WinterCity Design

For the designblitz assignment of week 6 the suggestion was to carry around a camera during the week and to take photographs of designed examples around. I tried and succeeded on two days of this week. Though I felt somewhat limited in my skills to take photographs while carrying bags or having a cloudy day or not being able to carry around my good camera which is too heavy. I like eleven of the pictures I was able to take.

 With these photographs I tried to catch some of the following elements of design:

color

typography

metaphors/symbols

minimalism & use of space

form/function/message

balance

rhythm

proportion

dominance

unity

I mainly were attentive to rhythm:

Part of a poster on a column.

Stones arranged into a sidewalk.

 

A sculpture.

A streetcar station.

Other pictures for different design elements are:

minimalism:

Here someone imagines Europe in the future and adds symbols for presumed agrees, constitutions and peace treaties.

A sad Graffiti on a staircase.

color:

Colored Houses.

Colorful lights bhind glass and snowflakes.

typography:

Design of a Subway station.

secret messages:

Maybe this contains a message which I can not decipher because I have not enough information.

These messages you can find all over the city, who knows what they mean.

Learning about design was interesting to me, because I could add to my knowledge I have collected as a fine artist and story illustrator. Design items seem to be more neatly put together and are more often signs and symbols and letters, which may be a naïve view to design. It is just a quality I realized concerning design this week. I may be able to express this more accurately in some time.