Proposed Final Outcome Idea

My proposed final idea is to be presented in the physical form of a booklet. This outcome will be a guide to happiness, written for my future self. 

Each page will consist of different thoughts, presented as guidelines which I believe will create happiness for me in the future, so long as I live by them. By looking to the future through the past, I will include childhood photographs capturing happy moments with family which I aim to re-live with a family of my own. Thinking about photographs and possessions has encouraged me to consider my past and how this has and will impact my future.

I aim to produce a digital form of the pages within the booklet, presented as a showreel. With a continuously developing world of technology, this will enable me to access this guide in years to come digitally.

Finding Old Photos/ Memories

I have gathered old photographs from my childhood which have triggered happy memories. These memories, spent with loved ones, are something I wish to take into the future. I have photographs with my parents, who I consider to be role models. I would like to include these within my booklet as I wish to have children in the future who consider me to be the same.

Laser Cutting Imagery

I engraved a raster image using the laser cutter onto 3mm MDF and 2mm mount board. I created these initial samples to test out the visual outcome of this technique.

The idea of me using this process, is to embed the image of my Grandma onto a material, just like my memories of her are embedded into my mind.

The image turned out a lot clearer when engraved onto the mount board rather than the MDF. I like the effect that this technique gives as it makes the image look quite old-fashioned. This therefore makes it obvious that it is an image from the past.

I will experiment and develop this idea further. 

Cinema 4D - Dynamics Deformers Particles

Researching Typography

Oliver Munday

Counter Hand - FWIS Design

Jiani Lu - To My Future Self

Jiani Lu’s collection of booklets narrate three aspects of her life which define her identity. Her books contain an accumulation of personal pieces from journal entries to tweets that she has documented throughout her life. Lu reflects on imagery that illustrates her childhood as well as more recent travel experiences. Her work provides  a transparency of her personality. When brainstorming what makes me happy, I have reflected on past memories a lot therefore, the theme of memory and happiness will influence my final outcome for the Collide Project.

Business lecture 4, Business & Design

As talked about in previous business lectures, many aspects such as ethical, social, macro environment and market issues impact the design of a product.  Through research, designers familiarise themselves with their market and clients in order to provide the most effective product.

Communication Issues

Shannon-Weaver Model of Communication

-Especially designed to develop the effective communication between the sender and the receiver. 

-They find factors which affect the communication process called ‘noise.'

Sender: Originator of the message or information source

Encoder: The transmitter which converts messages into signals

(Email text, binary data, wave signals from telephone transmitted though cables. (Noise))

Channel

Decoder:The reception place of the signal which converts signal into message. Reverse of encode.

Receiver: Destination of message from sender.

Noise from external sources can effect the communication of the message between the sender and receiver. This could be caused by crowd noise, thunder, phone network problems.

http://communicationtheory.org/shannon-and-weaver-model-of-communication/