manifesto

project L toronto

The L Tower is part of ambitious plans to revitalize the Hummingbird Centre. The project includes a new Arts & Heritage Awareness Centre (AHA) on the first few floors followed by condos.
- Glen Farrell

Developed by: Daniel Libeskind

http://www.theltower.com/

What do you think.

twenty words

Twenty plus words related to my design theory.

- Altered
- Evolved
- Processed
- Planned
- Simple
- Complicated
- Problematic
- Personal
- Expressive
- Explored
- Functions
- Influence
- Manipulated
- Restricted
- Boundless
- Engineered
- Information
- Business
- Inventive
- Brilliant
- Good
- Bad
- Controversial
- Loud
- Quiet
- Safe
- Wild
- Targeted
- Open
- Suggestive

inspiration

design is prt. II

Over the last 7 weeks I have been exploring, reading, viewing, and consuming thoughts and information from designers, people and industries about what they believe design is. Throughout this process I have found myself lost in phrases, words, haikus, theses, visuals, etc. The most common expression I keep stumbling upon about design, is that it is an idea or problem waiting to be solved. So, if design comes from an idea or problem, whether your own or someone else’s, design must be the solution.

Solutions in design appear in many different forms such as:

- Mass media distribution
- Engineering
- Architecture
- Programming
- Self-expression
- And the list continues

We, as designers, are the problem solvers; providing the solutions we feel and understand to be the best possible. Without design there is no solution and we lack the building blocks necessary to bring our ideas to fruition.

Therefore as my revised statement to what “design is” is:

Design is a solution.

time spent

The following chart illustrates the average weekly amount of time spent interacting with media.

process

Depending on my understanding or lack of knowledge of the subject being executed for every project, my process is relatively the same with minor modifications. For the Prologue Jazz CD my process started out as follows:

Research (lack of knowledge on Jazz)

Movies
- KANSAS CITY
- Louis Armstrong: Satchmo
- Bird

Music
- Big Band - Various Artists
- Birth Of The Cool - Miles Davis
- Essential - Charlie Parker
- Jam Session - Charlie Parker

Artist
- Steven Johnson
- E.J. Gold
- Leith O’Malley
- Justin Bua

Sketches
- Filtering idea’s out of my head onto paper
- Organizing and combining thoughts and elements

Break

Sketches
- Review
- Modifications

Illustrator/Photoshop
- Development of first ideas

Break

Illustrator/Photoshop
- Review
- Modifications and cleaning