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Design Journal Assignment

The Design Journey

For each prompt below print out an image or images and paste into your sketchbook. Consider each prompt to cover a 2-page spread. Include annotations. If you don't have access to a printer, draw images to document your design journey. You should spend about 2 hours doing the research and 2 hours making the journal pages. Expect to fill 12 to15 2-page spreads. 

1. Look at a design website, Pinterest or Google images. Choose a 3D project/artwork/object that you find inspiring. This is the starting point of your design journey. Identify the following:
1. Where did you find it (web address)?
2. Who made it? 
3. When was it made?
2. Are there any additional views or similar works by the same designer?
3. What inspired the artwork? If the designer doesn't say, make your best guess.
4. What materials and tools would you need to make something similar? What techniques or processes would you need to learn? What alternative materials could you use?
5. Can you find any tutorials or instructions related to these processes?
6. Are there any designers making similar work? How are they different? What variations does this suggest?
7. Is the object or technique scalable? If you made it bigger or smaller what would you get?
1. Show a few examples of the same concept recreated on a different scale. (use additional pages as necessary.)
8. How were these examples used?
9. At this point, other possibilities should have presented themselves to you. Research something related but different from your starting point. (Example: My starting point was "The Floating City", my initial search was "cardboard city". Some examples included light so my second search was "cardboard lanterns") Document and annotate the results.
10. Finally, did your search turn up anything unexpected which at first glance might not seem related to your starting point? (Example: While researching "Cardboard city" I found paintings of cities on cardboard and cardboard boxes with miniature windows, balconies and fire escapes).