Project 3 / Week 3

This week we've basically been messing around with our materials and testing the scale of our lego bricks to our landscape and choosing lego colors. we've chosen our location to be shakespeare garden in central park in new york city because of high traffic and it's located between the MET and the MNS. we've also developed a logo and have been experimenting with the placement of our objects.

Monument Concept

"Legos are the building blocks of imagination."

This is a monument to imagination. 

Central Park, my recreating a section of the park we will be able to apply the ability to connect blocks of lego's to it. This will allow visitors to experience a sense of whimsy, and wonderment. 

PLAN OF ATTACK:

• Buy the basic lego colors of clay. (Yellow, red, blue, and green)
• Buy or find the tools to carve and paint. 
• Buy the plants, shrubs, and trees for the park.
• Buy the benches, lamp pole, trashcan, etc.

BUILDING:

• Test our hypothesis. Based on the size of the tree we'll determine the size of the blocks, and therefore the dots. 
• Build the model.

PRESENTATION:

• Photograph and start Keynote.
• Finish the Keynote. 

Degree Project - Week 12

Currently I am in the final steps of adjusting my video, setting the timing, and working on how the assets will be presented. Above is a context shot that I've been posting on Dribbble as I work on the project. 

Project 3

Ashley and I have decided to build our monument based on the internet's past, focusing on some of the earliest websites and social networks that are either no longer in use today, or have evolved to something better. The audience for such a monument would vary from people who are comfortable with technology and experienced these earlier websites to computer geeks who enjoy some witty, tech-related humor.

To illustrate this idea, we plan on building an internet graveyard. The graveyard will hold a series of tombstones dedicated to specific websites. These tombstones will be built with regular concrete, but be shaped as computer monitors that are from the specific time period that each website was in use. The computer monitors will each have a screens of the website's past functionality and different pages, almost like an interactive demo. Similar to a real graveyard, these graveyards with show evidence of being visited, some showing that they haven't been visited in years. This will be shown with leave behind gifts by the tombstones that are fitting to the website and the website's audience. For example, the old Myspace tombstone might have a concert flyer taped to it, since Myspace today is only used by bands promoting themselves. 

We'd also like to show the age of the websites by showing some that look extremely dated, while others look freshly buried.

P.S. - We're exited. 

Degree Project - Week 11

Working icon.

Currently animating in keynote.

Link to screens coming soon! I have like 40 screens and my photoshop file is about a gig. My computer literally will never forgive me for this project haha. Posting them up soon!

I recently made another round of adjustments and UI tweaks thanks to your input! Thanks Marty!

Dieter Rams Exhibition Final

unspectacular things - dieter rams exhibition by Ashley Einspahr

Dieter Rams often speaks about the future of design and how new structures for our behaviors will continuously be necessary as products and technology advance. Today we are recognizing that his 10 principles are still influencing many design choices today through brands such as Apple.

The unspectacular things exhibition focuses on product design by Dieter Rams and how it has impacted product and interface design today. The exhibit lets the viewer look at Rams' products side by side next to its contemporary counterparts in a completely interactive environment, and connect these products with his 10 principles. The aesthetic of the exhibition reflects Rams' style and his unobtrusive methods.

Degree Project - Week 10

I've been screen testing with this new app Design Duet which connects directly to the photoshop to display your screens on iPad, iPhone, etc.