Design Direction: Week 3

Week 3

Mon 8 
After the usual Stage 2 Meeting this morning, we learned that the designer Jack Hardiker would be giving us a mini live brief. The premise of this brief is to take this opportunity to break away from the screen and devise something more experimental involving sounds, household items, created objects, mobile phones, light, paint etc. 

In the afternoon, I had a quick meeting with my groups to start brainstorming ideas for this brief and what routes could be potentially good. We really liked the idea of involving the senses.

Tues 9

Continued on with the development of the live brief which was due at 1:30pm. We had sorted the foundation of the idea yesterday with wanting to focus on task/experiences that involve the senses so we made a variety of mood boards which presents those experiences. 

During the review in the afternoon, Jack really liked our idea but found there were a few things for us to work on to make it more presentable. 

Wed 10

Had quite a work-focused day today, started to plan out my brief properly with collecting images for mood boards and building the foundations for the written self-initiated projects. Also read through the new textwork lectures for the week and made some interesting notes.

Thurs 11

The textwork discussion focused on three different things: Craft, Education and Creativity. These are all things that are naturally interwoven into our lives and are constantly fighting to survive within them. But because we are designers, we have already found our balance with craft and creativity because we are naturally drawn to those features in and around ourselves.

Fri 12

The guest speaker today, was Mark and Liv from Taxi Studio. It was really pleasant and insightful to have two designers speaking to us today, especially a female designer and many of the previous guest speakers have been male.