most of my life and graduated from Highland Park High School, After high school I attended University of Colorado at Boulder. I transfered to SCAD to pursue a career in industrial design. I’m terrible at writing about myself and writing in general so bear with me. I have two older brothers, a dog, and a little sister. < Notice the order of importance. I’ve lived in Mexico, New Zealand, and Texas. My hopes are to work for apple as a product designer. If all else fails I’ll probably move to New Zealand and become a beach bum! Thanks for reading!

*No cats were harmed in the making of this post.*