Rethinking Trash into Inspired Art

While I was browsing design website, I came cross article about The Art of Solid Waste by Paho Mann, Nancy Levinson takes about how in our eco-conscious ear, trash and art are intermingling in every more ways. And Google search for "trash art" it came up with 19,900,000 results. Also to integrate with Public Art. I think this is interesting that for one of the thesis idea that to collect everyday and into something like mapping and life pattern. Here are some than I think worked out very well from one of the gallery.

" Banker White was part of San Francisco's Recycling and Disposal Artist in Residence program, and during residency, collected enough Coke bottle labels to create this Afghan prayer rug entitled "Give the Magic." The artist had the interesting idea to "[use] Coca Cola Company product graphic design and re-use and re-imagine them to mimic the cultural aesthetics of target audience." Turning the trash of consumerism into an object that is usually highly valued helps viewers question exactly what objects and products we find important."

Photo via Jaymi Heimbuch

By Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California
on June 2, 2009


Close up, you can see just how many labels and label fragments went into creating this rug. And these were collected during one short artist-in-residence program. Imagine the sheer number of slick plastic labels that slip through to landfills all over the country, and the world.

Photo via Jaymi Heimbuch

By Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California
on June 2, 2009



" Something as unnoticeable as bar codes can be transformed into attractive art when put in the right place. It's about as simple as you can get, and yet is a very intriguing piece. Just think about how many barcodes we see during the day, and how even they can be turned into something we want to feature on our living room walls. Nothing is trash if you look at it in a different way."

Photo via Chris Tackett

By Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California
on June 2, 2009

More Work 

Yup, What are we waiting for

The video talk by Yann Arthus about his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat -- stunning aerial photographs in his series "The Earth From Above," personal interviews from around the globe featured in his web project "6 billion Others," and his soon-to-be-released movie, "Home," which documents human impact on the environment through breathtaking video.

Visual Audit

Visual audit of ligatures in different aspects of design, what has being done and what other people are doing.

Animal facial expression

As one of my idea are focus on face expression, that last night I came cross one set album of animal facial expression that I think it quite interesting that the photographer catch the moment. That I know sometimes people's facial expression are so amazing, and once I was helping friend to take care her cat for few months that I realize the facial expression of the cat is unexpected and multivariate.

Reading About The Urban Farm

The article is about a new model for food production suggests we'll be growing more of what we eat, right where most of us live: in the city by Lloyd Alter from Azure magazine of the May issue. That Azure talks about the 25 ways to cook, eat and grow your own food. I think food is gonna be big issue as drink water in the next less 50 years for some countries. That the strange weather in Australia, China, and also Canada here, that this winter is so strange that we get so little snow and lots rain. As the articles talks about consider many ways to rethink cooking, eating and growing - and food's relationship to landscape architecture, graphic design, product development, interiors and more. That to take different degree to re-think bring me think about how one can impact. That sustainability is hottest term that people use in today's design. Things are shifting that I remember that Keith talked about in first year class that if when everyone buying there mac laptop, just take the laptop and leave the packaging at the store for reuse that would impact a lot, but just idea about how people will practice that how will this negotiate between designer and end user. The mind set is totally different.

{Found} 60s 70s Poster

My collect of sticker labels

the reason I start to collect sticker labels are that first I was doing for my zine book for type class that the idea of little things in our life that sometime can amazing you with extra attention. The important of this little information design that help supermarket and sale and producer easier to scan or track down stock.

Ideas for Thesis

One: Observe the "faces" in our objectified life
- To learn observe things in different aspects that the characters in the objectified life. As in step forward to stylize and characterize the observe, that the final outcome could be 3D model and other relate application from 2D to 3D, such as booklet, stationery, t-shirt and others might apply.

Two: How could emoticon use more effectively through digital communication
- To exploring ideas about how emoticons are being used and help communication without misunderstanding.
- Reason that I am interesting in this topic is that now days the common of text message, internet chat, and other digital based communication that get could easily get others emotion or not able to get the facial expression that might lead into misunderstanding.
- how emoticon are using in different country and region, such as North America and Asia (Japan and China)

Three: Ligature in Typography
- Since the long history of ligature in typography, but why it isn't used often or much in graphic design nowadays, that's because there isn't a really well designed set of ligature that often is customize for special needs. To exploring the background information about ligature and for the final outcome it could design a better sets of ligature.

Four: Topic for this idea, ummm..not sure what I should call
- from the pass few months I starting collect street transfers/subway transfers that I get every time and I have no idea what it will be the end result or come out, but possible to look up about the pattern of my lifestyle that through time/ spaces that each time the different transfer that I collect. When I line them up the length, colour, the time, information on the transfer are different, it creates some kinds of pattern. I am not sure what will be the end outcome. But I think I will keep this doing see what I will get out of it. Same as I being collecting sticker labels that from fruit that the amazing visual impact when so many little stickers were put together.

About ID magazine

Last week I received a Print magazine, I know I didn't subscribe it that I saw it maybe it was a free issue to pre-read, but the letter came with the magazine that said that ID is no longer to be publish, that shocked me that such a good magazine is no long there. I have look into the reason behind but that's such to lose. So they give Print magazine instant of ID to finish my subscribe, that I came across the article about "Class of the Titans - Three designers take their best shot at few classic school assignments".

Notes

Reading #2


• Definition of L. Bruce Archer: “Design research is systematic inquiry whose goal is knowledge of, or in, the embodiment of configuration, composition, structure, purpose, value, and meaning in man-made things and systems.”
• Looking at design research from the design methodology and design science perspectives that is necessary for such a topic
• The objectives of design research are the study, research, and investigation of the artificial made by human beings
• All design research reports are related to the history or past activity of the subject are under study
• Studies of the present are part of the past because every research report has to prove its roots in the past
• Moholy-Nagy became the director of the “New Bauhaus”
• Buckminster Fuller sought to develop a “design science” that would obtain maximum human advantage from a minimal use of energy and materials
• Creativity methods were developed mainly in the U.S. in response to the launching of the first satellite, the Soviet Union’s “sputnik,” which caused the American government to free up quite a lot of money to do research on creativity
• Due to technological developments and the implication of mass production, the interest had to be shifted for hardware and from to the consideration of human needs, this required a new look at the subject of design methods
• System analysis and system theory on design established the grounds for the foundation of “systematic design methods” = “first generation design methods”


Reading #3


• All researches collect many fact, but then must select, organize and classify finding into a coherent pattern
• When we assign a label to a bin, we may or
• may not know how all the contents of the bin fit together, or how this bin relates to another
• The label is not important, but the process of establishing a map or framework of how the research will be conducted and analyzed is.
• Identifying categories early in reading helps, even if some have to be rejected and
• others added but if no attempt has been made, then deciding on categories becomes very difficult and extremely time-consuming.


• Independent, publicly traded American newspapers have lost forty-two per cent of their market value in the past three years
• surrendered more than eighty per cent of its stock value since making the $6.5-billion purchase
• Until recently, newspapers were accustomed to operating as high-margin monopolies
• Since 1990, a quarter of all American newspaper jobs have disappeared
• Philip Meyer, in his book “The Vanishing Newspaper” (2004), predicts that the final copy of the final newspaper will appear on somebody’s doorstep one day in 2043
• Among the most significant aspects of the transition from “dead tree” newspapers to a world of digital information lies in the nature of “news” itself.
• The American newspaper (and the nightly newscast) is designed to appeal to a broad audience, with conflicting values and opinions, by virtue of its commitment to the goal of objectivity. Many newspapers, in their eagerness to demonstrate a sense of balance and impartiality, do not allow reporters to voice their opinions publicly, march in demonstrations, volunteer in political campaigns, wear political buttons, or attach bumper stickers to their cars.
• A liberal version of the Deweyan community took longer to form, in part because it took liberals longer to find fault with the media.

Emoticons

Emoticon that was the right term.

Some background information about emoticon, An emoticon is a textual expression representing the face of a writer's mood or facial expression. Emoticons are often used to alert a responder to the tenor or temper of a statement, and can change and improve interpretation of plain text. The word is a portmanteau of the English words emotion (or emote) and icon. In web forums, instant messengers and online games, text emoticons are often automatically replaced with small corresponding images, which came to be called emoticons as well.

The use of emoticons can be traced back to the nineteenth century and were commonly used in casual and/or humorous writing.^{[citation needed]}Internet were included in a proposal by Scott Fahlman in a message on 19 September 1982.^[1]

 

Emoticons published in the March 30, 1881 issue of Puck.

The National Telegraphic Review and Operators Guide in April 1857 documented the use of the number 73 in Morse code to express "love and kisses" (later reduced to the more formal "best regards"). Dodge's Manual in 1908 documented the reintroduction of "love and kisses" as the number 88. Gajadhar and Green comment that both Morse code abbreviations are more succinct than modern abbreviations such as LOL.^[2][3]

A New York Times transcript from Abraham Lincoln's speech written in 1862 discovered by Bryan Benilous appears to contain a "winking" emoticon, but it is unclear whether it is an actual use, a typo^[4] or a legitimate punctuation construct.

Typographical emoticons were published in 1881 by the U.S. satirical magazine Puck. In 1912 Ambrose Bierce proposed "an improvement in punctuation — the snigger point, or note of cachinnation: it is written thus \___/! and presents a smiling mouth. It is to be appended, with the full stop [or exclamation mark as Bierce's later example used], to every jocular or ironical sentence".^[5]

Emoticons had already come into use in sci-fi fandom in the 1940s,^[6] although there seems to have been a lapse in cultural continuity between the communities. In 1963 the "smiley face", a yellow button with two black dots representing eyes and an upturned thick curve representing a mouth, was created by freelance artist Harvey Ball. It was realized on order of a large insurance company as part of a campaign to bolster the morale of its employees and soon became a big hit. This smiley presumably inspired many later emoticons; the most basic graphic emoticon that depicts this is in fact a small yellow smiley face.

In a New York Times interview in April 1969, Alden Whitman asked writer Vladimir Nabokov: "How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the immediate past?" Nabokov answered: "I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile — some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon 

Creation of :-) and :-(

The first person documented to have used the emoticons :-) and :-(, with a specific suggestion that they be used to express emotion, was Scott Fahlman;^[10] the text of his original proposal, posted to the Carnegie Mellon University computer science general board on 19 September 1982 (11:44), was thought to have been lost, but was recovered twenty years later by Jeff Baird from old backup tapes.^[1]

character emotion? cyber emotion?

character emotion, I am not sure about the term, but I remember once I read an article about this topic in Toronto Star. Here were some thing that I found.
I <3 U

˙﹏˙ → (˙﹏˙）˙ˍ˙　˙０˙　˙︿˙　˙ε ˙　˙ 3˙　˙ω˙　˙﹏˙　˙△˙　˙▽˙   the small eyes set

⊙ˍ⊙　⊙０⊙　⊙︿⊙　￣ε ￣　￣ 3￣　⊙ω⊙　⊙﹏⊙　⊙△⊙　⊙▽⊙

￣ˍ￣　￣０￣　￣︿￣　￣ε ￣　￣ 3￣　￣ω￣　￣﹏￣　￣△￣　￣▽￣

∩ˍ∩　∩０∩　∩︿∩　∩ε ∩　∩ 3∩　∩ω∩　∩﹏∩　∩△∩　∩▽∩

∪ˍ∪　∪０∪　∪︿∪　∪ε ∪　∪ 3∪　∪ω∪　∪﹏∪　∪△∪　∪▽∪

ˋˍˊ　ˋ０ˊ　ˋ︿ˊ　ˋε ˊ　ˋ 3ˊ　ˋωˊ　ˋ﹏ˊ　ˋ△ˊ　ˋ▽ˊ

＞ˍ＜　＞０＜　＞︿＜　＞ε ＜　＞ 3＜　＞ω＜　＞﹏＜　＞△＜　＞▽＜

ˇˍˇ　ˇ０ˇ　ˇ︿ˇ　ˇε ˇ　ˇ 3ˇ　ˇωˇ　ˇ﹏ˇ　ˇ△ˇ　ˇ▽ˇ

≧ˍ≦　≧０≦　≧︿≦　≧ε ≦　≧ 3≦　≧ω≦　≧﹏≦　≧△≦　≧▽≦

Designer Toys

As from the last post, one of the alternative direction that I might want to going into, at the same time to keep exploring the "faces" expression around and take into step to characterize what I can find. I have collect this kinds of toys for long time, not every set of them, but some that I want to have as they are quite expensive, in the range of $12 up to $20 something, and also the size of the toy.

Approach that can take. This sets of designer toys that I think it pretty cool.
 

{Found}See the faces?! ^^

As practice as graphic designer, I think observe is the most important thing to have, as in our daily life, there are so many inconspicuous things that we should pay more attention to, and that we might get something that are pleasantly surprise and unexpected. The little things that are not so important in our life but there are being there for so long and inconspicuous, it just need an observant and conscientious person to find it. Here are some thing that I found are very clever that other people see the faces in our objectified life.