Friday, February 02, 2007

Finished



My ideas and work for this project have had so many changes of direction. My final design was created on Wednesday and was pretty much created from scratch as my other ideas weren't really going anywhere or saying anything. I used some of the optical illusion research to create my fish pattern, and decided to set them free from this mould and adopt a new direction. Orange is setting the fish free and giving them life and energy. I am really happy with my outcome, as I was becoming more and more frustrated that my ideas weren't going anywhere. I think that I still need to develop the idea and layout further, but am pleased with the concept and imagery.

Friday, January 19, 2007

update




I have been recently playing with nets of shapes, and when you work them you create 'network', I like some of the visuals but i think i need to make them say more than what they are at the moment. I have come up with lots of starting bits of ideas but am abit stuck on were to take them. This afternoon will hopefully prove to be very useful.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Spagetti pictures and experiments










Tuesday, January 16, 2007

orange update notes

I have been really busy recently, trying to sort out my exhibition (my elective), and so have decided to focus more on the Orange Brief. As part of my research I have been collecting leaflets and images associated with orange. I like the idea of using Heinz spaghetti to generate optimistic images for the campaign, utilizing the concept of extended networks. I have been experimenting with spider webs and money spiders, weave your perfect contract. Spider webs are the extended networks of the spider. As well as tree images as these create images of a company that has solid foundations (roots), a flourishing company that is ever expanding.

My next step is to decide on images with which I can recreate out of spaghetti.

Orange update

















Friday, January 12, 2007

YCN Competition


YCN Competitions

Project 1 - Orange,

out of the three projects this one appeals to me most, as i am keen on illustration. I like trying to communicate things through images. The project requires the generation of optimistic images, as 'the future is bright the future is orange.'

first impressions, i like the idea of exploring both new and old forms of communication, looking at how we have developed this process through to what exists today. The concept of Evolution and growth interests me.

Project 2 - Doritos,

I chose this project over the national bingo project, as it had more scope and seemed more free. I like the idea of play and the fact they are targeting my age range as there audience. It seems fun and exciting.

party's, games, drinks, extreme stunts e.g. bungie jumping or ski diving.

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Bucky Balls

For this project I decided to look at quotes by Buckminster Fuller, I have placed these inside fortune cookies. Creating Fullerisms (fuller fortunes). They have been shaped like domes, as a reference, to his (or as some say not his) Geodesic dome.
Last night at my girlfriends house we made up a batch, which I later wrapped and packaged as shown in the pictures. I have really enjoyed this project and even learnt a new skill, making fortune cookies. I think the cookie idea works well as they often contain random thought provoking sayings or phrases. I have found Bucky's sayings both funny, crazy, thought provoking and inspiring. I also enjoyed designing and making the packaging, which I will bring along to next weeks assessment/review, along with some cookies.

Quotes for cookies

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
Once you are in the circle, move out of it.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
Sometimes I think were alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
Love is metaphysical gravity.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
Don’t fight forces, use them.
God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper.
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
A proverb is much matter distilled into a few words.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
Man knows so much and does so little.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
Truth is a tendency.
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Buckminster Fuller in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgfrvZ-SxPQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFfB1HEmfVQ

Making, Baking and Packaging Bucky balls, containing Fuller fortunes