The beggining!
The big question for me after watching the first postcard and the letter was How am I going to approach this course? I don't have much free time but I want to make the best of it!!
- I decided to make a record of my course related activities in this old blog. What will I achieve? It will be easy for me to organize new knowledge.I can always come back if I left a resource half explored as I spent lots of time on my PC. So this blog will keep interesting links provided by the course team, by other students and found during my re-search.
- Each day I will reasearch online what Design 101 provides in the postcard and letter. I will read and think about what I am finding.
- I will not spend more than an hour with hands-on tasks or I will not have enough time to do some research.
- I'll come up with some scheme that I can follow every day - yes, I do live in chaos, if I don't follow a scheme I'll be lost in a few days!
- This will be my online kind of personal notebook. Sorry, I am not good with paper notebooks. I'll show you later. If I sketch, or do preparatory homework, I'll take a photo of it and upload here too so nothing is lost.
- Every post is ongoing work because probably I will not be able to explore everything I want immediatly. If I find a new resource that I find interesting I will add it.
- I will not give up!
Week 1 - Day 1
1.SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
David Bowie - Absolute Beginners
2.PLACES TO KNOW:
I am fortunate to have visit some museums and galleries in Europe. But I have never been to German. This is the New National Gallery. It's a museum for modern art in Berlin, with its main focus on the early 20th century. There we can find paitings from Pablo Picasso, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Joan Miró, Wassily Kandinsky and Barnett Newman. (Photos by Eisenacher - username-, real name Manfred Brückels, Wikipedia)
3.PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
A.Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - German-American architect. He was the last director of Berlin's Bauhaus.
Reading more quotes.
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
2.PLACES TO KNOW:
The Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery), Mies van der Rohe architect. Opened in 1968
Inside
3.PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
A.Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - German-American architect. He was the last director of Berlin's Bauhaus.
- Less is more. (Weniger ist mehr)
- God is in the details. (Gott ist in den Details)
- I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
- True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
- God is in the details. (Gott ist in den Details)
- I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
- True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
Reading more quotes.
Getting more serious on Mies:
Youtube video on Mies - producer and director Michael Blackwood
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - I read it all.
B. Lao Tzu - He was a Chinese philosopher credited with founding the philosophical system of Taoism. He is best known as the author of the Tao-Te-Ching, the work which exemplifies his thought. The name by which he is known is not a personal name but an honorific title meaning `Old Man’ or `Old Teacher’.
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
- When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
4.QUESTION OF THE DAY
This video lesson introduces the Inca quipu and explains how to read numbers from a quipu. Amzing! First time I ever heard about quipu!
Enzo Mari 's perpetual calendar. I kind of like perpetual calendars. The less stuff we pile in our houses, the better! But I don't have one. Ok, Santa Claus, are you listening? This one is from designer Enzo Mari, 1959, and it's made of Walnut, ramin, beech and maple.
INSPIRATION C.
- When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Reading more quotes.
Getting more serious on Tzu:
Tao Te Ching Audio book. It's known as The book of Tao. I know nothing about Taoism.
The Tao Te Ching or The Way and its Characteristics is the primary text in Chinese religious history. Written by Lao Tzu roughly 600 years before the birth of Christ, the Tao endevours to articulate the core beliefs that underpin both Taoism and Chinese Buddhism.
4.QUESTION OF THE DAY
Design. How does it start? With a D?! Just kidding. I am not a Designer. But I read about Design and did some design work in the past when I was an intern in two design companies. So I think design starts with gathering information - first of all about the client who has a problem that needs an answer.
5.INSPIRATION A.
"Quipus (or khipus), sometimes called talking knots, were recording devices historically used in the region of Andean South America. A quipu usually consisted of colored, spun, and plied thread or strings from llama or alpaca hair. It could also be made ofcotton cords. The cords contained numeric and other values encoded by knots in a base ten positional system. Quipus might have just a few or up to 2,000 cords." (Wikipedia)
What do I use? I started using Google Calendar last month but I'm not quite into it yet. I thought it was a good option considering I'm online many hours, or if not, I'm near a computer.
I've been using a notebook maybe since 2000 but not in the sense that creative people uses one. I don't call it a diary because sometime I skip days without adding stuff to it. For me that is kind of a pretty chaotic archive of my life, personal, professional and creative!It's my memory. I keep track of everything in it. It's a planner but also a notebook. It has skectches, ideas that come to my mind. Notes about a movie I recently watched and want to write about on my blog. Reminders of bills to pay. Addresses. Medicine bulas! Quick recipes...that's what I said. Dirty words!! Everything. I often grab a paper, any paper at hand, to take notes or draw. Then I glue it or use tape or stapples to keep it inside the notebook. The first ones I got were A4 size. These are smaller so I can take it everywhere easily. Sheets have lines. There's no guarantee I'll keep it forever. The A4 ones went to recycle some years ago. One day these will go too! They are messy and some pages may even be disgustingly dirty. I consider it too personal to share. But I am showing pages of "How to llustrator works" notes and some sketches for Halloween characters I recently draw.
Those skeches were originated this.
INSPIRATION B.
INSPIRATION C.
If our love song
Could fly over mountains
Sail over heartaches
Just like the films
6.THE QUIZ
We have to answer a quiz every Monday.
I did not perform well as you can see! Well, I don't like quiz. But that's no excuse for it. I did not understand how we can pick "A and D"! They are contraditory answers! So I got fed up pretty quickly and checked most single answers I found...Shouldn't it be A or D?! Well, well...nevermind that.
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