The First Project... Research

The project is going well, we don’t even think of ideas yet. The project at the moment is just research based, we have to research certain groups that are affected by freshers week. Our group has selected students and event promoters, we thought it could be quite interesting to see if there is a connection between the two and to see if we can come up for a solution to benefit both groups.

I have never really done much research when studying but I am seeing the benefits of research. It does open up some many doors and has opened my eyes to research. Also I have had a chance to get creative with the presentation, I hope everyone likes it.

Here are two slides from my research, the general graphic style runs all the way through the presentation, enjoy.

A Field Trip (Part 2)

I have split this into as the last post was getting a little long.

The second part of the trip was really interesting and really open up my eyes to possibilities of interaction and product design. The Helen Hamlyn Research Associates, which was at the Royal College of Art was full of research led projects. The designers didn’t have an idea of what they were going to design, they did a huge amount of research and come to some interesting results.

The piece that really stood out for me and I think everyone else was a mobile phone start up handbook for older people. The designers found that old people just wanted some to explain the set up clearly rather than having a new device design especially for them. Also they created cards, that use similar technology as an oyster. The cards have the path to a function on the phone saved to them, such as the camera or write a text message, which when placed over the phone the relevant application on the phone will open.

There was some really interesting projects and solutions to help people. you should check out the website.

A Field Trip (Part 1)

On the first week we went on a field trip to the design museum and an exhibition from The Helen Hamlyn Research Associates, which was at the Royal College of Art

I will start with the Design Museum the main exhibition was ‘Super Contemporary’. Which was a collection of commission by some of London’s best designers, which included Neville Brody, Paul Smith, Wayne Hemmingway (I have heard some goods things about him from old work place, little joke there for the people I used to work with) and many more. It included a timeline, which was really interesting, as I don’t much about the history of product design. It also had the history of graphic & fashion design, Architecture and a culture time line, which included film, music, social and political events of that year.

All quite interesting to see have all these things contributed to each other and there was some interesting videos of people talking through their experience career. All well worth a fiver… and I also got mistaken for the course tutor, must be the beard…

There was also another exhibition by a Spanish (I think he was extremely Spanish) his name is Javier Mariscal. His work is quite interesting not quite to my taste he has designed a graphic identity for Barcelona (one of my favourite cities). His work spans many disciplines he makes models out of cardboard, he is a film maker he seems to do the lot, check him out…

The First Brief is in!!!!!!!

Fresher's Week, what have or will i experience on Freshers Week? I don't think I will. FW seems like a competition to see who drink the most in the shortest amount of time. People are queuing around the block to get tickets and they seem so excited, maybe i should be?… but I am not that bothered to be honest

Anyway back to the brief, sound quite interesting. there is no set object we have to design, so it is the openest (don't know if that is a word) I ever had. It is exciting but also very daunting.

We are in groups might feel like the apprentice, I bet there is someone wanting to take control or people cant be bothered so some one has to take control. Then when the tutor says its rubbish we can blame that person, should be a laugh.

Can’t wait to find out…

I will post my progress in the next few days!