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[michaellaballas]

Our classes instagram page for the Week 13 event

[michaellaballas]

The role of the designer is not to ‘create’ something from nothing, but instead to transform what already exists.

Andy (via michaellaballas)

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W E E K 13 | event

The final event of the semester went great! It was amazing to see all the hard work people had put into their projects. My class provided iced lemonade for everyone (perfect day for it) thus proved a hit! It’s been such a great year and I’m glad to have made so many new friends. See you next year guys x

[s3431586]

Unfortunately I got caught up in the making and didn’t really document this process at all and I can’t face going through all my badly named files to find all the different versions (for real I’m going start a proper filing system when this semester is done with, having discovered the horrors of “missing links” through this project). The first and second image illustrate the changes I was making based on printing difficulties. Although I preferred having text boxes outlined Andy was right in saying that was going to be a the bane of the project. It was and they got cut after printing 6 versions trying to align. I feel bad about the paper waste. The third image was starting to experiment with “Colour” and by colour I mean, different areas filled in black and white because I didn’t want to pay for colour printing x 25.  I actually really did prefer the full black - I liked how excessively dramatic it seemed, which in conjunction with the iconography of the candles, I thought it really pushed it in toward an absurdist edge - which is really what this project is.  Again due to printing alignment and bleed lines I gave up with the black background and settles for bolder text outlines to fix it. The fourth is an example of how I was receiving feedback from other students, giving them the work and just asking “What doesn’t make sense”. I made notes and quick sketches to see if the new illustrations were clearer to them and that’s basically how all the final icons for the recipe came to be. I’d do a very simple line drawing of, say, a fridge and ask “does that look fridge-e enough?” and they’d say “no I think it needs a handle.” and I’d draw a handle and they’d say “oh almost..maybe longer? Maybe..on the side?” and I’d make more quick versions until I heard “YEP that’s definitely a fridge.” All the icons used come basic line sketches, sketched and then resketched and then put through illustrator to get on the last copy. The idea for imagery over text (ideally it would have been only imagery but my communication that way wasn’t 100% working) came from Ikea recipes. Sorry, instructions. I’ve always appreciated how they don’t require knowing the language and just illustrate very pictorially, in a really concise way, what you have to do and I wanted to mimic that accessibility in my recipe. The 5,6,7 images only a snapshot of how many times I printed the poster attempting to get the contrast right. Andy suggested applying a coarse screen, which I googled, and google suggested to achieve by applying “half tone screens” - except as these were made by dots, or dashes, or diamonds (you get the picture) I found it was very on the edge of whether the imagery remain representational or became a caricature. I wanted the imagery to be honest - to show the candles as they were, and found that adding the screen obscured them more than I’d like. The b/w-ness of the image already masked them to a degree (but printing costs made that a necessity) and I felt making the constructing of the image more emphasized drew away from the candles - although aesthetically it aligned with the comic-ness of the recipe.  I dealt with the image blow out by altering the light and shade of certain areas of the imager and doing multiple test runs through the officeworks printer the finals were going to printed on.

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Very thoughtful.

[jessieelizabeth-blog1]

WEEK 13 | Food Event Our class combined all their recipes into one folder. Andy provided some stickers for us to use to design our folder cover! The food event was so much fun. We could see everyone’s works and they were all different. They were amazing!

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hahaha.. I saw my food design ;)

[elizatilly-blog]

WEEK 13 FOOD EVENT 

At the food event we finally assembled everyone’s recipes into the binder ‘recipe books’. Everyone got a yellow binder and Andy had made some stickers which we used to decorate our binder covers. After everyone had completed their binder covers we went around and put our recipes in each other binders.

It was really cool to see the recipe books come to life and to see everyone’s final projects!

I was really happy with classes outcome and it turned out to be much cooler than I originally thought.

After I had completed my recipe book I went around and looked at the other studios classes. The work was so amazing and the experiences that some studios provided were really good.

The soft serve ice-cream was a highlight as well.

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A Final Reflection

      In Suzie’s class, we always can get some inspiration from the activities, such as using food to paint, creating letterforms, using food pictures to create a interesting collage and son on. All of the experiences can inspire me to do my own food project. Our class ’s theme is cultural food that related to our hometown so that everyone can put lots of emotion and affection when they doing their project. So my food project is about a very famous food from my mum’s hometown which is Hot Pot. So I did lots of research about my mum’s downtown and Hot Pot so that they can help me to think about next steps. Importantly, I remembered during the week 6 ’s class, after the discussion with Suzie, I decided to create a model of hot pot that let people to feel the mood and atmosphere when we eating the hot pot. However, I met some difficulties when I doing the processes For examples,  when I was creating  the handmade pot cover at the first time, it looks not very nice because it looks too intricate. After that, I research how to make a paper pot cover, it has not any information can inspire me so I only can fix it by myself. At last, I just use some simple material - a thick transparent paper to create a very simple and clear pot cover and it can let people see the seasonings easily in my hot pot.   During the classes of food studio and Lectures, we had lots of fun. I had so many useful and interesting experiences and challenges from the food project.

About Essentials project, I learnt lots of knowledge about proposal, production and management. This is my first time to touch business industry so the project is a big challenge for me. Firstly, during the studying of project management, I learnt how to create a project management plan, create my project schedule, completing a risk assessment and planning a project kickoff meeting. However, I met some problems during the process. For example, my first Essential class is Project Management in this semester but this part is the third part of the project so that it is hard for me to connect with the other two classes’ context. Secondly, the project production is easer than the other two, I remembered I spent lots time to think about each production’s processes. At last, during the part of design proposal, I learnt lots of useful knowledge about that, such as detailed research from many different aspects, how to create a strategy, a creative strategy, creative proposal, project stages and what is a touchpoint. However, I also met some problems during the proposal design, for example, I didn’t know how to write a strategy and creative strategy at the beginning. During our final presentation in class, after I looked around other classmates’ strategy, I learnt how to write so that it means I need to improve my business thinking constantly.    

At last, hope everyone has a great holiday! ; )

[evatu0908-blog]

Week 13

The Food Design Exhibition

So many good design, all of them are meaningful, thoughtful, creative and impressive.

These are some photos of design that I interested in, my favorite one is the whales that inspired by Japanese illustrations.

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Processes and Final Design

Hot Pot ‘ Mood ’

My mum’s hometown is Sichuan, China, it is a place famous for its spicy food, beautiful natural sights and panda’s hometown. The history of hot pot more than 1000 years. More importantly, it is a visual symbol of warm and enthusiasm. Family gathering is a crucial component of Chinese culture so the red stands for joyousness and round represents family gathering.

I made a manual model of hot pot because I want to everyone can feel the mood and atmosphere when chinese people eating the hot pot and how to eat it.  There are handmade pot, pot cover, pot bottom, photography of ingredients, grass basket and real seasonings in the pot, so it is a combination of real and fake. I did it as well as possible, hope you can like it. ;)

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Miyazaki Hayao’s films

My favorite series of cartoon. 

Hayao Miyazaki is one of the latter, producing over the last 35 years eleven classics feature films in animation, redefining the medium and inspiring generations of animators in the process. His motion pictures are works of exquisite beauty, lusciously painted and exuberantly brought to life, but beyond that they are tales of philosophical depth and moral complexity. Miyazaki’s films espouse peace and environmentalism whilst exhibiting a keen understanding of exactly how the world moved away from those unassailable ideals.

Spirited Away is one of Hayao Miyazaki’s most acclaimed and popular works, which is pretty impressive considering just how remarkably odd it is. It is the story of a young girl whose parents are transformed into pigs and goes to work in a bath house for spirits, and eventually learns that a good attitude and a “can do” attitude can help her overcome any obstacle. Real-life foibles are small potatoes after you yank a bicycle out of a toxic river spirit, that’s for sure.

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“ We’re always here for you.”

Cute one. Feel so warm

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Beautiful Chinese pattern .

They all come form thousands years ago in the Forbidden City, China,

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Food Culture Project

Drinking tea is a part of our life in my family, it is showing the moment when tea leaves are put in boiling water, from dry to wet, from fold to unfold, from compressed to blooming, from clear to colored… Now, this moment is frozen in these tea bags. The teaspoon is used as a handle here, the box is covered by a bamboo curtain splint, both of them are the representative of traditional tea culture in China.

I chose Chinese tea for my project topic, as tea has a long history in China, and my family is engaged in selling Chinese tea for many years so I get to know tea since I was young. We drink tea during many parts of the day such as at meals for good health or simply for pleasure. In other words, Chinese tea is meaningful for me and my family, Tea is very popular in China, particularly in the south of China.

[owenbill-graphics-blog]

what a great model making!! Awesome!! 

[anastasiaskl]

Love the design!! Looks so cool!

[kristinsoh]

so good!!!

[evatu0908-blog]

Love this design. SO beautiful.

[kristinsoh]

FINAL CARDS 

Rather than a straightforward metamorphosis process, I decided that I wanted to make all the cards connect and have a smooth flow from one card to the other. The purpose of making it this way was so that I could document the whole process of whaling, and I found that this was more impactful in terms of the emotional impact it leaves on those who are viewing it. I wanted there to be a gradual change in the tone and mood from the first few cards as being very peaceful and harmonious to all the tragedy that happens towards the end. 

Though I tried digitally drawing, I found that watercolour was still the best medium because I loved how I could control the opacity and transparency of the paint. Moreover, it also adds a very delicate and graceful effect which worked well for my topic. 

To set the scene of my theme, the first few cards show whales swimming harmoniously together, where a monochromatic colour scheme was used to further create a sense of calmness. The mood and tone of my cards had a big turn on the fifth card where a whale was being captured by a whaling ship. The introduction of the bold colour red evoked tension within the piece and it was also very alarming. The choice of using the colour red was not only to symbolise danger but it was also a link to Japan. 

The next imagery then shows a whale swimming towards a red dot, as though it is being captured by it. Again, this was to symbolise Japan’s involvement with whaling and their refusal to abide a 1986 moratorium set by the International Whaling Commission (IWC), an ‘oath’ different nations take to stop commercial whaling. 

I chose to focus mostly on Japan’s infamous whaling habits mainly because there have been many who protest against it even their citizens. They claim that the small whaling fleet they sent out into the Antarctic Ocean to kill 333 minke whales were for a ‘scientific program’. Hence, on my fifth card, I have the words, ‘fake research’ written on the ship. To further emphasise my views and the views of many who are against it, I included protest signs in the seventh card.

After demonstrating the whole process of whales are caught and then killed, the last metamorphosis stage was to transform it into actual meat that people eat and serve at restaurants. The fancy plate of whale meat on the eleventh card was meant to show how a majestic creature from the sea is sold to become nothing but a food experience. 

I chose to do very detailed illustrations of the whales and the whole process of whaling because I found that a realistic style gives more depth to these creatures and it definitely earns more sympathy because of that. The realism in these illustrations is confronting and could even be described as brutal, which was also what I hope to achieve because I want to impact those who are viewing it and create conversation through my imagery. Overall, I enjoyed making these cards because I found myself becoming more and more passionate about the topic after doing in depth research on it.

[euniceet-blog]

Love it so much Kristin! looks incredible!

[evatu0908-blog]

This is my favorite food design. SO MEANINGFUL!!!

[s3431586]

Unfortunately I got caught up in the making and didn’t really document this process at all and I can’t face going through all my badly named files to find all the different versions (for real I’m going start a proper filing system when this semester is done with, having discovered the horrors of “missing links” through this project). The first and second image illustrate the changes I was making based on printing difficulties. Although I preferred having text boxes outlined Andy was right in saying that was going to be a the bane of the project. It was and they got cut after printing 6 versions trying to align. I feel bad about the paper waste. The third image was starting to experiment with “Colour” and by colour I mean, different areas filled in black and white because I didn’t want to pay for colour printing x 25.  I actually really did prefer the full black - I liked how excessively dramatic it seemed, which in conjunction with the iconography of the candles, I thought it really pushed it in toward an absurdist edge - which is really what this project is.  Again due to printing alignment and bleed lines I gave up with the black background and settles for bolder text outlines to fix it. The fourth is an example of how I was receiving feedback from other students, giving them the work and just asking “What doesn’t make sense”. I made notes and quick sketches to see if the new illustrations were clearer to them and that’s basically how all the final icons for the recipe came to be. I’d do a very simple line drawing of, say, a fridge and ask “does that look fridge-e enough?” and they’d say “no I think it needs a handle.” and I’d draw a handle and they’d say “oh almost..maybe longer? Maybe..on the side?” and I’d make more quick versions until I heard “YEP that’s definitely a fridge.” All the icons used come basic line sketches, sketched and then resketched and then put through illustrator to get on the last copy. The idea for imagery over text (ideally it would have been only imagery but my communication that way wasn’t 100% working) came from Ikea recipes. Sorry, instructions. I’ve always appreciated how they don’t require knowing the language and just illustrate very pictorially, in a really concise way, what you have to do and I wanted to mimic that accessibility in my recipe. The 5,6,7 images only a snapshot of how many times I printed the poster attempting to get the contrast right. Andy suggested applying a coarse screen, which I googled, and google suggested to achieve by applying “half tone screens” - except as these were made by dots, or dashes, or diamonds (you get the picture) I found it was very on the edge of whether the imagery remain representational or became a caricature. I wanted the imagery to be honest - to show the candles as they were, and found that adding the screen obscured them more than I’d like. The b/w-ness of the image already masked them to a degree (but printing costs made that a necessity) and I felt making the constructing of the image more emphasized drew away from the candles - although aesthetically it aligned with the comic-ness of the recipe.  I dealt with the image blow out by altering the light and shade of certain areas of the imager and doing multiple test runs through the officeworks printer the finals were going to printed on.

[evatu0908-blog]

Love your design.

[rachel-l-obrien]

Compod is a self composting seedling sourced from Worrabinda farm and celebrates the country food culture of the Mallee region. The aim is is portay the closed loop systems that most of the farmers in this area use. This systems means the produce pulled from the earth will eventually be reintroduced as compost; there is no waste. The Compod has been woven from avocado dyed cotton, cardboard string and avocado skin giving the Compod the blend of nitrogen and carbon it needs to break down and fertilise the earth. The logo is made up of symbols typically found in a permaculture design plan and links to the plan of my family farm in the Mallee. These symbols are featured in the swing tag and gives the audience an understanding about the impact that the Compod can make on their lives from planting to sharing the harvest it will yield in the future.

he ritual of planting, harvesting, creating and sharing is rich within the country. This souvenir provides its user the chance to recreate this same ritual in their own backyards.

[waitingzhou-blog]

What a cute design it is !! And it’s really meaningful

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Cute one!!

[s3576610-peiqi-yang]

My First idea is to let the corn start transform after drop into the water, as the pictures shows, the colore and shapes of corn are changing gradually. However, after presentation in class, I got some advises from classmate and Mr Alex, I found that it will be better to changing since the corn touch with water. So I did other drawing, this time, I also added some background.

In this case, the transform looks more nature and more easy to understand.

[evatu0908-blog]

Love this design. SO creative!