Design Projects
Right before we did our Citizen Diptych, students were assigned a mini assignment to get our hands on street photography. Our goal was to capture an emotion through some else’s facial expressions. I decided to go to downtown Palo Alto to take some pictures since it is usually very busy in the evening. While taking pictures of a passerby, I overhead a man talking to a homeless woman with her child; he said “I see you every day when I leave from work, and I felt like I just have to talk to you” and continued to ask about her child and situation. I ended up taking a step back to be able to capture that moment of human kindness. I titled my photograph, “Compassion”.
After the Citizen Diptych in Design, we created a Japanese Stab-binding Book. This book had three components: First, we did macro-photography of flowers and other plants. Second, we used Photoshop to create watercolor technique using brushes and different filters. Next, we ripped up the Japanese newspaper and dyed it with tea to make it looked age, then re-glued the mismatched pieces together to create a new piece of paper. On vellum paper, we printed quotes from our lyrical essays. On another piece of vellum paper, we wrote corresponding Kanjis that represented the feeling of the quote. Then we printed our water-color flowers on textured paper. Lastly, we drew traditional Japanese illustrations on the newspaper. We used rice paper in between each section. Lastly, after covering our book covers with decorative types of paper, we chose a traditional stab-binding pattern, drilled holes in our books, and bound the books. I chose the Noble Bind for my book.
Another project we did in Design was called the “Alphabet Project” where we had to go out and photograph things that resembled letters of the alphabet. Next, we had to use those “letters” to spell our names. Here is the picture of my name below:
The last project we did this quarter was the “Minimalist Movie Poster” where we had to create our own movie plot then summarize it into a poster. We then had to make matching packaging and tickets with it. To learn more about what my movie is about, click my artist statement below:
Here is a picture of my poster:
