Post Hand-in

After the hand-in there was a few days off until the launch of the next brief. After a couple of hours I found that I was being attacked by boredom so I put together a few ideas for my own self iniated work. I illustrated my thoughts towards John and Edward a.k.a Jedward/ Twincest with this self explanatory piece. I think illustration is the only way this could be portrayed unless there was a Zombie apocalypse. Please note in the event of a Zombie apocalypse I will be more than happy to decapitate the twins.

Mushy Pea Package

Here is the final outcome to the 'New from Old' project, where I chose to re-brand Mushy Peas. This is a label is designed to wrap around a plastic tub of fresh refridgerated mushy peas. I'm surprised that I enjoyed this part of the project as I wasn't warming to the idea of designing packaging for a food product.

Genghis Khan

This is the final outcome for the Letterhead I designed for Genghis Khan. It came down to the wire with the hand-in as I was multi tasking all the projects and I hadn't pushed the outcomes as far as I could. After discussing with my tutor and a couple of mates I focused on the stationary and I'm thrilled at how it's turned out. The design displays his notoriety, presence, wealth and a hint at his brutality with the well placed blood splatter.

Thanks Alan!

This is my final outcome for my "Thank You" project which I chose to thank my hero Alan Partridge. I designed a Toblerone box as Partridge developed an addiction to Toblerones. I think if I were to give this Partridge he would appreciate the light hearted joke. Obviously I couldn't hand it to him in person so I would just leave it behind the desk at Linton Travel Inn in Norwich!

1 Week 'til Hand-in!

This week I'm finishing the 4 parts of the project. I've devised a schedule which should see me finish all my final pieces for Wednesday evening, leaving me Thursday for any sketchbook work and print. Friday is the hand-in so fingers crossed I will have everything done. I'm feeling fairly confident as the last few days I've really worked well and ticked a lot of boxes on the schedule!

London Trip - Paula Scher Talk

London was a as hectic as ever and I can't see how anyone can live there! That aside I enjoyed it more than when I was last in London, the tube system I'm still trying to get the hang of but it was all an experience. I hadn't seen much of Paula's work before the talk and others had told me it wasn't all that good but I thought she had some good pieces of work. Admittedly her earlier work I didn't really appreciate. I really liked her hand rendered map designs. When she was taking us through her work I was getting flashes of inspiration for my own work so it was definitely of benefit.

Sound as a pound

I've chosen to design a piece that sums up the talk on the "4 Ways Sound Affect US". I had a few ideas which I kept pushing forward. The concept of my piece is to make the British public more aware of sounds around them by exposing them to 2 contrasting sets of sounds whilst attempting to complete an interactive puzzle. The first booth will play sounds of a loud open plan office. The second booth will play morning bird songs which would calm the person and increase their concentration level. There will be a short time limit on each booth.

The puzzle will be displayed on a futuristic screen which will be projected. The interaction is based around the film Minority Report where the user moves his/her hands much like you would use a mouse on a computer. Alongside their will be a panel within which your pulse rate is being monitored to provide a visual display of the partakers stress levels. This would identify the health risks caused from exposure to sound thus making the audience aware of sounds around them and how it affects them.

The puzzle is a sliding block puzzle, which is an image divided into blocks and jumbled within a grid, the user will then have to slide each block around to form the original complete image.

Communicating ideas

The final part to the 1st unit is "Communicating ideas" where we have to respond to an idea and communicate it visually. I've been given several video links to watch and then choose one to communicate to the British Public either through a paper based outcome or a Screen based animation lasting no longer than 30 seconds.

Now that I have watched the videos I've filed down my options to two ideas (I think...) which are:

http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_the_4_ways_sound_affects_us.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html

I found that these two videos I can relate to and have some rough ideas floating around in my head that could potentially communicate these ideas. I'm undecided whether I will create an animation or something paper based. I'm leaning towards some sort of illustration as I've recently found that my knack for drawing has temporarily vapourised, maybe I'm not in the right frame of mind but I'm sure my drawing skills were much better 6 months ago!

I'm waiting for that "genius" moment to come strolling past.

Final Mushy Critique

I had a good response to my Mushy Pea design in my final critique. I pointed out that the nutritional ingredients and the product information needed work to fill up the space correctly and logically but that can be easily altered. The overall design was fairly successful and I'm really pleased that I really pushed forward my work from last week to produce a sound design. No more Mushy Peas! Well at least for a while anyway...