Week Three Friday

Class Time where we shared shit*

Test, Ideate, Prototype, Define

*Shit, as in everyones work where we aren't feeling great about it but we are getting there. 

Theirs this other group thats doing pretty much the same subject as us and they sit at the same table. I always see that they have double the stats that we have and I just don't know where they are finding them. Maybe they just have better google searching skills then me and Sophie. Who knows. Anyway its quite interesting to see their approach to this as well, with the whole not including people and whatever. With the word generating task we ended up doing, it was really helpful. We came up with a way to progress the idea of stress building up over a day. I think that approaching it in a kind of building up of stress through accumulating (is this even the right word, I don't even know mate) items could be a really cool way for us to, you know, show what we want. We just have to get it right, get it tight (*dance break* get it right, get it right, get it tight, get it right, get it right, get it tight,). Im actually feeling really happy with the progress I feel we made in the class today, we had some feedback yesterday and today that I thought was a bit useful from students and tutors. Sometimes with feedback you just end up feeling beaten down, but these last couple of days we got some places where we could really take strides forward which is awesome. We are coming together sometime before class next week to photograph our plans and such. I feel like I should be talking about how my tags more but thats just all in the process of what we did in class time and not how I felt about shit. Sooooo, maybe its obvious in my writing or maybe it isn't but it did happen I just cant think of a way (right this moment) that I feel I can express myself in a way to clearly show these labels/ tags (Are they labels or tags, make your mind up blogger). That last sentence didn't even make much sense *eughhhhhhhhhh*. We tried our shit out in class, got feedback, drew some shit up, came up with some words and ideas and edited some of our points. Nailed it. 

Week Three Thursday

I'm not much of a Diary writer, never have been so please excuse me if its not personal enough, I just struggle to communicate myself in this form.

The Photography talk

Empathy

The talk for me just told me that sometimes those moments in life that we just pass over are sometimes the most poignant in terms of impacting an audience or whatevs. That to be able to so clearly state what happens on the day to day in a clear/ beautiful or not way can sway a reader. viewer. If you can find these points in peoples lives then your design (especially for this brief) could present an idea so much clearer and easier. 

Class Time

Prototype, Ideate, Define, Test

The work I came into class with today was really really really raw. Funnily enough for Barriers we both came in with the same imagery (which we ended up scrapping, typical!!). Annnnnyways, I found that we are definitely getting a much clearer idea about our overall idea though their are still a couple of areas that we are having issues with. Barriers was one, we had a couple but they seemed kind of odd and cold in a way, same with the client. Our desired outcome at this point, we were told, was to narrow. We could kind of see how. Personally, I'm finding it a bit difficult to come up with a way in which we can visually show this in a style that people can appreciate without including people thats is cohesive, thats kind of the job for tonight really. Oh, also, we changed things in class already with the images, they are all without people however, once again, we need cohesion and probably a bit of beauty.

Week 2 Friday

Meeting up again this morning in class with Sophie was obviously handy. We both came back with info from different sources that all seemed to correspond well with one another. I personally found our talk with Tim was really handy in defining and re-iterating our 8 thingy-me-bobs. He told us where he thought we had some solid stuff so thats always nice to know that you are somewhat on the right track, if only you need to take a step to the side or ya know. We didn't manage to share our summed up idea to our classmates before the exchange and Sophie was unable to go to hers so I went in blind but the peeps from the other design areas seemed to get it to some extent, I think we were all just a little bit overwhelmed and a bit nervous, new people and all. It was awesome to hear how the other design peeps are approaching the idea of wellbeing, it will be interesting to keep up with how they develop and continue their projects alongside ours.

Week 2 Thursday

Today I felt a lot better about what was going to happen. The future was, how to put it, defined more. At the beginning of class I knew that I was going to go with the depression side of things over my physical welfare researched side. Having to cut that down (depression) individually helped me get a good grip on what I think had to be done and now I have the opportunity with my partner to push that idea and combine both of our ideas or whatever.