The semester is broken up differently in Germany than it is at my University: Lectures are optional, there are no quizzes, tests or homework. Assignments are optional and you can decide at the end of the semester if you really want credit for a class. This is a drawing and illustration class that I took. At the beginning at the semester, the professor presented us with the two projects we needed to complete. The first, was to illustrate a city, and the second (owl) was to illustrate a German poem. The poem, as you can see from the image was about an owl. The owl told a songbird not to sing to the sun, because the sun is not important. The song bird quits singing and everything goes black.
In short, this poster is a poem illustration. The poem is written on the bottom.
These next two images show my solution to the city project. The first image shows on of 51 images. I walked a specific route in the city I was living, sketched the area, and then transfered the sketch into a book by cutting the images out. The result is seen below. It's difficult to show the way this book really works in a picture, because this book is a 3D experiential piece. Not being able to "play" with the book will not allow you to fully understand it. Much like a city: you can see a city in pictures, but without actually being there, you will never get a good understanding of the space that is a city.
This is the book cover, just the front half. The whole book cover shows an eye. The pupil resembles a camera lens, while the map behind the iris simulates the white of the eye, the streets on the map simulating the blood veins in an eye.
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These next two images show my solution to the city project. The first image shows on of 51 images. I walked a specific route in the city I was living, sketched the area, and then transfered the sketch into a book by cutting the images out. The result is seen below. It's difficult to show the way this book really works in a picture, because this book is a 3D experiential piece. Not being able to "play" with the book will not allow you to fully understand it. Much like a city: you can see a city in pictures, but without actually being there, you will never get a good understanding of the space that is a city. 
This is the book cover, just the front half. The whole book cover shows an eye. The pupil resembles a camera lens, while the map behind the iris simulates the white of the eye, the streets on the map simulating the blood veins in an eye. 
These windows belong to Notre Dame in Paris. (below)
