3D Design 27/09/2010

Had an amazing day of 3D design. I'm looking at the "negative/ positive" space within objects, etc.

Last week, I decided to look at Edward Tufte, an American statistician, who is also a sculpture artist. He also looks at the negative/positve space within objects.

I also decided to look at Japanese text. I chose to do this because not only do I like the language but it's also different to what I spreak normally. So basically, I'm looking at the negative & positive space within the Katakana and Hirigana symbols.

I made a few example models too.
 

And, as a whole class we did some test pieces in the workshop with a copper plate and used some tools to engrave into it.


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Yesterday, I analysed two diferent types of buildings, the Midland Square, Japan, and traditional Japanese buildings/houses.  I'm linking architecture into this project as that's the field that I am going into in the future.
The Midland Square is a great architecure piece.  It has an amazing structure design, which is like the human body and skeleton.

I started creating another example model, this time with the idea of adding a sructure....I will continue on this and create some more models....

I also started creating a test piece...this piece is supposed to be like Shoji....will have to continue with it to see if it's successful...