In this work shop it allow me to show how I can be playful using words which I guess is the main reason why they ask the group to do it in the first place. As you can see I have done different experiments to show my humor and playfulness. I also tried to used different kind of paper and different sizes of letters. I also didn't use colours because I want it to be simple but humorous. I liked the "no more" word but instead of putting it in simple I toke out the "O" in no and put more "O" in more. Another on that I like the most is the h, kl, bc, f ,j ,op and d letters. Try to imagine what it means.
At the end of the project we need to produce a album cover which show that I have briefly done at the picture above. I use tracing paper as a first layer then put the "blurred" type underneath. The idea come up to me when I was tracing a word using a light box and when you lift up the paper it the letters fade.
This is the first topic that we did for the 2 weeks workshop. At the start of the day the group was told to go to level 9 to meet our tutor. After meeting the person in charge for the day, first we need to be inducted about all the different machines we can use to produce our work for the day. For me it wasn't really that confusing because I have encountered most of the machines that they have in the prototyping room as I did product design in my 6th form before joining the course including of course the laser cutter which is the main machine we need to use for the project. However they use a different format and software to generate the laser cutter but It was not an issue because the tutor taught us all about it on the day.
I have produced three product which have the same format and word on it but the process that takes to produce it was different. The first one was outline using etching by the laser cutter to show a little pattern. the second one was cut through and the third was fully etched. I decided to present it in an A2 sheet with colourful papers to show the outlined word and to also show how diverse the outcome were.
The brief this week is to produce a personal manifesto that shows what I strongly believe in. For me it was hard to exactly pin point what topic I should associated my manifesto with so I came up with the idea to research some of the people that inspired me and take some of there known quotes and sayings then write it randomly in my sketchbook.
The result was a lot of doodle on a page which gave me a phrase that I can use to show what I believe.
Now that I have a phrase the next step is to think how I will present it. I then research some artist that was associated with graphic design and evaluate how they represent their beliefs.
and because the phrase that I have chosen had significant connection with paint I felt that it would be just right to use it on how I can present my manifesto.
Using a pencil I started outlining the phrase and positioning it into something not normal to give a little curiosity to the people viewing it. The way I positioned the sequences of the phrase was a bit confusing that sometimes I also forget how to read it. I then used a scalpel to slice the pattern forming just a outline of the phrase in a A3 sheet of paper. I then decided to put another A3 sheet beneath the pattern and see what will happen. After cutting the pattern I started to paint it. During the painting I felt kinda bored about the result and the colour combination because it was a bit organize so I decided to put my headphones in my ear and not think about the colour that I use and just go with flow of the music.
This week's brief is to produce a short video (1-2 mins) and a poster which is based to a word assigned to the group. Unfortunately I did not have the chance to start the week strong because I missed the first day which was a significant day to generate and share ideas with each member of my group due to the storm that shut down central line and it was the only way I can get to the city. However I received an email which has the group list therefore I have given a chance to talk to some of the group members online the next day and ask them what ideas do they have planned.
The word assigned to my group is "contrary" and during the self direct studies I did a little research. First i tried to search what the definition was to widen my understanding and to also generate some ideas from the word associated with the word.
then I tried to search some images that best describe the topic like this dog that said "meow"
I also watched a short video that I came across during my research.
The next day I finally catch up on the work. The aim was to plan and to produce a story board of the video and hopefully also film it. This is a short version of what happened that day.
My group consisted of people who had a strong opinion and passion on the thing they believe in therefore we couldn't decide on what should be the main focus of the video because we don't agree with the same ideas. However at the end of that day we manage to came up with a plan and presented it to the class.
On my second SDS the whole team decided to meet up and shoot the video, unfortunately only half of the group can make it so we had to do some adjustment. We scratched the whole plan and just created something out of the blue but still on point to the theme. We edited the video half of the video on that day and decided to continue editing the next day so that we can have the other half's input as well.
During that day I have taken the opportunity to develop some ideas about my poster after shooting the video
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I have chosen to show contrary in a very obvious way which used colour variation suggesting the opposite
This is the end product. The video doesn't have any dialog instead it has background music which we think contradicts the action of the person. It also has added text, edit in to also contradict the fact that it doesn't have any dialog.
I help edit the video and in my personal opinion we did a good job. We have portrayed the meaning of the word we we're assigned with and that is the objective. Although the team did have differences we still manage to came up with a video and through this experience I have also learn to share ideas to a group of people and execute a result which I am proud of
