Weekly blog: 10/6 - 10/12

The Designboom.com website is packed full of great articles, images, and interviews relating to industrial design. The recent bike rides article shows some interesting and amazing bicycles various people have created (the wicker bike is particularly intriguing).

Weekly blog: 10/6 - 10/12

I love the work displayed at the Design Museum website. In particular I like the Jan Kaplický exhibit currently there; his designs are beautifully organic looking. If I'm ever in London I'll be sure to drop by this place.

Sketch #7

This is actually an old sketch, but I like to look at it now and then to remind me of a few things. It is the first sketch I ever drew that actually looked like a 3d representation of an object. I drew it in the first art class I took a few years ago. I remember being very intimidated when I started the class, but I soon realized that everyone else had already being creating art for years and that I shouldn't compare my art to other people's art. Created in charcoal.

Sketch #6

Ink doodle sketch. I don't know what it is either.

Weekly blog: 9/29 to 10/5

Illuminated manuscripts:

website here

One of many such places on the internet with some beautiful pictures of illuminated manuscripts. The search interface is a little clunky, but still this is a great resources for finding specific illuminated manuscript images to use as references.

Assignment 0.5

Sketchup is quite a bit clunkier than other 3D programs I have used before, but once I got the hang of various functions it wasn't too bad (I used undo quite a bit). Using layers more might have helped, since it would have been easier to hide/unhide various things and would have made selections easier. Once nice thing about it: there are tons of tutorials all over the net.

Weekly blog: 9/29 to 10/5

This beautiful image, copyrighted by Ben Cooper, is an amazing shot of the new Delta rocket lifting off from the launchpad. It cost him a lense, but it was well worth it.

Article here