DESIGN AUTOBIOGRAPHY: NICOLE FOWLER

The wing chair is a chair that was a symbol of status, especially in the late 17^th century in Great Britain. They were reserved for only the highest levels of aristocracy. The designs for the first few centuries boxy and in current day the designs of them have become more feminine and sleek. The wing chair also creates emotional security, which in design is extremely suspect. Moreover, refinement and advancement considers itself to be obliged towards rational intellect. The more modern counter part of the wing chair is expressed most notably in other more modern designers advancements of the wing back chair. For example, my object featured is the Victoria Hagan Wainscot Wing Chair (2009). The wing chair however, in my opinion all began with the design of the sultan’s chair from Egyptian culture. And then transpired into later cultures especially in the area in and around Great Britain.

Design and Music--Down to a Simple Art---

design + music: "Down to a Simple Art"

This poem is by Tania Miron: I thought it evoked a lot of emotion regarding how the image made her feel.

Down to a Simple Art

Color the rain drops,

Sing an unknown harmony,

To form our new love.

blog post topic for monday, 18 april 2011

write about the importance of the legacy of scandinavian modern to design today. use a specific object, space, building, or place to center your argument.

blog post for 11 april 2011

select an object, space, building, or place and SPECULATE why the selected artifact represents "good design for all"

blog post for monday, 29 march 2011

select a designed object in your everyday world that you believe carries messages of revolution. like the dollar bill, deconstruct the design elements of the object and illustrate them on your blog, so that a reader might make sense of your thinking. you must explicitly state why the object you selected is revolutionary as well as supply the design analysis to suggest validity for that assessment.

blog post for 14 march 2011

the nautilus shell provides a metaphor for us to think about design as a series of episodes all strung together and riding atop our design consciousness. working with this idea, creatively fashion a nautilus “shell” of images and ideas, using at least three examples from three different time periods. the purpose of this shell-making is for you to demonstrate connections among more than one time period and across geographic space. carefully select and annotate images to provide breadth and depth to your hypothesis.

coke can cathedral. . .

Our vision for the coke can cathedral was to demonstrate how fragile the structural integrety of the building methods of the time could be.  Enjoy!

(created by Holly Burda and Matt Weikert)

blog post for monday, january 31, 2011

following the in-class exercise to compare the acropolis with the xianyang palace, take the collective ten ideas generated (space, power, experience, principles, precedent, site, order, scale, technology, surface) and apply them to the uncg campus. this post should contain at least one photograph, at least one diagram, and writing to support your thinking. label each idea by category and HYPOTHESIZE how each of these has been expressed in material form.