Laure Rdgs

Laure (Lore) [lɔː] - If you can't pronounce my name correctly, just shut up. Thanks :)

[joannetriesdatavis]

- Final Reflective Statement -

Entering this course, based on what the course would offer, some of my personal objectives were to learn how to work with materials, and to expand my general knowledge of design (the practice, the industry, history, etc). I certainly feel like I’m well more comfortable working with materials now than I first was when I entered the course, but I admit that there is still much ground to cover. However, I’ve learned many new things about design through Andy’s lectures.

It was fascinating to learn about early printing, post-modernism, and the Bauhaus “movement”. I also enjoyed the skills I picked up over the semester, like prototyping, planning, group-work, zine-making, and doing design research. The most inspiring were the concepts I’ve delved into, like design ethics and artist’s books.

I was mostly inspired by Andy & Karen throughout the course, and it was a great privilege to learn from them directly (so many lessons that couldn’t fit into less than 200 words.) Going forward, I plan on developing my zine and collaging skills, and exploring more of that intersection between art & design, which is essentially what the course has taught me so far.

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Since it’s our last piece of assessment, I just decided to have a little fun with it. Thank to the extra free time now, I went for doodling and illustrating my reflective statement, at least to decorate this Tumblr one last time.

The sincerest thank you to Andy & Karen for conducting such fun, engaging class activities and lectures, and for making me feel excited about becoming a creative in the real world.

Cheers, everyone. x

[jothelibrarian]

Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is another one of those sneaky incunables! I hadn’t shared one for a while, and I rather liked this photograph of a Bulgarian book printed in 1556.

Image source: Image declared as public domain on Wikipedia because its copyright has expired.

[bauhaus-movement]

Bauhaus Circles Monochrome

[vengodelvalle]

┈ ⌒ ⌒ ⌒ geometric / Lamp ▭ ▭ ▭ ┈

@vengodelvalle

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[oldmaterubykate-blog]

Human Connection an interview with Peta Berghofer

Peta Berghofer is a ceramicist in residence at a studio in Toowoomba, Queensland. I’ve known her for a few years and have spent so much time watching her work but have never known WHY she works the way that she does. This interview was a really special experience for me and I wanted to present the interview in a way that was true to who I am as a designer, whilst still giving you a small glimpse into her beautiful, quirky, arty world.

I have been creating little ‘keepsake’ boxes all my life - a way of compartmentalising life’s journey I suppose. Each box usually contains special photos I’ve taken, letters I’ve written and received and treasures i’ve collected, and I wanted to present this interview in a similar way. A little box of wonder (complete with polaroids, type art and a few ceramics tools thrown in for good measure). I wanted it to reflect the handmade process that both Peta and I prefer, and so I have hand lettered the contents of the interview as though it were just another little keepsake box I have been collecting. In the interview, Peta stated that she does what she does explore the dichotomy between ‘craft’ and ‘fine art’ and I wanted to present the interview in the same way - is it craft or is it design?! I’m so thankful I’ve been able to learn more about Pete’s work in her field of ceramics. I just hope that there is enough beauty in the simpleness of my assignment to represent how wonderful Peta’s work truly is.

[laurerdgs]

love what you did Ruby!

[oldmaterubykate-blog]

When I studied Interior Design we were making mood boards just about every few days for client briefs and it just became something that helped me get the overall idea I was looking for out of my head. This was the perfect design research and inspiration for me as I am thinking of ways to present my interview with Pete. Plus, mood boards are the perfect procrastination for me because I enjoy them too much.

[thisisjcuso]

time-lapse of water pangram

[berber1998]

ASK ME ANYTHING poster snippet

[laurerdgs]

Online Reflective Journal

I didn’t know what to expect with this course; I didn’t even know its aim. Can we say I had achieved my goal when in fact I didn't know what it was, except meeting people? Yes, I reached my goals, I met a lot of people, and I made a new circle of friends through the workshops.

I can finally say that I know what Bauhaus, postmodernism and modernism are. I think I can say that I learned things like the Memphis group and the Swiss style (never heard before). I learned to do a zine and collages, things that I had never tried before. I'm always bad at planning my life and writing things that make sense (especially on social networks while I'm in rehab).

I discovered the artist's books, and other stuff written on our checklist that I can not pronounce (Incunabula & Gesamtkunstwerk)

The story of Tony Quan, Aka tempted One moved me, and it is just amazing. I think this graffiti artist and his friends inspired me the most. The search for letters around the campus was interesting, forcing us to pay attention to what was around us, to have a fresh look at the world around us.

I would like to learn how to code Javascript and Php with Karen. Ah!  Someone is telling me it's not the right degree to do that, my bad!

Merci Andy et Karen pour ces semaines de stress intense. Ciao bye et à bientôt pour de nouvelles aventures. :) 

[laurerdgs]

Thank Sottsass for the Most Memphis House Imaginable

In Maui, of all places.

[ENG] I’ve found this article from dwell.com about one of three private house Ettore Sottsass, father of the Memphis Movement, built in the U.S. 

[stav-ros-deactivated20190312]

Week #8 Communication Design Studies

Learning and creating ‘ZINES’ was so much fun and something that I did it for my first time.

[laurerdgs]

[FR] Semaine 8, nous sommes allés à travers un atelier spécialement demandé lors d’un vote par notre classe sur la comment plier un zine. Cela m'a vraiment excité de commencer à travailler et à expérimenter sur les différentes facons de plier un zine. J'ai appris qu'avec un seul morceau de papier A3, vous pouvez plier un zine de 8 pages et un zine de 16 pages.

[ENG] Week 8 we went through a specially requested workshop voted by our class on how to fold a zine. This got me really excited to start working and experimenting on the different folds of a zine. I learnt that with just one A3 piece of paper you're able to fold an 8 paged a4 zine and a 16 a5 paged zine.

[tompham3899]

“Ask me anything” progress and final.

I tried to do something similar to Ms. Sally’s work but with some of my own changes. It was inspired by 2 of Ms. Sally’s favourite things portrait and typography. The typography and frames are chosen and designed according to the topics of the conversations (5 layers for 5 questions and 5 answers).

The base at the bottom of the portrait are tracks that allow you to slide each frame to left or right so you can have a look and read them individually. Each layer also has 1 piece of Ms. Sally’s portrait, aligning all the layer results in the whole portrait.

[laurerdgs]

I'm still amazed by Tom’s work! 

[laurerdgs]

Ask Me Anything

Update

[FR] J’ai choisi d’interviewer Daniéla Torto pour mon interview, puisque J.R. ne m'a jamais répondu. Bref, Daniéla est une artiste Franco-Calédonienne aux multiples talents.

Ma couverture est un autoportrait, et j'ai choisi de titrer mon devoir “Danou”, car c'est comme cela que ses proches la surnomment. Malheureusement, les réponses aux questions utilisées pour mon interview étaient très courtes, j'ai donc décidé de “combler” en utilisant la retranscription de conversation que nous avons eue toutes les deux.

La page ci-dessous est différente des autres car 1/c'est en quelque sorte une intro plus approfondie de ce que fait ou est capable de faire cette artiste. En arrière-plan, le texte rose pâle, est en fait un mélange des surnoms, alter ego, noms d'artiste mais aussi de tous les arts que Daniela pratique.

[ENG] 

I chose to interview Daniela Torto for my interview since J.R. never answered me. In short, Daniela is a Franco-Caledonian artist with multiple talents.

My cover is a self-portrait, and I chose to title my assignment “Danou” because that’s how her family call her. Unfortunately, her answers to the questions used for the interview were concise, so I decided to “fill in” using the transcription of our conversations.

The page below is different from the others because:

It is somehow a more in-depth intro to what this artist does or can do. 

In the background, the pale pink text is a mix of nicknames, alter ego, artist names and all the arts that Daniela practices.

[FR] Mes questions sont dispersées sur 3 pages doubles, où la couleur dominante est le bleu. Je voulais marquer une nette différence entre les retranscriptions des conversations et les questions concernant mon devoir. Le titre reste le même pour chaque page, seul l'illustration qui l'accompagne change.

[ENG] My questions are spread over three double pages, where the dominant colour is blue. I wanted to make a clear difference between the transcriptions and the questions for my assignment. The title remains the same for each page, only the illustration changes.

[FR] Lors de nos conversations, nous avons abordé plusieurs thèmes, tels que comment elle a commencé le collage, le message qu'elle souhaitait transmettre à travers son travail et aussi la satisfaction qu'elle pouvait en retirer. J'ai donc accompagné ces informations de citations et de ses travaux.

[ENG] During our conversations, we discussed several themes, such as how she started collage, the message she wanted to convey through her work and also the satisfaction she could get from it. So I completed this information with quotes and some of her artworks.

[FR] Et pour finir, je voulais présenter son nouvel Instagram, un peu comme si le lecteur était sur son téléphone ou ordinateur.

[ENG] And finally, I wanted to introduce his new Instagram, as if the reader was on his phone or computer.

[FR] “Ask me anything” - Vidéo faite hier pendant que je montai mon magazine.

[EN] “Ask me anything” - Video made yesterday while I was editing my magazine.

[laurerdgs]

Post Update “Ask Me Anything”

[laurerdgs]

Ask Me Anything

Update

[FR] J’ai choisi d’interviewer Daniéla Torto pour mon interview, puisque J.R. ne m'a jamais répondu. Bref, Daniéla est une artiste Franco-Calédonienne aux multiples talents.

Ma couverture est un autoportrait, et j'ai choisi de titrer mon devoir "Danou", car c'est comme cela que ses proches la surnomment. Malheureusement, les réponses aux questions utilisées pour mon interview étaient très courtes, j'ai donc décidé de "combler" en utilisant la retranscription de conversation que nous avons eue toutes les deux.

La page ci-dessous est différente des autres car 1/c'est en quelque sorte une intro plus approfondie de ce que fait ou est capable de faire cette artiste. En arrière-plan, le texte rose pâle, est en fait un mélange des surnoms, alter ego, noms d'artiste mais aussi de tous les arts que Daniela pratique.

[ENG] 

I chose to interview Daniela Torto for my interview since J.R. never answered me. In short, Daniela is a Franco-Caledonian artist with multiple talents.

My cover is a self-portrait, and I chose to title my assignment "Danou" because that's how her family call her. Unfortunately, her answers to the questions used for the interview were concise, so I decided to "fill in" using the transcription of our conversations.

The page below is different from the others because:

It is somehow a more in-depth intro to what this artist does or can do. 

In the background, the pale pink text is a mix of nicknames, alter ego, artist names and all the arts that Daniela practices.

[FR] Mes questions sont dispersées sur 3 pages doubles, où la couleur dominante est le bleu. Je voulais marquer une nette différence entre les retranscriptions des conversations et les questions concernant mon devoir. Le titre reste le même pour chaque page, seul l'illustration qui l'accompagne change.

[ENG] My questions are spread over three double pages, where the dominant colour is blue. I wanted to make a clear difference between the transcriptions and the questions for my assignment. The title remains the same for each page, only the illustration changes.

[FR] Lors de nos conversations, nous avons abordé plusieurs thèmes, tels que comment elle a commencé le collage, le message qu'elle souhaitait transmettre à travers son travail et aussi la satisfaction qu'elle pouvait en retirer. J'ai donc accompagné ces informations de citations et de ses travaux.

[ENG] During our conversations, we discussed several themes, such as how she started collage, the message she wanted to convey through her work and also the satisfaction she could get from it. So I completed this information with quotes and some of her artworks.

[FR] Et pour finir, je voulais présenter son nouvel Instagram, un peu comme si le lecteur était sur son téléphone ou ordinateur.

[ENG] And finally, I wanted to introduce his new Instagram, as if the reader was on his phone or computer.

[FR] “Ask me anything” - Vidéo faite hier pendant que je montai mon magazine.

[EN] “Ask me anything” - Video made yesterday while I was editing my magazine.

[laurerdgs]

[FR] Pour ce workshop nous devions nous aventurer sur le campus en groupes avec pour objectif de chercher dans la ville des lettres de A à Z. Ce fut l'une des nombreuses activités qui m’a vraiment ouvert les yeux sur design et donné plus de sens à l’expression "le design est tout autour de vous" parce qu'il est vraiment si vous regardez de plus près.

[ENG] This workshop we had to venture around campus in groups with the objective of looking for letterforms from A to Z within the city. This was one of the many activities that really opened my eyes to design and gave more meaning to the statement "design is all around you" because it truly is if you look closely enough.

[laurerdgs]

[FR] "Qu'est-ce que c'est que ce Bauhaus?"

Ce cours magistral nous a permis de découvrir un mouvement de design historique, le Bauhaus. Andy nous a emmenés dans un voyage à travers l'héritage d'une académie de design allemand dans les années 1920. Le Bauhaus était considéré comme un institut prestigieux réservé aux designers, mais à l'époque où il y avait de fortes inégalités envers les femmes, l'Institut Bauhaus s'ouvrait également aux étudiants et étudiantes. Nous avons examiné quelques-unes des pièces réalisées par l'institut, dont une, en particulier, était très mémorable. Le ballet triadique d'Oskar Schlemmer.

[ENG] "What is this Bauhaus anyways?"

This lecture we discovered a historic design movement, The Bauhaus. Andy took us on a journey through the legacy of a German design academy in the 1920's. The Bauhaus was seen as prestigious institute limited to designers, but back in the day where there was high inequality for women, the Bauhaus Institute opened up equally to both male and female students. We went through some of the pieces made by the institute, one, in particular, was very memorable. The Triadic Ballet by Oskar Schlemmer.

[laurerdgs]

[FR] Durant notre workshop, nous devions constituer l’alphabet avec des formes basiques. Une fois de plus, le travail d’équipe était au rendez-vous et je pense que ses petits workshops sont très bien pour apprendre à se connaitre et créer une certaine cohésion au sein de la classe.

[ENG] During our workshop, we had to build the alphabet with basic shapes. Once again, there was no lack of teamwork, and I think these little workshops are helpful for getting to know each other and creating cohesion within the class.