Wednesday 18 November 2009
Busy Bee!
I'll be posting some samples from each of our workshops shortly, as wells as some of my sketchbook work to give you a taster of my project and how I'm developing my ideas. Really busy with the workshops at the moment so bare with me! :)
Assignment 3c - Websites
5 websites which I use for inspiration, relating to textiles..
www.innovationintextiles.com
Innovation in Textiles is a news and technical website for the global technical textiles and nonwovens industries.
www.vads.ac.uk
This is a collection of over 100000 art and design images, drawn from university and college art collections.
www.edge-textileartists-scotland.com
this is a group of artists from all over Scotland - the website aims to promote excellence in all aspects of contemporary textile art and practice.
www.craftsscotland.org
Home of Scottish contemporary craft, helps promote businesses, allows you to search for makers, retailers, galleries, events, news, features, opportunities, training etc.
www.embroiderersguild.com
The UK's largest craft organization. News, workshops, museum collection, articles.
5 websites which I use regularly to keep me up to date with news and whats going on in the world..
www.timesonline.co.uk
www.wired.co.uk
www.newscientist.com
www.trendhunter.com
www.guardian.co.uk
www.innovationintextiles.com
Innovation in Textiles is a news and technical website for the global technical textiles and nonwovens industries.
www.vads.ac.uk
This is a collection of over 100000 art and design images, drawn from university and college art collections.
www.edge-textileartists-scotland.com
this is a group of artists from all over Scotland - the website aims to promote excellence in all aspects of contemporary textile art and practice.
www.craftsscotland.org
Home of Scottish contemporary craft, helps promote businesses, allows you to search for makers, retailers, galleries, events, news, features, opportunities, training etc.
www.embroiderersguild.com
The UK's largest craft organization. News, workshops, museum collection, articles.
5 websites which I use regularly to keep me up to date with news and whats going on in the world..
www.timesonline.co.uk
www.wired.co.uk
www.newscientist.com
www.trendhunter.com
www.guardian.co.uk
Assignment 3a & b - Cross-search & Bibliography
For this assignment we were asked to do further research on our design idea and gathering books, visual sources and journals. We were to then create a bibliography of these resources using Harvard style referencing and write a few sentences about how each resource was or was not useful to my study and research. I found cross-search very hard to use and I wouldn't say I was successful in understanding it. I never found any useful resources but then again maybe I was just not using it correctly! I think I'll have to take more time to get to grips with cross-search as I feel it has the potential to be very useful in the future. So here's my bibliography..
Bennett, C.J. & Lyon, D., eds. (2008) Playing the Identity Card, USA: Routledge
This book allows you to understand the significance of identity card systems and all its possible uses and benefits which I think would be very useful for my research. The weakness of this book is that it goes too in depth about surveillance, peoples’ rights, laws concerning data protection and how people are so against being watched by ‘big brother’.
Blane, H.T. & Chafetz, M.E., eds. (1979) Youth, Alcohol, and Social Policy, New York: Plenum Press
This source is packed with facts and statistics, its does not give a personal view or opinion on alcoholism at a young age it simply proves that this problem does exist and how serious it actually is. It would be useful as it gives a basis for my study and gives facts/statistics to work from.
Fossey, E. (1994) Growing up with Alcohol, USA: Routeledge
This book goes back to the begin and talks about why there is such a serious problem of underage drinking. Why and where does it begin. It has detailed accounts of studies carried out on children showing that it can in fact start from a very young age and shows that they are not ignorant to alcohol. Although not directly related with my issue it does gives me a better understanding that this problem goes deep and that the problem needs to be addressed. Having said this the book dwells too much on drinking habits of the young, the effectiveness alcohol education and the experiences these children have.
Maclachlan, M. & Smyth, C., eds. (2004) Binge Drinking & Youth Culture, Ireland: The Liffey Press
I think this book is really relevant to design idea as it looks at the actual issue of underage drinking and really focuses and explores the factors that impact on it. Like I said on my poster, its not realistic that we can solve this problem but its about taking it step by step and working to make the situation better which is what this book talks about.
Tether, P. & Robison, D. (1986) Preventing Alcohol Problems, London: Travistock Publications Ltd.
This book looks into an alternative strategy to reducing the risks of alcohol problems. Looks into alcohol safety, advertising, the media, educating people about alcohol. Identify and prevents alcoholism. Tries to tell you that its everyone’s business not just the individual. Its there and it cant be ignored and it’s up to us all to change and be educated as a community.
The Royal College of Physicians, (1995) Alcohol and the Young, London: The Lavenham Press Ltd
Written by a group of doctor and their experiences with alcohol in the young. It goes into a lot of detail on the effects and consequences of drinking on youngsters and drinking patterns. Allows you to understand the extent of the problem, although its weakness. I feel is that it's giving you the after effects of underage drinking not explaining what the problem is.
Bennett, C.J. & Lyon, D., eds. (2008) Playing the Identity Card, USA: Routledge
This book allows you to understand the significance of identity card systems and all its possible uses and benefits which I think would be very useful for my research. The weakness of this book is that it goes too in depth about surveillance, peoples’ rights, laws concerning data protection and how people are so against being watched by ‘big brother’.
Blane, H.T. & Chafetz, M.E., eds. (1979) Youth, Alcohol, and Social Policy, New York: Plenum Press
This source is packed with facts and statistics, its does not give a personal view or opinion on alcoholism at a young age it simply proves that this problem does exist and how serious it actually is. It would be useful as it gives a basis for my study and gives facts/statistics to work from.
Fossey, E. (1994) Growing up with Alcohol, USA: Routeledge
This book goes back to the begin and talks about why there is such a serious problem of underage drinking. Why and where does it begin. It has detailed accounts of studies carried out on children showing that it can in fact start from a very young age and shows that they are not ignorant to alcohol. Although not directly related with my issue it does gives me a better understanding that this problem goes deep and that the problem needs to be addressed. Having said this the book dwells too much on drinking habits of the young, the effectiveness alcohol education and the experiences these children have.
Maclachlan, M. & Smyth, C., eds. (2004) Binge Drinking & Youth Culture, Ireland: The Liffey Press
I think this book is really relevant to design idea as it looks at the actual issue of underage drinking and really focuses and explores the factors that impact on it. Like I said on my poster, its not realistic that we can solve this problem but its about taking it step by step and working to make the situation better which is what this book talks about.
Tether, P. & Robison, D. (1986) Preventing Alcohol Problems, London: Travistock Publications Ltd.
This book looks into an alternative strategy to reducing the risks of alcohol problems. Looks into alcohol safety, advertising, the media, educating people about alcohol. Identify and prevents alcoholism. Tries to tell you that its everyone’s business not just the individual. Its there and it cant be ignored and it’s up to us all to change and be educated as a community.
The Royal College of Physicians, (1995) Alcohol and the Young, London: The Lavenham Press Ltd
Written by a group of doctor and their experiences with alcohol in the young. It goes into a lot of detail on the effects and consequences of drinking on youngsters and drinking patterns. Allows you to understand the extent of the problem, although its weakness. I feel is that it's giving you the after effects of underage drinking not explaining what the problem is.
Assignment 2c - Poster
Finally, it's up! For this assignment we had been asked to choose a subject which we had talked about in our group discussion. We had to look deeper into this issue and basically record our research on a poster and come up with a design idea. At first I really struggled to understand what exactly this poster was to cotain but I took a step back, I asked a few of my peers about how they got on and how they went about this task to get a better understanding and some inspiration. This really helped and sure enough ideas started popping into my head. This is what I came up with..
“The inspiration for my idea stemmed from our group discussion about The Power of Context and crime in New York. I wanted to bring this subject a little closer to home by looking into crime in Britain and decided to focus on underage drinking as it is such a big issue which we don’t seem to be getting any closer to solving.”
Also on the poster there is a little research and facts that I collected.
I think once I get an idea in my head I can run with it, it was just that initial stage of, again, not knowing what specifically was being asked of me. I think it was really important for me to take that step back, it gave me a chance to see what was going on around me and how other people were going about the task, how they interpreted it.
“The inspiration for my idea stemmed from our group discussion about The Power of Context and crime in New York. I wanted to bring this subject a little closer to home by looking into crime in Britain and decided to focus on underage drinking as it is such a big issue which we don’t seem to be getting any closer to solving.”
Also on the poster there is a little research and facts that I collected.
I think once I get an idea in my head I can run with it, it was just that initial stage of, again, not knowing what specifically was being asked of me. I think it was really important for me to take that step back, it gave me a chance to see what was going on around me and how other people were going about the task, how they interpreted it.
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Assessment 2b - Discussion
For the second part of this assignment we were to have a group disscussion about products and services that already exist relating to problems in the world and how design could improve or solve them. These are some notes I took during the disscussion...
Assessment 2a - Brainstorming
After days of confusion I finally got to grips with this next assignment on The Tipping Point. We had been given the task of brainstorming and discussing how design relates to aspects in The Tipping Point and how design could change the world that we live in. After the design lecture on Friday our group headed to the studios to start brainstorming, taking a general look at each chapter then further into the chapters looking at the different subjects the book talks about and how design relates to these subjects.
These are photographs of my group brainstorming and the spider-diagram we produced...
I enjoyed working together as a group as we could bounce ideas off of each other and I like how people give their thoughts or suggestions which spark ideas from others. This gives a much wider range of knowledge and allows for better ideas when everyone puts the heads together and contributes something of their own.
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