My Chair Design - The Comfort Chair

Hi! How is everyone?

Today I am posting about my chair design. In my CyberArts art class we were assigned to design and make a model of a chair that exudes our personality. I decided that I wanted a comfy chair in which I could lie down in, cuddle up and sleep or read. This is what I based my design on.

Personally, one thing I love doing is cuddling up on my sofa and reading my a book when it's raining outside; it feels peaceful. I also like having my books at hand. This is why I chose to add a small storage space for my books near the bottom front of my chair. I wanted my chair to be a colour my chair it would be a light soothing colour that was light and soothing because I am mostly a quiet person, I don't like to much attention. I am laid back and I am comfortable around others.

This is my chair. I call it "The Comfort Chair". I wanted my chair to be known for being

comfortable. I wanted a chair that was more organic than geometric. When I think of geometric shapes such as squares and triangles, I think of stiffness; I did use rectangles but I added curves to them so they felt more organic.

I like being comfortable in what I sit in. This is why I chose to have a lazier feel to my chair. My chair has a storage space at the bottom front of my chair. This allows the user to have easy access to their books; the storage space can also be used to store other things, not just books. Since my chair is longer you can keep your feet up, it can also act somewhat as a bed. I also have armrests on the chair so the user would be able to sit with their arms up.

My chair is a piece of art because it looks unified. It has a very clean design. I believe that my chair is very balanced as it has a organic but block-like form; my chair does not look like it will tip over, it is very solid. My chair is very simple, it gives of a professional feel with it's clean, curved lines. The texture is smooth, this gives off a very relaxing feeling. If I were to add color to this chair, I would make it a pastel or soft colour instead of bold vibrant colours as I would like the user to feel relaxed and not to distract them or keep them awake with attention seeking colours. My chair also uses the curve of the seat to move your eyes from the top of the backrest down to the end of the seat in a slide like motion; this adds a look of sleekness and polish to the chair.

So before I end off my post, I wanted to talk about my design process. So before we actually started making a model of our chair, we were required to plan out the design and present it on a board with a orthographical and isometric drawings; I felt this really helped pain a image of what I wanted my chair to look like in my head.

For a greater understanding of my chair design I used a measuring tape and experimented with measurements to see how big I wanted the chair, how high I wanted the seat and backrest to be.

All this planning really helped me along the way. I don't think I could have made my chair model without it. So, I have some advice for you... planning helps; use it.

I hope you liked my chair!

Sketchup! Designing Chairs

Hey guys! For today's CyberArts seminar we started working with a program called SketchUp. It was very difficult because I had never used the program before. So we basically had 20 minutes to try and make our own personal chairs. This is what I came up with.

I think that my first try was pretty good because the using the program was very difficult and I managed to make decent looking chairs. So I'm happy with the outcome. :)

Have you ever used SketchUp?

Romanticism Collage

Hey guys! How are you?

Well, today I'm going to write about my second CyberArts art assignment; the romanticism collage.

For this assignment we were required to chose to make either a dry print or collage focusing on the theme of romanticism; I chose to make a collage.

The idea behind my collage is "the ignorance of class." It shows a poor boy isolated from the life of a middle or high class society. My collage revolves around the idea that the higher society has so much (money, cars, brand named clothing, education, food, etc) but some of us don't think about those who don't have anything at all. We hear about poverty on TV or read about it in the newspaper; but do we do anything about it?

My piece shows romanticism because there is a lot of drama, emotion, and contrast in my collage with one main focal point. You can see the drama and emotion by looking at the focal point; the large image of a poverty stricken boy which I placed at the bottom half of the collage. His expression is intense; it looks as if he is looking at you accusingly; his stare makes you feel uneasy. I placed him at the bottom on the collage because I wanted to separate him from the overlapped images of the higher society; this shows that he is isolated.

The focal point is contrasted with the top of the collage. The bottom is dark and dramatic; the colours I chose from the bottom were very neutral with blacks and browns with a bit of white. The top of the collage however is very bright with a wide arrange of pictures and colours; this symbolizes a happy wealthy society.

The composition I chose to use was the rule of thirds. I wanted to compare and contrast the two different classes but decided that simply dividing the board in half would not add interest to my piece. This is why I made sure that the top half (or the wealthy class) was about a centimeter higher than the center line. This instantly made my piece look better. Finally, to unify my piece I cut up small pieces of text from a magazine and overlapped them underneath all the pictures; I also added a strip of text at the bottom of the collage so my piece would feel balanced.

I am very happy with the end result of my romanticism collage. I hope you liked the outcome too! :)

Photo Manipulations

Hey guys!

I was online again and I found a article of 39 really cool photo manipulations! What is the definition of a photo manipulation? Well, according to Wikipedia a photo manipulation is "the application of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception (in contrast to mere enhancement or correction), through analog or digital means."

Out of these 39 photo Manipulations, I wanted to share 2-3 of my favourites and tell you why.


This is the first of the three photo manipulations I wanted to show you. I really like it because it has a cool feel to it and I think that its really interesting. I love how you have the illusion of a man drawing an image of his legs but his legs look like they are attached to the rest of his body making the picture look like a whole.


This is the second photo manipulation I chose to show you. I found it creative because the artist makes the face of this boy seem as though it has the texture of a pillow. They made it as so the impact of the punch has a entirely different outcome than that of reality.


This is the third and last photo manipulation I wanted to show you. This picture, I thought, was very witty. This is because you can see that this person tried to catch a vase from breaking, but broke themselves. It's almost like a reverse situation and I thought that was very cool.

I found that these photo manipulations were really creative and made me feel a round of emotions. Some of them were mind-boggling, others disturbing and some were very witty or clever. I recommend that you check them out. If you would like to see the other 35 photo manipulations, CLICK HERE.

Hope you like them!

Space saving furniture

Hey guys!

I just came across the coolest video ever! Its about a company called "Resource Furniture." Resource Furniture specializes in creating space saving furniture. They create fold up furniture that is multi-purpose and very convenient.

I believe that these designers are very skilled at their trade because the amount of knowledge and problem solving skills needed to design this type of furniture must be enormous. These designers manage to make one type of object into another in such an efficiant way. For example; they attached a table to a wall that can be pulled down into a bed. But that's not all, the table itself does not have to be cleared and moved, the table folds itself completely under the bed; its contents still untouched.

If your still confused on what I mean; check out this video!



After watching that video, are you as amazed as I am? I would love to know your thoughts! For more information you can check out the Resource Furniture website HERE.

Text Portrait - Photoshop Tutorial

Hey Guys!

Well, It's the middle of march break and I am completely bored! haha. It's basically one of those days where you end up spending all your time online because you don't have any plans for the day. Yup, its one of those days. Anyways, while I was sitting here bored, I realized that I am completely behind on my blog posts; oops :S.

So today, I have brought to you a tutorial I stumbled upon earlier this evening. This tutorial was written by Dave Cross in 2009 and I thought It was pretty interesting. Basically, he took a well contrasted picture and made it into a portrait made entirely of text through Photoshop CS4.



Cool right? I thought it was very interesting and being a Photoshop lover myself [haha], I decided that I wanted to make a portrait following this tutorial myself! So I took THIS picture of Hilary Duff which I found HERE and got going! Since this picture did not have the amount of contrast I required, I needed to use Photoshop to enhance the lights and darks of the portrait. Following the tutorial was not hard because the wording wasn't confusing and there were pictures to help explain the steps. In the end, this is how my portrait turned out!


I admit it's not as professional, but I thought It looked well done especially because I added some effects of my own. So personally, I liked how my portrait turned out in the end.

If you guys are interested in making your own portraits made entirely of text, please do visit THIS TUTORIAL and try it out. I would love to see the outcome! Good Luck!

Tangled Trailer Remix

Hello again!
I know I've been promising to put up my edited trailer for a while now so here you go!

For those of you who haven't read my past posts, for my first CyberArts tech. assignment we were required to take a movie/game trailer and change the mood of it by altering scenes, music and sound Fx! For my trailer, I chose to remix the trailer of a 2011 Disney feature called 'Tangled'.

Before I go on about my remixed trailer I would like to show you the original trailer. I actually used 3 different Tangled trailers for this assignment but I will show you one and give you the links for the two others. :)

The Original



You can see the other two trailers here and here. :)

Now here is my Remixed Trailer.



As you saw, the original movie trailer is a romantic comedy with adventure. It makes you feel happy and wants to make you laugh.

For my remixed trailer I decided to change it to make the viewer feel a range of emotions; happiness, suspense, drama and intensity. The original story was of a kingdom thief meeting an interesting and magical girl that had been 'grounded' in a tower [hidden] for about 18 years and how she is taking an adventure with him to find her freedom. My story however is about a kingdom thief who falls in love with a girl in a tower, they fall in love. But the girl betrays him and sends him to jail. Now, he is angry and hurt, he breaks out of jail and takes an adventure to find this girl and take revenge.

I had a lot of fun with this assignment. It was fun cutting and pasting scenes to create a whole new story. The hardest part of this assignment was finding the right music to fit the scenes; it was even harder for me because I had to choose three different songs with different moods. That, I found, was the most time consuming. Sound effects were pretty easy but transitioning them was tricky.

All in all, I like my end result. I really liked how my music really went with the scenes and movement as well as transition. If I had more time, I think I would have edited the voice overs a little more and made them sound better.

I hope you liked my edited trailer! :)