This past weekend, our group reserved rooms on campus from 10 – 5 on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and spent time working on our website together and getting it into a form that we are satisfied with. While we still have some text edits to do, we have finally reached […]
My initial interest in taking this course was the technological component. I have never before studied interiors, and my only experience with the concept of space comes from a class entitled “Anthropology of Cities.” I was intrigued with the intersection of the humanities and the digital world. I firmly believe […]
This week, we’re trying to focus in on our research materials for our individual projects so we can start drafting the content that’ll ultimately be on each of our webpages. Our goal is to be ready to put information on the website next weekend, when we’re going to have a […]
This past week we have worked on designing and integrating our home page of our website. This included drawing an image of the Tésse Room floor plan and editing it in Illustrator, coding the color bar using Digital Color Meter and PhotoShop, brainstorming on our logo for our website, setting […]
During our two sessions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art lead by the curator Jeffrey Munger, we focused on porcelain and lacquer boxes and silver goods. Although those two topics were not necessarily as pertinent to my group (Uses of Space) as it might have been to the two groups […]
There is usually a very sharp divide between my school life and my home life. Being an art history major, I go to class and learn about art, or I go to a museum and look at art, but very rarely do I experience art without having to seek it […]
I found this antique writing desk while vintage shopping in LA, and it immediately made me think of this class. The innovative interior of this writing desk reminds me of what we have discussed in class regarding the importance of having a personal desk to a woman of 18th c. France. […]
During our group meeting this week, we discussed several possibilities for wireframes, and our favorite one so far is attached. We plan to use a black and white color scheme (inspired by Encyclopédie plates) with accents of the “Tessé room green.” Because we will have a color and materials bar […]
Right now, Samina and I are each in the midst of individually creating our constructed Tessé period rooms, which include the presence of masters and servants respectively. While the male servant was simply photoshopped out of the painting from which he came, entitled, “The Cellarboy” by the renowned artist Jean-Simeon […]
