Monday, June 22, 2009

Filefront maintenance problems

I had been experiencing submission problems with Filefront. I kept recieving a message saying that Filefront was experiencing maintenance problems. I have therefore attached all the requirements in an email to my tutor, Julian Cromarty.

Cheers,
Prateek.

Five Final Real Time Images

Madonna's
Above: Seminar room.
Above: Courtyard area of Obama's office space.
Madonna's space is a three storey office space, an allusion to the three generations she has dominated the charts. She has often had to re-invent herself in order to maintain her interest and popularity and so each space offers something different. The bottom floor is maze-like, giving a small feeling of disorientation, a metaphor for her early start in which she had many decisions to make, the second and third floor represent her later dominance in the 90's and new millenium and the number of rooms increase and become more linear, implying the multiplication of her businesses and experimentation with other fields within her line of work. The overall facade is derived from a female shape representational of her sexual provocativity and also the twists and turns that her career has taken, perhaps a necessity for longevity.

The meeting space consists of a simple geometry compared to the clients' respective offices. Resting in between the bridge, it offers the clients an opportunity to compromise and sways their very different paths into equilibrium. The exterior and the overall shape is derived from the concept of coming from different paths, as one rectilinear shape is perpendicular to the other. The clients arrive from opposite ends and meet at the table awaiting their process work.
Obama's space is a hovering phenomenon. It has a brooding feel of omnipotence for those who rise and take Obama's path, a straightforward one comprising of many opportunities yet not any obstacles, a metaphor for his quick rise to the top. The function of his office space is the campaign he is about to run and therefore his space consists of two identical seminar rooms for meetings and his consultants, as well as a large outdoor assembly hall.

Image captures

The meeting table is divided into two; Madonna's end and Obama's end. I hypothetically divised that the reason for their meeting would be for Madonna with her 3 decade long experience in media to help Obama with advertising for an upcoming campaign. Madonna, having used advertising in a very different area of expertise, given her ability to re-invent herself this comes up as a challenge. While Obama feeds her criteria, she comes up with many responses and alternatives, Obama then gathers the most relevant and useful information. This spread of information has influenced the shape of the table, Madonna's end (facing us in the image above) is suitable for a large output as she presents all possible information, while Obama's end is a recieving end gathering large data, sorting it out according to the criteria and taking the most essential of it.
The Madonna elevator, on the other hand consists of a re-interpreted shape of a throne, a reference to the frequent label "The Queen of Pop", it is light, elegant and gives an overall sense of luxury, but also a sense of superiority.
The Obama elevator (above) serves both as a podium to address his audience and as an elevator to make possible his meeting with Madonna in the meeting space. It consists of the same overall feel his office space has; a strong feeling of elevation, hovering over a mass of people (perhaps the people that elected him and perhaps even those that didn't) and the implications of leadership. The way the elevator actually moves in the UT environment reinforces this theme.





Tuesday, June 16, 2009

36 Custom Textures

Just thought I'd show some process work with one set of textures. It's an interesting dynamic starting out by sprawling across the whole page and then separating each square to see whether they maintain the same cohesiveness.


18 H-Shaped 2 Point Perspectives