FYP Meeting 1.
re-look, re-think, re-fresh.
13th April 2009
Meeting Objectives: Constructive Criticism
First meeting with Lydia!
BIG IDEAS!
So today, we met our supervisor, Lydia. We went about talking about our ideas one by one. And once everyone finished, Lydia took over.
"1 plate of fried rice shared by 5 people, everyone gets just a little bit out of it. Wouldn't a person get more out of it if they get a plate each?" - Lydia
5 BIG ideas in one room, too much to take in and people don't know what to focus on. Well that was what Lydia saw it as. And she did told us maybe we'd like to focus on one and make it look damn good as she felt that it feels a bit too messy and all over the place.
Actually, after the meeting we felt that we forgot to tell her one thing. That the limelight would go to Robin's statue light lamp thingy. The focus would be that, smack right in the center of the exhibition. The other ideas were things to decorate around the exhibition, so much focus would actually go to the statue.
Initial ideas are always planned to go bad, but don't throw them away work from there.
Re: Purpose Design
We were all asked to re-look into our ideas and ask ourselves, what is the purpose? Is it only for decorative purposes?
We were reminded of the description of the project,
RE:Purpose Design can be seen as a creative attempt to recycle and re-purpose existing, used
commodities and products into functional and aesthetic lifestyle products or furnishings.
INSPIRATION!
Get inspired. We need inspiration. We shall all have our own, excursion and blog it out here soon. IKEA is a great place to get inspired. But yes do document anything interesting you see outside and blog it here! Like Lydia has told us, research research research!! Research is important in this project as we need to know our stuff well, what materials we are working with, so we know how to exploit those materials.
Check out the website Lydia suggested: http://www.readymade.com/
We are DDI students!
Design for Interactivity. How do we make our product something for people to interact with? How do we make it something that can represent our Diploma and long term better enhance our portfolio? Where is the interaction in our ideas?
Seize media opportunities!
Lydia did say how maybe we would like to look at doing something for the public so that our work can be recognized and it will be known for a good cost. Guess we might want to look at this in the later part? Just keep it in mind.
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Okay guys (and girls), we are on the right track so to speak. As discussed earlier we need to get inspired, and Project Lumiere is still going to happen (well for now it is), the statue production should start as soon as possible! We need to re-think whats the purpose of our statue, is it only for lighting? How do we make it to have more pupose? I think that the statue it self is already made up of alot of unexpected materials, like plastic bags, hanger wiring, cardboard boxes etc. we just have to think a little deeper and get inspired and re-think carefully.
Roles of the team:
Project Leader: In charge of overseeing everything, and keeping the team on track. (ziqq)
Logistics : In-charge of getting contacts and will be the one contacting people (robin)
Management: In-charge of time-keeping, project schedule (shahida)
Researcher: In charge of backing us up with sufficient knowledge (zila)
Resources: In-charge of getting materials (v)
Monday, April 13, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Pre-FYP Meeting 1.
9TH April 2009
Meeting objective: Brainstorming Ideas.
Ideas!
Robin started off the meeting, with his sharing of idea.
He showed us his sketch and ideas.
He showed us his sketch of the famous ancient greek sculptures, Venus de Milo; the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_De_Milo
The Thinker (French: Le Penseur) is a bronze and marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin held in the Musée Rodin in Paris. It depicts a man in sober meditation battling with a powerful internal struggle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker
The Statue of David, David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture sculpted by Michelangelo from 1501 to 1504. It came to symbolize the defense of civil liberties embodied in the Florentine Republic, an independent city state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the hegemony of the Medici themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo)
He was sharing how we can make the sculpture using the materials such as paper, tin can, cardboard box, aluminums and metal/steel as the exo-skeleton. It will be something like these, just that it will be in the shape of the sculptures,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamwithcam/23320352/in/set-536431/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamwithcam/23320342/in/set-536431/
And yes the use of these is that, it is not only aesthetically pleasing, each sculpture represents something, and it has usage, it provide lighting, below the sculptures are wardrobes or chest drawers made up of cardboard box and some bottles if I’m not mistaken.
Materials to look into: Paper, Cardboard box, Steel, PVC Glue, Light Bulb, Plastic Bottles
Some things to think about:
• How do we make the sculpture?
• We need to make a prototype first, ASAP!
• Is the sculpture going to be exactly the same of the original? Or is it just following the shape of the original?
Are the products easy to be move about?
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Zila had the same idea of sculpture but hers, addresses the fact that, (usually the) telephone table does not match the seats, so her idea was that the sculpture would be in a position where, one hand is holding the phone while the other was for the user to sit on.
The “flaw” was how do we balance the weight? How do we support the weight of the user?
Zila then continued her idea of using the aluminum foil of a tin can and sew/glue it to make a basket or so. The idea was simple, changed the idea of tin can being use to hold drinks into something that now (the basket) can even carry the tin cans!
Materials to look into: Tin cans, aluminum, glue, thread, rope, wire
Some things to think about:
• How strong is aluminum?
• Will the aluminum rust?
• Is it safe for the users?
• How do we prevent these?
• Can the basket last for long?
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Shahida’s idea was to use water pipe/hose those transparent one and then fill it with glitters and then wrapped it around a fluorescent light . To give like the lava lamp effect.
But the “flaw” was that, the glitter in the tube would sink. Robin then suggests to use gel. The idea of what to put inside the hose is not that strong and need to be further discussed and experimented. Basically what I see is that the idea was of changing what we see and use into something that can be used as a décor and yet functional.
Materials to look into: Water hose (plastic), gel, water, fluorescent light
Some things to think about:
• How do we make it twirl around it without making the plastic hose to bend?
• Will the heat from the light melt the plastic hose?
• What would be inside the plastic hose?
• How big will the lamp be? (Need measurements)
Are the products easy to be move about?
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V’s idea was sharing his idea of making a multi purpose shelve using cardboard boxes. Something that is of do-able and simple.
He also suggested ideas such as a sculpture of T-rex and toys for kids to play.
Materials to look into: Cardboard boxes, PVC glue
Some things to think about:
• How to make the shelves strong and long lasting?
• How do we make it aesthetically pleasing?
• How big is the shelve going to be? (Need measurements)
Are the products easy to be move about?
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I then shared my idea. Okay so basically, my idea was to just simply make bags, it can be made out of paper, and plastic hose as the handle. Making laptop casing out of cardboard boxes. Very simple ideas. That’s why I put more thought towards the exhibition and concept instead.
After listening to everyone’s wonderful ideas. I thought of having this cold dark black room, then having Robin’s lamp sculpture around the room, filled with Shahida’s hose lava lamp, V’s shelves holding Zila’s handmade bags alongside my handmade items. The room would then be lighted up with all the lamps. Giving this mix array of colors and emotions. Something like an Ikea show room kinda thing going on.
The concept of the exhibition:
Project lumiére
Lumiére stands for 'lights' in French.
People always see light coming from something that is beautiful, something of heaven-sent, just like an image of angel.
This project aims to let the world sees that there is light in everything, be it newspapers, wires, rags, cardboard boxes, things that people don’t usually pay much attention to, how some of us just under appreciate all these things, this project would let them see how we see beauty in everything.
Project lumiére showing beauty out of nothing.
Some things to think about:
Where will the exhibition be at?
Budget?
How big will the exhibition be?
How are we going to set up?
Are these all do-able in such a short time?
Are the products easy to be move about?
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We then further discussed on how the room would look like, we had more ideas coming in, ideas of making a disco ball out of cd-roms and a plastic beach ball, ideas of making a colorful lighted seat using plastic bottles and lights and cardboard boxes. (will draw a sketch soon of those ideas and upload here)
9TH April 2009
Meeting objective: Brainstorming Ideas.
Ideas!
Robin started off the meeting, with his sharing of idea.
He showed us his sketch and ideas.
He showed us his sketch of the famous ancient greek sculptures, Venus de Milo; the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_De_MiloThe Thinker (French: Le Penseur) is a bronze and marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin held in the Musée Rodin in Paris. It depicts a man in sober meditation battling with a powerful internal struggle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ThinkerThe Statue of David, David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture sculpted by Michelangelo from 1501 to 1504. It came to symbolize the defense of civil liberties embodied in the Florentine Republic, an independent city state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the hegemony of the Medici themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo)He was sharing how we can make the sculpture using the materials such as paper, tin can, cardboard box, aluminums and metal/steel as the exo-skeleton. It will be something like these, just that it will be in the shape of the sculptures,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamwithcam/23320352/in/set-536431/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamwithcam/23320342/in/set-536431/
And yes the use of these is that, it is not only aesthetically pleasing, each sculpture represents something, and it has usage, it provide lighting, below the sculptures are wardrobes or chest drawers made up of cardboard box and some bottles if I’m not mistaken.
Materials to look into: Paper, Cardboard box, Steel, PVC Glue, Light Bulb, Plastic Bottles
Some things to think about:
• How do we make the sculpture?
• We need to make a prototype first, ASAP!
• Is the sculpture going to be exactly the same of the original? Or is it just following the shape of the original?
Are the products easy to be move about?
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zila had the same idea of sculpture but hers, addresses the fact that, (usually the) telephone table does not match the seats, so her idea was that the sculpture would be in a position where, one hand is holding the phone while the other was for the user to sit on.
The “flaw” was how do we balance the weight? How do we support the weight of the user?
Zila then continued her idea of using the aluminum foil of a tin can and sew/glue it to make a basket or so. The idea was simple, changed the idea of tin can being use to hold drinks into something that now (the basket) can even carry the tin cans!
Materials to look into: Tin cans, aluminum, glue, thread, rope, wire
Some things to think about:
• How strong is aluminum?
• Will the aluminum rust?
• Is it safe for the users?
• How do we prevent these?
• Can the basket last for long?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Shahida’s idea was to use water pipe/hose those transparent one and then fill it with glitters and then wrapped it around a fluorescent light . To give like the lava lamp effect.
But the “flaw” was that, the glitter in the tube would sink. Robin then suggests to use gel. The idea of what to put inside the hose is not that strong and need to be further discussed and experimented. Basically what I see is that the idea was of changing what we see and use into something that can be used as a décor and yet functional.
Materials to look into: Water hose (plastic), gel, water, fluorescent light
Some things to think about:
• How do we make it twirl around it without making the plastic hose to bend?
• Will the heat from the light melt the plastic hose?
• What would be inside the plastic hose?
• How big will the lamp be? (Need measurements)
Are the products easy to be move about?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
V’s idea was sharing his idea of making a multi purpose shelve using cardboard boxes. Something that is of do-able and simple.
He also suggested ideas such as a sculpture of T-rex and toys for kids to play.
Materials to look into: Cardboard boxes, PVC glue
Some things to think about:
• How to make the shelves strong and long lasting?
• How do we make it aesthetically pleasing?
• How big is the shelve going to be? (Need measurements)
Are the products easy to be move about?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I then shared my idea. Okay so basically, my idea was to just simply make bags, it can be made out of paper, and plastic hose as the handle. Making laptop casing out of cardboard boxes. Very simple ideas. That’s why I put more thought towards the exhibition and concept instead.
After listening to everyone’s wonderful ideas. I thought of having this cold dark black room, then having Robin’s lamp sculpture around the room, filled with Shahida’s hose lava lamp, V’s shelves holding Zila’s handmade bags alongside my handmade items. The room would then be lighted up with all the lamps. Giving this mix array of colors and emotions. Something like an Ikea show room kinda thing going on.
The concept of the exhibition:
Project lumiére
Lumiére stands for 'lights' in French.
People always see light coming from something that is beautiful, something of heaven-sent, just like an image of angel.
This project aims to let the world sees that there is light in everything, be it newspapers, wires, rags, cardboard boxes, things that people don’t usually pay much attention to, how some of us just under appreciate all these things, this project would let them see how we see beauty in everything.
Project lumiére showing beauty out of nothing.
Some things to think about:
Where will the exhibition be at?
Budget?
How big will the exhibition be?
How are we going to set up?
Are these all do-able in such a short time?
Are the products easy to be move about?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We then further discussed on how the room would look like, we had more ideas coming in, ideas of making a disco ball out of cd-roms and a plastic beach ball, ideas of making a colorful lighted seat using plastic bottles and lights and cardboard boxes. (will draw a sketch soon of those ideas and upload here)
Friday, April 10, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
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