Introduction

Hello, and welcome to my Design Blog. This blog was created for the sole purpose as an assignment for my Technical Writing course, .010. That being said, everything you see here is only for educational purposes, NOT FOR PROFIT, and more importantly, everything you see here is temporary, posted only to fulfill assignment requirements. Beyond such an educational explanation, I hope you can enjoy the imagines I can collected here, as they represent a myriad of images that have caught my eye for some reason or another throughout the course of this Fall semester, 2007.

-GG

No. 1

I think many people can see why I thought this image was worth posting to my blog. Whoever did this image had quite a bit of creative talent on their hands, as is evident in the transition from the fire to the water. A very interesting image from the net, and a very good example I think of good design in an illustration to start off my Design Blog.

Source - http://www.myspace.com

No. 2

At first I was surprised to find out that the metal in this picture is actually Calcium. So rare is it that I ever see Calcium outside of its mineralized form (as calcium carbonate) that I forget that Calcium in indeed a metal, and a bright and shiny one at that too when it's relatively pure. The things you learn everyday.

Source - http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Samples/020.2/index.s12.html

No. 3

The base for this lamp is indeed the D-cell battery. I was taken by the design of this product. The lamp, with only one LED as a light source, lasts many hours on one battery.

Source - http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/9b69/

No. 5

Although totally frivolous, no one can say that having bright blue water pour from the tap wouldn't be cool. The actual device is the small cylinder attached to the faucet, which housed the blue LED. I don't know of it only works when the water is on, but if there is a button on the thing, it would make for one interesting night light.

Source - http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/gear/8122/

No. 6

If I carried any clout, I would give this device a design award for coolest camping gadget. I do a good deal of camping, and let me just say that after seeing this, my days of eating sandy bacon on the beach are over. the whole contraption fits inside the bigger bar too, truly eliminating the need to lug a large grill top to the campsite. Long live the cool gadget.

Source - http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/93d9/

No. 7

This image, although it is of a rather harmless Vitamin E or something like that, screams Big Pharm (as in pharmaceuticals) to me. The glossy properties of the container and the little pills seem so alien a product to be medications, but I suppose there is something familiar about ingesting items with the same shine as a wristwatch. But before anyone says anything, I am making a general point, and I understand that the vitamin E pictured here is only to be used topically.

Source - http://author.ecu.edu/cs-studentlife/studenthealth/Pharmacy-insurance-plans.cfm

No. 8

From the series titled "A Robots Day Off". I don't know why, but the thought of some fearsome mech with a horticultural streak amuses me to no end. Like Godzilla with pet Sea Monkeys, or something absurd like that.

Source -http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/robots-day-off.php?page=4

No. 9

Ah, the convenience of the modern grocer. I like how removed the apples appear from their origins as seed distribution tools. The apples look like a lot of food appears in a grocery store, as colorful edible items you can buy mostly tax-free. This picture reminds me of a casual disagreement I had in high school, regarding weather Pineapples grow from trees or underground.

Source - http://science.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Science/Images/Content/choosing-apples-42-15216625-sw.jpg

No. 10

A very unique image of the heart. From this view, its easy to see how small clogs can quickly become big problems. Were I more poetic, I would make some comparison of how the light within the blood vessels represented the life force keeping us alive. But seeing as how this blog is for a Technical Writing course, I'll just say the light represents blood volume, engorged with oxygen.

Source -http://science.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Science/Images/Content/heart-angiogram-sd3453-sw.jpg

No. 11

A snowflake like no other. It has been said that no two snowflakes are alike, but this snowflake is in a class all its own. If it ever snowed here, I would bring out my microscope and some super glue and make a snowflake album. But seeing as how snow is such a remote possibility here, I stand content to gaze at snowflakes photographed by others.

Source -http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/patterns-microscopic-earth/diatoms-butterfly-scales-photography.html

No. 12

I love the pattern the water makes in this photograph. Water has a wonderful way of refracting sunlight, and there is nay a better example as water from some tropical locale. Looking a this picture long enough evokes the desire in me to leave this city, and travel to the coast.


Source - http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/patterns-water/whirlpool-photography.htm

No. 13

Now this is a Topaz gem I can appreciate. Were it mounted on a ring and in a large glass display case, perhaps I wouldn't like it as much. But in this photograph, it makes for a nice, brilliant picture. Again with the blue.


Source - http://science.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Science/Images/Content/topaz-a8x9pn-sw.jpg

No. 14

For use with the jumbo JUMBO crossword puzzles. I'm glad procedures exist such as Lasik, to improve eyesight. My eyes, should fortune find me fair, will never get bad enough to warrant use of such a lens. If not used for reading, it seems possible to kill an entire ant hill at once with this large lens.


Source - http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/giant_lens.html

No. 15

When strong computing power meets talented CG artist. The image looks like the back cover for a fantasy novel, but its still a nice image. I wonder what kind of technical know-how is necessary to create images such as this.

Source - http://firstrung.co.uk/articles.asp?pageid=NEWS&articlekey=1645&cat=44-0-0

No. 16

This photo is of a meeting of high-purity Sodium and a basin of water. Such an event happens at the parties of chemists and eccentrics who have the money to buy sodium on eBay and explode it at social gathering. But if I had the money, I know I would blow up Sodium at my parties. Everyone would talk about it for years and years.


Source - http://www.technosafari.com/science/Explosives/sodium.php

No. 17

Following my description, my boss actually went online and bought this product. While the Office Space humor wasn't lost on her, she still loves the product. For the record, she says that she has lost three staplers since the beginning of the semester. In the name of job security, I'm glad she wont lose any more.


Source - http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/gear/61b7/action/21117bf/

No. 18

Perhaps it's the softness of the blue in the jug that screams pure. Perhaps its the color of the jug that got this picture into my design blog. But the jug sure seems a very important, benign product nonetheless. Long live the water cooler.


Source - http://www.greif.com/packaging-systems/water-bottles/5_Gallon_Round/default.asp

No. 19

Talk about staying close to nature at all times. I like the concept however. Grass sure feels nice under bare feet. And in an urban setting, nothing would be nicer than walking bare foot and not having to worry about things such as broken glass.


Source -http://www.nextnature.net/index.php?tag=intelligent-spaces

No. 20

I used to think that the band of green I saw above a sunset was the green flash. I wish I had a picture to illustrate it, but anyway, it looked nothing like the green flash in this photo. I remember someone saying one that some people go their entire lives without seeing the green flash. Thanks to the internet, I'm not one of them.

Source -http://jef.raskincenter.org/pictures/green_flash.html

No. 21

Another otherwise unremarkable photo, with quite remarkable shades of blue. Also, I enjoy the simplicity of this photograph, which compliments the blue color of the background. It speaks to me descriptions such as serenity.


Source - http://www.artofadambetts.com/weblog/?cat=7

No. 22

The first thing I wanted to know when I saw this violin was, "Does it play?" Weather it does or not, it sure would make one cool coffee table or bookshelf ornament. Utility aside, it sure is one remarkable violin. My understanding is that this violin is made of glass. A must have to anyone's glass menagerie.


Source - http://www.glassmusic.com/

No. 23

To describe the significance this picture has to me, I would first have to describe my fascination with certain shades of blue. While it might sound odd, shades of blue such as those in the picture below have a tendency to catch my eye. So this picture caught my eye, and found its way to my design blog.

Source - http://www.chrishiggins.com/blog/archives/000402.html

No. 24

This watch image caught my eye while I was surfing the web. Perhaps it can be used by woeful women in bars to decipher how far along the trail the drunk man hitting on her is on the evolutionary trail. Whatever its use, I feel it would make a great or terrible conversational piece, depending on how what "time" the watch is at.

Source - http://www.cabanonpress.com/tomsshed/8.2.watch.htm

No. 25

I truly believe that LED's will be the future of lighting technology. Surf, CFB's are economical, but what people often forget is that they also contain Mercury, a small problem that will only get bigger as more CFB's are put top use. If only people would recycle. But either way, everyone can look forward to 100,000+ hours of use out of these remarkable little lights when they eventually take over the world.

Source - http://www.dansdata.com/caselight.htm

No. 26

I found this picture while doing some Christmas shopping online. I must say, I have a deep affection for LED Christmas lights. While not the cheapest lights available, they stand as the only lights capable of lasting more than one Christmas season, making them cheaper in the end. Ah, the glory of new technology.


Source - http://blog.scifi.com/dvice.html

No. 27

I found it surprising how the markings on the spiders back resemble a smiling face. Perhaps it stands as nature's idea of sarcasm. Like the spider is saying something obscene along with it's smiling gesture, only no one speaks spider.

Source -http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/wallpaper/spider-guarding-eggs_pod_image.html

No. 28

The expression this Crocodile exhibits can be read as the universal sign for "leave me the hell alone". I wonder what it is to be a Croc, with such an old reptilian brain giving it old reptilian reactions. Well, whatever goes through the Crocs mind, it seems to work. Crocs have survived for some few million years to the best of my understanding.


Source - http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/wallpaper/crocodile-cape-york-australia_pod_image.html

No. 29

I saw this photo and immediately I thought this to be loads of fun. I would explore more caves in Texas and surrounding states if the costs associated with such exploration wern't so high. But I can look and dream. Maybe after I graduate, I say.

Source - http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/wallpaper/ellisons-cave-photography.html

No. 30

I just can't believe how small these chips of memory can get. I ponder about the day when chips of this size are capable of holding the entire data contents of the human brain. Until then, I cringe at the notion of spending forty dollars for such a minuscule object. . .

Source - http://shop.nojo.cz/kingston-512mb-micro-vcetne-adapteru-p-33.html