Category: Design Studio
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GRAD701 & 703. W13
This week was our final period before submission. I spent the week writing my exegesis, designing the templates and finishing the final publication of my interactive storybook!! The process was incredibly tiring, yet fun. I used a safe adhesive spray in my kitchen to paste all of my consertina pages together. This time I printed…
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GRAD701 + 703. W12
This week I began researching and testing my interactive elements for the storybook. I went scouting around many bookstores in the city, and found some great examples at unity bookstore. The books were all aimed for children, however through my testing, I found that even young adults like to look through picture books when they…
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GRAD701. W11
This week I am researching and testing my mockup ideas for my narrative stories. I want to mock it up in two forms, one digital and one printed media. 1. Similar to a indie video game trailer – click through trailer.2. Adult picture book My investigation into forms of digital media has moved me into…
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GRAD701. W10
This week we have been working on creating and finishing prototypes of our outcomes, and I wanted to try something a bit different for mine. While my outcome is made for a digital space (scrolling website on desktop or phone) I am a huge fan of physical interactive elements – like playing with popup books…
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GRAD701. W9
Watercolour Storyboarding: Traditional painting and storyboarding is a large part of my creative process. Digital mediums are great for final creation and editing of artistic material, but the essence of my style is materialistic. I went to Gordon Harris to collect a large amount of thin paper, and transferred it to the bindery lab. They…
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GRAD701. W8
I want to tell a story which I can relate to personally. The story of my life and my mother. the sustainable things that she taught me, the good practices and looking after our familiars, Theakston and Mistletoe. I think true storytelling is a fantastic way to pass down a practice or lesson. and this…
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GRAD701. W6
Parallax Website Links https://www.sbs.com.au/theboat/https://www.cabletv.com/the-walking-deadhttps://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/tomato-can-blues/index.htmlhttp://jessandruss.us/ Focus Group Feedback There were alot of answers which went off track from our original questions, as our interviewees were passionate about different topics. The minutes/notes Hannah and I took were very long and full, so I have only taken out he useful comments from Focus Group: Do you ever feel…
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GRAD701. W5
Formative Presentation on Wednesday Original Outcome: Kids Kit ]: Website design and photographic assets for advertisement The website I create will be the main hub which holds all elements of our sustainable kit project. It will have a child like quality but be aimed at lecturers. I will design the layout, hierarchy, colour scheme and…
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Holiday Break
At the end of our holiday break, we hosted a meeting at the university study rooms to go over our research, materials and begin making our presentation. Myself, Hannah, Maria and Vivienne attended the meeting for 4 hours. This was a key meeting as we finalized many of our design outcomes, visual aesthetics and discussed…
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GRAD701. W4
PRESENTATION FEEDBACK During week four we had a presentation to prepare and complete. This presentation consisted of 5 boards, including Our design problem, question, some contextual knowledge like diagrams and statistics, and the outcomes each group members planned on creating. I after the initial information was handed over by some team members, I worked closely…