JULY 15, 2019

PROJECT RESEARCH

Micro-Utopia The Imaginary Potential of Home by Paula Strunden
This is absolutely a kick ass idea. Micro-Utopia is a location based virtual reality experience. How to blend the future of technology with the idea of home or another specific location. Makes the idea of the physical objects a little less tangible and more abstract. I wonder if this concept would pull people away from consumerism.

Martens + Visser Dutch Design Studio which is the home of the Holon Installation. If you could get your hands on one of these I would recommend it. Its a stunningly beautiful experience — also, follow them on Instagram, they’re a great resource for beautiful installs.

NOTE WORTHY DISTRACTIONS

This Car Painting Experience by Volkswagen is mesmerizing

NORTHERNLIGHT — Agency that develops, brands, experiences and pushed technology. This seems simliar to the WNDR flooring that is pressure / motion reactive.

I would also kill to go to Heimtextil, which is a textile + trends trade show in Frankfort, Germany. This is the source that I found Micro-Utopia through and think that their focus on the future of space design would be critical to get involved with.

This ashtray by Glassy which I absolutely want — thank you Andrea

CONTINUE RESEARCH SET FOR JULY 16th — 

Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch + Ava Duvernay (Shane McSauby)

MARCH 12 + JULY 10, 2019

MARCH 12TH RESEARCH

Memphis Collective (inspired by Art Deco + Listen to Bob Dylan)

Authentic Synthetic

Mixing digital space + natural elements — Linking back Annihilation Themes

Whatever we place in nature, it eventually will take over if we leave or move to create something again with what we left behind

Embracing the imperfection, trend continues lends to haptic which is even older trend

Tech Codependency

What is our reality? How do we relate to an ever changing digital age with our physical space? Are we still looking for that balance of equilibrium between these two spaces?

PONTENTIAL BANGALORE + BEIJING PARTNERS
One & One
Hallucinate
Hojin Kang
NAN
MUTABOR (Hamburg, Germany) Car Light Painting Example

NO FUTURE CLUB — Project by Thomas Conroix was a pleasant surprise to my Behance Inbox this morning

LINKS —

Shift Souls by Iris Van Herpen + Nick Verstand

Museum Experiences —
29 Rooms + WNDR (Katie Huber) + Art Gallery of Ontario (Amy De Merlis) + WorkShop of Lights (Anita Vincent)

What is the Deal with ASMR? on Stuff You Should Know

This quote from Joshua Davis — “I love chaos; I like things to be really fucking out of control”

Asrai Garden

The Secret Life of Color on 99% Invisible

Blue on This is Love

ADD TO FILM LIST —
Free Solo (Amazon) Watched August 15th
Lucy (Amazon)
Episode 1, Season 3 — Black Mirror

JUNE 27, 2019

DESIGNING A SYSTEM CONSIDERATION + NOTES — 

How to create elements that need to live together — what is the visual tie? what is the thread of connection?

Visual Expression? How much do these elements (color, layering, type) shift + change from medium to medium? What is consistent? What are we willing to allow to flex and shift?

Individual Expression + Adaptability + Reliability are Important

Build Document to Showcase Rules + Identity Guidelines as a Final Step

NEW RESOURCES — PETERSON BROTHER PLASTIC

CHECK OUT WIFE NYC FLORIST ↓

This photo made my day ↓

APRIL 17, 2019

MARCH 21, 2019

NEW YORK TRIP

DesignTex’s New York Location + Neon Printer Capabilities

The printer adds a florescent yellow and a florescent pink to the CMYK makeup which allows for a wider spectrum of color. This also adds a deeper and richer color tone to each color as well. Indigo, and construction man orange are now an option of colors that can digitally print on fabric.

NEW ARTIST — Bryan Graf Studio + Yancey Richardson

FUTURE RESEARCH BASED ON MOMA ARTISTS + IMAGERY — 

Any Warhol
Paul Cézanne
Vincent VanGough
Pablo Picasso
Henri Matisse
Josepf Albers (Husband to Anni Albers)
Jackson Pollock
Joan Mitchell
Joan Jonas

CHICAGO TRIP LINKS

Chuck Anderson + WNDR Museum

SCREENSHOTS FROM 2019

MARCH 08, 2019

UPDATE ON EXPERIMENTAL SUBSTRATES FOR REPLACEMENT OF LENTICULAR PRINT — JON MORSE + MARK MARCHSEI > CAROL DERBY > SHARON TRACY > SKYLAR TIBBITS @ MIT (Meeting Set for 02/25)

Coffee with Mark Spolehoff 02/19 — “If you are truly innovating, you don’t have a prototype you can refer to.” — Jony Ives

“A designer … it’s the way you look at the world … you’re constantly looking at something and thinking, “why is it like that? why is it like that, and not like this?” Physically, how do you connect to the product … the iPhone, everything defers to the display … a lot of what we’re doing is getting design out of the way … when forms develop with that reason, and they’re not just arbitrary shapes, it feels inevitable, it feels un-designed … of course it’s that way, what would it be any other way.”

“It’s all the choices that we make”

Centre Pompidou hosts Living Sculptures investigating Life in a Digital Age

NOTES FROM MEETING WITH SKYLAR TIBBITS
Make decision between installation or graphic or more static + simple (complex install? simple install?)

MIT + Active Textiles — BMW Example could the wall wall expands and contract? Is there something in the middle that we could leverage to be an additive experience.

LINKS —  
https://selfassemblylab.mit.edu/active-textile

https://selfassemblylab.mit.edu/liquid-printed-pneumatics/

https://selfassemblylab.mit.edu/transformable-meeting-spaces

https://selfassemblylab.mit.edu/new-gallery

OTHER
Pill Dissolving in Body (David O’Connor)

Link to E Ink Digital Paper Reference

Real Time Board (Brad Doan)

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

RESPONSIVE OR HEAT CHANGING INK RESEARCH

Thermochromic Paint

ChromaFlair — usually applied to cars and of fingernail polish. When the paint is applied, it changes color depending on the light source and viewing angle. Not heat sensitive but somewhat ‘interactive’

Optically Variable Ink (OVI) — the ink displays two different colors depending upon the angle that it’s viewed at. Typically used in banking or anti-counterfeiting efforts.

Luminous Paint (or Luminescent Paint) this paint gives off visible light through fluorescence, phosphorescence, or radioluminescence. These are also the three types of luminous paint that are available for industry use.

TRAVELING LIGHT by Malian Bobeck // Image: © Malian Bobeck

HIGH-LOW TECH Living Wall // Image: © MIT/Low-High Tech

JH RESEARCH

COMPLETED

- Emailed DesignTex

- Call Dan @ PW, could PW help look into options or substrates?

- Emailed Metro Engineering

JANUARY 23, 2019

BAUHAUS RESEARCH

Mechanical. Bauhaus is not about rationality. It’s about industrialization and creating clarity in the machine age.

Manifesto 1919 - 1933

“We must all return to the craft and the craftsmanship.”

“A clear symbol of a new belief to come.”

“Let us create the new building of the future.” Unite every discipline — cross functional.

We’re all craftsmen.

Book binding, weaving etc. for women other tasks were too complicated.

Artistic, artisanal and craft—mixing craftsman with artist visions. Synergy between different trades — blurred edges. Corporate design.

Gunta Stölzl was the first Bauhaus Master.

Students were talk to think like engineers not artists. Bauhaus created the modern art student.

“Something new which would change the conditions I had been living in before” Walter Gropius 1968

BAUHAUS PHILOSOPHY

- Dream/create a better world — Utopian ideas blend here

- Politics were left wing concepts

- Simplicity, details

- Experimenting = freedom

- Bright and bold

- Everything is possible

- Intuitive design

- Form follows function

- Synergy

- Design for the people

- Honest

- Affordability / Availability (of substrates and form)

- Shaping design for the future

New era calls for new forms when they were rebuilding the world after WWI. Traditional solutions were ignored and the face of the 20th century was designed at the Bauhaus. Experimental museums are trying to reinvent this idea with today’s technological society. Bauhaus has deep roots here in America. Particularly in Chicago architecture.

What happens when a design movement becomes life? A universal concept measuring daily life — the Bauhaus wasn’t the first that measured daily life but the radical approach to relating architecture, space and special relationships to such measurements was the cornerstone of the Bauhaus.

Ideals are more relevant today as universal design bridges the gap for new approaches to be developed for a global impact. A partnership between design and industry is what consumers want.

FUTURE RESEARCH:

- Anni Albers + Joseph Albers

- Anni Albers post Bauhaus work

- Bauhaus homes created for Masters

- Refracting Light and cross over from Annihilation

- Neufert Architects Data (Reference?)

- What are Steelcase’s Synergies?

- Is Bauhaus a brand?

- Vitra Design Museum

FEBRUARY 07, 2019

NOTES FROM TEXTILEARTIST.ORG

Gunta Stölzl united art practices taught at the Bauhaus with traditional textile techniques then became the first woman master.

“Why wait any longer at the Arts and Crafts School, for reforms to happen” when she could go to the Bauhaus where reforms were already taking place. Gunta saw this opportunity and took part in creating what was at first called the Women’s Department — which soon became the Weaving Department.

“New approaches to art and design through exploration of theory and practice.”

Became weaving Master in 1925 when the Bauhaus relocated to Dessau. Weaving practices at the department soon became of a more functional nature following the needs of contemporary industrial design. Under her direction, Bauhaus Weaving Workshop became one of it’s most successful facilities.

“Even today, I believe that most important of all was life itself.” —  Gunta Stölzl

Monica Stölzl Lecture at the Barbican Center in London

GUNTA STÖLZL FOUNDATION

FEBRUARY 06, 2019

BAUHAUS WOMEN - Ulrike Müller

“A new perception of time came with this new period. Machines, automobiles, and railways increased this speed of life.”

“The new art got rid of the decorative and strived to understand reality. Design elements for the abstraction of reality were taken from basic tones, basic shapes, and basic color towards “the spiritual in art” (Kandinsky).”

Impetuses — /’imoǝdǝs/ the force of energy with which a body moves

“Overcoming the contrast between art and mass production.”

“New Objectivity and functionality were central ideas of these new aspirations.”

“Walter Gropius’ teachings were based on medieval crafts regulations, a tradition with deeply patriarchal structures: the community of pupils (apprentices) and teachers (masters) united under one roof of the Bauhaus (derived from the medieval Bauhütte (building shed).

“No difference between the beautiful and the strong sex. Absolute equal obligation to the work of all craftsman.”

EX MACHINA: SOCIAL CAMPAIGN

REWATCH THIS FILM

JH ADD THIS TO YOUR FILM LIST

VIEW FROM A BLUE MOON BOOK designed by Wedge and Lever

Time stamping as a way to link between posts or dates — is this something that could help with linking between older content + newer content?

CONNECT ON COOL SHIT FOR NEOCON

Conception of clouds — LED lighting and layering for Flex.

2hr conversation with Cherie, Amanda + Sarah on concepts and ideas for front window of South Showroom.

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MARCH 02, 2019

FIELD TRIP NOTES

LISTEN TO YOUR INTUITION  — Jay Zombie

Imposer Syndrome

Outline Sources of inspiration, think through, ‘why do I enjoy this?’, ‘what do I pull from this?’

Challenge yourself to see things from a different perspective + allow yourself to be open about that

Outline patterns and series from your personal work

Traveling changes your and impacts your work

What is it about ____________ that you’re drawn to?

Keep it simple — don’t go wild if you’re suck

Experimenting doesn’t always mean sharing out

Trust your instincts

Finding your creative voice takes time + patience

Create a sense of community around your work. Host personal work reviews + crits to allow for personal accountability and allows feedback on personal work. You have to do personal work outside your corporate job to ensure you’re feeding your creativity. You have to feed your creativity to use your creativity.

Personal development vs professional development

IDENTIFYING YOUR CREATIVE VOICE — Cathlin McCullough

How can I continue to seek additional inspiration + notes from other sources? Continuing to teach and grow while working?

BIG MAGIC — Elizabeth Gilbert

Creativity doesn’t belong to you — it belongs to everyone, you just have to put in the work

Listening to your intuition and trusting yourself

Cut out the ideas that others are following, you’re work + the way you see the world are most important

FOCUS

The greek for for ‘Crisis’ is ‘to sift’

ADD MOONLIGHT TO FILM LIST — Moonlight’s color theory centers around the three different film stocks “Bickel has been able to develop LUTs [mathematical formulas that modify images] so that the color in a movie responds similarly to how it would if shot on a specific film stock.”

“The first chapter was set to emulate Fuji film stock, which according to Bickel, is a little warmer and brings out a lot of texture in the skin tone. The third chapter used a modified kodak stock, which according to Bickel is less “restrained” and provides more pop and shine to the image.”

“The most distinct looking chapter of “Moonlight” is the second, which Bickel credits to the old Agfa film stock it was set to mirror.  The long retired German film stock was known for adding a cyan to the images highlights, which is what gives the middle section of “Moonlight” its greenish-blue hue.”

Link to Moonlight’s Color Theory

FASCINATION WITH WALLS + TEXTURES:

TO DO’s / TAKE AWAYS:

Outline what brings joy when looking for inspiration. Where do I start? What adds energy when I find something?

Make a Creative Contract with Myself

Identify what I’m curious about

Identify what I’m interested in — even if it’s small, it’s still impactful

Identify what I’m drawn to over and over again

Identify what I do better than anyone else

Identify that feeling (in words) of when I’ve found a good piece of inspiration, or created a piece of work that I’m proud of

Identify what my creative elements are

Focus on the things that I want — Focus on the things that I can change

Sweet potato chips + salsa = fantastic combo