PROCESS BOOK FIRST TRIMESTER

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J O H A N N E S S T E E G H S

P A I N T I N G

C O L O R S

C O N t r a s t s

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W i t h J o h a n n e s w e w o r k a b o u t c o l o u r s , w i t h p a i n t a s m e d i u m . W e h av e 4 d i f f e r e n t a s s i g n -m e n t s i n w h i c h w e l e a r n t o u s e t h e c o n t r a s t s t o r e v e a l t h e c o l o r s .i t w a s a n i n t e r e s t i n g a s s i g m e n t s t o p l ay w i t h c o l o r s , e v e n i f i t t o o k s o m u c h t i m e t o w o r k o n e a c h p a i n t i n g .

1 - C O L O R S T U D I E S

2 - C O L L E C T I O N

3 - W H I T E C O M P O S I T I O N S

4 - F A C E E X P R E S S I O N

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We had to choose some pictures of nature and make 20 samples of colors that we see in the pictures. From these samples we had to make 3 paintings as "color studies" which reveal colors from the nature.This work is made with gouache because this paint reveals more the colors, and it’s easier to make surfaces of colors.

My first paintings didn’t fit with Johannes’ expecta-tions. I used acrilyc painting and I puted a lot of water on the paper before adding the colors to disolve the paint. I’m used to work with this technic, but it doesn’t match with the idea of color study because the colors are too much transparent.

So for the following week I made three other paintings where I separated more the colors, and used more deep and strong colors. But there was still a lake of contrasts, and the straight borders was for me little bit too boring and too "school". So I tried to made new paintings with more excitments between the colors with strong contrasts, and with a more personnal way, so I worked more with a texture with paint.On my final paintings we can see that I worked on dif-ferent tones in each sheet.

1 - C O L O R S T U D I E S

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Johannes did some theoric lessons where he told us about the physicians aspects of colors, the contrasts, and gave us some exemple with references. It was good for me to heard again these points, but I already had these kind of theoric lessons since 5 years in a more clear and deep way to me. But I enjoyed that he re-members me everything! It was very important to have this theory next to the assignments to help us to get what he expected and also have some basics knowledges about colors that we can use for our whole life.

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We had to choose a collection of objects which has in common shapes, colors and stories and we had to take them in photos from above, in the idea of see them as 2D object. I choose plants from my living room. In the idea of transforming the 3D objects in 2D, we had to paint them with surfaces of colors. We also had to choose a color for the background in sort of making the objects standed up. I made my first painting with a lot of attention. I also learned on my high school to use surfaces of colors for color studying. So I dissociated the different colors in diffrents shapes.

In a second time we had to do some experimentations with the photo on Photoshop in sort of trying to find a new composition with the same elements but with more contrasts and excitments. I changed the background’s color, the plant’s colors, the composition and the ob-jects’s size. Then we decided with Johannes which one of these new compositions was the most interesting, and I began to paint it in the same way as the first one.

Finally I think both paintings are interestings. Jo-hannes find that it lakes differents tones in the back-grounds but I like how it looks like now.

2 - C O L L E C T I O N

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In a first a time we had to take photos of white objects and skin.I had a lot of fun in taking pictures of white composi-tions with some furnitures and body. I spend an after-noon of composing photos in my bedroom with all the white object in my house, and took a lot of photos. The next step was to paint three of these photos with gouache on big sheets of paper 65x100cm. It was a lot of work to paint such big surfaces but in this way we can have a different approach of colors and paints than on A2 sheets. On the firsts painting I made, Johannes liked my way of painting but I used too much grey. He wanted that I work more about the colour I see in the white. I unders-tand this exercice well, but it was just little bit difficult because my photos are very white. But finally I just used some "extreme" colors we can find on them.It was good exercice to paint in all these assignments, but it takes so much time to work on it that I had to work everyday on them, and it was little bit sad because then I tried to make as fast as possible the last painting because I was just fed up to paint everyday since 3 months...Finally I’m very happy with the exercices we made, it was interesting adnd we learned a lot with it.

3 - W H I T E C O M P O S I T I O N S

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Here we had to choose a picture of a face with a strong expression and translate this expression with a sculp-ture using different materials. The difficulty is that we need to work about the expres-sion and not reproduce the face, or work about the face. Only translate the expression with materials which express it.

The expression I choose is from a video of a french ra-per who have a very strong and expressiv face. To trans-late it I choosed to work with bottle of wine, because it’s glass but also for the dark green color. In a first step I broke few bottles with a hammer and I kept only the pieces which had interesting and beauti-ful shapes.

I choose to work on this picture. It’s a photo of Joey Starr, a french rapper who have a face which always intrigued me. I like those kind of faces which has the life write on them. He has such a strong epression, with an interesting skin, interesting caracteristics...

4 - F A C E E X P R E S S I O N

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To make the sculpture, I first wanted to put all the pieces next to each other according the shapes. But I didn’t like so much the fact that we see very litteraly that they are bottles of wine, so I paint them with me-tal spray, which was a very big mistake because then I broke all the sensitivness of the shapes, the colours and the transparency. But when I separated again all the pieces of glass, I noticed some textures that the spray made which are very beautiful and interesting. So finally I made an accumulation whith the pieces, with more volume, where we can see the textures on the glasse and the shapes are related still related to each other in the way they are glue together. I wanted a shape not so agressiv, more provocativ and dynamic.I’m not so satisfied for this work, but I was quite hard to translate the provocation, and I admit that I missed some more times. It was the last project, and we didn’t do so much lessons for it.

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P E T E R T H I J S

S P A C E

C O M M U N I C AT I O N

L A N G U A G E

L E T T E R S

F O N T S

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P e t e r T h i j s l e a r n s u s h o w t o u s e s p a c e , h o w t o c o m m u n i c at e s p a c e a n d i d e a s , h o w t o u s e a c o m -m o n l a n g u a g e , w i t h a s m e d i u m l e t t e r s . I t ’ s a i n t e r e s t i n g l e s s o n i n w h i c h p e t e r s h o w u s h i s o w n w ay t o c r e at e a n d c o m m u n o i c at e . h e t r y t o e x p l a i n u s h i s o w n m e t h o d a n d s ay c l e a r ly t h at i t ’ s a m e t h o d o n ly, w e c a n l at e r d o h o w w e w a n t. i t ’ s s o m e t h i n g i t o o k t i m e t o u n d e r s ta n d .

1 - L AY E R S

2 - T E N C A R A C T E R S

3 - S I G N AT U R E S

4 - L E T T E R S A N D T E X T U R E S

5 - B O D Y

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We had to make 6 compositions with letters. The idea is that we need to do a composition with let-ters where you can add more and more layers without breaking the compostion. The point is that you need to have a balance in the space on each layer with the letters to be able to add more layers on the top of it. Each layer is independant, with the same letter, color, tool, size... To make it clear and strong, we can use contrasts between the layers. For example between dark and light colors, saturation, size, numbers of letters, etc.It was such an interesting exercice, but it was very hard and long to get the idea. The lessons of Peter are very good and interesting but there is a lake of clarity and simplicity in the meaning of the exercices.

1 - L AY E R S

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We had to create ten caracters, or signs which are created in a strucutre with the same high for every signs, but we could play with the negative spaces between them.In a second time we could make a kind of pattern with them to work again on the negative shapes but in a bigger amount of caracters. I like this exercice because I really have to look at the shapes and make them ba-lanced and correct.

2 - T E N C A R A C T E R S

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On 50x65cm sheets of papers, we had to draw our name, in very big font, using movement of all ou body to draw it. Then we have to make the lines very thick in sort of having a black and white composition, which show the negativ shapes between the letters.

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In the same kind of exercice for the layers with letters, we had to make small compositions with letters, but also pattern and textures. So we cutted in magazines and news papers some letters, texts and colors/photos/pattern, and made compositions with each layer is balanced in itself, and together they are still in a har-mony.The difficulty for me was to not do "arrangment" which is decorative. I was often tempt to make beautiful com-positions in using the method of contrasts and layers, but it was not what the assignment was about.

4 - L E T T E R S A N D T E X T U R E S

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On a A3 paper we had to design the word "Body". We had to be carefull about the negativ shapes, the com-postions... Everything we noticed important with the other exercices, we had to apply it in this composition.

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On a A2 paper we had a kind of final assignment where we apllied everything we learned to compose a poster about the lesson of Johannes Steeghs.We had to inte-grate pictures of references from Johannes, a text about the theoric lesson and our word Body.

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S H I R L E Y

T E X T I L E

T E X T U R E

F A S H I O N

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S h i r l e y d i d a l e s s o n a b o u t t e x t i l e d e s i g n .w e l e a r n e d w h at i s a t e x t u r e a n d h o w t o b e i n s -p i r e d b y a p i c t u r e w i t h o u t c o p y i t l i t t e r a ly. i n t h i s l e s s o n i h a d t o d e a l w i t h t h e s a m e t r o u b l e i h a d i n m y p r e v i o u s f a s h i o n s c h o o l : i w o r k t h e t e x t i l e a n d t h e c l o t h e s t o o m u c h a s g r a p h i c s c o m p o s t i o n s . I d o n ’ t w o r k e n o u g h o n v o l u m e a n d t e x t u r e s . B u t t h i s i s o n e o f t h e r e a s o n w h y i s t o p p e d t h e s e s t u d i e s .

3 - A R C H I T E C T U R E T- S H I R T

2 - F L O W E R S

1 - P U D D L E

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The first assigment was to create a collection of textures inspiring by a picture of an animal. I choose a color-ful puddle. The textures had to be made of garbages, on sheets of paper 30x30cm.My problem with this exercice is that I was making more patterns than textures. My first productions was most of them graphic compostions, because it was the first thing I saw on the picture, and also the way I’m use to work.So in a second time I tried to work more about only tex-ture of this puddle. I wanted to work about the Kitsch style of this picture, so one of my ideas was to use mate-rial from cleaning products. I used sponges, plumeau, floor cloth...

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The second exercice was in the same idea as the puddle one. Here I understood better how I can worked about textures. So I made all- over on the sheets, with a lot of transparent papers and white to remember the gypsophile.

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The 3d assignment was about re-design a t-shirt as architecture for the body according to a picture of an architecture.The difficulty was to only use t-shirt in Jersey, which is quite difficult to work as structured. So we had to deal with it and work in a creativ way. I choosed an architecture of Tadao Ando which is very graphic and geometric.I first did a small collection of 6 t-shirt in which every t-shirt had a simple gometric shape cutted in it, and when you wear them together you had a composition of geometrics layers. But the idea was not working at all with the fabric. So I made a second one on which I fold pieces to repro-duced the lines and volumes of the stairs and I made triangle compositions with it.Shirley found the clothes only graphic and that it was too much a copy instead of be inspired by the architec-ture. I agree and understand this critics, but I let the t-shirt in this way.

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The monday we also had Photoshop introductions. I already had a lot of lessons about it, but I felt like I knew nothing about it with these lessons. It was very nice and complete lessons, where I learned a lot!

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H I L D E + M A A R TJ E + A N D R E J

D E S I G N P R O C E S S

I D E A S

P E R S O N A L P R O J E C T

M E TA L W O R K S H O P

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T h e t u e s d ay w e h av e a s t e a c h e r s M a a r tj e , H i l d e a n d A n d r e j . W i t h t h e m w e b u i l d t h e p r o j e c t « P R E C I O U S S H E L L » w h i c h i s a d e s i g n p r o d u c t a s s i g n m e n t.

- W e h a d t o c r e at e a w r a p p i n g f o r o u r m o s t p r e -c i o u s o b j e c t. - T h i s w r a p p i n g w i l l b e l i k e a s e c o n d s k i n , w h e r e t h e o u t s i d e t e l l s a s t o r y a b o u t t h e i n s i d e o r m o r e s e c r e t ly i n a c l o s e d s h a p e . - I t s h o u l d h av e a c l e a r f u n c t i o n a n d a l s o h av e a c o n n e c t i o n w i t h t h e o b j e c t. - T h e m a i n m at e r i a l m u s t b e m e ta l , b u t i t ’ s p o s -s i b l e t o a d d a 2 n d f l u i d / s o f t m at e r i a l l i k e f a -b r i c .

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The first step was to take photos from 5 of our precious object. We had to take each object in 5 differents ways. I choose my bike, my Folk coat, my pre-cious magazines and books, some olive oil, and the photos from my travel to sweden.

C O AT

« W e a l l h av e p r e c i o u s m o m e n t s , t h o u g h t s a n d o b j e c t s i n o u r l i v e s . W e l i k e t o c h e r i s h , p r o t e c t, o r p r e s e r v e t h e s e p r e c i o u s t h i n g s ; i n o u r m i n d s , o u r l i v e s , o u r h o m e s e t c .W r a p p i n g t h e s e o b j e c t s c a n b e a w ay o f p r e s e r v i n g & p r o t e c t i n g . W e c a n d o t h at i n d i f f e r e n t w ay s w i t h h a r d o r m o r e f l u i d m at e r i a l s . T h e s o l u t i o n s a r e a s p e r s o n a l a s t h e o b j e c t. »

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B I K E

P H O T O SO L I V E O I L

M A G A Z I N E S & B O O K S

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I choose as precious object my photos from a travel I did in Sweden two years ago.These photos are very precious to me because it’s all my memories of important moments in this trip which are printed in small pieces of paper. It’s material memo-ries. I especially find them important because now, people just keep their photos on their computer, and let them numerics for ever. They don’t print hem any-more. To me it’s really important to have materials pic-ture, because numeric it’s too immaterial. They contant a lot of feeling to me, in a lot of different ways. First of all, during the travel, I had only three dis-posable cameras with me, so I was able to take 81 pho-tos for one month of travelling. So I was very careful with when and what I took in photo. And I like the fee-ling of taking a photo one time, without be able to see if it’s a beatiful one or not, without can take it again, but with an othe light... It’s very different feeling than numerci camera. You decide to take your photo, you take it, and it’s done. And then you have to wait to give it to the photograph, and wait that he develop the film, and after that you can see your photos. And some times I just don’t remember which photos I took and it’s such a nice feeling to discover again the pictures you choose to take, the moment you choose to remember for ever. These photos are important to me, so I want to wrap them in a way they are safe, conserved, but also keep this idea of intimate memories.

M Y P H O T O SThe first step was to create a mood board about this pro-ject and your precious shell.I choose to create an intimate mood, with clear colors and subtle textures. I also add some references of design or concept I like and which fits with my ideas on this projects. I references here also the materials I could use, the technics, the shapes.I integrate on it also some brainstorming about the word "precious", "wrapping" ...

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The fist day we worked about this project, we did per groups some brainstorming about:"What does precious mean to you?""Why would you wrap your precious object?""What kind of object can you think of?""How can you do this? Think of shapes and materials."This brainstorming helped me a lot to begin to have some firsts ideas for the project. It was also very interes-sant to see the point of view of the other people, and to gather our ideas.

Then I began to have a lot of ideas in my head. Some ideas were very conceputals, some were more about a practical aspect. I draw all my ideas, I think (and I lear-ned in my high school) that all the ideas, even if they are crazy and not realistics, need to be wrote or drawed. So i draw everything I thought. But then the next step is always difficult for me, because I need to take decisions, to choose the most inteesting idea and develop this one. It a difficult stage for me because I have the feeling that I never find all the ideas possible, and I’m never so sure about the idea I choose. I’m little bit afraid to regret it. An other difficulty for me is to believe in the idea. I always find bad aspect in it, find it not useful, stupid, or not practical. So I think I have still a lot to learn about my process in developping the ideas of product design projects.

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I first like the concept to hide my photos on the wrap-ping, to keep them secret and intimate, but I also worked a lot with the idea to seal them in a contant. The idea I choosed to develop was a box, covered by a skin in latex, in which there is a thread to open it. When you want to see your photos, you need to pull on the thread to break/tear the skin, and then access to the lid of the box to open it. I wanted an object with which one you have an interaction, which give you feelings and emotions when you use it. This boxe has the same kind of concept than the money box. You put some money inside, and then you have to wait an important day to open it, because if you want to take your money, you have to break to box. For my photos, I want to conserve them, keep them secret, and when I really need to see them, and have them with me, I have to pull this thread which open the box, to discover again my memories inside. When the idea and the concept was fixed, I had to concentrate more about practical aspect, about the shape, the way you use it, etc.After a lot of research, I decided to make a series of small boxes which are the size of the photos (photos: 8x10cm, box 9x11cm). Then you can distibute your pictures by subject in each box: one box for the trip in sweden, one for the photos from Paris, one for the pictures of my fa-mily... Each box has a different high; it depends on the amount of photos you have for each subject. To use the box, you have to close it in fixing a thread of wax (in which there is a thread in cotton) between the lip and the box, which cannot be fixed together without this wax). Then you take a match or a lighter, and you melt a little bit the wax, to seal the box. When you want to open again the box, you have to pull the thread you break the wax and open the box. The photos are wrap-ping in a fabrics, which conserve them from the wax during the opening.

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A new and difficult part for me was to make the object in metal in the workshop. I definetly like to make it, it’s so interesting and creativ to go in the workshop and make your own object, use the machines that you never touch before and work on your own creation. The feeling is very nice and interesting! But of course, as a beginner it’s very hard, a lot of time and energy to learn all these new technics to try to have a nice object at the end.

We also worked at the metal workshop. The first five weeks we had to realize some exercice to pratcice with the machines. We created an animal, a bracelet and a box. After these exercices, we felt more comfortable with the machines in the workshop, which is definitely a good thing.

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When I had finished the metal part, I concentrated on the last details such as how is the inside of the box, how is the tube of wax to close it etc. I liked a lot to work on these last and importants touch, which are so impor-tant for a porject.

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T h e t h u r s d ay i s a v e r y s p e c i f i c d ay. W i t h A l-l a r d a n d L u k , w e w o r k a b o u t t h e b e h av i o r o f o b j e c t s . I t ’ s a l w ay s v e r y p l ay f u l l d ay, w h e r e w e b u i l d r o b o t s a n d o t h e r s t u f f s , w i t h g a r -b a g e s a n d o l d o b j e c t s , w i t h a i n t e r e s s a n t a n d v e r y n e w f o r m e w ay o f t h i n k i n g . I t h i n k t h i s l e s s o n i s v e r y s p e c i f i c t o t h e D e s i g n A c a d e m y ! B u t i t ’ s a v e r y g o o d o n e , w h e n w e c a n l e a r n a l o t, a n d c h a n g e a n d o p e n o u r w ay o f t h i n k i n g a b o u t o b j e c t s .I l i k e t h i s l e s s o n b e c a u s e I f e e l l i k e a c h i l d w h i c h b u i l d s t u f f s .

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For the first lesson of Allard and Luk, we had to bring a brush, some tie-wraps and simple tools. I brought a brush tooth, that finally I didn’t use. They also brought for us some milk frother which are moving with a motor inside. With this, we had to build a robot.When the robots were build, we had to analyse their behavior, how they move, how they interact between each other...It was a very interactiv and playfull lesson. My robot was a one-use robot, which make a fireworks with plas-tics elements. So finally I analyse its behaviour after its use. At the beginning I didn’t get the way of thinking of the teachers, but in working on the exercice few times, I finally found how to describe my robot, and see it as a human behaviour.

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For this lesson we had to bring fifteen daily objects that we don’t use anymore. First of all we had to make a line with them, in sort of make an obvious composition according to their shapes. I think this exercice was to observe the shapes of an object and be able to make combi-naison.The following exercice was to collect some objects which has com-muns shapes, and merge them together in an obvious way in sort of making one object with differents functions. I used a kitchen shovel, a fork and a cleaning shovel. Then the dif-ficulty was to assemblate them in a logical way, in sort of have an harmony in the shapes, in the assembly and in the function. So my object was a tool to cook, eat and clean the floor.

The second exercice was a dislocation for the function of an object. With our daily object, we had to dislocate a part in sort of making it unfunctional. For example I turn the bulb of a bike light inside of the lamp or I put the ventilation outside of a vaccium cleaner.

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Slap up was a very interesting project. We had to bring one object which is for us an ingenious product. I bring scissors, which is for me something simple, very useful and with a simple and clever mecanism.By couple, we had to take the movement of the action of our object and a daily action, and with these two elements build a product which use this movement to do this action. I worked with Timo who brought a corkscrew. So we took the mo-vement of the corkscrew which is pull on something and then two arms are acting, and the action to make up. Then we built the Slap-up, which is a product to put powder on cheeks in slaping your face. We first made a model with garbage, and then we built the product with white cardboard. With Hans, we made a video to show how work the product.This project was very funny and interesting. It’s a design process with which you can have very interessant and surprising results.

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This time, we had to bring a surprising object, so I brought a pocket raincoat. By couple of two we had to analyse the behaviour of our object, and try to find a human caracter or expression on it. For my object we found that it looks very protective. Then we had to work about the body language of this expression and its opposite. So with Ilse, we made some video where we analysed the movement of protection, but also the movement of attacking. From this analyse, I had to build a machine who reproduce these body language/movements. I build a king of gun to attack, which use these two movement of protection and attack.With Hans we made a movie of it.

The second part of the exercice is to make a child of this object, with the object of one of our classmate. I’m in couple with Jelle, who has a random choice machine. We selected the different aspects from each machine to decide how can look the child of these machines.With Hans we made a movie of this combinaison in the photo stu-dio with the amazing HD video cameras..

H A N S ’ L E S S O N SThe Hans’lessons are in parallel to the Allard and Luk’s lessons. There we learn to use the software Pre-miere, that we use to make videos. The first exercice was making a stop motion with a serie of 25 pictures. I enjoyed it a lot and made an animation movie with abstract drawings. Then, we had to make a movie by team of two to illustrate our object we created with Allard and Luk. I made a small movie which demons-trate in a simple way the use of our Slap-up product. In a third time, we have to make a movie of the two-faced object, still in a team of 2.I like a lot to learn to do these small movies, it help so much to communicate a project, and we can have so much fun with it!

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W i t h K i e k w e d r a w a l o t, a n d d o a l o t o f e x -p e r i m e n tat i o n s w i t h d r a w i n g t o o l s . E a c h t i m e I s p e n d v e r y g o o d m o m e n t s , i t ’ s v e r y c r e at i v e a n d f r e e a s s i g m e n t s .

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For the first lesson of Kiek, we had to work about our surrounding. First of all we had to prepare the performance, so we draw some posture for our body, to lay on the floor later. Then we had to draw some shapes which will represent our surrounding, according to the postures of our body. After had choose our final posture, we began the performances by group of six people. One people lay down on the floor with his posture, and an other one had to draw with the sand his shape. The other people in the team had to draw with a Conté Crayon the shape of the sand on the floor. Then, the person draw his surrounding with sand, outside of the shape of his body, and fill the space between the two shapes. The team had to draw this step also.At the end, we draw the body and its surrounding to everybody. This exercice was very interesting and creativ. Kiek asked us to have a strong handwriting in the drawings, not only to have the shape of the body and the surrounding, but draw it as we see it and as we understand it.

For the week afterwe had to draw two new body and surrounding and select with a small frame a part of our drawing that we wanted to zoom in. In a 50x65cm paper, we draw this part in bigger, which was interesting to focus on a part of your drawing, to reproduce your lines, but bigger.

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For the second lesson of Kiek, we had to draw some stones, but in the same way as the previous week; with our own interpretation. We had to use a Conté Crayon to draw our «conversation« with the stone we had choosen. So we didn’t had to draw the shapes, or the contour of the stones, but how we see it, what can we see more in this stone.I had a lot of fun with this exercice. It was very free and creativ. I used also other drawing tools to do it, and I draw a lot.The exercice was very interesting to understand that when you draw someting you are not drawing only its shapes or contour, but you draw your own interpretation.

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Still in the idea of experiment drawings, we had to draw in small frames some compostions with only straight lines. It was here a very interesting exercice, to experiments tools, but also compostions, ink, graphism... For me it was interesting because I was still used to work about compositions and abstract illustra-tions instead of experimentating with tools. But after one hours I was again on experimentations, and I enjoyed it a lot!

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In this lesson, we had to draw a mask, as a veil to work about the transparent body. To begin the project, we had to thought about a person for who we are making this mask. Then we use some of his caracters or perso-nality to be inspired for the mask. I choose to work about the mystery of a person. The name of my mask could be «Montre moi dans toi« / «Show me inside of you«. So I wanted to make a mask which is, opposite to classical mask, show what we don’t see through the mask. So, instead of show the eyes, the nose and the mouse, I wanted that the concept of this mask is to show other things, the things you don’t see in a face. I draw a lot to find my shapes. I was looking for organics shapes. We had to work only with black ink, and the final mask had to be in Display Line paper. So we experiment first with this specific paper and the ink, which with you can work on a lot of textures. The mask had to stay in 2D, but I think I’ll try to make one in 3D, because I liked a lot this project and I don’t feel like it’s finished.

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5 - EGG TEMPERADuring one lesson Kiek intoduce to us the technique off Egg Tempera. It was a very interesting experimen-tation that I heard about since a long time so I was very curious about it. We mixed the eggs with the pigments and did experimentations with the primary colors.

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6 - GlazingFor the lasts lessons we had to prepare 8 compositions insired by microcosm and macrocosm with yellow acrylics on 50x65cm papers. During the lessons we first experiments on little frames with glazing medium on acrylic. It was a very interesting that I never used before and I really liked to experiment with it. Kiek showed us a lot of technics and I had a lot of fun with it.Then we had to glaze on the big compositions with pre-pared. We had to design lamps, wall or architectures. I wanted to worked on architecture because it inspired me a lot. I was very happy because I worked about the experimentation and not so much about the graphic composition or the quality of the colors. And it was a godd step for me, because then I felt quite free.

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B E V I S I O N N A R Y

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I l i k e R o n y ’ l e s s o n s a l o t. I t h i n k t h i s i s a l e s -s o n w h e r e I f e lt t h e m o s t t h at I ’ m i m p r o v i n g m y s e l f. I f e e l l i k e I t h i n k m o r e a n d m o r e , l i k e I a l w ay s w a n t e d t o d o , b u t n o w i t ’ s m o r e n at u r a l f o r m e t o d o i t.R o n y a l w ay s s ay t h at w e n e e d t o b e v i s o n n a r y, t h i n k o u t o f t h e b o x , w at c h a n d c o l l e c t e v e -r y t h i n g . I a l s o l i k e t h i s l e s s o n b e c a u s e i t ’ s a l e s s o n w h e r e w e ta l k a l o t, d e b at e s a l o t, a n d e x c h a n g e s w i t h e v e r y b o d y o u r i d e a s . I l i k e t o d e b at e s , a n d i t ’ s v e r y i n t e r e s t i n g t o d o i t, e v e n i f e a c h t i m e i t ’ s l i t t l e b i t t o s h o r t t o r e a l ly g o d e e p i n t h e s u b j e c t.H E r e w e h av e p r o j e c t s w h e r e w e h av e t o r e -s e a r c h a n d t h i n k a l o t, a n d i l i k e s o m u c h t h i s k i n d o f p r o j e c t s , w h e r e i c o u l d s p e n d s o m u c h t i m e t o w o r k a n d t h i n k a b o u t i t !

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2 / E Y E S + B R A I N B O O K

3 / I N - B E T W E E N

The first meeting with Rony, we was divided in groups and had a small assigment. We had to go in Eindhoven and look everywhere around us to find compositions in shapes of faces. I think it was a good exercice which forced us to be aware of our surrounding.

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Rony ask us to have a note book where we write, paste, collect eve-rything that inspire us. She call it the inspiration book but I choosed to call this book my Eyes Brain book, because in this note book there is everything from my eyes and my brain. Since my high school we asked me to have a note book where you write your ideas and thinks... but I never get used to do it. And this year, my note book became so important! It’s one of the second effect of the design academy. I feel my creativity growing up like it never was. Now I’m always writing about what I’m thinking, and then I can really improve these thinks because I wrote them down, and read them again, and continue to think about it. Now, I put on this book articles I found that interests me, pictures, works of art, questions... I don’t think it can be very interesting to any one else to have a look on it and understand it, because it’s very personnal and it’s my own languages and thinks, but for ma it’s an important book.

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We have a very intresting project about the "In Between" with feminine and masculine. In group of four people we have to think about what is feminine, what is masculine, and try to think about an "in between", and how will be this three elements in one hundred years?I think it’s a very interesting questions, in which one I’m personally into. We have to talk about it together but also create a mood board. In my group we created a mood board which is organised in two extrems: in the top are the stereotype of feminity and down there are the stereotype of mas-culinity. In the middle we place the in between space. Between those space we made a gradation between feminity and neutrality, masculinty and neutrality. We made it with only pictures, from fashions magazines, product design magazines...

WHAT IS MASCULINITY ?

WHAT IS NEW MASCULINITY ?

HOW IS THE FUTURE MASCULINITY ?HOW IS THE FUTURE FEMINITY ?

WHAT IS NEW FEMINITY ?

WHAT IS FEMINITY ?

GOOGLE «WOMEN»

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GOOGLE «MEN»

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4 - I N B E T W E E NI also made a research Google Image. I think google image is a good tool to find the "average" image of the society. I used it for example to find stereotype picture of stereotypes woman and man, feminity and mascu-linty, first page of woman magazines and man maga-zines, feminines and masculines shapes in design... All these pictures are a good starting point to discuss it.We also use actual graphic design works, which is a fields where the mix between feminity and masculinity is already very important.

I work in team with Zalan, Julian and Nina. After our research, we choosed to make a photoshooting in which we will play about all the differents and impor-tants caracterisitcs we noticed in our research which differs -or not- the masculinity and the feminity. So we made a big photoshooting where I switch from a very feminine image to a very masculine one, but also we tried to find the in-between, and a transgenre image with some details or extreme pictures.

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We had a lot of fun during the photoshoooting. I’m very happy that I worked on this project with this team because they are very open minded and each of us we really play the game for the photos.

The final idea is to realize like a first issue of a future magazine about the In-between. It’s a kind of model for a magazine of photography from the future.

I enjoyed so much this project. I liked all the researchs, the thematic, the debates we had, I also liked so much to organised and did the photoshooting, and finally make a magazine from it. i like very much this lesson with this idea to be visionnary, "think out of the box" to find new solutions for our future. It’s a lesson where I feel very inerested and enjoying. This project was defi-nitly my favourite one.

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We had a Silk Screen Printing introduction. It was an amazing time, very creativ, that I really enjoyed. It gaves me a lot of ideas for the Mask projects with Kiek. We had to draw our own design for the frme, but we also had the possibility to work with tape and draw what we want. I had a lot of fun!

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