Alex Liu's blog

HQ Nantucket

This is the high quality version of the nantucket project.

Ultra Major Post

Heres the bridge project with the original on top and the new photoshopped one on the bottom

Ok, heres the line, plane, point examples. I did this in photoshop. I had a problem making the work point into a point, so I decided not to.

Heres the rhythm example again done in photoshop. The idea here is that the letters are places in the same position in each square and the colors are patterened making a rhythm.

And finally here is the balance example. The idea here is that not only are the colors symmetrical about the middle line, the objects are also symmetrically placed.

A FAQ with Alex Liu:

1. What is your major here at El Camino?

Architecture/Engineering

2. What other courses are you taking?

Two physics classes and an architecture class.

3. Do you know where the computer lab is?

Which one? There's one I can use like next door in the architecture studio, there should be one in the math building, as well as one in the art building...

4. Do you know the computer lab's hours? If so, what are they, if not, post them from the white board tomorrow.

The hours for ART218: MW: 9:00-12:00, 2:40-8:00/ TTh: 12:40-6:30/ F: 10:00-3:00.

Hours for TA251 : 8:30-10:30

5. Do you know of any designers, if so, who?

What type of designers? Clothes, buildings, landscapes, websites...?

6. Who is a successful designer in every day America?

Success is such a broad word... In the current economy I'm guessing most designers with jobs feel sucessful to some extent.

7. If you could fly or be invisible, which would you choose and why?

Would I have complete control of these powers? I mean I don't want to be eating and start flying all of the sudden... Also are there limits on the powers? How fast can I fly? Can I make the things I touch invisible? There's too much to consider here.....

8. What is your goal in the outcome of this class for yourself?

Learn how to use these digital art programs in a confident manner, but not to confident that I become narcissistic. Then again some narcissism isn't too bad now and again.

9. What is something about you that we would never learn without your answering this question?

The question : What is your pin number?

10. What is a successful design element in our classroom as well as not successful design element? It could be environmental, product-based, or print-based.

Sucessful: The computers seem pretty nice.

Unsucessful: The room seems kind of gloomy for some reason. Perhaps the sorrow of pervious students has accumulated in this spot.