Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Toy Design/Inspiration

Games, Toys and Inventions Inspiration
Connect Four
Cranium
Monopoly
Jenga
Risk
Yanko Design "ZIIIRO"
Yanko Design "Tron Puzzle"
Ignacio Garcia
"Collector USB"
"Stealth Speakers"
Fort Standard "Balancing Blocks Game"

The idea I have for my toy project is a game similiar to that of monopoly. The players start from a set location and travel around the board collecting cards and beating each other out of the top spot in the game.

The theme of my project has changed from Futuristic to Underwater and finally I have decided to use Slums as the theme. It will take place in a "Futuristic Slum" and will be a very mature game for the older teen and adult groups.

My board game is designed to be a fun distraction to everyday life and make the usual worries of the average person living in todays fast paced world go away with humor.








Sunday, April 10, 2011

Structure/Abstraction: Alter Ego

Armature -a framework around which the sculpture is built.
Joshua Mosley
Cameron Gainer
Clayburn Moore
Andrew Ameral
Emily Bedard

Texture-How the surface of something feels.
Jennifer Maestre 
No Artist "Satan Horse"
No Artist "Suit of Armor" 
Veda Hallowes "Triste"
Henrique Oliviera "Tapumes"
Structure- complex entity constructed of many parts
Kenneth Snelson "Penta Tower"
Kenneth Snelson "Sleeping Dragon"
kenneth Snelson "V-X"
Theo Jensen
Mark Di Suvero "Arikidea"
Alter Ego-a second self, a second personality or persona within a person, who is often oblivious to the persona's actions.
Tanya Marriot
Daryl Stokes "Alter Ego"
"Hole in the Head"
Gareth Jones "Alter Ego"
Abstract-thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, oractual instances




Bruce Gray"Brave New World"
Bruce Gray "Flight of the Bumblebee"
Bruce Gray "Qube #1"
Dan Content
nonrepresentational-style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature
Ashley Baldwin "Non representational Wallet"
Ferguson "Mobius"
"Man with Guitar"
Chiasso
Anthropomorphic abstraction- is the use of abstracted elements to portray a humanlike form.
Umberto Boccioni "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"
Lyle London "Samurai"
Lyle London "Oracle XI"
George Kerish "Reclining Figure #3"
George Kerish "Seated Woman #2"
Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions. 
Seymour Fogel "Untitled Geometric Abstraction"
"Vertical Composition II"
Man Ray "Silver Chess Set"
Kiwame Kubo "Evolution"
Mask-a covering for all or part of the face.
"mma Mask"Chide Okoye
"mask of Life"
"Owele Mask"
"Sun Mask"
"reflection mask"