White World Black Edges

That technique of making a white world with black/grey shadows and hidden line styling so badly called "Neiman Style" is available to everyone HERE. Jack Fowler, a classmate of Marti's who is at Cooper Union and I developed the style eight years ago. John Houser developed this technique last year. I wrote the handout on how to do it.

Sample Writing by a Student and the Comments by Instructors

The Student Submitted this Blue Text:

[RE]sistor

The project is_

The project is an analysis and [manifestation/demonstration] of resistance encountered
on the site in terms of topography, vehicular traffic and pedestrian traffic. It is registered
by the spacing of and types of connections on a Cartesian grid – it is measured in terms of
speed and acceleration. The measurement of resistance has been wound up in three
dimensions from an original linear analysis reaching across the island using a system of
forensic analysis of paint drops left while biking over the city.

509 characters – 80 words

I think it might be missing a connection between the original paint and the sited grid –
both are resistance, but maybe lacking a connection - ?


The Instructor Responded with this Review in Red:

I’m not convinced by resistor. Anyways:
(Passage, Record, Analysis, Mapping) w/ Construction

A line is ridden across the island from edge to edge. At regular and even intervals spatter
is left to mark the direction, slope, and speed of this ride across the city.
Spatter analysis of this trace of bicycle traffic reveals places of resistance to speed and
acceleration. On this ride through the city and just outside the Bonaventure Hotel a
dramatic tension develops in bike speed and acceleration as traffic hooks under and up
around a pedestrian bridge to the hotel. A tectonic trace is constructed as a three-
dimensional and Cartesian grid of nodes mapped across this place of passage in the city.

If there’s more function then meld that into the description in the last sentence. There
should be more sense of a program as a part of the proposal mentioned there as well.

The text below was edited out but seemed to have some merit that could be picked up later:
Defining urban factors in this resistance are: 1) segregation from and/ or congestion in
surrounding pedestrian traffic, 2) proximity to vehicular traffic, 3) and direction of flow
across topography.

Friday Studio Requirements

On Friday we'll have visitors come in and look at your work. We'll meet up at 10h00. We'll ask the reviewers to start at 11h00. We'll watch the videos one after the other first. We'll have the work pinned up while the videos are being shown. Some form of review will then ensue, depending on the skill and interest of the visitors.
For that review you'l need to have:
a) a new 1:00 minute video (min 320by240 at 15fps) introducing your project
b) a new project title submitted and reviewed
c) a new short written statement that compliments the video
d) your already completed walk diagram or plan
e) high quality documentation of your boxes and enfoldings (or whatever conceptual or trace material you have for the project)
f) a digital project model
g) images, projection drawings, and diagrams that you can generate from this model. One or two each concerning your work in Enclosing, Sequencing, and Situating the project in the site
h) the work in "a-g" laid out in the Final Book Layout you can download from this website using InDesign. See post below for details

Final Book Layout

I simplified the font issue by limiting the font requirements to Times New Roman Italics, Arial, Arial Narrow, and Arial Black fonts. You all should have all of these. They are included in the font folder of the linked templates.
I made all of the text and image boxes in just the body of the project. There will be no need to adjust master files or any of that. Just replace ours with your configuration. Use our grid. Change all the titles you require.

Here are sample images of the required Indesign layout:

Thursday Schedule

Here's a final roster of the teams:
Team (1) Captain Brielle, Mark, Lauren S.
Team (2) Captain Jack, Craig, Adrian, Forrest
Team (3) Captain Davin, Amanda, Jonathan
Team (4) Captain Will D., Stephen M., Lauren R.
Team (5) Captain Scott, Matt, Stephen Wo., Sean
Team (6) Captain Brice, Ginger, Justin B.

Schedule for Today: Thursday June 21st, 2007
11:00h Each team sends one team member to help unload material for Pat at McGill. Each team leader should make sure that one of you is there.
11:00h Everyone meets for studio discussion at McGill w/ Kerenza, Marti, and Brian.
13:30h Begin Workshop with Pat at McGill.

You'll be working every day through Sunday on this project. We'll be holding primary studio project meetings with you while all this is developing. We'll have a final review on either the 28th or 29th.

If something is not clear about this scheduling, respond immediately.

This work with Pat will be very performative- all about making. You must do only things that are well crafted and professional. You all know what these standards are. If someone on your team doesn't think that your work is showing precise craft assume it's not. All of this work will be incredibly public.. This in a place that supports something like ARTEFACT. You're part of this. Make well. It has to work- fully, operationally.

Studio Review

There will be no meeting on Friday. You'll pin-up by Saturday at 11:00 and vacate the studio until 13:00 when we'll reconvene with you for an afternoon of reviews. There will be an early evening of post-event fun for those who do such things.

ArteFact Exhibition

A friend of mine from Montréal but now teaching in Winnipeg, is preparing an exhibition to be installed in front of B.Fuller's Biosphere on Isle Ste-Helene (Expo Island) in July as part of ARTEFACT.
He has offered to do some workshops with you all about his methods of design using geometry and pneumatics and then to have us work for about a week on the project with his team and students from his school, U of Manitoba.
Here's a link to the project he'd like to get us to help. What do you think? Any objections?
I think this is a great opportunity and it will be some incredible craft for each of you to learn.

Place an anonymous comment of a simple NO if you'd rather not participate in this work or comment on any questions you may have.

Deuxieme travail pour le cour

The map of lines to walk is linked to the right. Click it and download. Happy mappy.

BR, KH, MG. Out.