General - Flux Ideas

Working through my ideas in a sketchbook I explored different ways and methods of doing things, developing my ideas and discarding others.

Dysfunctional - puzzle that doesnt fit together
 - maybe the pieces don't fit?
 - the picture doesn't work
 - plain jigsaw? picture on it?
 - stuck down? left for interaction?

Plastic - Barbie
 - use the dolls to make the word?
 - use elements of the doll?
 - edit the logo?
 - add elements to the logo?

Spiky - texture
 - look at a range of materials
 - maybe something that you don't really realise is spiky?
    - rubber grips?
    - zips - spikier one way

Flowing - want to see something move
 - tubes?
 - fill with coloured water so that the audience can interact with the piece?

Toxic - senses
 - something looks or smells toxic but isn't harmful to smell or touch?
 - the smell of vodka?
 - something that becomes toxic?
 - things toxic to the environment when they're burnt

Sticky - senses again
 - looks sticky - covered in fluff and hair...
 - feels sticky?
 - gum on shoe - tacky, strechy kind of sticky

Random - unconscious decision making
 - randomly choose something
 - no reason or persuasion drawn to any particular decision

Tempting - Gu advert!

 - something tactile and tempting
 - labels?
 - bubble wrap?

Outcome - help along the way
 - projects and assignments
 - the process? the tools?

Burn - aftermath
 - Ash from burning?
 - accidental? ruined?
 - disappointing and frustrating
 - burnt dinner/toast

General - Stefan Sagmeister

For each word I came up with a variety of ideas of what I could do, I also looked as some colour schemes within the brainstorm...
The other words I came up with are:
Sticky
Random
Tempting
Outcome
Burn

To give me some inspiration I looked at Stefan Sagmeisters work, I received his book 'things I have learnt in my life so far' as a gift when I finished my placement at HTA over the summer. He creates words out of a variety of materials and techniques, in a range of scales from microscopic to the length of streets. I also posted his work on my posterous page.

General Graphics - A5 Booklet

''You are to take the word flux (just as a set of letters, regardless of meaning) and communicate the following meanings:
Dysfunctional
Plastic
Spiky
Flowing
Toxic
plus another 5 of your own''


This task was to make a a5 concertina book of 10, with the deadline only 1 week away

The first thing I did was brainstorm some things I could do with the words we were given, after looking through some ideas I'm veering towards trying to make the book completely tactile/handmade/interactive....

Group Presentation - Organisation and Communcation

The first thing we did, was set up a facebook group, ofcourse, all thanks to Laura Dilley! This way would could see exactly who was in our group and all easily contact each other as we don't all have each others numbers, and we're not all in at the same times, etc etc. Sooo, facebook seemed the most appropriate way to keep connected. Plus, it's hooked up to most peoples phones so there's no way they wouldn't get the message!

On facebook we discussed what we needed to do, however, at the beginning, everyone was a bit baffled!

Luke Day suggested:

Therefore, to clear things up, me and Sarah Harris asked Matt what exactly we were researching and fed back to the group. We saw Alison Gibbon and Alex Fleetwood after our Design Specialism so we got to talk to them in person, but for everyone else we posted it on facebook. It was then finalised what everyone was doing so people could get on with it

Design Specialism - Flux Brief General Graphics

This module is made up of 3 parts:

Task 1: Seeing and Understanding Flux

 - Group Presentation

Task 2: Responding

 a: Reflection & Action Plan

 b: Specialist Brief