Peer Reviews, Week 6

Ok, so time for the next set of peer crits! This week i reviewed Taylor Chan & Glen Yuan's work. For some reason i had Taylor down twice to review, so I just went and reviewed another person - I had a look at Tessa's work simply because it took my fancy and I'd struck up a conversation with her. Group four had done stop motion this week, and I really enjoyed this work! It was nice learning about how to go about doing it and the appropriate programmes to use.

TAYLOR'S CRIT

First i started with Taylor. Taylor had created this set of work which was bigger than most, because he had too many ideas! He had designed this building which can best be described by his own words: "A building that doesn't seperate interior from exterior". I thought that was a pretty great idea, and once he mentioned that I thought, wow, he's right... it really doesn't! He had drawn inspiration from this idea of the double helix, and the way the two strands intertwine. I could see that same movement in his building. And his stop motion really impressed me too because he had synced this music with it that fitted just perfectly. It made it a whole lot more dynamic. Really nice project, and clearly a lot of effort had gone into it.

GLEN'S CRIT

I then took a look at Glen Yuan's work. His use of colour and overall drawing technique struck me instantly. His work was vibrantly presented and attractive, and his idea was pretty awesome too! He had this idea of a building specialising in environmental conservation. Inside, plants would grow, utilising a site around the railroad tracks that was currently unused.

 He took the inspiration for the shape, and eventual overall purpose, from a leaf, and the structure offered by the stem and veins. It was cool to see how far he had come, because he had started off with this idea of sushi and other food (sustenance), but through his processes had finally come to rest on this fairly different idea. Overall, great project!