A Degree Project.
The Close-up and Details.
19.02.2011
Thoughts about today and tomorrow left me dangling on a barb wire.
Hypothesis
Designatural is a project for designers to get inspire on. Due to the over reliant on technology, the creavtivity of a design has been limited to screen spaces. Nature has been the initial stage for most invention and thoughts. Semester 1, i've been trying experimentation on the visibility of nature. The wind, the water and the trees.
Designatural is a project for designers to get inspire on. Due to the over reliant on technology, the creavtivity of a design has been limited to screen spaces. Nature has been the initial stage for most invention and thoughts. Semester 1, i've been trying experimentation on the visibility of nature. The wind, the water and the trees.
Design Problem
The thought of using nature as a platform has been too wide for me to handle, but I believed in the power of using design to wrap or streamlined my thoughts and executions. Graphic designing have the ability to redraw, interpret, plan, execute problem situations using methods like, layouts, typography, colour, mood, photography. This versatility in design helps me gather and define certain thoughts in a much solid manner.
I need to better define and support my hypothesis in order for this project to carry on another semester, thus I need to document my thoughts, my words, comments, work in progress, people's thoughts. Designatural, has progressed to a stage for designers to use as an application instead of just aesthetics. I was constantly reminded about the functionality of design, the application of design in my process this week. Thus, Designatural has to be better defined.
Executions.
Now, all stars and constellations. 88 visible constellation falls around our universe. However, this mass information has been too big for a project to go on a year. To streamline this idea of using stars and natural elements, the map of Singapore was mapped out using map coordinates of the latitude and longitude. Eg, N102* 233.469, falls on Marina Barrage.
I clipped the 88 constellation as a form of projection onto the map of Singapore, I was able to better visualise my objection with 18 venues located all around Singapore. Like i said, this mapping acts as a direction for my project to flow into. 18 venues, 18 applications, 1 objection, not just inspire, not just aesthetics, but take aways messages, application, functionality.
I've placed myself as a tool to go into these 18 places.
Analysis
With just a camera, a pen and a notebook. Observational skills are all I have to rely on.
Documentation to go into my self set struggles, to observe, to learn, to collect, to recreate, to design, recreate again and define application for my target audiences. I will put myself as a live example to support the hypothesis. Stages from observational, problem faced, to problem solved. I'm excited but i'm confused as well. Adversity will forced me to be a better designer, in terms of a greater height in designing, generating images to designs from places in future will not be a problem for me.
Kenny graduated with a First Class Honors in Graphic Communications.
Taking what he learnt into the industry. And so below, is the fruit of his labor.
