Copyright Goodheart-Willcox Co., Inc. Chapter 8 Review and Assess 249 25. Manipulate space. With your classmates, move classroom furniture to manipulate different behavior within the space. How did the change in form impact the class behavior in the space? Why? 26. Digital photo essay. Apply technology competencies to do the following. For three to five days, use a digital camera (or phone camera) to take photos of spaces you encounter. The images can include indoor and outdoor spaces, and small and large spaces. Focus on features that help form boundaries of these spaces. Once you have your images, analyze them for ways that perception and physical boundaries were used to create the space. Which features enhance the quality of the space? Why? Then use presentation software to create a photo essay. Embed your comments about how perception and physical boundaries were used to create space. 27. Writing. The author states that “color is one of the most powerful, exciting, and life-shaping elements of design.” Write an essay that clearly, concisely, and effectively explains and justifies how your life experiences with color support the author’s statement. 28. Speaking. Use the Internet or design magazines to locate one or more photos showing quality examples of focal point and balance in a room design. Evaluate the images. How do the images meet text guidelines for focal point, including the three levels of emphasis? Which type(s) of balance are used in the images? What elements or objects are used to achieve balance? Give an oral report to the class summarizing your evaluation. 29. Rhythm video. Find an interior space (commercial or residential) that displays rhythm. With permission from the owner or occupant, take a short video clip of the space. Locate a piece of music that captures the rhythm of the space/interior and merge it with the video. Present your video to the class. Discuss the features that show rhythm in the space. 30. Math practice. Review Designer Math Skills on page 203 and then complete the following. A designer staging a model home wants the window shades in the living room open. The windows are 36" h x 18" w. A. Sketch the window showing the height of the shade using a 1:1 ratio, and label thedimensions. B. Sketch another window showing the height of the opened shade to reflect the proportion created by using the 1:1.618 ratio. How high would you raise the shade? Think like a Designer 31. Create a nature-inspired pattern. Presume you have a client who desires a unique wallpaper design with a nature theme. Collect and study shapes and patterns from nature and translate them into a new wallpaper design for a client. Use the following process to design your wallpaper: A. Take 10 close-up digital photos of an element in nature. Download them to your computer and print them out. B. Place a 5-inch by 5-inch square of tracing paper over the image printouts. On the tracing paper, create an abstract drawing of each photorealistic image. Use lines and shapes that stylize the images within tracing paper squares. C. Select the best two of the 10 designs to replicate as a wallpaper sample. D. Refine the nature-inspired pattern designs you started in step B for use as the new wallpaper design. Once final, scan the designs into a computer and use a paint program to render or add color to the images. Print the final design. (You can also manually color the images with markers, water colors, or colored pencils, or a combination of the three. Then scan your rendered image into your computer and print it out.) E. Wrap the finished design around the outside of an empty 16-ounce food can. F. Write a client proposal for your design and identify key features that fit the client’s design needs. Present the design to your client (the class). Source: Assignment inspired by Darrin Brooks, IDEC, Utah State University. 32. Portfolio builder. Save copies of your projects for items 27 and 29 in your digital portfolio for future use. 33. Portfolio builder. Take digital photographs of each step of the wallpaper project you create for item 34. Place printout of the photographs in your hard copy portfolio or save the digital images to your digital portfolio. Write a summary explaining your experiences with this project to keep with the images in your portfolio.