HEAD, SHOULDER, KNEES & TOES

wHEAR

We was then set a project to design the identity for the previous sound project. Each groups track had to be accounted for. The design had to self explain the project and related to everyone's idea on sound and location.

The only way I could get my head around this project was to approach it in an abstract way where I could explain sound and location. I love to create patterns so I though I could design a pattern that would resemble sound waves, but also if looked at from a birds eye view, a map.
I also wanted the title to be a play on words I came up with the name wHEAR.....i dont think some people got it straight away but i wanted people to think about it, and also what the project ment.

I also wanted to produce a CD cover. I strongly believe in having a thing to have, hold read etc. But I wanted it to be cheap to produce and be a little quirky. So I made a CD cover that folds down from a poster for the project. I was really excited with the outcome and now can cover all my loose CD's in an easy Eco case..lol

IN HYSTERICS

This was a sound project where we had to use sound to explore the idea of location.


From our initial research we really liked to explore the sounds around the home and what made a house a 'home' idea. But this was found to be too broad. We got the best reaction to a part in the sound clip where we played laughter from the home, it really made people giggle and we thought this was a positive reaction.


This is the idea we decided to explore. We wanted to use laughter and explore the way it is infectious and the way it makes people go into the state of laughter. Our location was a place in the mind where you went, at the extremes of Laughter, 'IN HYSTERICS'.

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The Anchor Pub

Saranac Lake

Fanzine

This is a one day project where we had to make a zine based on a word.
My word was connected so each page connect physically and also by word association.
I've also got an obsession with string at the moment so i had a chance to experiment with all different types of string. I LOVE IT!!!!

The thing I chose to concentrate on was the 15 Design Rules that were made about the Eames' legacy. I am also doing the volunteering elective which is teaching Graphic design to Primary school children. I think that these rules wil be a great basis to write my lesson plans on. I will have to break graphic design down to its basic form, which also relates to the Eames' ways of thinking about their work.

I've only got so far with this project. But so far i have presented 7 weeks of lessons to the children, each one relating back to the rules. Also in the evaluation lesson i got the children to come up with their own rules and it was nice to see the two sets of rules along-side eachother and also to see how much the children learnt about graphic design as it was a totally new concept to them.

I plan to make both sets of rules into really bright, simple classroom posters that I can then give back to the children and Millbank Primary School.