Javier Barba

This Green home sits on the north side of the Aegean island of Mykonos. It was designed by Javier Barba. I particularly enjoy this house because it blends in well with the natural surroundings yet, sticks out from them at the same time. I like how he incorporated traditional elements of the island's building idiom. This includes the white washed stuccoed walls, and flat roofs. The only thing I don't particurly like about this building is that it's not particurly inviting. The walls are very hard materials and everything sort of blends together making only the shape stand out.

This is John Houshmand's Treacherous Beauty from collection 03. It's 3/4" starfire open glass box low table with Black Walnut slabs. I find this table interesting because it combines a hard material with a soft material very well. I really like how you can see the individual pieces of wood clearly enough to make out their rugged shapes, and cuts.

magazine

combination

This is the project leaning more toward's Eriko. I choose her pencil box because I really liked the taller pieces on the end and all the color's really created a strong contrast.





This is a mixture of both Eriko and chelsea's project. I took the dividing from Eriko's project. I really like how the two end pieces kind intersected the other ones. The white box is from chelsea's and the stripes are also from Eriko's. Her lines on the bottom helped carry your eye.




This is the link for Chelsea's blog. I decided to use her memory project. I thought it was neat how the boxes were stuck at random places. I however didn't want to stick a bunch of boxes together so I cut grooves in the box to resemble the lines clearly seen in her project.

Self Portrait

For my self portrait I choose to draw portraits that really portrayed my personality and physical state. I chose to draw my ankle with the crushed bones, also my promise ring from my bf, and other several poses of my face.

What Makes Studio Studio?

I really like my two page layout. I think that learning all sorts of design including graphic design is important in our major.

bad memories

I really liked this project simply because my memory is one that has had both a physical and mental impact on me. My memory was from July 3, 2007 I was on my way home from the movies when I was hit head on by a drunk driver. She had a .28 alcohol level and cocaine in her system. She died and my boyfriend and I were life lined to Hershey Medical Center, in PA. I was driving a 01 Hyundai Tiburon, and I broke both my ankles, my left femur, and my right wrist. I spent three weeks in the hospital and have been in a wheel chair for almost 4 months. The poles are same ones the were screwed into my right leg to hold my shin bone in place with my ankle. That ankle is the worst it was shattered in 15 pieces. I wanted to create something that would hold my poles and the memory of being so uncomfortable and learning how to move again with them in. My purpose was to make the viewer feel uncomfortable with all the really sharp lines poles, so if I did that then I accomplished my mission.