Jamin Hegeman

Tag: design fundamentals

  • Design Fundamentals Is Over

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    Once again Friday brings the end of a project-driven week, and a big sigh of relief. The difference between this Friday and the last five is that next week there is no new project to work on. The design fundamentals course is over. We’ve got two weeks off before fall classes start. I’ll be doing…

  • Where Is My Mind?

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    It’s 1:04 a.m. and I’m listening to KEXP’s streaming archive of John Richard’s morning show. Now playing: Where Is My Mind by the Pixies. I love it. Three Hundred and Six That’s how many photos I took for the photo project. At this point I can’t remember what the actual assignment is. There were two…

  • Photographing My Classmates’ Homes

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    I spent the last several hours traveling around Squirrel Hill and Shadyside invading my classmates’ homes to take photographs for our project this week, which is due Friday. I’m not exactly sure what I will do with these photos. One of my classmates gave me a great idea, but sadly after I had taken 130…

  • Photographing Scars

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    I’m going to skip over what we did today in class, which was essentially reviewing the pairs of photos we took yesterday, and jump right into tonight’s assignment: On photographing a person; and, on being photographed. We had to write about the experience, so I’m going to include that in it’s entirety because it’s after…

  • Photography Week

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    It’s the final week of the design fundamentals summer course. In some ways it feels like we’ve been doing this course for ages. And then, as always, there’s that feeling that it went by too quickly. This week we’re studying photography with Charlee Brodsky. As stated in this week’s syllabus, “We will look at, discuss,…

  • Illustration Week Wrap-Up

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    Our five-day drawing bonanza ended with empathetic form. In our case, that meant drawing our own hand. As usual, Mark was there to help. And I needed it, as I have a hard time figuring out how to portray the dimensions of shapes such as the hand. This week was the most fun for me.…

  • Amorphic Space

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    Today we drew organic shapes, what Mark referred to as amorphic space. He asked us to start by drawing a sphere within a cube, which was kind of funny because he told some of us yesterday that it was an exercise he did with his undergrads for weeks that drove them crazy. Was he trying…

  • Rotational Space

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    As has been the case every week of the design fundamental course, each day we are forced to make leaps due to the time constraint. This has been working out so far, even though it always seems like a stretch when presented with the new task. Today we launched into drawing 3D objects. We first…

  • Fat Space

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    Today, we tackled fat space, or cubic space. And the first thing we learned, after being asked to draw a cube, was that 90 percent of the class and likely most of the populous has an unrealistic idea of what a cube looks like on paper. Simply put, what you would likely draw as a…