Creativity and Aesthetics
Sketching as a Designer
Final Sketches of project
Sketching in industrial design is used to explore and visualize concepts quickly. It allows for quick iterations, which is at the core of the design process. Being someone who has never sketched before, starting off was quite a challenge. Through repetition and consistent practice, the drawings slowly became clearer. While there was still much room for improvement I was still able to apply the skill within another project. Namely the disassembly project, where I needed to sketch a piece of a radio in multiple perspectives. When comparing the first and the speaker sketch clear differences can be seen, which outline my progress with this skill.
Initial Sketches made at the beginning of the course
Sketches made once I had some experience
Art Through Programming
Personal Recreation using Java
Book Cover. Dick, K. (2022). They: The Lost Dystopian “Masterpiece” (Emily St. John Mandel). Faber & Faber.
During the course of Creative Programming we were tasked to make some piece of interesting art that demonstrates our understanding of the programming language of Java. For this assignment I decided to recreate a book cover as accurately as possible. The cover I selected isn’t necessarily the most difficult to recreate but served as a good goal with where my abilities were currently. I'm quite proud of the result I produced, while it is not one-for-one it is clearly based on the original. This project taught me the possibilities of creating art through Java, and basic computer logic.
Aesthetics of a Game
Mood board used during the development of ID8
Demo-day presentation of ID8
One of the largest parts I played in the first CBL project was creating the aesthetics for ID8. My main inspiration came from a game released in 2016 “Firewatch”, due to the fact that their art style was hitting the same motifs we wanted for our product. A more in depth analysis of why this was chosen can be found in the Final Report of the project. Simply put, this part of the project allowed me to express some creative liberty when making the visual theme of the project.