Lotsa Cute

It figures that I would want to work on the schoolwork that's due very last this semester. But at least it's another item crossed off my to do list.


[Original Print 17" x 22"]

Shiny!

I've been dividing my time up pretty evenly between shop, studio, and programming. I turned in my Trupan pieces to be cast yesterday and decided on bronze instead of aluminum, mostly because Rick thought bronze would be better, but also because the pieces will be slightly heavier with a tad more strength. I've talked to Rick a few times about the process, asking if I could be present for the casting. Not only can I be there, but he told me that I can pour the metal!!! My shop geek status just went up about 10 points.

In studio, I've completed my floor plan and am rendering it in Photoshop. And since the odds of my turning this in for the competition are slim, I've decided to reward you with a glimpse at the unrendered plan. Since it's "underground," all walls are concrete and the rockwork walls are shotcrete. The plan's not going to be very informative at this point, without crazy explanation, but my project is based mostly on the story and the products and plan that create that story:

A meteor has entered the earth’s atmosphere and crash landed, creating an enormous crater. However, instead of resting in the center of this giant crater, the meteor has broken through the earth’s surface, revealing a previously undiscovered series of caverns. In order to study the meteor, scientists have set up a laboratory at the site.
You are invited to be a part of this new and exciting expedition.

The WOW factor / twist: The meteor has brought with it microorganisms and small creatures that have begun to call these caverns their home.

The Second WOW factor / twist: The organisms might not be as "micro" as originally thought.



What's left for me is pretty much taking my product sketches (about 8 of them or so), turning them into line drawings in Illustrator and rendering them in Photoshop.

As far as programming goes, the book is on its way. Ideally, I'll be spending all weekend on it and order it before Thanksgiving break. I've been working on my poster for the project and in the process have created a vector image of the VW Bug, which I'm showing here in a multitude of colors:



If you look closely, you can see that the headlights look sort of like eyes and that the center grill looks like a little smiley face. So I was thinking of playing that up a little bit for the poster, but I'm still not sure. It's not due until finals week, so I'm going to worry about it then.

But now it's time to take a break and go see Role Models with my homeboy, Josh.

Literal Lyrics

Complete and utter awesome.

I Love Sketch

Me. Want.


ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.

Impact

I've been working on studio so much lately that I had yet another dream about riding a roller coaster. And this time, it was mine! Except there was no theming built on yet... and I was wearing my high school uniform... and then I went to a job interview... wearing six-inch hooker boots. The roller coaster part was fun. The six-inch hooker boots not so much.

Anyway, I've come up with a logo for my attraction, which required me to come up with a name for the coaster. I settled on "Impact":



Then I started to look at it and realized it was a bit simple, so I added some fancy texturing:



This is just about all I can show right now of what I've been working on. I've got a floor plan for the ride building, which I will show in the final presentation, but since I'm in "Product Design Studio," I figured I should, you know, focus on the products that will be in the attraction, i.e. ride car, creature habitats, cash wrap, merchandise, shelving, everything.

And this translates to very little sleep over the next few weeks. But so long as there are Scrubs re-runs, I will be just fine.

Double Dare

So very much Bud Light and sangria went into the making of this photograph. But my hangover is your hilarity. Enjoy! (Just scroll down after the link.)

News and Such

It has been another extremely quick and busy week here in Manhappenin'. And, of course, I've got news and such. The much awaited internship poster display has been put up all over Seaton, where students from Landscape, Architecture, and Interiors can show off what they did last semester while playing hookie. Here's my submission:



I decided to do something a little different than a standard poster. It's more like a "map fold" poster, if that makes any sense. I've thought about using this format for mini portfolios to mail out to firms and thought I'd test it out with the internship poster. Here's what it looks like folded up:



Also, in the good news category, I won a few little inner-college competitions in the last week. The first is the t-shirt design for the Landscape Architecture Department. So yay! Free t-shirt!

Second is the metal casting competition for Eligius Bronze located in Kansas City, Missouri. Take a look at their stuff, I'm totally impressed. I especially love the Meadow River Dining Table. Anything minimal makes my heart swoon. I'm currently in the process of making the Trupan prototype for the cast metal pieces. From there, Eligius will take it and create a mold and then use that mold to cast the metal pieces. Then they'll weld and finish it, and I get the finished pieces, which I'll use to measure my wooden table top insert. The most awesome part is that I can at least be present if not participate in the casting process! I'm a geeky shop nerd, so that's like a Christmas present for me.

This weekend is going to be extremely busy. I've got some pretty fun stuff going on with studio, as I'm starting to get down to the tiny details of my coaster. It's still got an insane amount of work to be done on it, but that's how it goes. I'm also hoping to finalize the layout for my book on cute. I guess we'll see.

Congratulations Obama!

Well done!

Happy Election Day!

The first of the poll closings will be happening in a few minutes and I thought I'd congratulate my fellow prisoners voters with another type of presidential poll:



You can check out various results here.

Glamour Shots

If I ever have children, I know I'm going to be one of those mothers. How? Kelsey agreed to take care of Oggie and Oden while I went home for the holiday weekend. Here's the feeding instructions I left for her:



And here's a bonus picture. (Oggie in front, Oden in the igloo.) Look at how freaking photogenic Oggie is. He's even got the "Glamour Shots" look down.

Logo Time!

I did lots of things while I was home this Halloween weekend, most all of them not involving school work (big surprise). I did, however, name the book on "the science of cute" that I'm making and design the logo for the cover.



I'm unsure whether I want anything else on the cover. I think the simplicity would be nice. No name, no subtitle, just OMG, Cute! The official title, however, would be:

OMG, Cute! The Science Behind a Cultural Phenomenon

And it would be the first of two books, the first one being my "design brief" with all my research and the second documenting the design phase, from initial sketches to built project. The first one's cover would probably be pink with a white logo and the second white with a pink logo. Thoughts? Critiques? I'm not too keen on the "G" in the logo. It seems off, but I need to play with it a bit.