---during the week Hannah and I worked separately on logo design which we brought to discuss in Monday's class
Monday 28th September
Session 7
This morning started in the Pit with a discussion about modules for Semester One 2016.
When we arrived at studio Hannah and I looked at our individual logo work and decided on our strongest to use and move forward with.
With this in mind we then started to think about how we could use it in our touch points.
We started getting really inspired, coming up with some web ideas (see online workbook) and went to discuss our direction with Matt. He liked where we were going and was also encouraging some more ideas down the same track. What he did highlight was that we really needed a tagline to bring it all together.
So Hannah and I spent quite a while trying to think up taglines, as well as noting down all our exciting ideas as they came to mind.
During the session I also did some research for body text.
Homework:
tagline! Come up with ideas and we will confirm on Tuesday.
body copy info
Tuesday 29th September
Session 8
Today we were excited to start making yesterday's ideas become a reality. First things first was to decided on our tagline. We finalised on "Help ya neighbour, avoid a disaster". We thought using the "ya" would help to target it towards our young/student audience. And the rest is pretty self explanatory - suggesting the neighbour element of the event and the significance on emergency/disaster.
I spent a long time putting together the logo and tagline so that they were on a nice grid. From there we designed our base poster (to burn, drown, rip etc). We had also come up with the ideas of power outage and burglary as emergencies but the aesthetic of these was different to what we were intending with the natural disaster type emergencies so we put them aside for now.
We tested burning a poster today but found it difficult to find a sheltered spot and were both struggling to operate the lighter we'd borrowed! So we have organised to try and do our "destruction" tomorrow. With the posters as far as we could go with them for now we decided to move on to our other touchpoints. I began work on the webpage and Hannah on the brochure as the web idea had been initially a thought that I'd produced and our idea for the brochure came from an initial idea of Hannah's so it made sense to each take charge a little with these touchpoints but we agreed that we both want to have input on the creation of each item.
Homework:
individual work on web/brochure
finish/refine/make posters
Sam and Hannah's 'Koha' VCD Online Workbook
Tuesday, 29 September 2015
Monday, 28 September 2015
Tuesday, 22 September 2015
Week 3
---Hannah and I met up on Wednesday to do our saucy photoshoot (see online workbook). Unfortunately we were both really busy with personal commitments this week and weren't able to arrange another meet up time so we separately created poster designs which we then discussed online on Sunday.
Monday 21st September
Session 5
Today's session started with interim presentation. Because of our weeks commitments we hadn't yet been able to print our poster designs so attempted to print them first thing this morning. Unfortunately there were a lot of hold ups with the printer and Matt and Klaus had to crack down and cut everyone off at 20 past 9. That sucked for us as ours actually printed really quickly when we finally got a turn! We still shared our work on the table and got feedback from the lecturers and our peers which proved to be helpful.
Before we looked at our feedback, we had a discussion as a class around the entirety of what we are doing for this project and how it fits into the timeline:
Terrible photo but pretty much what it details is the idea that the Web page is active from beginning/lead up to end/after the event, whereas posters are generally in the lead up but not past the actual event, the flyer/brochure will generally be happening at the event and after and then as a team it is up to us to decide what our other media is and where it fits.
We also discussed the importance of looking at the Who, What, Where, When, Why, How.
Then it was feedback time (see online workbook). We discussed our feedback and how we might want to approach our other media before going to the Pit for a lecture on Transmedia.
These are my notes/images of helpful slides:
Transmedia > Across media > multiplatform > replicating the same experience on different mediums > many labels: one concept.
ui = user interface
ux = user experience
Key: interaction design
follows a production workflow:
Mocking up a paper test and asking friends/family/peers/even strangers can be a great (cheap) way to get feedback on usability.
Specifications around our project.
Tuesday 22nd September
Session 6
Today started with a lecture in the Pit in which we were shown some example work from last year (that wasn't on either of the topics used this year) which gave us a bit of a holistic view of the project. We then went back to our studio to go through different touch points and try and refine our concept. Matt was away today which meant that Klaus was trying to get round to everyone who needed him so Hannah and I made a start by ourselves. We went through an in-depth thought process regarding the "knock knock" approach but when we talked to Klaus he advised that the "accidents happen" concept was far stronger, so now we need to re-think. To start this we filled in a table to get us considering all of the before-during-after aspects we would have:
We then had another wee lecture - this time introducing us to the invision programme. This program looks so awesome and simple so Hannah and I are looking forward to using it. We decided it would be best to go away from today's session and clear our heads and then come back and attempt the "accidents happen" concept fresh.
Homework:
Consolidate concept and approach and refine poster.
Think about extra touch point and what it could be/why it is important.
Logo design
Monday 21st September
Session 5
Today's session started with interim presentation. Because of our weeks commitments we hadn't yet been able to print our poster designs so attempted to print them first thing this morning. Unfortunately there were a lot of hold ups with the printer and Matt and Klaus had to crack down and cut everyone off at 20 past 9. That sucked for us as ours actually printed really quickly when we finally got a turn! We still shared our work on the table and got feedback from the lecturers and our peers which proved to be helpful.
Before we looked at our feedback, we had a discussion as a class around the entirety of what we are doing for this project and how it fits into the timeline:
Terrible photo but pretty much what it details is the idea that the Web page is active from beginning/lead up to end/after the event, whereas posters are generally in the lead up but not past the actual event, the flyer/brochure will generally be happening at the event and after and then as a team it is up to us to decide what our other media is and where it fits.
We also discussed the importance of looking at the Who, What, Where, When, Why, How.
Then it was feedback time (see online workbook). We discussed our feedback and how we might want to approach our other media before going to the Pit for a lecture on Transmedia.
These are my notes/images of helpful slides:
Transmedia > Across media > multiplatform > replicating the same experience on different mediums > many labels: one concept.
ui = user interface
ux = user experience
Key: interaction design
follows a production workflow:
For this assignment the 2 we will focus on will be #4 User interface design and #5 User interface prototype. We still ran through the other key steps though.
Sketching is an important initial step in getting your ideas from your mind into physical form.
Wireframing to plan out your web design helps with usability. (examples of this are part of our homework task)
Demonstrates how the wireframe was developed into a web design.
Clarity, Functionality, Content, Annotations, Specifications and Requirements creation are key when considering your wire-frame.
Specifications around our project.
(Prototyping > experience)
In terms of being interested in html you can access code whilst browsing websites you think are interesting:
Homework:
Wireframe exercise (example ones + one of your choice).
Look for:
Purpose
It's goal
Unique attributes
What are the aesthetic or behavioural aspects?
Does the look and feel complement?
--- Hannah and I like to split the workload and keep things fair as we both have lots of other commitments so we are each doing one of the examples and then one of our choice.
Tuesday 22nd September
Session 6
Today started with a lecture in the Pit in which we were shown some example work from last year (that wasn't on either of the topics used this year) which gave us a bit of a holistic view of the project. We then went back to our studio to go through different touch points and try and refine our concept. Matt was away today which meant that Klaus was trying to get round to everyone who needed him so Hannah and I made a start by ourselves. We went through an in-depth thought process regarding the "knock knock" approach but when we talked to Klaus he advised that the "accidents happen" concept was far stronger, so now we need to re-think. To start this we filled in a table to get us considering all of the before-during-after aspects we would have:
We then had another wee lecture - this time introducing us to the invision programme. This program looks so awesome and simple so Hannah and I are looking forward to using it. We decided it would be best to go away from today's session and clear our heads and then come back and attempt the "accidents happen" concept fresh.
Homework:
Consolidate concept and approach and refine poster.
Think about extra touch point and what it could be/why it is important.
Logo design
Monday, 21 September 2015
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
To Do List - Week 2
This week we're mostly making and photographing (as they are mostly made with tomato sauce!) our posters, so a lot of our work time this week will be used to do that.
Week 2
--- Hannah and I met up before class today to go through our individual work and complete the homework by picking the top 5 between our individual thumbnails and drawing them up at A3 size.
Monday 14th September
Session 3
For today's session we broke up into the 2 groups (beach clean-up, neighbourhood event).
Klaus took the neighbourhood group and we created a matrix/word lists on the board under the headings: Subject, Audience, Tangible Context, Themes/Symbols, Styles. (see our online workbook).
This was a really interesting exercise and definitely got our creative juices going. The first words under each heading were often quite basic but as we got deeper into it and less afraid to put things out there we started to come up with some really cool ideas.
We then had to work in our pairs, picking a random combination of these words to create some concepts. (again, this exercise can be seen in our online workbook).
Homework:
More creative thumbnails
4 a4 more rendered concepts
--- Hannah and I split the workload and decided to do thumbnails each and then render up 2.
Tuesday 15th September
Session 4
We began class today in the Pit for a lecture, where we were told about moodboarding, and breaking away from simple images of the most obvious parts of our topics, as we had done. Instead of pictures showing 'a stereotypical student', we were encouraged to find posters that used rhetorical devices that showed the idea of a student, or a pattern that might relate to students, or a font, or an emotion etc. We were shown posters that had been analysed and pulled apart so that you could see how each piece of them came from a design that they had found - the repetition might be from this set of posters, the colours from this set, the style from this set. This really helped Hannah to understand how ideas can be generated from other people's existing work to influence and inspire new work.
We also watched a recent video/song campaign to raise funds for Batten's disease, noting that good design that is engaging can make a real impact.
When we returned to class we all pinned our moodboards onto the wall and had a discussion with one of the lecturers about the imagery we had collected. Hannah and I spoke with Klaus and he instructed us that stock images of people/bbqs etc was not necessarily necessary on our moodboards. The idea on Hannah's moodboard of the FREE FOOD aspect was one that he felt would resonate with students and that maybe an angle we could explore would be BBQ on a budget, or at the beach over an open grill. He also suggested trying to pick things that are a common denominator with our (student) audience. ie. he pointed out the example campaign I liked that played on the idea of "this is not" along with the picture and how whilst design/art students might get and appreciate the reference, members in other colleges (communications, nursing etc) may not. He also looked at some fonts I had picked out and informed us that thin type fades on a poster and is very hard to read from far away so we will stick away from this.
Hannah and I then sat down at our laptops and started to get some ideation going on our Pinterest board. Doing this sparked an amazing idea in Hannah about the connection between Emergency associations of blood, flesh, skin and BBQ associations of tomato sauce and meat. REVELATION!!! From there we got really inspired and started coming up with some thumbnail ideas of ways to explore this. Considering that neither of us felt our illustration skills were that strong we have decided that Photography and Vectors along with Type will be our main focus/style. For this reason we are really excited to try out some experiments with sauce, sausages etc. and take some photos :)
Homework:
Test/make our concepts/posters
Update our online workbook
Explore other possible visual metaphors
2 rendered posters for interim presentation on Monday
Monday 14th September
Session 3
For today's session we broke up into the 2 groups (beach clean-up, neighbourhood event).
Klaus took the neighbourhood group and we created a matrix/word lists on the board under the headings: Subject, Audience, Tangible Context, Themes/Symbols, Styles. (see our online workbook).
This was a really interesting exercise and definitely got our creative juices going. The first words under each heading were often quite basic but as we got deeper into it and less afraid to put things out there we started to come up with some really cool ideas.
We then had to work in our pairs, picking a random combination of these words to create some concepts. (again, this exercise can be seen in our online workbook).
Homework:
More creative thumbnails
4 a4 more rendered concepts
--- Hannah and I split the workload and decided to do thumbnails each and then render up 2.
Tuesday 15th September
Session 4
We began class today in the Pit for a lecture, where we were told about moodboarding, and breaking away from simple images of the most obvious parts of our topics, as we had done. Instead of pictures showing 'a stereotypical student', we were encouraged to find posters that used rhetorical devices that showed the idea of a student, or a pattern that might relate to students, or a font, or an emotion etc. We were shown posters that had been analysed and pulled apart so that you could see how each piece of them came from a design that they had found - the repetition might be from this set of posters, the colours from this set, the style from this set. This really helped Hannah to understand how ideas can be generated from other people's existing work to influence and inspire new work.
We also watched a recent video/song campaign to raise funds for Batten's disease, noting that good design that is engaging can make a real impact.
When we returned to class we all pinned our moodboards onto the wall and had a discussion with one of the lecturers about the imagery we had collected. Hannah and I spoke with Klaus and he instructed us that stock images of people/bbqs etc was not necessarily necessary on our moodboards. The idea on Hannah's moodboard of the FREE FOOD aspect was one that he felt would resonate with students and that maybe an angle we could explore would be BBQ on a budget, or at the beach over an open grill. He also suggested trying to pick things that are a common denominator with our (student) audience. ie. he pointed out the example campaign I liked that played on the idea of "this is not" along with the picture and how whilst design/art students might get and appreciate the reference, members in other colleges (communications, nursing etc) may not. He also looked at some fonts I had picked out and informed us that thin type fades on a poster and is very hard to read from far away so we will stick away from this.
Hannah and I then sat down at our laptops and started to get some ideation going on our Pinterest board. Doing this sparked an amazing idea in Hannah about the connection between Emergency associations of blood, flesh, skin and BBQ associations of tomato sauce and meat. REVELATION!!! From there we got really inspired and started coming up with some thumbnail ideas of ways to explore this. Considering that neither of us felt our illustration skills were that strong we have decided that Photography and Vectors along with Type will be our main focus/style. For this reason we are really excited to try out some experiments with sauce, sausages etc. and take some photos :)
Homework:
Test/make our concepts/posters
Update our online workbook
Explore other possible visual metaphors
2 rendered posters for interim presentation on Monday
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
To Do List - Week 1
We boiled down all of the information and tasks, and made a checklist of things that we needed to achieve both separately and together before class on Monday.
Week 1
Monday 7th September
Session 1
Today we started off with the big design cohort gathering together to share coffee, tea, muffins, and an exhibition of our work from the previous studio assignment as a celebration of our up-coming topic of Koha. As VCD students we then moved into The Pit for a lecture to give us initial information about our new 6 week project.
After this introduction we moved back to our studio spaces from the previous 6 weeks and met with our new lecturers. Our stream has Matt and Klaus as our lecturers. We then spent what class time was left doing the Simpson's exercise (this can be seen in our online workbook) and arranged our pairings for the project.
Homework:
Complete part 2 of the Simpson's exercise.
Decide on your topic (Neighbourhood Party or Beach Clean Up)
--- Hannah and I spent some time after class working through the homework and discussing some initial ideas around this project. We were both in agreement that we were slightly leaning towards the Neighbourhood Party idea and so have decided to choose this).
Tuesday 8th September
Session 2
We kicked class off today by going back through yesterday's exercise and the homework. The discussion around using the visual rhetoric we learned and target audiences was really helpful in terms of hitting the ground running with this project. We then spent some class time looking over the brief, project plan, and collaborative toolkit documents from stream. We worked through the project plan document and created a To-Do List for ourselves for the coming week. As a class we were also ideating on the whiteboard around the 2 themes to get the creative juices flowing.
Homework:
Mood boards
Rhetorical Thumbnails
--- Hannah and I have created a To-Do List and will separately complete tasks and then collaborate/combine our ideas at our next meeting which is planned for Monday morning before studio class.
Session 1
Today we started off with the big design cohort gathering together to share coffee, tea, muffins, and an exhibition of our work from the previous studio assignment as a celebration of our up-coming topic of Koha. As VCD students we then moved into The Pit for a lecture to give us initial information about our new 6 week project.
After this introduction we moved back to our studio spaces from the previous 6 weeks and met with our new lecturers. Our stream has Matt and Klaus as our lecturers. We then spent what class time was left doing the Simpson's exercise (this can be seen in our online workbook) and arranged our pairings for the project.
Homework:
Complete part 2 of the Simpson's exercise.
Decide on your topic (Neighbourhood Party or Beach Clean Up)
--- Hannah and I spent some time after class working through the homework and discussing some initial ideas around this project. We were both in agreement that we were slightly leaning towards the Neighbourhood Party idea and so have decided to choose this).
Tuesday 8th September
Session 2
We kicked class off today by going back through yesterday's exercise and the homework. The discussion around using the visual rhetoric we learned and target audiences was really helpful in terms of hitting the ground running with this project. We then spent some class time looking over the brief, project plan, and collaborative toolkit documents from stream. We worked through the project plan document and created a To-Do List for ourselves for the coming week. As a class we were also ideating on the whiteboard around the 2 themes to get the creative juices flowing.
Homework:
Mood boards
Rhetorical Thumbnails
--- Hannah and I have created a To-Do List and will separately complete tasks and then collaborate/combine our ideas at our next meeting which is planned for Monday morning before studio class.
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