Art & Design Gallery

After class, I visited the Art & Design Gallery in the Art & Design Building. I chose to analyze a poster created by Bob Coffeen. The poster was titled Building Associates and it showed the viewer about the Richard Auditorium Renovation Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. The reason I chose this particular poster and artist was because Coffeen seemed to use the grid effectively. The past few projects, we have been assigned to focus on using a grid for the layout of our posters just like Coffeen ended up using. Also, he uses the rule of a diagonal which catches the viewers attention like my group had used in our previous project.

Dream Job

I didn't always want to major in graphic design. Throughout high school, a lot of different majors entered my mind but obviously didn't stay. Before sophomore year in high school, i was set on becoming a journalist. But then, sophomore year in high school, I joined the yearbook staff. I mostly wrote stories that year for the book which was right up my alley. I thought so anyways. Junior year I tried out to be Design Editor of the yearbook. I fell in love with design that year and realized this is what I want to do in the future. After college, my dream job is to move out to Hollywood or just a big city and design movie posters or album art work.

Attribute Listing

In class, as a group, we created a grid with different categories/attributes we found the mechanical pencil to have. From there, we added descriptions of the pencil (plastic, light, green, etc) to what category they fell under. This process helped us think outside the box about different ways to redesign the mechanical pencil.

Binder Clip Interviews

I interviewed 5 KU student's about their opinion and thoughts of the function of a binder clip.

1) Have you ever used a binder clip? Why or why not?
2) Do you consider the binder clip useful? Why or why not?
3) What is one way you would improve the design of the binder clip if you were able to?

Sarah Morris, freshmen
1) I do use the binder clip because it's an easy way to bind large amounts of paper together.
2) I do consider the binder clip useful because it gets the job done.
3) If I could redesign the binder clip I would make it so when opening it, there wasn't so much tension on your finger tips.

Jordan Sova, freshmen
1) I frequently use the binder clip because it helps me stay organized.
2) I don't find the binder clip functional because I think it's too hard to open.
3) One way I would improve the design of the binder clip would be to add longer handles so it's easier to hold.

Michelle Graham, senior
1) I don't use the binder clip because it's too hard to open.
2) I don't consider the binder clip functional because it's not for me.
3) One way I would improve the design would make it so you wouldn't have to squeeze it open to use to. You could slide it on like a paper clip.

Andrew Glatt, freshmen
1) I rarely use it. I only use it when I need to hold projects together.
2) I do find the binder clip functional because it's very helpful in staying organized.
3) If I could change the design of the binder clip, I would add springs to it so it was easier to squeeze open but still snapped shut.

IDEO deep dive response

By watching the IDEO deep dive video, I learned that it takes a lot more process and thought into inventing or even reinventing something. There are many ways to go about starting this process and the IDEO video mentioned and showed examples of quite a few.
The visual writing handout taught me of how to start mapping out my large amount of ideas I have for a specific project.