Wedding Cake Designs

Kate Sullivan is the artist of the above cakes. She makes the most beautiful unique wedding cakes in New York. Her design of these cakes is so unique people around the country are interested in investing in such art. The real question is do you really want to eat such a beautiful work of art.

These are a collection of wedding cakes by Michelle Wibowo. She runs cake shops around London England. She has unique talent for baking cakes. She makes cakes for all occasions with just as much flavor for design these imaginative wedding ones.

As you can see design can encompass even the aspects we never dreamed about design being apart of. Like even our wedding. My wedding is just around the corner and in the process of planning it I never knew how much I would actually have to design. The cake is just one of the many items necessary.

Blogs To Follow!!

http://www.core77.com/

This professional blog site has tons of articles on new innovations. This site blogs about the appearance and workings of the latest and rarest designed inventions. There are a variety of different inventions reviewed and talked about. Everything from water purifiers to the next car is discussed here. One blog I found most interesting was the ANTMBL a new idea for an automobile. It is completely different from anything I've heard of. They want you're vehicle to be completely redesigned and summoned by phone. You can read the story at http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/the_end_of_driving_mike_and_maaike_introduce_the_autonomobile_13908.asp

http://www.underconsideration.com/quipsologies/ This blogging site has a variety of different types of blogs. Some are on particular paintings that are done in series, others are on everyday designed items such as licence plates. The title of the blog site is quipsologies. There are articles on typefaces and pretty much a lot of different two dimensional works of art. The motto of this site is "Quipsologies is about sharing your interests, recommendations and intrigues: Keep it useful and fun." This is precisely what is done here. One I liked was on "Treasure Everywhere" This was a plethora of photos of old sign for stores and locations and such. It showed that there is still beauty in all the old antique signs of the time before.

Design Culture and Language

Culture has been defined as an integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends on the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning according to Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluchhohn in Culture a critical review of Concepts and Definitions. Design is the planning that lays the basis of everything. Another name for design is engineering of which there are different aspects of design. Language is a system of communication shared between people in the same region. Culture and Language work together in a way to allow design to occur. Culture is what causes things to been designed and influences why and how it is designed. Language allows people in their culture to communicate and initiates the discussion of how a design will be carried out. Altogether there is a power in language that allows the culture to communicate and design and engineer things for a better world.

My Design Mindmap

Here are the various areas of design. This mindmap, although armature shows just some of the different aspects that design entails. Design is such a vast subject there are so many branches of it. Even in this one I forgot ceremonies such as weddings, churches, and other many things that we couldn't place one there.

Ads

Advertising is a big part of design in today's world. Advertisements can range from commercials to sculptures and everything in between. Generally people think of a boring commercial or a billboard with a picture of alcohol, however, there are some diverse advertisements out there that were designed to catch your attention. No everyone will stop to read a billboard or watch the commercials between televisions but advertisements such as this are hard to turn away from.

What if you were walking in the park and came across this bench? I believe that most people would take more then just a glance out of this. This took a creative designer who knew that people just aren't interested in the conventional ads. He knew that something such as a bench not really serving its purpose would draw the attention and even get the point across.

Here is another unconventional advertisement, even though it is only a picture it still has a message. From first glance you want to see why this girl has a post it on her forehead. Further examination shows that it is her name. This tells pretty much the whole story. This guy try to avoid not remembering her name in the morning after what seems to be a one night stand sticks a post it on her head to remember her name. This one again draws attention because of its uniqueness and humor.

Through examining these advertisements I would say that going the unconventional route get the message across more clear. If someone is entertained by the design of the advertisement or the meaning behind it they are more likely to remember it and discuss it with their peers.

Crash 2004

I watched the movie Crash directed and written by Paul Haggis. This movie is a piece of art that shows cultural diversity and the stereotypes that emerge from each as a result of our upbringing and societal influences. This movie shows the danger of allowing racism to rule our lives. It shows how thinking a certain race is a higher or lower class can damage the entire society as a whole. The movie has a perfect tag line that says, " You think you know who you are. You have no idea." This tag line represents the overall theme of the movie. It shows that even when we don't realize it, we can be judgemental towards other races that can actually change the outcome of events based on our responses and actions. The writer states that although people are born with pure hearts they grow up in their communities to learn prejudice. This is demonstrated by incorporating all races in a way where their lives cross and they are shown how their racist nature hurts not only themselves but the others around them.

"Design is where science and art break even."
— Robin Mathew

Robin Mathew is a graphic designer in San Diego California. She deals with designing and implementing websites. I found this quote from just reading through a variety of quotes by designers posted online at http://quotesondesign.com/. None of them really jumped out at me or described design how I see it as this one does. I'm studying physiology and basically the design of the human body. There is this exhibit called the Body Worlds that travels around. They dehydrate dead bodies then plastinate them. They are cut into different view of each and every part and died for better distinction. At this exhibit you can see the actual design of the body and how we get our ideas to design. If you really think about the quote design is where art and science meet. Science helps us build all the sky scrapers, the monuments, and the architecture as well as all of the tools and things that fulfill our aesthetic needs. Art added to the science of building and how things work allows us to make new products and things to enrich our lives and please our senses.