Jen Stark

Jen Stark is drawing, sculpture, and animation artist. Stark's artwork displays vibrant bursts of colors, her drawings do no less. The design forms and powerful dimensionality in her work resembles the vigorous movement and colorful explosions of our galaxy. Jen Stark's work is distinctly cosmic. For the viewer, it feels like staring into a vortex, leading to another world or universe; one you can you cannot escape and find yourself falling into endlessly. The intricacy of Jen Stark's designs are wild and infinite in the way she assembles every small pattern and detail. Stark's masterpieces presents extreme perception and radial balance. One can almost classify her designs as op-art. 

Design Outline

To Design

A.    Content: The content/ subject/ narrative

B.     Form: The manipulation of materials and visual characteristics

II.    All design evolves from point line plane

A.    Design Principles

•      Unity/ Harmony/ Simplicity/ Emphasis
•         Focal Point/ Scale/ Proportion
•         Balance/ Rhythm

B.     Design Elements

•     Line
•     Shape/ Volume/ Mass
•         Texture
•          Illusion of Space
•         Time and Kinetics (motion)
•         Value/ Color
•         Virtual Space

C.     Analysis: Problem solving and communicating an idea

D.    Perception: Nature, art history, and culture

E.     Material Explorations: Visual experimentation, process, sketching and building

III. Compare and Contrast: How do we compare the 2-dimensional and the 3-dimensional world?

A.    2-Dimensions are: Length and Breadth. To establish marks on a planar surface, that has no depth except the illusionary kind. In the 2D world, we can organize visual elements to create harmony and unity on a picture plane.

B.     The 2-Dimensional Design: is essentially a world of human creation: mark making, drawing, painting, printing and even writing, are activities that lead to the formation of illusion of space, aesthetic and intellectual content.

C.     In 3-Dimensional Design: we also strive to organize visual elements to create harmony and unity, but in relation to three design directions

•     Length: vertical direction/ up and down
•     Breadth: horizontal direction/ left to right
•     Depth: transverse direction/ forwards and backwards

D.    We live in a 3-Dimensional world: what we see is not a flat picture plane only, but an expanse of objects in space, with physical depth and third dimension

E.     3-Dimensional Design is defined by x,y,z

F.      Form in Space

•      Surface and relief
•     Light and shadow
•     Depth of relief
•    Modular structure
•     Special relationships
•     Point of view
•    Form and content
•     Plane and space/ volume
•      Interaction and stability
•      Architectural plane

G.    Organization

•       Hierarchal structure
•       Structure and unity
•       Repetition and variety
•       Proportion
•    Continuity
•       Focus and emphasis
•      Economy
•       Implied structure
•       Random chance and order
•       Predictability

H.    The 3-Dimensional World: to understand a 3D object, we need to view it from different angles and distances, and try to grasp a full understanding of its three dimensional reality. What we see is a continuum of space that we are enveloped in: up and down, side to side and what is close or far away.

IV. Art and Design

A.    Form and or Function?

B.     Which is more important and how does one affect another?

Define Design

1. Describe the design process; it’s categories and how it is used as you outline step 1, 2 and 3? 

The Design Process is a way of creating innovative solutions to everyday needs and environments. There are 6 categories in the design process: Identify the Problem, Generate Ideas, Refine & Analyze, Decide, and Implement. These categories outline steps 1, 2, and 3. Step 1: Discovering the issue. Step 2: Come up with Solutions to problem. Step 3: Build a model or mock-up of you final design/solution for this issue. 

                          2. Define Three-dimensional form and find a new example using the research       

                           links. 

                          A three-dimensional form is a form that exists in space. A three-dimensional object holed length, depth, and width.  

     

3. Define Space and find a new example using the research links.

Space defines form of an object; the capacity, volume, and area in which a form resides. 

4. Define Positive and negative space in 3-D form, find a new example using the research links. 

Negative Space is the empty space seen around or through an object. Positive Space is the space being taken up by the object.

5.Define Direction and find a new example using the research links.

Direction is the angle or linear perspective that moves into a specific path in a work of art.

6. Define Scale and find a new example using the research links.

Scale is the size or measurement working within a work of art or design. 

7. Define Point of view and frame of reference, and find a new example using the research links. 

Point of View is the structure and positioning of materials allowing the viewer's eye to move through the design or work of art making it the main focus.