design being wondrous

two more steps in the process of making a poster for the marian bantjes lecture that i now wish were really happening. i was still, at this point, moving forward with both my analog bead patterns and my digital vector pattern. if you're wondering still or again what happened to the imagery from vanderslice, the bead border shows up in brick and concrete along all the corners of the building, and all the vector pattern units are constructed from that curly facade shape that is so recognizable, simply shrunk down and rotated to create different connections. first, some beads:

i started out using my old composition but trying to add some color. i then tried a great many things all at once that are all very loud and unfortunate looking, but were hopefully less "just sitting there" than some of my other attempts. honestly, now that i'm looking at it a few days later, i think it's even more guilty of "just sitting there" than some of the compositions i was trying to overcome. anyway. the last bead, i'm immensely fond of. it utilizes bantjes's infatuation with borders and framing, and with symmetry and pattern. (spoiler: this one keeps going!)

then for vectors:

i'm  most proud of the last vector pattern, the way that i was able to remove slices of pattern to construct text framing devices. (this is a very excitingly bantjes thing to do.) if i had gone with a digital for my final, i think i would've done this one. it has a level of refinement that my other digital patterns, built as they are out of overlaying complicated things without any real mathematical precision, don't quite have.
perhaps i can use this for something else someday. (student assembly... i'm looking at you! designers, don't make fun of me if you see this advertising student forum or anything like that.)

so, as i said in the early spoiler, the poster that i've kept on with is the diamond-frame. i spent the last round working on my type, to keep it from getting too static. we also just added postcards to the project. i'll post about them in another, i think.