Some Words on Architecture
on 19/11/2007 - like it?

The last 2 weeks have been essay time. An essay for both Design Technology and History & Theory.

Not exactly very exciting, but I guess its nice to change things up a little. However it has meant I have lost quite a bit of focus on the current design project 2 - which isn’t good. However today I will be making further developments in that area. For those interested you can download the current versions of the essays below, History is complete however Design Tech is still being worked on.

History and Theory - Building Review PDF

Design Technology - Technical Appraisal PDF

Tags: essay, history, Project 2, technical appraisal, theory, Unit 9

All the Possibilities on Interface
on 31/10/2007 - like it?

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Working on my project 2 interface ideas as we speak. Having a lot of trouble getting an idea I want to run with. Finding an interface that works with the manager is tricky, so I decided to play with the idea that the customers experiences the interface which I hope isn’t breaking the rules too much. This lead me to thinking - do they want their experience enhanced? (as the brief says)

The laundrette is an escape for a lot of people and they want the mundane - and they don’t was enhancing, I feel it might get in the way. But I need to some good ideas to present to Gabby and Jason tomorrow. So I went back to the managers and the idea from My Beautiful Laundrette of watching people and observing in secret from behind a screen (thanks Gordon!) - Hence the awesome home-made touch screen, which if I could make would be amazing and would enable the manager to interface with the images of the customers.

Tags: design, Laundrette, Project 2, TouchScreen, Unit 9

Stop Motion, Keep Moving
on 27/10/2007 - like it?

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Had my end of project 1 crit on Thursday, went quite well although I didn’t get to complete the actual 4D drawing. The above stop motion animations is a development from my storyboard.

We have now been set project 2, which is dealing with the same character as project 1 (laundrette manager) but to create some interface that somehow changes the way he view something, not exactly sure what I’m going to do yet….

Tags: Laundrette, Project 1, Unit 9, Video