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FEEL - WINTER 2011 -

FEELING• Feeling discussion• feel exercise 1 - visual expression of a word• feel exercise 2 - sense and essence• feel exercise 3 - gesture drawing

feel | discussion

WHAT IS FEELING?

feel | discussion

WHAT IS FEELING?

experience of an emotional state: "she had terrible feelings of guilt" impression: a vague idea in which some measure of confidence is placed; "I had a feeling that she was lying"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"spirit: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the e!ect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting";physical sensation that you experience; "he had a queasy feeling"; "I had a strange feeling in my legtouch: the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "the surface feels greasy"intuitive understanding of something; "he had a great feeling for music"

feel | discussion

WHAT TRIGGERS FEELING?

feel | discussion

WHAT TRIGGERS FEELING?

sensation: Sight, Sound, Touch, Smell, Taste.

feel | exercise 1

VISUAL EXPRESSION OF A WORD

Jason Okutake

feel | exercise 1

VISUAL EXPRESSION OF A WORD

1. Create list of words that have no obvious visual reference, such as names for emotions (fear, anxiety, hope, tension).2. Choose a word. Use points and lines to construct the word in an emphatic, expressive way. Use physical, digital, or gestural processes. If your process involves three-dimensional construction, photograph it to produce a two-dimensional image.

Exercise by Marian BantjesIn Graphic Design Basics http://gdbasics.com

feel | exercise 2

SENSE AND ESSENCE

Dictionary.com: 1. The basic, real, and invariable nature of a thing or its significant individual feature or features.

Ontologically (theory of being or existence): Plato and Aristotle related essence to form or the core of form in the physical world that an object acquired in relation to other forms.

Metaphysically (outside of the physical): It has come to mean something like ‘soul’; a non-physical non-reducible nature. What makes us di!erent, who we are, what we're about, the core of our 'selves'.

feel | exercise 2

SENSE AND ESSENCE

1. Create three one sentence stories from your life based on three emotions: disgust, desire, hunger 2. Choose one story to express visually.3. Express the essence of this story using only squares, circles and triangles and the colors blue, red and yellow.

feel | exercise 3

GESTURE DRAWING

feel | exercise 3

GESTURE DRAWING

Capture and express of the essence of human gestures and postures without using contour lines. Work big. Work quickly. This is an exercise in awareness and perception, a hand/eye connection activity.10 x 30 sec5 x 1 min2 x 5 min1 x 10min1 x 15 min