Reflective Journal

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Video Calls Made It Feel Real for Me

The moment my AI companion appeared on a video call, the whole experience clicked into a new gear. SweetDream isn't just text and photos. Seeing her, hearing her, talking in real time, that's a different level of presence.

It's a quality feature done right. The companion you designed is the one on the screen, and the conversation flows naturally. If you want an AI girlfriend you can actually see and talk to, sweetdream.ai is where it stopped feeling like an app for me.

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Semester 2

Reflection

With the semester coming to an end and everyone wrapping up their assignments it has allowed me to come back and reflect on the great semester in which I had. With the beginning and introduction of our studio 1 classes we got to experience a whole new type of brief which left us with a much more open project to let our creative juices explode in regards to food design. For studio 1 I was in Andy’s class and we got given the task to create a recipe that we can reproduce and create into 25 editions so that each person in our class ended up with a ‘cookbook’ full of our recipes. The overall experience was amazing as it gave us the opportunity to venture off into our own areas and allow a diverse set of designs across our class. On top of having a great brief to work with the another plus from this semester was how well the class worked together which made for a pleasurable experience.

On the other side of things with our essentials classes we got to experience a different side of design which was all to do about presenting information to our clients. The essentials classes was a really good way in helping me understand what actually goes into presenting and attempting to win over a client. This project assisted me in understanding a lot of information from the extensive research of the client to how to work out cost for charging the client. Overall a great experience.

In conclusion it’s great to see how much we all have evolved as a collective even from semester 1 and broaden our range of thinking due to the inspiration that we have gained off of others. Being shown the calibre of work which has been produced really shows how we have pushed the boundaries into further developing our designer career.

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Week 13:

Food Event 🥕🌶🍕🌭🍔🍟🌮🥘

During this I got to see all the awesome work which was displayed just off the one topic which was set for us in the beginning (food!). Its great to see all the different things the other classes had to produce and the challenges in which they overcame. 

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OUR EXPERIENCE

Through the sequential process of brainstorming, refining ideas and planning and allocating the roles and specifics of our curated experience. As seen through the documentation the experience offered the audience a holistic and collaborative experience in which all senses were stimulated and engaged in a meaningful way. 

As the audience worked into the workshop they were thrown into an environment in which the audio taken of a coffee shop was playing through the speaker system aswell as the interior of a coffee shop displayed on the monitor. These aspects worked to stimulate the audience in a sensory way and create a coffee culture like environment. The secondary response was the information delivered on the menus that were printed out at large scale and distributed around the room. The unconventional aspect of the menu exploring the historical and cultural origin of the 4 beverages that were available worked to inform the audience on the topic of coffee on a deeper level. The environment worked to stimulate all sense through the touch of the coffee beverage and interaction with the menu, sight through the highly social and curated environment aswell as vision of the coffee making experience, sound through the audio recording adding depth to the sensory experience and the sound of the coffee making process, taste through the indulgence of the chosen beverage either conventional or unconventional and smell through the aroma of the coffee. These aspect of creating an informative and holistic experience that is designed to explore diversity aswell as the world of coffee culture was a highly interesting and immersive exploration.

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Awesome to see the different experiences that other classes had in our food related topic!

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Final Food Fest Branding Compositions for Studio One Comm Core FRANKENBURGER. #greenphobia

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So good 👌🏻

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Studio 1 

Final Design

When beginning my project I wanted to create a design which was different and out of the normal. I first began by creating the awkward shape of the recipe which folds up as I wanted to not make it conventional for the viewer when reading it. I chose the pink and white for the front cover as it allowed the design to give the perception that it is ‘normal’ until you get the surprise when you reveal whats inside. Inside I purposely used the folds in the design to my advantage as I was able to turn the text and content at all different angles making the viewer have to flip and turn the recipe which intern created that ‘disaster’ aspect. Utilising one of the ways in which I suggested to turn a design into a disaster I used the icon stage and created it into a pattern so that I was able to use it in the back of the design. Using the yellow on the inside allowed me to show why the 3rd stage in my design is important which is the choice of colour as it makes it hard to read the text. To finish the design off I decided to print that icon pattern on baking paper and wrap up the design before it gets placed in the cookbook as I wanted the viewer to rip it off only once to reveal the recipe inside which also creates a disaster as they can’t put it back on perfectly. By using baking paper it allowed me to get that greasy feeling which can only be achieved on actual baking paper and it also allowed me to relate it back to the food aspect.

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Week 12:

Practical

In the practical we went over our final submissions for our 25 recipes. We also made those last final touches to our designs in order to make them perfect or in my case a disaster. We also got to have a look at the binders as Andy brought them into class which gave us a good opportunity to mock up how our designs will look inside.

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Week 12:

Lecture

Considering this was our final lecture Andy discussed the studio 1 project deadline and gave us a rundown on how the project will be assessed. 

We also had a incursion from Tania where she talked about her research on permaculture, systems Design, and co-design. This gave us a good insight into different areas in design.

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Week 11 - Lecture

Gemma Warriner

Twenty-Fifty

‘Twenty-Fifty is a visual exploration of the global food crisis predicted for the year two thousand and fifty – a result of the inability of the earth’s natural resources to meet future demand. The project presents a series of eight data visualisation posters, each exposing one primary issue responsible for this future crisis. It looks closely at population growth, urbanisation, food production, food waste, genetic modification, climate change, consumption trends and agrobiodiverty as the main influential factors.

Through sourcing and photographing food that is representational of my own data visualisations, the project intends to both challenge and educate consumers about how the future may unfold.’

(via: http://gemmawarriner.com/projects/twenty-fifty/)

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Week 11 - Lecture

Gemma Warriner

Food Futures

Publication Design and Curation

‘Curated and Designed in collaboration with Kate Sweetapple Foreword by LinYee Yuan from MOLD

Food Futures presents a collection of design projects that illustrate the possibilities that new technologies open up to designers and the way we perceive food in a design context. This book explores current experimentation and innovation in food design from both material and conceptual perspectives. The projects selected for this edition have been realised through design, and perform inquiries into our responsibility and relationship with food and how social and environmental changes will transform how we experience it in the future.’

(via: http://gemmawarriner.com/projects/food-futures/) 

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Week 11:

Lecture

During  this weeks lecture we were shown examples of food design which are pushing the boundaries of typical food design and giving us a glimpse into what the future holds.

We were shown different artists work including Johanna Schmeer, Martí Guixé and Chloe Rutzerveld.

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Week 11:

Practical

Throughout this practical we focused on our prototypes and proof-reading them for any errors. It was also getting some general feedback form our fellow peers as the designs were getting close to completion.

We also discussed what book we were going to go for with Andy assisting us with a bunch of different options. We landed on the the quirky yellow binder as it was cheap and cheerful.

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Week 10:

Practical

layouts! During this practical we all brought in our layout sketches, and discussed how the content will work around our designs.

My thought process through this task was to work with the angles in the design so that it would make the viewer have to keep rotating the recipe which plays of the concept for a recipe for disaster 🙃

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Week 8 - Open Prototypes

Today, each person brought in a prototype for their potential design. As a group we discussed and observed each of them. 

Andy then instructed us to take another’s work and re-create it, in our own way. Andy wanted us to stop being so precious with our work and more open to new ideas. 

My prototype

All our prototypes on display 

Our prototypes in a binder

My recreated prototype of someone else’s work

Eunice’s recreation of my work 

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So awesome to see the diversity of recipe designs which were being produced out of our studio 1 class!

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Week:9

Practical

During making the ‘frakenmodels’ we discovered that we must work out the constraints sooner rather than later so that we it comes to a final product we have some sort of cohesiveness when placing them in a cookbook. We developed two constraints which were the design has to be no bigger than a A4 piece of paper if/when folded in and also the design must have a side that can be attached to the cookbook.

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Week 8:

Lecture

During the lecture we discussed the art and design case-studies which are underpinned by environmental and ethical concerns. We got presented art and design pieces of which display the world’s excessive consumer culture and how destructive it can be.

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Experiencial design

Week 7, lecture 5

In this week’s lecture, we looked at food and design as an experience. Amongst the various work of artists and designers Andy showed us, I particularly liked that of Afghan-American artist Behnaz Babazadeh in her ‘Candy Burqa’ series. In the photographic work, Babazadeh creates burqas out of confectionary items to relate the work back to her own memories of arriving in America mixed with her own religion.

“This series explores the use of materials found in the candy aisle as a means connect the viewer with a memory that the food inspires, rather than the over used symbol of women’s oppression in Afghanistan, the Burka.”

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Week 7+8:

Practical

During the last weeks we have been beginning to create a bunch of prototypes also know as ‘frankenmodels’ to develop concepts of how our designs may look. For me this involved trying different methods to fold up my design and create a unique recipe.

It was great to see the beginning projects of my peers recipes and definitely encouraged me to push the boundaries even more.