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urban pathway

This is a picture that I created using Adobe Illustrator. The original picture was an old photograph that I found to be captivating, and I had to use it for this project.

mysterious and weathered

This picture was created using several photos in Photoshop. For this assignment, each of us was given two descriptive words which we were to convey through an artistic composition via photographs overlayed in photoshop. My two words were mysterious and weathered.

pattern

I created this victorian inspired pattern in photoshop from an existing picture of a building with graffiti on it. The project was to be created using an picture of an urban landscape, and a wall with graffiti gave me that with the added bonus of color and interesting shapes. I hope you enjoy!

Final Animation

Sketch-up Progress

Computing in Architectural Design

In today's ever-evolving world of technology, we want everything faster (and in a higher resolution)and the same can be said of the way we want to receive our information. Design is not immune to the pull of technology. Designers now possess the ability to create a computer generated view of their designs, and literally walk a client through it.

Computer aided design allows designers the ability to send information faster as well. One can simply save a file and email it around the world, and if something is wrong, fix it and get it back to them by the end of the day. I think that computer aided design has given us as designers amazing new tools to illustrate and improve our designs. While hand rendering is still a very useful skill to have, the use of new technology has advanced us, and continues every year with new programs, and new updates to old ones. AutoCAD alone has been updated countless times since it's debut, and continues to add more features and become more user friendly.

In the future, I feel like the program quality will be exponentially better, and hand rendering will be obsolete which makes learning the programs available now of the utmost importance.