Week 3 Origination

Reading Quiz - John Maeda, Laws of Simplicity: Law 2 – Organise

What does the acronym SLIP mean according to Maeda?

Sort, Label, Integrate, Prioritise.

Define each character of the acronym, S L I P in one sentence

Manage complexity by defining all issues and sorting into groups, label the group, group like issues and prioritise issues according to urgency/deadlines.

What does Maeda say is only a pinkie away?

The quick path to simplicity is only a pinkie away. Putting order to issues by categorising using the tab key on a keyboard?

Why is this important to us as designers?

With all the competing issues we face we must effectively prioritise and organize tasks according to deadlines.

What are the principles of gestalt psychological theory?

To group and catorgorise what we see.

“Gestalt is a psychology term which means "unified whole". It refers to theories of visual perception developed by German psychologists in the 1920s. These theories attempt to describe how people tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied. These principles are: Similarity, Continuation, Closure,  Proximity and Figure & Ground.”

(http://graphicdesign.spokanefalls.edu/tutorials/process/gestaltprinciples/gestaltprinc.htm)


Where might one find the aesthetics of blur?

 

Impressionist paintings ie Monet and his hazy clouds of tiny brushstrokes - such as his Waterlillies and Wild Poppies.

Artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s flower images with soft edges that have an allure of mystique - such as her Blue Morning Glories and Pink Tulip.

Why is blur important in interactive design?

To simplify the image

Why do good designers squinte when they look at something?

  

To blur - look at overall balance. To see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance.

Thinking Game – work in pairs / swap tasks

Perspectives

In the below exercise adopt 4 different perspectives and describe 4 different interpretations of each of the following non-verbal communications. Write the results directly into your blog.

A person nods his/her head up and down

·        Nodding with confident expression - definately understand.

·        Nodding head slowly with a doubtful expression – unsure, trying to understand.

·        Nodding head with hands in the air and raised eyebrows – could mean ‘do you understand.

·        Your going to get it.

·        Unconcious not when understanding teacher

·        Stetching – sore neck.

 A person’s lower lip trembles slightly

·        About to cry

·        Nervous or unsure how to say something

·        Cold.

A person smiles slightly

·        The person can relate to the issue

·        Confussion.

·        Embarassment.

·        Its funny.

A person yawns

·        Tired

·        Bored

A person shrugs his/her shoulders

·        Uncertainty

·        Not phased

A person inhales quickly

·        Shock

·        Disbelief

·        pain

We were shown a video on non verbal communication - a mime - Thats my Home, by comedian David Armand, which was hilarious.  He has very interesting ways of using gestures and actions to representing the words in songs.

I found another one of David’s mime’s – Don’t Stop me now, which he performed on a television show, where two people had head phones on and had to guess the song.

Idea Generation  REFINE: ideas from last week – make them achievable

COLLABORATE: Confirm who you are collaborating with for your Week 05 Concept Presentation

Queenie and I discussed our Childrens book.

Possible Title: Little Brownie’s Little Trip
20 pages.
Size unsure – A5 or A4.

Queenie has already thought of the title and drafted some excellent pictures.

We drafted an outline of our story, as the story has to be written so we can draw the pictures.

Cover Page

1.     Brownie getting ready to go on trip. Where – the shop. Why – to buy some cookies and milk.

2.     Brownie’s first adventure – TBA

3.     Brownie meets postman and asks if he can help – Postman gives Brownie a letter to deliver to one of Brownie’s friends.

4.     Brownie delivers mail and has an adventure with friend – maybe jumps on his trampoline or plays some sort of game?? Then continues on with journey.

5.     Brownie stops at the park – meets Dudley the Dog and plays on swings, seesaw, slides with him.

6.     TBA

7.     TBA

8.     Brownie at shop, buys Cookies and milk, maybe even has enough money to buy some lollies.

9.     Brownie back home and sleeping in his bed all tuckered out.

10.  A map of Brownies trip – although it seemed like a big day it was just down the road.

As we were unsure what size to do the book, I asked a couple of people at work who had kids and they said the bigger the better so children can see the pictures when Parents were reading them stories.  Maybe A4 size (A3 folded to A4).

I spoke to a printer (Copy Time) who said our cheapest option would be do saddle stitch binding (stapled in middle) and better than hard bound (glued in) as pages can be pulled out too easily for children.  He got busy and couldn’t give me price, I’ll go see him again next week.  Might talk to another printer friend of mine and get his opinion, if he is not too busy.

I was also thinking about a doing another book separately (not sure if I will have time though), as in a previous design unit (CUVCOR09B Concept Drawing) I did concept drawings for a childrens book – Captain Ron at Sea.  I would like to see this through from concept to print, however I need to work on the illustrations a bit more.

Need to talk to Peter about displaying at exhibition on a screen? I like the ideas of it just playing over and over again, with pages flipping automatically like displayed at: http://vimeo.com/7496754 (Sid the Seed) - no audio though.