Presentations: social media

Target Observation

This is a massive sign that hangs up in the mens section of Target.  It shows a  man, wearing athletic clothes to symbolize the athletic clothes that the store is selling all around the sign.  This sign draws in consumerism because people looking for athletic clothes can see this sign from across the store and know exactly where to go look.

This is in the gaming section of Target.  Is features the brand new,  Xbox 1 and shows consumers what the dashboard looks like and all the neat features of the Xbox1.  This lets consumers see exactly what it is that they are about to buy before actually buying it. 

This is also in the gaming section of Target but it has a little different outlook on consumerism.  The main point of this display is that little kids can see is and then they will ask their parents to buy it for them.  This is directly geared towards the kids who play games like this and you can tell because it is so low to the ground so that the little kids can see and play with it before buying it.

This bug poster in the middle of the doll section at Target is geared towards little girls.  Little girls will walk by and then see this big poster of a disney princess and immediately go over and look around. This is tied into consumerism because the little girls will then ask their parents to buy it for them.  Also it ties into media because of Disney, and its ability to make little girls be able to recognize disney princesses all around the world.

This is also a big poster of Spider man in the middle of target.  This brings in the media aspect because spider man is just a well known super hero so the oversized poster of him will draw in a lot of consumers.  All around this spiderman are tones of super hero games and action figures that draw little kids in and influences them to buy some of the games.

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Memorial Coliseum

This poster, found at the convention that took place at Memorial Coliseum over the weekend, is just part of the exhibit that drew people in from all over to see.  This one happens to be about The Functional Role of Residues of Cascade.  This one stands out from many of the other posters at the convention because the background is mainly black.  Majority of the other posters around it where nearly all white with things on them.  You can eve see this with the poster in the background, behind the main picture and to the left.  Also, this poster has a lot of colorful, and easy to see graphs and graphics.  The bar graphs are easy to read with many labels and the pictures of the cascade is clearly labeled so that the viewer can stand and read the poster without becoming confused.  The only downside to this particular poster, is that there is a lot of writing on the sides, and since there are big pictures in the middle, the writing on the sides is pretty small and hard to read if you are not right up next to it.  It also makes it look like there is too many words so some people may not even take the time to come up to it and read it all.

Final Project

Design 2.0

The house is built to withstand hurricanes but there is much more to the house that you realize when you just look at it.  Its all white, which stands out to the human eye.  This house is white because everything around this house is either blue (sky) or green (the grass and trees).  The white house contradicts all the colors around it so the house stands out and kinda "pops" out from its surroundings.  Also, the symmetry of the house stands out.  The house is perfectly symmetrical, which stand out because most houses around the country are not perfectly symmetrical.  Society has gotten so use to the non-symmetric ways of most buildings around America that not many building are perfectly symmetrical anymore.  The Symmetry comes from ancient Greece, just like all of the important buildings in Washington D.C.  Those reasons alone it stand out from the norm and it catches peoples eyes because of its beauty.

Culture and sub-culture

This is the image that I brought into class today.  To majority of the culture in America and the rest of the world, it just looks like a couple Greek letters.  Some people may not even know that they are green letters; they may just think that they are just some random symbols.  Even the people who know they are Greek letters, they just think about the stereotypical fraternity things like partying and usually think of all the negative connotations associated with the letters.  Probably 90 percent of the world has no idea what they letters even mean or stand for so they just don’t care about them

To my brothers and me however, the letters have so much more meaning behind them.  We know that what they stand for bother literally, Phi Delta Theta, and metaphorically.  To us they mean brotherhood.  They have meaning behind them and a sense of pride that no one else will understand except for the few that are members of the fraternity.  The rest of the Greek community may know what they stand for, but they will never know the strength of the brotherhood behind them and they will never know what our letters mean to us.  There is such a small sub-culture behind them that majority of the world will never see the letters as we do.

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Movie Analysis

Richard Tyler Hoback

UKC 100-001           

3/6/2014

Movie Analysis

            During the week of February 24, 2014, we watched three movies that all had to do with design.  The three movies that we watched were Helvetica, Monuments Men, and Disney’s Wall-e.  All of these movies had some things in common.  Helvetica was all about the typeface, Helvetica, and how it’s created and used in everyday life.  Monuments Men is about these men who travel Europe to find the treasure that the Nazis stole and hid during the World War II era.  Disney’s, Wall-e, is all about this little robot on earth and him, unknowingly, bringing the humans back to Earth.  They may sound like they have nothing at all in common, however, the one thing they all do have is design.  Design is everywhere in these movies, from the lighting of the scenes, to the story behind it all.

            Helvetia, the movie, is all about the typeface, Helvetica.  Helvetica is the most commonly used typeface in the world.  In Helvetica, they show us how the typeface is created and distributed everywhere.  There are people in the world whose job it is to create different typefaces and make them better.  These people’s titles are Topologists and they live to design typefaces.  They have designed Helvetica and it became the most commonly used typeface in the world because of its simplicity and because of how easy it is to read and produce.  The type is used everywhere in the world from advertisements to documents.

            Instead of Everything is Illuminated, I watched Monuments Men.  Monuments Men is a true story about a group of people who go on a hunt around Europe to find the treasure and artwork that Hitler and the Nazis stole from the Jews and hid for themselves because they didn’t want the west to find it.  One way there is design in this movie is, obviously, from the artwork that they are trying to recover.  The artwork they are looking for is some of the best work in the world and is very valuable.  Also, they were traveling all across Europe, so they showed the big landmarks that each place is known for.  They spent years looking for the artwork that the Nazis hid and the Nazis destroyed some of it and hid the rest in places like mines, that they thought no one would ever look in.

            In Disney’s, Wall-e, all of the humans have left the Earth after thousands of years of trash covering the Earth and the big cities.  Wall-e is a robot that was created to stay behind and clean up the trash but after so many years, Wall-e is the only one left because all of the other ones broke down.  After awhile, the humans, who live in space now, send a robot back to Earth to look for any kind of life, like trees or grass.  This robot is names Eve and she meets Wall-e and he shows her the plant that he had found just a couple days before she came down to Earth.  It is up to them to get it back to the captain of the ship in space and let them know that its okay to come back to Earth.  Design is in this movie from creating the visual of the earth being covered in trash, to the way that the people out in space move around on their little hover chairs so they do not have to walk.  There is also a special case of design in this movie that most movies do not have.  The main characters don’t really talk.  The two robots can really only say each others names so you have to really pay attention to the design and the detail of what is going on to understand what is going on in the movie.

            The overall theme that all of these movies have in common, is design.  However, when you look deeper, they all are related to each other in some way. All three movies used the typeface Helvetica in them.  All Three movies had one main goal that they achieved in the films. In Helvetica, they strived to create the best typeface ever.  In Monuments Men, they searched Europe to find treasure that had been hidden for years.  And in Wall-e, Wall-e and Eve tried to save the humans and let them be able to come back to Earth.  However, they all differed immensely.  Helvetica took place in present time, it is going on right now.  Monuments Men took place many years ago and it involved things from the Nazi era.  Wall-e took place many, many years in the future when the world was uninhabited.

            What I took away from this is that you can find design everywhere.  Everything in movies is all about the design, from the lighting to the story line, to the way they characters talk and act.  It all tells a story in a different way.  Some of it is very informative and some is just amusing to see and watch.  Design is literally everywhere and is involved with everything.

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Design

Tyler Hoback

UKC 100

Design

            This house needed to be as weather resistant as possible due to the fact that it is in the heart of hurricane country.  They needed a material to cover the outside of the house so that it would not break under the conditions.  They finally decided to go with DensGlass Gold Exterior Guard because it is the best weather resistant covering for a house that you can get.  They also used foam in the making of the house.  In between the walls of the house, everything is lined with foam.  This foam lets cool air stay in and keeps the heat out.  It also does not absorb water or moisture so there is no need to worry about mold forming in the walls.

Context for My House

Tyler Hoback

UKC 100

Context

            The idea for this home came from the idea of making a hurricane proof house.  Living on the coast of one of the most hurricane prone places in America, Pensacola Beach, the Siglers were sick of rebuilding their entire home after almost every tropical storm season.  They came up with a plan to try to get a house that could withstand a hurricane.  Then they found Dragon Speed Design Group who designs Dome’s.  They then came up with the idea to create the Hurricane Proof house.   They used curved walls and roofs to “bend” water and wind around the building so that the house can withstand the drastic weather conditions the area experiences.  They really came up with some very new and creative ways to build magnificent houses with great strength.

Description for my Building

Dome of a Home

            Built by Mark and Valerie Sigler, “Dome of a Home” is a architectural masterpiece.  This 6,000 square foot home, designed by Dragon Speed Design Group, is built to withstand great forces of nature and at the same time, has some of the most advanced design features inside and outside the house.

            Located on Pensacola Beach, Florida, this magnificent house have fantastic views of the Gulf of Mexico and Santa Rosa Sound.  Standing just hundrends of feet off the beach, it is known that the Dome will take tropical storm damage almost on a yearly basis.  In 2004, when Hurricane Ivan hit the coast, dozens of houses around Pensacola were destroyed.  The Dome, however, suffered no structural damage.  And in 2005, as many home were still recovering from the tropical storm season the year before, Hurricane Dennis came and again destroyed the community and left the Dome with zero damage!  All of this is partly due to the Dome’s front staircase that was built to “give away” when winds and conditions turned bad so that the house would not suffer any structural damage.

            The shape of the Dome is just enough to help the home withstand winds from a force 5 storm.  Hurricane Keith, a force 4 storm was off the coast of Belize for three days and did not damage any of the domes there.  Since the walls of the Dome are rounded they are four times more wind resistant than flat walls.  The Dome can withstand over 2000psf, and to put that in perspective, a tornado with 300mph winds only creates 400psf.  Even if an object put a small hole in the Dome, it would be very localized and easy to replace, and wouldn’t cause the rest of the building to collapse.  Also, the building has no singles or gutters, so when the tropical storms come, they do not have to worry about replacing the roof every time.

            The Dome is build out of concrete.  Because of this, there is no wood in the house, which reduces the chance of fire down dramatically.  Also, since there is no wood, and the walls are made out of concrete, there are no places to termites and other infesting bugs to live, as there is no air pockets or spaces in the walls for them to live.  Even earthquakes cannot shake this house; it would take an earthquake of record magnitude to shake this house down to the ground.  Also, because of the concrete walls and basically airtight building, the Dome has no hot or cold corners in the house and heat and air does not escape through the concrete like it would in wood.  This results in significantly lower heat and air conditioning bills at the end of the month.  In Alaska, there is an 8,000 square foot dome building and its heating bill was $72.  With rising energy costs, the Dome definitely can lower energy expenses over the years.

            These are just some of the great design features that were put into the house.  The Dome is beautiful with large, curved edges all around it to not only defend against tropical storms, but to catch the eyes as you look around.  It is very hard not to notice this Dome of a Home.

           

            

My Building

- Located in Pensacola, Florida 

- Modeled after a "dome"

- Created Jonathan Zimmerman

- Built to withstand a hurricane 

Plastic Water Bottle

The water bottle that I have pictured is the one that I have.  It is a resale water bottle that you can refill time after time.  It is more convenient than just a disposable water bottle because whereas I can us this one hundreds of times, and it can last that long, plastic water bottles are usually thrown away after just one use.

This bottle was probably a little harder to make and most likely costed more to make as well, in the long run it will same me and whoever uses them money.  It is better quality as well.  It has something to it that just makes it more appealing than just a plastic water bottle.  It is blue which attracts many people, and it has a curved shape to it so you can hold it easier.  It also has markings on the sides so that you can see just how much water is still in your water bottle.  It has a removable lid for more convince when putting water or whatever beverage you would like into the bottle.

Those are just some of the designing things that were put into this bottle.  Each one of them can help attract a new costumer to come and buy this water bottle.  From the way its shaped, to the markings not he side and the strap that you could hook something to on top, each of them have been specifically designed to attract different people.