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Field Trip – MAT/ASSEM – Shops- Materials

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Aesop Nolita

400 pages of NewYork Times Newspaper

concrete

wood

White Drapery

Newspaper– Stacks of Newspapers are mounted on a cardboard piece on the back, and are mounted on the walls around the shelves, apparent movement vertically. Some pieces are cut short to fit the small space between shelves, suggesting that it’s horizontally adjustable. Vertically, I think they’re about the same for every one but I think it could be adjustable also, of the amount of newspaper stacked.

Wood shelves – the newspaper stacks are put around the wood shelves, bright brown color.

The light brown colored wood material for the shelf and the counter area is a well-controlled contrast for the specs made from compressed typography from the newspapers. From afar, you can’t even tell that the material is made from the stacked newspaper but a unified horizontal line and vertical irregular black pattern.

 

Claus Porto, 230 Elizabeth St

Materials :

1. Cork (Portuguese Material- Medium Brown Color,

+ sustainable, makes less or no waste, molds

-Brittle

2. Marble Stone

3. Wood

4. Brick Walls

Cork– Cork structure is molded into geometric structures that add up and surrounds the shopping area like a dome. The geometric pattern is arranged as decorative purposes but also another tweak of the pattern along with the actual material adds enough surface to hold individual soap bars for display.  There are empty spaces where candles or perfumes are displayed with spotlighting which shows how the material was constructed with thought into shapes to create these hollow spaces.

The cork material is painted in white, giving it an illlusion of a material that isn’t obviously cork to the eye. And cork, being a Portuguese material, from trees harvested from Portugal, which adds on to the company’s character, being a Portuguese soap/parfumery brand. The only thing about them is that they’re brittle, but it’s a big sustainable material because it creates no waste as it is a molding material.

Marble Stone – Sink

A chunk of marble stone sanded down into hollow spaces for storage and sink area. Smooth and soft edges, added with golden brass/metal material for the tab and sinkhole, and wooden shelving for towels.

As the surrounding walls are covered with the cork material, using this as a single structure located in the center of the hall was a great choice and the material itself is a structure you cut down from.

 

Storefront for Art and Architecture

Materials

Concrete – engineered precast concrete panels outside

Fastened thin material

 

Prada 

Zebra Wood

Corrigated Plastic

Chloroplast (Walls)

Sillicone?

Zebra wood – It’s characterized by its stripes similar to ones of a zebra, and is found in central America. It wears off easily,

Chloroplast – placed against the walls and ceiling, the translucent finish giving a general glow of the industrial light put against them. The vertical linear squares give it a different checkered soft brushed feeling of industrial light where if it wasn’t vertically sectioned out in squares, it would just give a smooth glow.

(a photo from instagram to best show the lined glow)

 

Apple 

Tempered Laminated Glass sheets

Sand stone/ Lime Stone

Aluminum (columns- Matte finish)

 

Camper

Lacquer finish

290 Mulberry St

Brick constrcution

Cast Concrete Brick

Cememt – no morter – concrete binding

 

10 Bond St

Terracotta Ceramic glazed

40 Bond 

Polish stainless steel

Cast glass

Metal

 

41 Bond 

 

Blue Stone – cut differently (soft smooth, bumpy rough)

 

Plastics Communication – Coca Cola

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After my class I was walking to studio with a friend of mine talking about the environment and climate change. She casually laughed and said “Miri, think about the polar bears!”

One thing that pops into my mind when someone says something about polar bear is Coca Cola. The world’s favorite brand of coke, with the distinct red and white logo with polar bears. There’s many sayings about how this polar bear came to place. The first printed commercial with these polar bears appeared in France in 1922. And when Ken Stewart was asked to create a commercial for coca cola, while he was in the movie theater drinking coke, he thought of how his dog resembled polar bears.  Funny enough, that’s how the polar bears came to be. Since then, Coca Cola’s iconic mascot became the white polar bears.

Maybe then, polar bears weren’t in danger. Coincidentally these polar bears set as mascots have become another useful strategy for the company to promote awareness of climate change.

These are some pictures of bottles and cans of coca cola, featuring these polar bears.

 

You can see that their design is very simple, clean, very friendly looking white polar bears. I’m guessing that their strategy was increasing more awareness of these animals. In my opinion, polar bears aren’t animals we see in our daily lives used as brand logos or made in plushies for kids to play with. Usually, they’re more available in souvenir shops in zoos or aquariums(?). And they aren’t animals we are able to see and have many interactions with it.  So just by Coke portraying these animals on their soda cans increases tremendously in this interaction and awareness of these animals with the society.

Other than this, Coca Cola has been doing a lot of interesting advertising with hands-on interaction with customers buying these drinks. For example, the Christmas ribbon bottle created a big interest in people all over Asia with its first launch in Japan.

 

I was one of the people that bought a coke for this experience while I was in Japan, and honestly the “science” behind this wasn’t special at all, and I was even disappointed in it because it didn’t work that smoothly. But this small mechanic behind this label and this idea of a ribbon which signifies a symbol of gifting just warms people’s hearts and makes them happy.

 

Therefore, I wanted to create a  label advertisement using the same idea of shifting a bit the labeling. I created these four designs which are off of the original 4 designs on coke cans already. I tried to keep it as less vulgar as possible, that drags people’s attention and hooks them into finding out what is wrong with the design and keep an eye on them.

 

 

The first can design beforehand had a group of three happy polar bears. I created bar-like structures to indicate their situation of being trapped, indicating that they don’t have the freedom as all animals should.

The second design before-hand incorporated the polar bear’s shadows coming out from a coke bottle which  I turned into a fume tunnel intoxicating the air. I got the motif of the toxic green color from the bottle itself. The green substance is drooled on to the polar bears and their face expression shows discomfort, sadness and the tears from gas. The toxic sign is also added to indicate that.

In the third design, beforehand showed a female figure (supposedly the mother due to the eyelashes) hugging two young polar bears. I converted their expressions into worrying sad expressions and put water rising onto the little ones.

And lastly, I took the whole can which had a happy family of polar bears smiling, converted their expressions into frowning in order to hold their breath due to them being trapped underwater.

Out of all four, the most successful design idea would be the third and the fourth. But I’d pick the third because it has a somewhat heartwarming motif (mother and children) and the idea of water level rising slowly to kill them. I dont think they’re too vulgar to be selling in the streets and it pulls the perfect amount of curiosity out of the buyers.

2nd Post – Plastic Bag

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  (Example of the bags- quite different from ordinary plastic bags. More flimsy and thin)
This is a type of plastic bag that we use very commonly in Korea. I feel like the use of these bags in the US is usually found in the supermarkets for holding fruits or vegetables. But in korea, these big rolls are very commonly found in homes, used to hold food, on top of food containers even with lids to prevent spillage. Zip lock bags in Korea has been introduced only recently a few years ago, and it’s considered quite expensive. But the large quantity and the easily shapable form of these bags are why so many people use it. I use it less here because I don’t usually eat a lot of things that need to be held or anything, but in korea we use it excessively.
The type of plastic is Low-Density Polyethylene, (LDPE) which is number 4 on the key for plastics. Its characteristics are the tensile strength, flexibility and its water barrier properties. Polyethylene is a material used to transport goods like food, powder and all kinds of sorts.

After the bags are collected for recycling, it’s given a second chance to live as other products like floor tiles, furniture, trash cans. LDPE that’s not recycled goes to landfill and consumes petroleum. The company melts the plastic to get rid of other contaminants. They’re turned into thin plastic sheets, sold out to other manufacturers. There are better alternatives than using these plastic bags. I’ve heard that there are beeswax wrapping that is biodegradable to wrap foods and hold foods. And already there are re-usable zip lock bags made out of silicone base materials being sold on Amazon. 

 Before plastic bags were invented in the 1940’s, food products were wrapped in paper bags or paper. Vegetables, even candy were packed into wrapping papers after measured by weight. When people got home they’d fill the glass jars to keep them at their homes.

1st Post – Sustainability PLASTICS

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(Please understand that I joined a bit late so I didn’t realize that I had this assignment and had less time to collect my use of plastic. )
The type of plastic that I chose for this post was the pete bottles, clear plastic bottles made out of polyethylene terephthalate. They’re identified as #1 in the recycling triangle located on the bottom of the bottle. The use of this bottle is usually to hold liquids, like water, soda, other drinks. The reason why I chose this is that it’s my frequent use of plastic. I usually take a bottle of water to go from home to school, and usually drink 2 bottles per day.
After use, I throw them out in the recycling bin where it’s taken to get sorted into different colors.  Transparent, uncolored PET, blue and green PET, remainders into one pile.
 There’s always a better alternative rather than using plastic bottles. There are stainless bottles for use, where you can reuse it again and again. Ancient civilizations used large casks or urns to preserve water and it was on a larger scale where one person couldn’t hold it.
And in the medieval era, people drank from waterskins made from animal hide. It was referred to as “water bladders”.
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Material Connexion

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Alexander Timber Solid

Naturals

Giles Miller Studio

 

Small Hexagonal wood tiles in tessellation. Each hexagons are tilted in different angles and orientations to create different shades and subtle imagery. Supplied as singular pieces, or pre-made at extra cost. Comes in 600×800 mm (23.6x 31.5 in) with 6mm (0.24in) MDF (medium density fiberboard) backing: 15mm (0.6 in) at highest point and 5mm (0.2in) at lowest.

The material is available in different colors in matte, gloss, metallic, high metallic, pearlescent and crackled finishes.

They are made by a company called Giles Miller Studio located in London, known for their repetitive geometric panels used in sculptures, surfaces as well as architecture.

These tile can be used to feature walls and areas as decorative surface art installation.

I chose this material because I saw various ways this could be used. And it reminded me of my studio project last year involving geometric patterns and wall panels.  After research I found out that the company does use this for various purposes.

 

 

Origami D 1-20

Process

KNITit

Base Yarn consisting of a nylon/spandex blend which allows it to move around. It will retain back to its original form after being stretched. As a one-step knitting process, there’s no cutting, sewing waste or seams.

Minimum needle bed width is 48 in (122 cm) but dimensions can change.

The sample runs are created in the company’s Michigan Studio. A company called KNITit,  founded in 2015 run by Liz Hilton.

This particular knit can be used for furniture, lighting and components for consumer electronics.

The reason why I chose this is because I found that the movement this material can perform was interesting and its ability to retain its shape. Also, it reminded me of Japanese origami structures due to the folds and geometric shapes. After research I found out that Liz Hilton, the founder of KNITit actually not only studied in FIT and Politecnico di Milano but also Germany and Japan, working for Stoll (the leading manufacture of CNC flat bed weft knitting machines)

 

Cullus Molto

Polymers

Abinitio

3D knitted textile that has a distinct egg crate-like surface to diffuse sound. CS polyester (a flame retardant version of the popular polyester fiber) is used for this textile. It can be sewn like standard textile as well has the 3D knitting process. It is washable, and customization of color is available. But its standard colors are: white, silver gray, blue and beige.

It is sold in continuous lengths at maximum width of 80cm (31.5 in). Weighs 1500 gsm (44 osy). For sound absorption, it complies with Class A for double layer of the material and Class C for single layer. The absorption class varies from A-E, A having the highest sound absorption.

The fabric is used for wall and ceiling mounted sound-absorbing panels and wraps. But also for lampshades, and as a cut and sew fabric for flat surfaces.

I chose this material because I thought the egg crate like surface was interesting. And right away I knew that it was used as a sound absorbing material, but also the design appearance seemed pretty warm and could be used as part of the appearance of an interior.

UC trip

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The primary materials of the space/interior/building 

Structural Glass= Tempered Glass –

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Bamboo Wood – Perforating Material

 

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Terrazzo

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Metal + Patina

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Bamboo Wood – Mostly indicates the entrance of the auditorium on the walls and the ceiling. The floor color varies similarly with the bamboo paneled walls indicating the entrance of a new zone. The panel shapes are irregular due to the surrounding wall designs which makes it come in triangular forms as well as square panels on the ceiling and  long rectangular forms on the walls. The panels don’t seem too thick. The colors compared to the dark gray panels are very distinct to the eye, so it’s very eye catching.
(+details with perforated wood panels inside the entrance way)
the bamboo wood wall panels are perforated. The holes punched in the wood allows air cavities and allows sound bouncing for better. They “decrease sound reverberation within a building so sound does not disturb adjoining rooms in the same building.” (https://www.soundproofcow.com/acoustic-panels/perforated-acoustic-wood-panels/)
 
 (bamboo wood up close has very thin vertical lines)
Terrazzo –
 The whole floor is mounted with Terrazzo, which is a material that lasts very long. Usually they come in basic colors and are varnished to have that glossiness to it as seen at site. The little detail that I found was that following the irregular shape of the auditorium which is shown directly with the mounting of the bamboo walls and ceiling, the floor has the same irregular triangular shape that is in a lighter shade than the rest of the floor. Both the bamboo textured panels and the floor color simultaneously guides one and points out the auditorium space.
Materiality in the context of spatial and sensory experience
The entrance of the Tishman auditorium is eye catching and easy to find due to the color contrast of the gray panels to the bamboo and light colored terrazzo finish. The wooden finish gives it a warm feeling out of the gray slightly cold paneled walls. The floor also helps in this process by exactly copying where the wooden panels start, with a lighter shade on the floor.
               
(Notice the change in the color on the floor according to the edges of the wood panels)

1A

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For Project 1
1.
The 10 statements made were pretty interesting yet some were just things that I’ve never thought about. As art students we’re always thought of being creative compared to other people. It’s a typical stereotype that art students are creative but we’ve never really thought of the characteristics of being creative rather than just having good ideas or different ideas. But seeing them actually written down, they apply directly to the way I think which was interesting.
The one that I thought was the most interesting for me was Number 8.
“8. Impossible to be creative without having first
internalized a domain of culture. Difficult to see how a
person can be creative without being both traditional and
conservative and at the same time rebellious and
iconoclastic.”
Thinking about how this applies directly to me, coming from a South Korean background but living in so many different diverse places, I’ve never felt a particular attachment to one culture. I tend to try to use every aspect I learned from other cultures and its what people think is creative. It’s something i’ve always thought I was lacking in, staying traditional and conservative.
2.
I feel like collaboration is essential as it feels like a way of communication between people and sharing our creativity between one another. It’s a way to express our ideas and we are asking for feedback.
I think because we live in a society where technologies create a way to do things individually rather than seeing people face to face, it really does have impact on the way we can collaborate. And technology in many aspect makes us be more separated (yet social).

Adrian Piper

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The Humming Room (2012)

 

I thought this part of the exhibition was the part that stood out to me the most, and could relate to one of the three themes. At first when I saw this exhibition part,  I thought it would be a one way giving interaction between the audience and the artist.

The small panel said “In order to enter the room, you must hum a tune, any tune will do. Begin humming as you approach the guard.”

But when I approached, the guard standing was waving his hand, almost forcing humming from the audience. I felt pressured and thinking that it was a free giving interaction, it was actually not. Instead of giving willingly, we were forced to give, and we had to fulfill the guard’s expectations.

It made me refer back to Miwon Kwon’s reading says:

“As much as the accepting of a gift puts one in debt, in an inferior position to the giver untill the debt is cleared through reciprocation…”

 

Simultaneous Perception Map

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Assignment was to create my response to the multi-sensory experience to the place that I chose: Union Square. I was expected to collect data 3 times of the day per week, and make a map that captures the things I’ve collected.

These are the three pieces I decided to create using Photoshop. The three images portray the different perceptions I got from Union Square, as a by-passer, because I walk through, around it almost everyday.

The three images go in this order, and illustrates the co-existence of human and the environment. Of course there’s a part of that experience that is very harmonizing and is well balanced but sometimes we go over that privilege and take advantage, in this case pollution.

 

MIDTERM : Toulouse- Lautrec

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If just simply given the assignment : “copy the artist’s work”, I would have had a much tougher time really drawing the artists work. The research that I had to go through writing the essay about his life, his techniques, materials really helped me grab a feel about how I could mimic his style of painting/drawing.

If I’m being totally honest, copying is something I’ve been doing my whole life. Of course it requires skill and it’s not something that’s easy to do. But it is way easier to copy someone else’s artwork than create something thats 100 percent original of my own.

Lautrec is one of the artists I was very familiar with. Living in Paris, I’d see so many of his paintings, I knew exactly how I would mimic his art. As a child I always thought his paintings were done with colored pencils. The bold colors that were not really blended out with others but holds its color within themselves. Something that oil paint cannot do. This thought that i had helped me in deciding what kind of material I wanted to use to copy Lautrec’s art.

For the studies, because I was so familiar and knew exactly how his style was, I didn’t really do a lot of research and discovery. I wanted to get a sense of his brush strokes, how to convert them into the feel of a hard colored pencil tip unlike the soft end of the brush. For the study I did two Lautrec’s famous paintings, and one dog.

 

 

My final piece