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GDE740 W2 | Workshop Challenge - AttaGirl Design

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Visual Responses ANIMATED TYPOGRAPHY I thought that animated typography could be an interesting way to engage with my target audience for this project. Its interactivity and motion could be leveraged across digital spaces including social media.

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...are here: https://attagirldesign.com/falmouth-gde740-contemporary-practice

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Inspired by the Guerilla Girls

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click the link to watch my interactive mood board - see all the animations in one place

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UPDATED VISUAL RESPONSE #5: typograhic poster

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UPDATED VISUAL RESPONSE #5: typograhic poster

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UPDATED VISUAL RESPONSE #4: illustration

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UPDATED VISUAL RESPONSE #4: illustration

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UPDATED VISUAL RESPONSE #1: animated type

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UPDATED VISUAL RESPONSE #1: animated type

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I've decided to rethink my visual responses as approaches than simply visual symbols or inspiration. First up: animated typography

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WE are online now if you want to join us!

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Hi all! I am not seeing the link to the webinar. Am I missing something?

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I've started collecting examples of documentary / portrait / street photography that I like, loved some of the colours I've picked out of these images, the yellow one in particular!

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I wanted to use a couple of my mood boards to research specific train stations on the line I am looking at, I thought Bourneville would be a great starting point with lots of interesting history!

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there is a lot to consider and these are not necessarily the end of the road for the design. Content is vital as are other elements but the gist is there. the pdf is refusing to upload so here is my blog..

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Hey everyone! My project is on the effect climate change is having on our coral reefs. Here are my 5 moodboards. I still need to put everything up on my blog and will do so tomorrow :) See you all soon!

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Decided to do all of these away from a computer, as that's what my final outcome will be whichever route I choose :)

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I will be running from a meeting to catch up today, so I might be a few minutes late logging on. See you all soon! :)

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Workshop Challenge - This weeks whirlwind 

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Had a bit of a change of direction in my approach this week. This post includes lots of moodboards and an updated brief.

They key question or hook around this project for me is: How, or, IS extreme right rhetoric such as as that of Trump, getting through to young people today. Are they aware of how dangerous and divisive it is or has it been normalised?

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Last week I looked at the work of Ian Cheng and Ben Rivers. Their work had a post-apocalyptic feel to it. I can't get a post-apocalyptic theme out of my head when I think of this project. I suppose I think of Trump's policies and views, especially on climate change, and the devastating effect that could have on the environment and on the world. I keep thinking also of Cormac McCarthy's book 'The Road'. There is one passage in that book that had a real emotional impact (and still does when I read it) on me when I read the book and saw the film. The dialogue is between the main character and his son -

" You have to carry the fire ,
I don't know how to... Is the fire real? The Fire?
Where is it? I don't know where it is...
Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was. I can see it.
In the times we live in and considering who I am looking to target with this project, this passage is more important than ever. With self-serving politicians bickering, arguing and unable to agree on anything, who do the youth of today have to look up to? Between Trump in the US and Brexit in the UK, the level of discourse between sides on a political level has leaked into society. Social media can be a cesspit of extreme views and toxic discourse. Great Thunberg seems to be carrying the fire for young people. She has inspired young people to protest worldwide on climate change. The future is theirs and we are fucking it up for them, why wouldn't they protest? My aim with this project is to inspire young people to vote Trump out of office. There are still a massive amount of young people in the US (18-25 year olds) who don't vote.

This week we have to create 5 moodboards and initial responses to the project. The Road and that idea of a post-apocalyptic, bleak landscape was on my mind when created this moodboard. This type of imagery would help create an eery athmosphere of loneliness and isolation, being alone in the world with no access to the internet might be a useful tool in scaring people into action.

This moodboard was influenced by some of the great artwork produced by magazines, newspapers, blogs and people in general. I wanted to create an 'Instagramy' feel with this considering the target audience. The graphics are colourful, attention-grabbing and clever in many cases, so I think this type of imagery would really appeal to the audience.

I started to look at dystopian-type art. These images are from concept artists Ashley Joncas, Yuri Shwedoff and Filip Hodas. These also have that post-apolcalyptic, eery feel that I may need. Hodas's work has a lot of pop-culture references that makes me think of the target audience again. What would they miss most if it was taken away from them? Their phones, laptops, clothes, TV's, Netflix? Do they value those things more than they value their freedom? What if they were under a dictatorship and couldn't leave the house after a certain time at night, would they be ok as long as they had all of the above items? Are they happy in that digital world? Maybe the more frightening prospect than having their freedom robbed is having their phones robbed.

This moodboard is made up of the work of Ian Cheng. His work is computer simulated. To me it has that post-apocalyptic feel but it's also quite disturbing or unsettling. His trilogy of work called Emissaries is basically a video game that plays itself, it never ends.

As I've mentioned, one of the most dangerous aspects of Trump's is the way he has emboldened White Supremacy groups by failing to condemn them. There has even been mass shootings in America where the shooter was revealed to be a Trump fan and a fan of his rhetoric. This could also be used as a tool to warn people about where America is headed under Trump. Only this morning Trump retweeted an evangelical preacher of some description who warned of Civil War if Trump were to be impeached. It's unthinkable that a president of America would endorse this language. Again he is empowering people who would be of that inclination. It's dangerous and unprecedented. Young people need to be aware of his actions and the consequences of them.

Exhibition design

I'm still wondering if an exhibition is the way to go to for this project. I would be interested in exploring how I could use imagery, sound and even smell to immerse the users in the experience. I have never designed one before so I would need to find out how to go about it if that is the approach I take. The images above are from an exhibition entitled Utopia/Dystopia: A paradigm shift in art and architecture - https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/paradigm-shift-utopia-dystopia-maat-exhibition-lisbon-portugal. The exhibition uses, imagery, installations and video to examine shifts in political structures through physical manifestations of constructed and envisioned urban designs. "The exhibition charts the gathering skepticism of idealistic modernist designs of the late 20th century, moving towards the contemporary obsession with dystopia, fuelled by science fiction and the internet, which has turned into somewhat of a dark fantasy, directly associated with post-internet culture, digital and nomadic values of freedom, a free (and black) market, spiraling lawlessness and statelessness." This is actually similar to what I've been thinking about so it's interesting to see how they've created it.

Change of tac

I had a tutorial this evening with Stuart and Sian. It was quite helpful as we discussed my approach and the target audience. My target audience are 18-25 year olds so I'm not sure that an exhibition would be the way to go. Why would they go to an exhibition about Donald Trump? Also, maybe the post-apocalyptic approach of almost trying to frighten them into action is a bit patronising, as if i'm saying THIS WILL HAPPEN IF YOU DO NOT DO SOMETHING! I think I need to go to them. I need to look at the audience and get an idea of who they are and why they are not voting.

Updated Brief
Project Overview and Background
In Module one of my MA in Graphic Design at Falmouth University, we got the opportunity to study speculative design during the week 12 theme called New Steps. My answer to the project brief that week was to build a speculative world where Donald Trump became a full blown white supremacist dictator. I was driven to do this by my fascination by what's going on in America at the moment.

One of the most dangerous aspects of Trump's presidency is his divisive and damaging rhetoric. His tweets and speeches, his words in general have fractured decent discourse in the US which leaks into the psyche of the nation, much like what has happened in Britain with Brexit. Trump spouts truths and mistruths to the point that it's hard for people to know what's the truth, or even care, which is probably his intention. He has empowered white supremist groups and normalised hate speech towards muslims and immigrants. His words have real power and he uses them without any acceptance or care of consequence.

This led me to wonder if young people pass much heed anymore on what he says, or did they ever? Do his words resonate with them when they see a tweet or hear about the latest tweet on the news? There is voter apathy among 18-25 voters, not only in the US, it's a problem in most countries. More young people are voting in recent years but there is still a massive amount that don't vote and are not interested in politics. I want to bring an awareness to the audience that hate speech is not normal, hopefully this will also positively effect voter apathy.
Key objectives/project goals

It is unlikely that this project will be a money-making exercise. The main objective is to communicate a clear message to the target audience. The message I am aiming to communicate is that Donald Trump's rhetoric, and that of many other politicians worldwide, is dangerous, divisive and damaging.

The goal is to create an experience that will elicit an intellectual and emotional response that will bring an awareness to the audience that extreme right wing political rhetoric is not normal and cannot become the norm.

I would hope that by bringing that awareness to the audience, it will cause them to take more notice of what these politicians says and react against it.

Target Audience
My main target audience are young people from the age of 18 - 25. Although I would like young American voters to take particular attention as they can actually help vote Trump out, this is aimed at anyone in that age bracket as extreme right-wing parties and views have been on the rise worldwide recently. The target audience are distracted by social media and mobile phones. This could be a potential route to get their attention.
Research influences
Led by Donkeys are an anti-Brexit group that use guerrilla marketing techniques to expose lies and mistruths of politicians. The group use billboards and projections on to high building to scale past tweets, words and videos from politicians that expose them as liars and political carrerists. They have staged a number of high profile stunts that attracted huge attention. The group now crowdfund for their work. The techniques they use are very effective in communicating their message. They use satire as a tool in their work. In an interview for the Guardian, one of the group opined - "By laughing at them we remove a bit of their power".
Project format
I will aim to develop an experience that communicates my message most effectively through a channel that is very relevant to the audience. Given the audiences extensive use of mobile phones and social media, I feel this would be the best way to get the message through to them.

I believe that video will be the most effective format to deliver my message to the audience. Video is a hugely powerful tool on social media. Most people will watch a video as opposed to read text on a subject, but they won't watch for too long, so I believe short concise videos would be an effective approach.
Measures of success
The success of the project will be measured by peoples reaction to experiencing it. If people are sufficiently moved to take some sort of action, change their views or come to a realisation that Trump's words are harmful and not normal, the project will be considered a success. I want this project to have a positive effect on voter apathy among young people.

I researched some data on why young people in America don't vote. It's probably the same for young people everywhere. The image above Shows that 33% of Republican and 25% of democratic voters were too busy of had conflicting work issues. This might suggest a certain apathy. If they were fully aware of some of the serious issues the US faced, maybe they would make time to vote. https://ysa.org/4-reasons-young-people-dont-vote-and-what-to-do-about-it/. Some other reasons listed were;

1. They're not asked or encouraged to vote by candidates, campaigns, family, friends, or neighbors.

2. They're not taught how the government and elections work or feel like they don't know enough to vote.

3. There are too many barriers for them to overcome.

4. They're not interested in politics or feel like voting won't make a difference.

Obviously I can't do much about some of those reasons, but it's reason number 4 I would be looking to affect. Young people can be apathetic about politics and feel their vote won't count. I used to think the exact same thing. I want to bring an awareness of what Trumps rhetoric is doing. I think people just read his tweets and they are not shocked anymore, no matter what he says. I want to bring his tweets to life to make them more . real and visceral.

I spoke to Stuart today about how I wanted to do more video. I'm very interested in how image and sound can create new contexts for words. I could use a mixture of type, image and sound to get my message across.

I looked at social media us for this demographic. Instagram is one of the more popular platforms among this group. Instagram is very visual, great for videos and striking images. Maybe I could create an Instagram page. That displayed Trumps Tweets in video form.

TikTok

Another social media platform that is getting huge with this age group is TikTok, which the statistics above prove. This could be a powerful way to get to this audience.

TikTok is a social media app that has exploded in the last couple of years among 16-25 year olds. It's a good reference point to look at what interests this age group. It's users basically produce short-form videos where they act, dance, voice-over songs etc. The videos are backed by music and sound clips. Crazes catch on like the example in the above where a user created a video clip of gummy bears 'singing' along to Adelle, other users then upload their version. The statistics on it's usage above are crazy.

Initial responses

Designs aimed directly at young activists

Led by Donkeys guerilla political commentary

Political street art

Animals do feel pain, protest posters, illustration and hand lettering by Ben Tallon, UK artist

Typographically driven political art

New Moodboards

This type of political street comments on pop culture. "The algorithm is gonna get you" and "it's not all about the selfie" seems to be commenting on people's obsession with all things digital, and doing it in visual language a young age group will understand.

I really like this type-driven protest art. These are both, from the 60's, and influenced by the 60's protest poster style. These examples are colourful, diverse and could be a 'cool' way of speaking to the target audience.

This moodboard includes more modern political messaging. What I like about this type of work is that that it's minimalist and clean and some of it is quite clever. I would really want to avoid patronising this audience.

This is a moodboard made up of work by Led by Donkeys, the group I talked about above. The group use billboards and projections on to high building to scale past tweets, words and videos from politicians that expose them as liars and political carrerists. They have staged a number of high profile stunts that attracted huge attention.

Some of these protest placards can be very funny and scathing in their commentary. I could use a similar approach to poke fun at Trump's rhetoric which would aim to take it's power away.

Moodboard based on TikTok.

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Last week I looked at the work of Ian Cheng and Ben Rivers. Their work had a post-apocalyptic feel to it. I can't get a post-apocalyptic theme out of my head when I think of this project.

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My students have very little knowledge and understanding of design thinking and process. I thought to help them learn and apply, I would develop a hands on "workbook"
Here are the initial responses. The moods are to come.

Openness

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Lecture Introduction

In this second lecture we continue to present our creative practitioner interview series, which provides professional insight into developing a self initiated project.

This week the creative practitioners answer the following questions:

How do you visualise and develop your initial ideas?

What are your points of inspiration, theories and reference?

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In this second lecture we continue to present our creative practitioner interview series, which provides professional insight into developing a self initiated project. This week the creative practitioners answer the following questions: How do you visualise and develop your initial ideas? What are your points of inspiration, theories and reference?

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Trying to unravel my thoughts about what to focus on most.

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As I haven´t presented my brief here a quick overview of what I am aiming for.

Never before has man been exposed to such a fast pace as he is today. We are driven by speed through everyday life and rapid changes are part of the zeitgeist. Bombarded by information and caught up in infinity loops we have forgotten to listen to ourselves.

I will introduce you to the concept of alienation.

Please consider to listen to this song while looking at my moodboard. I thought it might be interesting to explore a mood on a different layer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t7SclAXoQw

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Workshop Challenge Outcome: Initial Visual Response

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Sold out.

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Workshop Challenge Outcome: Initial Visual Response 4

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Loud.

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Workshop Challenge Outcome: Initial Visual Response 3

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Ideas.

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Success.

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Workshop Challenge Outcome: Initial Visual Response 1

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Audience.

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Venues.

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"Contortion of the mind"

The body aches and writhes in an act of defiance, resisting the onslaught of hunger.

Using soft tones and fragmented layers, the image attempts to communicate the distress and yearning of the malnourished form.

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"Stream of consciousness"

Creating a sense of abandon, allowing ones' thoughts and emotions to flow fluidly through the ether.
Light colours and soft tones communicate the relinquishing of self-control, in favour of being led by the inclinations of the imagination.

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Here's the 5 moodboards for this week's workshop challenge of the inspiration and influence of different sections of the potential route for the self-initiated brief.

http://parfittbenjamin589039830.wordpress.com/2019/10/03/application-interactions-week-two/

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Jenny Saville-Shift.

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John Prince-Mark-making exercise02.

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Francis Bacon-Man in blue VII.

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John Prince-Mark-making exercise.

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Lucien Freud-Pregnant women.

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My visual responses are scribbles and sketches that have enabled me to plan out and visualise my initial ideas. I have then developed these into digital illustrations.

The question or hook I aim to answer with this project is: How do you encourage and promote an interest in local history and culture to a county that is loosing its 'nationality' to an influx out outsiders.

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Reflections of the Lecture: This weeks lecture focused on idea generation and models of practice, patterns had started to appear in the approach to this vital step in the design process. I do have a bad habit of trying to jump into something digital but as I have learned through this MA it is always best practice to put pen to paper. Ideas had already started to resinate in my head and once I was able to clearly articulate the concept I worked through some ideas with my partner. Often she will provide an outside perspective and give me an insight that sparks further ideas. This is with no exception with this project. I bounced ideas around at the start and we spoke about a journey and that gave me an idea. Like the treasure maps of pirates, the myths and the legends of the sea, the Cornish smugglers and sea men of this county I believed that maps or paths would begin to play a role in the project. As I wanted to take the reader on a journey, this link would provide key links between pages and places. Sketching out rough thumb nail sketches is always the way for me to get ideas out of my head. At this point I can start to visualise the outcome and even as rough as they are, it works for me. I need to scribble on paper to either discard something or develop it further. This was a theme that I had noticed during the Lecture. Working alone can be difficult for me, so I do rely on my partner for that outside view and even help with colour. Bouncing ideas around and sketching / scribbling is a process that I have learnt to use and implement in my practice.
Workshop Challenge

Reflection The mood boards have enabled me to select specific landmarks and points of interest for each location on this journey. I will use these to create simple illustrations, taking inspiration from existing children's book and illustrators whom I admire. During this process I have enjoyed creating some very simple illustrations, I have tried not to over complicate things. The sketching of my initial ideas, as rough as they are they work for me and enabled me to refine some of the details, such as the story itself and the links between each page. I aim to spend the rest of this week developing more location illustrations, I still need to write and refine the story but have some ideas about its rhythm and links. This project seems to be flowing well and I am enjoying the process thus far.

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Reflections of the Lecture: This weeks lecture focused on idea generation and models of practice, patterns had started to appear in the approach to this vital step in the design process. I do have a bad habit of trying to jump into something digital but as I have learned through this MA it is always...

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I liked Kris's individual images, but here is also a pdf - which, I have noticed, opens fasters if you click on 'open in new window'.

Mostly, these are compositions of fictional elements with factual parts. Happy to hear any feedback...when I say 'happy' I mean 'in need of'

http://schokotrunk.com/2019/10/06/week-2-current-mood/

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Updated Moodboards for an updated project brief

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Updated Moodboards for an updated project brief

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I’ve tweaked my approach to my project so my moodboards have changed. I want to explore how political rhetoric by Trump and similar politicians is interpreted by young people (18-25). Are they aware how dangerous, divisive and damaging this rhetoric is? Do they pass any heed anymore if they did at all?  Even though political awareness and voting has increased among this age group in recent years, there is still a lot of voter apathy. How can I get them to take more notice? I’ve been looking at political posters– present and past, street protest art, signs and digital art as visual references. I’m also a big fan of the anti-Brexit group Led by Donkeys and how they use politicians past tweets, speeches and words to expose them as liars and political carrerists by projecting them onto buildings and billboards etc. I’m thinking of using a similar approach but digitally maybe through video or creating  posters to add to an Instagram page…maybe.

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Here is the fifth of five of my initial visual responses for my self-initiated project

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Here is the fourth of five of my initial visual responses for my self-initiated project

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Here is the third of five of my initial visual responses for my self-initiated project

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Here is the second of five of my initial visual responses for my self-initiated project

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Here is the first of five of my initial visual responses for my self-initiated project

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Mood boards / research so far this week! 

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Will be adding to this over the next few days... how is it Wednesday already?!

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Workshop Challenge

Develop and make five initial visual responses to your self initiated project brief. Post your design developments to the Ideas Wall, to gain peer reflection, and elaborate further in your blog.

Design and create five visual mood boards to accompany your initial visual responses. Your mood boards should include points of reference and inspiration that clearly demonstrate how your self initiated project might be developed and applied.

Add all five mood boards to the Ideas Wall, in separate posts, and reference the inspiration in your blog.

Initial Ideas

Before I started creating visuals / mood board this week, I took some time to list five potential themes for my project. All of these ideas involve using my camera as a conversation starter, interacting with strangers, and generally documenting the people I meet as I go about my day. The feedback I had last week was around setting some boundaries around my project and generally giving it more of a purpose, so I've listed different "settings" for my project to help give it some direction and purpose.

Public Transport
Following on from my comments last week, exploring the idea that people don't like to interact on public transport - why is this and can I change it? Documenting my attempts at making public transport a more friendly place by starting conversations with strangers on my commute.

Walking - Planned Routes
Taking my camera with me on the trips I make every day - walking from the office into town for lunch. This is always the same route but over the next few weeks I would take my camera with me, and stop to talk to the people I walk past, buy my lunch from, etc, and ask if I can take their photo.

Walking - to explore
Exploring my local area with my camera, but no planned route. Instead I would "drift" finding new areas, meeting new people, and letting my camera guide me around Redditch, rather than the other way round.

Observations
Choosing a place to observe regularly over the course of the project, e.g. a coffee shop, where I would sit and observe/document, similar to the Peter Funch project that Stuart shared last week.

Redditch vs London Psychogeography describes the effect of a geographical location on the emotions and behaviour of individuals - As I have a work trip to London planned next week, I thought it could be interesting to take my brief and almost do two mini versions of it - one in London, one in Redditch, and compare the results. Are people friendlier in different parts of the country, do they react differently to me talking to them/asking for a photo, and can you tell from the photo, whether it was taken in Redditch or London?

Mood Boards

Creating my first mood board this week helped me focus and find an area that really excites me. When pulling together ideas for my public transport mood board, I began moving away from the idea of being literally on the trains, and began thinking about the train line itself that runs from Redditch to Birmingham New Street. It's quite a long train journey as the train stops at every little station along the way.

I really love the idea of spending some time at each of these little stations in between, documenting what's going on. I began thinking about how this could translate into a final outcome, and discussed with Stuart the idea of a book, documenting all the small, almost forgotten train stations around the UK. This train line would just be one chapter of the book, and is what I will create for my final outcome.

I plan to create mood boards around some of the stations on this line, learning a little more about them/the town itself and looking for focus points ready for when I spend time at each one with my camera.

Around 25,000 people live in Bourneville, and I wonder what percentage of the people I meet at the train station live in Bourneville and are on their commute, and what percentage are visiting Cadbury World. Do the people that live there get really annoyed that their little train station is always busy because of Cadbury World?

In comparison, around 110,000 people live in Redditch, and over a million in Birmingham. I did a quick check of the population in each of the towns on the train line:

I'm interested in comparing the difference at the tiny stations, like Alvechurch and Barnt Green, and the busier stations like Bourneville and University. Will everyone be in too much of a rush at the busier stations, to stop and talk to me or let me take their picture?

I wanted to use one of my mood boards to organise some of the research I've been doing around documentary photography, specifically portraits. One project in particular that I love is this one by Enda Bowe, documenting the residents of a housing estate in East London.

I also discovered this amazing slow mo footage shot from moving trains as they enter stations, showing the people waiting to board.

I've started some research around photography within books too, ready to start thinking about the way my book, or this chapter for now, could be laid out to showcase my photography but also tell the story of these hidden stations.

The book is the work of designer and photographer Nick Hand, who set off in 2009 to travel the coast of the British Isles by bike. Along the way he interviewed and photographed a wealth of local artisans - from flute makers to stone letter carvers, from stickmakers to boat builders.

Links
https://www.nobodybooks.com/ https://rvb-books.com/ https://www.libraryman.se/annemarieke-van-drimmelen-tadaima/ https://bookshop.thephotographersgallery.org.uk/ https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/enda-bowe-clapton-blossom-photography-240919 http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/02/on-the-bench-yevgeniy-kotenko/ http://www.networkrail.co.uk/communities/railway-enthusiasts/guidelines-for-taking-photos-at-stations/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36196948 http://www.wemadethis.co.uk/blog/2011/09/conversations-on-the-coast/ http://www.niallmcdiarmid.com

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Workshop Challenge Develop and make five initial visual responses to your self initiated project brief. Post your design developments to the Ideas Wall, to gain peer reflection, and elaborate further in your blog.Design and create five visual mood boards to accompany your initial visual responses. Your mood boards should include points of reference and inspiration...

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I've spent a few days researching and really trying to define my project, and now I have it! Blog post WIP...
How are application forms confusing for the neurodiverse (which includes people with autism) and how can they be better designed and worded?
Moodboards forthcoming

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Or, perhaps, research boards. The merging of fact and fiction – or the influence each of an another, surveillance, the panopticon and its digital incarnation with camera phones and paparazzi, and some other things that may or may not be related.

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Moodboards!

Here's the post
https://jazzstew.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/moodiness/

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Block Colour

This outcome would solely focus on the effects colour can have within a community, both physically and mentally. This would come in the form of street art within Skipton town centre and would use both colour & shape theory to influence mood and create a positive atmosphere within its environment. With this being the case, it’s likely to result in an abstract design full of vibrant, bright colours that bring a welcoming, warm & full energy. The colours chosen could potentially be chosen by the community, by asking them to swatch what they believe Skipton represents to them we could form a pallet for the final design.

Interactive

Looking in how we could actively engage the community with their environments, this outcome would aim to create an interactive platform on a town centre wall – this could be anything from a design that allows people to pose as if they were part of it or a digital game that comes to life through a QR code. Designs which allow their audience to pose within them have become particularly popular, mainly due to social media influences, so this would almost guarantee engagement. However, I feel a different approach, such as a blackboard wall or a game would be more in line with this project as it allows people to engage and interact with each other in a more meaningful manner.

Word Art

Using the feedback gathered by Fresh Perspective at an earlier stage, we could create a mural within Skipton town centre using the words, handwriting and voices of the community of Skipton. Through this, we would be highlighting the voices of those that participated, showing that what they had said had been heard and valued. This also raises the potential of direct engagement as people will gather round to try and spot their own submission. The words could potentially be formed to create one large image so that it can be appreciated from afar as well as up close.

Community

People like to feel part of something, so the community design would aspire to create an outcome that focuses on just that. We would reach out to the people within Skipton and ask them to submit words, colours, memories or images that they feel reflect Skipton. Using these submissions as well as the feedback Fresh Perspective have already gathered, we could then create a large wall mural in Skipton town centre which embeds all of these. Also, to keep the feeling of inclusion, the design could stretch further than just one space, By implementing multiple small areas that replicate the same colours/patterns throughout of Skipton, we can create an atmosphere and give people a constant reminder and a feeling that they are part of something.

Collective

This outcome would focus on creating a large mural based within Skipton that consisted of multiple community submissions. The design would result in one large image that has been made up of photographs that taken by the towns locals. This has the potential to allow people to share their stories with their community, engage and feel part of their surroundings as well as highlight what they feel are the main features and benefits of their Skipton town. It could possibly link people up who have the same interests, bring back old memories and serve as a constant reminder that there is plenty of life within the Skipton area.

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Split into 5 different potential outcome areas

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Taking inspiration from my mood boards and starting to map out the book I have been developing these simple illustrations of key landmarks in Cornwall..

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So after looking through my own images I have collected over time, starting last semester when I got this idea, I found some "initial" inspiration that lead me to my design choices.

Here's my elaboration on these images:

https://jazzstew.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/initial-thoughts-imagery/

Below, a collage of my initial inspiration:

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With so many different types of pain [3] there are level and areas that can be lost in the 1-10 pain scale. A burning sensation and an aching are very different but both very real pains. You may say burning is a 9/10 while aching is merely a 5/10, but this could easily be the other way round. The intensity of pain and the type of pain are both very important and cannot be identified under the same scale. Taking intensity as X and type as Y, I can place this chart alongside the colour chart I can begin analysing the colours as a type of scale.

https://sashamitchelll.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/ideas-craft-context/

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The idea I’m really excited about this week from developing my moodboards is the public transport one. I still need to spend some time with the other themes, but I am leaning towards this idea. I’ve been looking at the route between Redditch (which is where I live and also the end of the line) and Birmingham New Street, and I’m quietly fascinated by all the little stations in between, mostly little towns and villages that unless you’re local, you just won’t have heard of. I am looking at using these stations and this train journey as a focal point for my documentary project. I’d like to spend time at each of these little stations, interacting with and photographing the people waiting for trains, or waiting for people to arrive off a train. I think there will be some great stories to hear and share. There are some interesting places on the line between Redditch and Birmingham, like Bournville, where most of the station is painted purple in honour of Cadbury World.

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The story of the homeless man, John

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Also, this weekend I was brave and asked my first stranger for a photo! Got to start somewhere 😊

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I haven’t finished creating the visuals, but I’ve listed the five themes I’m interested in exploring below. All of these ideas would involve using my camera as a conversation starter, interacting with strangers, and generally documenting the people I meet as I go about my day. My moodboards will explore potential settings for my project, around the ideas listed here:

1.       Public Transport
Following on from my comments last week, exploring the idea that people don’t like to interact on public transport – why is this and can I change it? Documenting my attempts at making public transport a more friendly place by starting conversations with strangers on my commute.

2.       Walking – Planned Routes
Taking my camera with me on the trips I make every day – walking from the office into town for lunch. This is always the same route but over the next few weeks I would take my camera with me, and stop to talk to the people I walk past, buy my lunch from, etc, and ask if I can take their photo.

3.       Walking – to explore
Exploring my local area with my camera, but no planned route. Instead I would “drift” finding new areas, meeting new people, and letting my camera guide me around Redditch, rather than the other way round.

4.       Observations
Choosing a place to observe regularly over the course of the project, e.g. a coffee shop, where I would sit and observe/document, similar to the Peter Funch project that Stuart shared last week.

5. Redditch vs London
Psychogeography describes the effect of a geographical location on the emotions and behaviour of individuals – As I have a work trip to London planned next week, I thought it could be interesting to take my brief and almost do two mini versions of it – one in London, one in Redditch, and compare the results. Are people friendlier in different parts of the country, do they react differently to me talking to them/asking for a photo, and can you tell from the photo, whether it was taken in Redditch or London?

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I spent yesterday wandering around Manchester in the torrential rain in search of good photo opportunities and to learn more about the homeless people of Manchester. As the rain was so heavy the streets weren't half as busy as usual, and there were much less people sat on the pavements begging which is rather common in this city. I did manage to meet one man on my travels, John. I decided I was safe to approach John as he was selling the big issue and seemed very receptive to the people that were walking past him. I sat with him for around 30 minutes where he was very happy to share his story with me. He currently has 4 dogs (2 parents and 2 puppies in the carry case behind him). When I went in search of a homeless person to talk to, I wanted to target this group of people as I feel they are outcasts from society and I would like to help tackle this issue. John actually verbalised that he is an outcast (without prompt)- but he stated that he was an outcast from the homeless society, he believes this is the case because he has pets which other homeless people don't like. The conversation was very eye opening and has certainly inspired me to gain more first hand research on this topic.  I will put details of our conversation on my blog for this week.

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A children's book that explores local history and language..

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Thinking back to contemporary practice and the  design methods used. Adding insights was also helpful. Next - visual direction.

https://jazzstew.wordpress.com/2019/09/30/organizing-planning-and-moods/

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Badge/Forms/Book/Poster/Swatch

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Hey everyone! Hope everyone's getting on well! There are a few lines of thinking that I am putting forward for this week.

The current ideas are:
1. Tackling The 'Blitz Spirit'. Looking at what it means for people, what their spirit and thoughts were during that time. This route follows on a similar line to last week of conducting interviews. However, on further analysis, there also could be a chance to analyse British propaganda and the use of language used at the time which had the aim to keep the 'Blitz Spirit' going.

2. Women of War. For this route, I wanted to look more at the more unsung and overlooked people of the war and their importance towards the efforts and keeping the morale high. This follows along close lines with me as similar to my Grandfather, my Grandmother also worked and helped at Bristol Aeroplane Company pre and during the war.

3. The Last Year of Peace. This potential route follows on from watching a documentary series on BBC Four called "Lost Films of WWII". Within the documentary there is a brief section on "The Last Year of Peace" which was based on amateur films from Tom Brown who was travelling with his wife through Europe, the year before the war began. I think this could provide some interesting insight into what life was like before hell broke loose.

4. Letters/Postcards of War/Love. The choice of this route was interesting to me because I think it would be good to see the narratives and dialogue had between people who were overseas and back home and believe it could be interesting to possibly analyse and see if there are recurring themes to help inform and build a strong visual narrative to tell people's stories.

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It would be great to see some development on here, ahead of tonights tutorials. It'll give myself and Ben an opportunity to gather thoughts and feedback.

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My book will focus on lower case ABC’s as suggested by my own child’s kindergarten teacher as an overall difficulty for most 4-6 year olds.

The book will be inclusive and accessible, which, after visiting book stores and libraries, is not a very common piece for alphabet books. Most books are for very little children (1-3), and the older kids (4-6) don’t have a good reference. This is of course the base or starting point for kids and I guess it’s assumed (by the selection of books in public places) that kids know their alphabet by age 4, although, this is where they start in kindergarten, when they’re four years old.

I've created a mind map to try and organize my thoughts:
https://www.mindmeister.com/1337727219/lower-case-abc-s

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Hello

Hope you’re all good! Just kicking off this week’s Ideas Wall.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns either here or via email and look forward to speaking to some of you tomorrow night.

Consider the following question:

What is the rationale for my project ideas? Can I refine a theory or contextual insight that underpins my project ideas?

And this week’s workshop challenge:

1. Develop and make five initial visual responses to your self initiated project brief. Post your design developments to the Ideas Wall, to gain peer reflection, and elaborate further in your blog.

2. Design and create five visual mood boards to accompany your initial visual responses. Your mood boards should include points of reference and inspiration that clearly demonstrate how your self initiated project might be developed and applied.

3. Add all five mood boards to the Ideas Wall, in separate posts, and reference the inspiration in your blog.