Week 6

This week in class we came back and made the decision of which brief we intend to continue on with.

Thursday.

Initially I wanted to move away from my brief towards the urban anxiety brief, but I have decided to change back to my own brief as it is better suited to my interests and audience. I think I want my brief to have something to do with the outdoors but I am not entirely sure yet.

Friday

We started brainstorming possible directions our idea could go. So far I'm am unsure of where I will take my idea apart from some kind of outdoor solution

Week 5

Week Five !

We finally got it together and sorted our issues with nailing down the idea. We came to the conclusion that we needed to target the negative core of the issue rather than fluffing around the edge of it. We were trying to tread carefully around it but we came to realise that if we wanted to raise the issue properly we would need to show the serious side of it. This move towards highlight the real problems of stress made the image generation much easier. We did a gestural stress based visual approach which I think came together really well. Overall I'm happy with how it came together but feel like I almost pulled all my hair out nailing down the issue. It was hard designing for a designer without being distracted by the concept of audience for the problem.

Week 4 exchange

This weeks exchange was similar to the last, it was nice to see other peoples work but some of the other disiplines had not made it very far as they had twelve week project and were in the early testing phases. I only had text to show so just talked them through my idea. Everyone seemed to understand what we were looking to do so that was a positive. Clarke also was doing Vcd so it was helpful to see where he was going with the assignment.

Week 4

This week we needed to have a mock up ready for class. We really struggled trying to get some visuals to work in with our text which swung between different variations of the same idea. We are still having trouble sticking with the issue rather than veering towards the solution. I think we now have the idea down so we can really start getting into the design.

Week 3

We came together again to try and consolidate our idea and define what exactly we were talking about. We had quite a bit of trouble doing this as we all had slightly different takes on what the idea meant to us. We also had trouble looking past the solutions and trying to focus on the issue. But I think we should be able to narrow it down and move forward.