daily reflections
• 13.02.2020 •
To start the project, we had a talk explaining how to tackle on this project through different types of research and ways to use workflow. I therefore decided to organise my workflow today after class so that my research and reflections will be clear as well as my mind. This also made me realise how vast my chosen theme is : The 8th Continent (I'm also thinking of changing the name) and that I need to do. In terms of the research task, I thought I would do that most efficiently if I planned ahead what I wanted to research and look for at the library. Making a table in my sketchbook really helped me in doing this.
I then had a group tutorial with Georgia, where she said my proposal was strong but needed to be refined and cut down a little. Listening to my peers explaining their ideas, I realised how important waste journey could be in my project and that it was something I wanted to do further research on. I started right away and tried to show how much waste I had created since I woke up.
Because of this, I also want to experiment keeping ALL my waste for one week in a bag to realise how bad it can get.
• 24.02.2020 •
To start the week we got into groups that 'defined' our themes. I was placed in 'nature inspired' which made sense since my theme is focused on the impact of pollution and waste in the ocean. We then started sharing our research which was very interesting because although all our projects were nature related, our sources were very diverse. This enabled to to have wider research resources once I added them into my project.
In this workshop, I realised some of my sources needed to be more reliable, or I needed to find some that were from most recent years and more trustworthy writers.
• 25.02.2020 •
We started the day with an 'evil cinema' and I volunteered to show my workflow. This crit made me realise how I could upload video content onto my workflow and showed different layouts that would suit my way of thinking.
Later, I basically just advanced in my research, took in information from the tutorial I had with Tom and from yesterday's group workshop. Tom gave me this research teaching as my theme is very vast. I want to try it right away as it could better organise my sources.
• 26.02.2020 •
This day, we started by doing a peer workshop where everyone put things I should research onto my paper and commented what I should maybe look at. This really helped me gain more insight into the more nature based side of my project, not only focusing on the ocean part. I also gained more information of places to go where I could learn a lot more about materials, artists and what designers have already done o resolve garbage patches and over consumption of plastic.
Later, we did a workshop where everyone brought photos and we categorised them between chosen groups. From this, I saw how much my peers focused on different aspect of nature and mostly one of them onto sculptural pieces. This made me think of ways I could maybe create something less functional and more sculptural to send a message to the audience.
Traditional vs Contemporary. This exercise taught me how diverse my research was and encouraged me to continue doing so even though the majority of them were contemporary as my theme is quite recent compared to others. I therefore need to look back more, to what happened before garbage patches arrived, how they grew over time and what designers/people did in the past to prevent them.
This exercise divided my photos in two categories : hand-made vs manufactured. This was really interesting as I realised most of the photos/research I had brought came into the manufactured section whereas I thought most of my research was hand-made, crafted. This made me think of ways I could combine both making methods for my final product.
In this workshop where we divided the photos in four categories : outdoors/indoors , sculptural/functional ; I placed my name between indoors (and outdoors) and functional as I want my product to be this way. Through this, I wanted to show how my future product will be, concerned about the outside world but it will be used indoors by its users. I also want it to be functional in order to help and improve people's lives and having a positive impact on the outdoors world.
• 27.02.2020 •
Materials wall
During this day, I brought many kinds of materials I found either in workshops, in the classroom or which I had previously collected. I wanted to use materials that had already been used to experiment how I could give another life to it by mixing it with other materials. This made me think how I could reuse old plastic, resin, wood, bamboo and food (rice, pasta...) to create new objects that made sounds/music.
This workshop made me realise how much I want my project to focus on materiality and reusing old used object to create new ones. I realised how playful my ideas were, and how interested I was in terms of shapes with other people's designs such as Yifan's, made from latex and pins.
Heli experimenting with my model, thinking it could be used as a hand pillow. this made me think of how people perceive objects as when I made it, I never thought it would have such a purpose.
• 02.03.2020 •
We officialized roles and workshops today within the 'nature inspired' group. This made it more clear but the bets part was trying to find ways of creating fun workshops to do.
Later on, we did a workshop with Kathleen who told us to generate more ideas alongside our themes and to draw only from one word. My chosen three words were : inspiring, playful and inclusive. I chose these as I believe they best describe how I want my object to be.
MINIATURES
In this workshop, I was really challenging for me because the ideas that my peer chose were impossible to make as I did't have adequate materials and were really complicated to make. I therefore chose her third option of making the bag bottle belt. This seemed simple until I decided to explore with a new material : leather. After testing how it would contain the water bottle, I decided to change material and saw up pieces of water bottle to show how we could reuse water bottle and create new objects from them.
• 03.03.2020 •
After having our group tutorial with Tom, we decided to do workshop 2 but only 3 of us did it as other team members went home.
Recording Ideas
This workshop was actually really fun and challenging. We started by creating a mind map where each of us (blue - Mingyang, red - Takashi, green - me) put words that described our projects. Then we cut out of it the three words we thought summarised our themes best and placed them inside rice. We each picked one and then had 2 minutes to draw up an idea. We had to draw three ideas (or more) for each word. We then shared what we had done and gave each other opinions. This was really helpful to me as I learnt that my ideas were too sculptural from my and my peers' perspectives. I was also very interested in Takashi's functionality in his work and made me think about how I could try his way of perceiving product design.
Mingyang's work is fascinating, how animal based she is. It also made me realise how much I didn't want to do that !! I really need to focus on a product that will be used by humans but will enlarge them to have a positive attitude and actions towards animals and the environment.
• 05.03.2020 •
SCAMPER
This workshop was really difficult for me. I had already done 2 workshops that were about generating ideas and I was confused on my outcomes and what I needed to focus on.
• 16.03.2020 •
Today I was supposed to be at Archway but my parents called me around 5 am to tell me the situation had worsened in France and I had to come back hie before they close all the borders. I therefore wasn't able to come to Archway but I got all the emails, printed them, got feedback from peers and got my Workflow organised.
• 17.03.2020 •
Today, I got started by doing all the changes on workflow which I think are really smart. This way, I have myself, and my tutor, a better visualisation of my work. It feels great to be this organised.
I also created a colour code for my sketchbook to enable the audience to see my workflow as it would be in the sketchbook, not get lost with the pages and understand what each page relates to. I thought this would be a good system and after being put in place, I thought It was really successful and easily understanding.
• 18.03.2020 •
Reflection exercise Prompts
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Reflect on how the current situation is affecting your progress on Unit 4
I have returned to France due to the virus and am at home with my family. Because of this, I don't have access to design books or books related to my theme of bins and bin bags but I'm trying to use reliable sources from the internet. I do have full access to wifi and my computer which enables me to work on Workflow. I also have adequate art equipment so I'm still working on my sketchbook.
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Reflect on how you are managing to source materials for your project
I have created a new document to keep my bibliography up to date but because I have no access to a design library, most of my research is online, on magazines or simply products in my home that I study, human interactions with them.
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Reflect on how working in a less direct and collaborative way is impacting on your process
It's difficult for me to focus sometimes as I get distracted easily and love working with others. Also, my siblings like to make fun of my work (as a joke) so sometimes I prefer to isolate myself to do it and it's not my most efficient working method. I have planned ahead with friends to call and work at the same time in the weeks to come as we work well together. This will enable me to work more efficiently and get feedback from them.
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Tell us of any resourceful ways you have found to share your Unit 4 work and keep yourself positive and on track
I've kept my workflow up to date and very organised. I tried to make it fun and easy to understand although it's very organised. I'm also going to send photos and share my work with friends for any feedback and just to get some time together, make this part as fun, collaborative and interesting as it would have been if we were at Archway. I'm always really positive so I'm working everyday alongside my little sister, so we both motivate each other. I also make myself to do lists to ensure I get things done.
• 19.03.2020 •
Prompts
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Reflect on how you are having to work with alternative materials and how you will source them
I've been working with A3 white paper to make the small experimental models for the moment. It should be easy to source them. I haven't decoded yet the material I'll be using for the final product as I first want to see what materials I have access to thus, making a proper product with the adequate qualities.
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Reflect on how you will have to use alternative processes
I have no access to the workshops and to the machines so I'm going to try my best with what I'll have. I wanted to use cardboard in my final product at first which is easy to use but I probably won't have enough of it. I do have access to drills and other equipment for wood usage so I might make my final product in wood but I don't think it has the right properties for my ideas and theme. I want something light and easily reusable, recyclable, like cardboard.
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Reflect on the processes you really enjoyed and mastered in Part 1 and 2 and how you can employ new and resourceful making techniques that have a similar aesthetic
During Part 1 and Part 2, I really enjoyed and mastered making techniques from the metal and wood workshop. I only used once the plastic workshop but it was a success to make the moulds for my last project.
I believe my greatest strengths in the workshops was drilling, I have steady hands, I'm precise and patient. I also love to cut (don't really know why) and my cut products were in my opinion well done and accurate.
The qualities I had to do these things with wood and metal, I can do with paper and cardboard although it take a lot of time. I made models yesterday and today and even though they don't look like much, it took me a long time to cut, attach and put together.
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Tell us of your frustrations at dealing with all these new limitations
I can't be as creative or experimental with my making process which is something I adore doing and get a lot of my ideas from. I'm also scared my products won't be as successful as they would have been if I had access to all the UAL resources. I also really don't like the fact I'm not surrounded by my peers. It's really intimidating to work around my family as they're always judging my work, telling me what I should make. With my friends, it was really open-minded, we each gave each other feedback, support and helped with anything at anytime. I really miss them and working along their side.
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Explain how it feels working remotely from your tutors
Not easy at all. The tutors to me aren't just teachers they're like wise men of the design world that are always there for us and help us. They have the right words and help me with my ideas and organising myself in my head as I often get overwhelmed. I'm really sad not to work with them anymore but I'm going to test calling Georgia and my group through Zoom. I'm also really glad Kathleen has been sending us the daily work action plans and it's really helped me to work and organise myself. Tom has sent us some really nice research pages I've looked at and studied. The way the tutor have organised their working schedule around the virus is to me very successful and efficient.
• 20.03.2020 •
Today we had a group call with Georgia and 5 other peers using Zoom. This was really interesting as it ws the first time I took an 'online' class although we just talked about how the virus and quarantine was affecting our work and how the rest of the foundation year would turn out.
I really enjoyed using Zoom as it was really effective and fun to see everyone. I believe it would be great to have daily or better weekly calls in small groups with a tutor to catch up on work and talk, and feel like Uni is still going.
• 21.03.2020 •
This document was sent to me by Caleb on the call from yesterday and got me really interested in ideas for my final outcome. Before this, I also wanted to make a sort of book like Jan (he's a 2018-2019 student from FAD who came to talk to us about his project) as it really inspired me.
My goal is not only to be a designer but a teacher through my ideas and products. Due to the quarantine, our exhibition will most probably be cancelled and therefore, I need to find a way to present my work in a non 3D way (my final product will be 3D but photographed). I was thinking of a small book, a short film or anime... I'm still thinking about which would be suit my design.
• 23.03.2020 •
Prompts
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Reflect on how you feel your experience of the final phase of Unit 4 is different to your peers from last years PDC group
Well first of all, I don't have any of my peers around me and this is making my working methods and ethic pretty difficult and not as effective. I love getting feedback, help, talking with my friends, in a collaborative way. It really makes my work better in my opinion. I also can't experiment as much or have access to certain machines or materials. Experimenting is something really important and big in my projects and being limited is something I've struggled with.
This experience is probably really restraining compared to last year's students but it's also challenging and I want to take it on. I also like having my family around as they give me personal contextual feedback, mostly my mom.
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Discuss how you intend to take photographs of your own project work to a similar standard that previous students experienced with a professional photographer
I'm really lucky to have a good camera so and I can do a fake photo studio with white drops for a background and my sister or brother as my model. I don't have good lighting though which is what will probably make my photograph not of really good quality.
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Write about how you feel the end of year show. Do you have any alternative ideas of how we can promote your work?
It's really sad that there won't be a show but this gives us the opportunity to find something completely new and innovative to present CSM FAD work.
We could make a certain format of a book for each student to present their work like design sheets with explanatory texts. Then, we all join them together and make a digital book (print some out) for people to read and view. We could make a movie or even a website where viewers can directly ask questions to the students.
It could be a live video on social media platforms where everyone presents their work in a limited amount of time.
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Explain how you are motivating yourself while working remotely from tutors and peers
Well, it's not easy, at all. I try to motivate myself by imagining the final product finished to motivate me to keep going until I've achieved that and I'm happy and proud of the final outcome. I also call my peers to see how they're doing, and so we can work together but we're all in different countries and the time zones don't help. I also try to do and show every step of my thinking process in my sketchbook to keep my mind clear and be motivated to keep going.
• 24.03.2020 •
Prompts
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Reflect on how the COVID-19 situation is impacting on the industry that you want to enter into
Well, designing things for people when you can't actually communicate with them face-to-face is really difficult. Added to this, I don't believe people really care about beautiful designs but more about survival and health ones.
Right now, designers should work on making effective protection and health products that are easy to manufacture. They could also make videos for example on how to make home masks.
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Reflect on how the current situation is impacting on the manufacturing processes that your chosen industries utilise
Most of the manufacturing machines are being deviated to create first aid products like respirators. In France, most of the businesses have closed unless their food, pharmacies... This means that most designers won't have the ability to make products because they're not allowed to be around other people.
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Reflect on how you think product and ceramic designers need to respond, given the current situation
Well they should invest in digital creations, using photoshop, or any design app to create their ideas and then share them through social media platforms. They should also communicate with one another to help the pharmaceutical industry creating simple designs for the products that are most needed to help patients.
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Explain how you think the situation will change and evolve the design industry
I really believe people are going to change their opinions on what matters on life instead of what looks 'cool' or is an accessory. In the future, designers will probably have to make products that are more about their function than anything else. They might also have to create 'survival packets', small bags placed in households for any future epidemics coming.
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Try to find an article in the news that covers these concerns. Upload an image of the article and respond with your thoughts and ideas
• 30.03.2020 •
Today I kept going with the project by doing the HATS workshop and developing my ideas. I also used photoshop to get my previous paper models into specific environments thus, testing their stability for households as well as their colour, size... From there, I realised how much I found interesting the continue and create a bin or a series of them for kitchens. I also decided from all the tests I made and experiments to really focus on either a logo or colour code for each recycling bin. This will encourage the users to recycle and be aware of their waste print.
I then did some research on the type of recycling bins that existed and normal bins. I chose to focus on four types of recycling as to me they are what households consumer me/waste the most : plastic, paper, organic and glass.
I then decided I had to chose between certain bin sizes, amount of waste they'll be storing. I want users to not break their backs whenever they have to take the bins out and therefore, I want them to contain between 5 to 20 Litres of waste max.
And about having multiple bins attached to the wall near each other, I need to find a system to attach them to the wall and not to each other as I did in my paper model 2 & 3.
HATS WORKSHOP
How was the hats workshop different to my usual process of reflection?
It was really good to me to step back from my project and critic every aspect of it. It made me confident about some of its aspects but also made me rethink about other sides of it. I usually think though testing my moles and getting people's opinions or feedback, doing further research and then evaluate it. With this workshop, I had the written everything and had therefore to face it all. It was very interesting way of dealing with the project.
Did the hats workshop highlight the problems with my idea / project?
Yes, I was really scared about the efficacy of the product due to its shape and diverse gadgets inside of it. I want something that helps people and I was scared it would actually make people spend more time doing bins which is something I need to avoid. I was also not sure at all about the shape and structure the bin needed as I wanted something modern and stylish to be hung on the wall but functional and easy to use daily.
Did the hats workshop help me to identify the strengths of my idea / project?
I do think so but not as successfully as I hoped as I found what I really wanted to incorporate in my bin after this workshop. What I like most about this project is the way it will make people change their behaviour towards recycling and waste management. They will recycle and have a product to help them do so.
Did the workshop lead me towards any new directions that I might adopt?
I finalised my design structure and I'm really happy I chose the one I did. I think it can be a good design that will be functional, modern, and easy to use.
• 31.03.2020 •
I started the day directly going onto making as I'm actually really confused of where I'm going at the moment. It's been difficult to decide where I should go with this project with no feedback from peers or tutors. I therefore, once finished with the attachments workshop, drew up my design ideas directly into kitchen and asked my sister and mom what they thought would be most successful.
My sister said the half cylinder bin would be best so I made a paper model to see how it could be in reality. Well, I really disliked it and realised it wasn't what I wanted my final outcome to look like.
My mom then said she needed a bin that was really easy to wash and that wouldn't smell bad and be so heavy. She also said she needed something that was modern, stylish, colourful.. something also decorative and not just a bin, with a textile finishing. In terms of my ideas, she really liked my triangular bins, but thought they'd be more successful if they were upside down. She also like my circle/square bin (my preference).
I thought it would be wiser to make one choice of bin instead of having to make multiple ones but I was confused on which to make. But in the end, I really believed my circle/square bin would be most effective and modern, stylish.
Finally, I took photos of all my sketchbook, and put everything on my workflow. I need to find a way to communicate, annotate or make voice records to explain my pages. I was either thinking of writing bullet points for every page or record myself talking.
• 01.04.2020 •
I really enjoyed today. I made my first prototype in paper for the opening and closing system of my bin. I want to make it a movement sensory opening system because I wanted to show the importance of 'no touching' like in this time of virus, no bacteria sharing. I also wanted something linked to technology and that would be efficient and stylish and easy to open and close. This lid will also enable the smells not to get away from the bin.
I also called my mom's friend who is an interior designer and told her about my idea. She said that there were a lot more habitants in small apartments than in housing and that I should therefore modify my waste management idea. Personally I didn't agree with that, I believe not only can my project be suitable for apartments but that more people live in houses nowadays mostly in France.
Added to this, I decided to pursue my idea of having a weighing base of the bin to show people the amount of waste they produce. But, I don't think the idea of dropping the bin into the bigger bin trolley is still a suitable idea. Instead, I'm thinking of making a 'side door' to the bin to take the bin bag out.
• 03.04.2020 •
Today I've made cardboard model and a tracing paper one.
Tracing paper model - through this model I wanted to show and test where the bin hooks/clips would be. Indeed, I want to have four attaching/holding mechanisms inside the bin to hold the bin bag in place. This will make it easier to get the bin bag inside the bin and to keep it in place.
Cardboard model - this model was a great outcome in my opinion because It successfully showed how I wanted to create the weighting and bottom mechanism. Basically, my mom told me about how bad it is to lift the bin bag upwards when taking the bins out. It hurts her back and also my grandmother's. I wanted to attach them onto the wall and to then bring the rally bin underneath them. The bottom base of the bin will be taken away two the bin just falls into it. This system is also to make it a lot easier to clean the bin. My mom told me how impossible and annoying it is to clean ours.
• 07.04.2020 •
Today I just chilled as I was stressed again from the project, I haven't been very confident with it as I don't have feedback from my tutors and it doesn't feel like it's going to be as functional as it should be. So I called my friends from FAD, Meet, Estair, and Megha and it was just the bets time ever. We talked about what was going on due to the virus... But later, I asked them about my project and they told me some really cool stuff to research and that I should pursue it. This really gave be a confidence boost and I got straight into making !!!
• 08.04.2020 •
making the door and the hook
I really tried to develop all my final ideas into my sketchbook as well as making more models to test what worked and what wouldn't. Through this, I found how I wanted to make the opening of the side door of the bin to take the bin bag out without the user's back being compromised. I did this by testing with cardboard different opening methods. I wasn't really pleased with the first tests as they didn't work the way I wanted to, the space the cardboard door takes when opening is just not efficient and space consuming. I therefore mixed one of my models with the same opening type as the bin opening : sliding up and down. I was really happy with the idea as it won't talk up more space when opening and can be super easy to use.
In terms of the bin hooks, I haven't finalised my idea but my research is difficult to do as I want hooks that won't break the bin bag due to it's heavy weight but also to be able to hold it . This made me think of all the different types of bins bags you could find, how they open and close... I can't make a 'hook' type only suitable for one type of bin bag and this make this object of the bin really challenging. I was thinking of combining two types of hooks that would suit a vast majority of the existing bin bags people buy daily. But added to this, I need to consider the size of the bin bag so it won't be too heavy for the hooks and for the user to carry.
• 09.04.2020 •
Today was THE DAY, I made the actual sized model of my idea. It was really exciting and realised all the dimensions I had planned were too small. I therefore scaled up everything and I'm really happy with the overall result although I would have preferred it to be in another material. I was thinking about that actually and realised how many pieces of materials (cardboard and paper) I had needed. Which material would be most suitable and sustainable for this product? I was thinking of a mix between wood and metal as the wood is sustainable and the metal would have been recycled.
This bin needs to be easily cleaned, functional, least touching possible... I want it to lessen the user's back pain and make it fun and attractive to also serve as decoration in the kitchen. I still haven't figured out the colours, patterns, logo which would be onto it as I don't know yet if I want to colour code bins for recycling or simply place a logo onto each. I was thinking the user could personalise them but this would make it maybe more difficult and time consuming in the making proxcess, manufacturing.
In terms of the final visualisation, I want to develop a book to explain my process, some research, educate the readers. and show how much product will teach them how to waste management and have another perception of their actions and waste. Through the 'weighing base', I want the user to get a reward that could be a product or monetary every time they produce a certain amount of recycling waste. This will encourage them to recycle and give them a gift, something to look forward to. This book will be published online and I might to some printed copies. It would be delivered with the product when bought as this bin isn't just a bin, it's a story, it's a change of lifestyle.
• 14.04.2020 •
Today thing with Georgia, Kathleen and Tom
- Doing a digital page with all the work, catalogue in PDF with same layout
- Can send pictures from other projects in PDC, like vessel, Chelsea project, up to 5 images and some text
https://issuu.com/3ddafoundation
- Look at handout of photography, send previous photos
- Handout of photoshop
- Look up Moodle for documents, handouts
- Be flexible as a group
- Book a tutorial through mail, Wednesday and Thursday
- If you can keep working, hard working, resourceful, find ways to keep working
- Keep positive and project going
- Not worry too much, share work if possible, use PART 4 project, share work while managed to keep working during quarantine
- They’re proud of our previous work, good projects to choose from
- Still waiting to know how we will be graded, government to college, not their decision, not disadvantaged
- Final thing can be a visualisation
- All in foundations are still stuck
- If from part 2, no need to have more research or workflow
- Catalogue won’t be assessed, share images and text, done work or something new part 4
- Models don’t need to be fully working, or full scale, complexity resolved
- Next Wednesday = DEADLINE FOR CATALOGUE wed, 22nd - videos, text, images
- Don’t overthink, no standard layout
- One large image + two, making based
- Images, = as big as I can send, look Moodle, high resolution
- Sign up on tutorial on Moodle
Catalogue Submission link and info: https://moodle.arts.ac.uk/mod/assign/view.php?id=420848
- Handout Georgia - activities to work, updated for project, diversity, exclusivity, ethic… use the wheel in project
- Am I leaving people out? Making assumptions? Money? Income, social class, language, instruction = apply to outcome or final design.. or activity
- Look at ethics, good behaviour, is it helping, how? What the consequences would be if everyone used it, would there be problems
- upr, protecting people’s info, unintended consequences, post on workflow or sketchbook, catalogue, taking step bad from project, not practical
- Kathleen, workshops, can be reflective or sketchbook based, spacing the project will inhabit, who/person who will own product, identity of product GIVE NAME to my bin
- Where handout, and who work, giving the product a home, thinking of the space in a reflective way, who lives in the space, ILLUSTRATE that in any way
- Think of audience, creating a Character, look up Donna Wilson, [ Kathleen disappeared for like 1 minute ] gives them names and description of her products, creating a personality to product, personality of the brand, imagine who designing for, gender of product, stores where they go shopping, book reading, what they like to eat, what they like to do in their free time
- Do as much as I can and try keep motivation and momentum, keep moving as a designer
- Regardless on mark and deadline, could go in portfolio in placement of 1rst year.. be resourceful, most studios don’t have workshop, make amazing models
- A new design problem, creative challenge
- Another teams conversation next week
• 16.04.2020 •
Meeting with Kathleen, Can & Mert - 16.04.2020
- We work all together before and now on our own
- Tutors and course want to be fair with everyone, but very challenging to grade
- Keep working, having a schedule
- Try do your best, motivate yourself, keep going
- How I can do things differently
- Work on visualisation
- Select kitchens where designs are understated way, focus on the bin
- Select better photos, kitchens, garages, look at interior designer
Today I wanted to change things up and focus on the appearance of the bins. I printed a lot of them and wanted to have fun with my sister Magalie. We used watercolours, asked my mom, brother and friends for different colours and some unexpectedly were good together or really bad. Overall this was an amazing experience and I realised how much work comes into developing a product and wanting to produce it in large quantities.
My mom told me about Farrow&Ball who made beautiful paint and wall paper. I immediately got the idea to select colours from them as I can't create them and then create 'matchings' to help the customers.
• 17.04.2020 •
I did the diversity workshop today to see how my project affected people and how they are, the way they would interact with my product. I don't want my product to offend any cultures or traditions. This product is meant to help people to recycle and be aware of their waste imprints. Not only will they have a positive impact on the recycling cycle but they get rewards depending on the amount of waste they generate.
Who... workshop
• Did the workshop highlight any aspects of my project that I had not considered?
I really had not considered giving my product a personality and loved doing it although it felt very strange. I really enjoyed drawing my bins little legs and arms, it really brought them to life in a playful way.
• Did the workshop change the direction of my project?
Not really, I already wanted to create a colour code and that the colours would be the personalities of the bins. I don't really want to give a name and personality traits for each bin. I do want to find a cool and catchy name for the bins and link it to the corona virus too.
• Did the workshop suggest new techniques or directions that I might adopt?
The workshop suggested me to consider the materials I could use in the product and the techniques to bind each side to one another. I want to adopt the colour codes for the customers to chose from and adapt to their homes' vibes and preferences.
• 18.04.2020 •
I've been trying to use the app uMake to try and create my product in a 3D digital product. I thought it would be challenging but doable and it's actually been so difficult. I can't get the shape right or add certain parts of the product I built through the app.
Where... workshop
• Did the workshop highlight any aspects of my project that I had not considered?
Not really, I was sure I wanted to make the product to go into the kitchen or garage of a household. Maybe it could go into bathrooms and a common house room but as it is mainly for recycling, I don't see the point. I did notice it could be a good product for people in wheelchairs as they choose how high the want to place it and are aware of their weight so they can take their bins out easily.
• Did the workshop change the direction of my project?
Not really It just made be ,ore confident on my chosen location of the product. I want households to be educated on recycling and on their waste imprint. This product will help them to do so and will also be personalised to them with their colours.
• 21.04.2020 •
Kathleen, Georgia and Tom talk 21.04.2020
- Submit images and text tomorrow to Tom
- On Wednesday , sign up on Moodle for tutorial
- 50 to 75 words text not 100 words
- Break the rules make it PUNCHY
- Look at handout for short text methods on Moodle
- I can upload them later too
- Tell the story handout
- Focus on the WHAT to explain what I designed, contextualise the project, why I did it, where and where
- Take the viewer on a journey, explain, I started with this… outcome is this… CLEAR outcome can be useful, what is it?
- Why did I do it? If complicated, explain background to then say outcome, TITLE, not the project proposal , don’t have to, more poetic or infringing, choose voice in writing, third person about project or ‘I’. If project is more personal, owner ship, connection with designer.
- Watch out for the pictures, how images support the writing, show models, or visualisation in use of the product
- Correct it before publishing it, need to feel confident, needs to explain project
- Next week is reflective writing
- This is about explaining to the audience what the project is.
- MOODLE, Ergonomics, emotional design handouts
- Show text in tutorial, ask Kathleen help for images selection or any other help and on teams.
- Moving to evaluation next week, interview myself , like a reflective writing, with images, videos
- Don’t have to do design sheets, upload to workflow, control the way the work.
- Useful to interview herself, all the detailed and technical drawings can be done on sketchbook, telling skills, like an online CV
- Technical drawings in the catalogue, great skills, more visual information
- Images that are NOT repetitive, technical and image is use.
- About communicating, clear and beautiful photography
- Design philosophy, knowing about the product
- Activity of branding, what its pillars are, THREE key words, 3 hashtags
- Images .. handout, digital image boards to create : emotional, user’s lifestyle, aesthetics
• 22.04.2020 •
I've been working on an app to show and illustrate the entire project. They are basically my design sheets and the actual relationship between the user, the app, the ocean(and marine life) and the bin. I've actually managed to get pretty far and I didn't expect this to be so much fun !! I love using Adobe XD and it's super easy.
I'm really looking forward to asking question to Georgia tomorrow about the app idea and mostly my text and photos since my project isn't easy to explain.
• 23.04.2020 •
Tutorial with Georgia and Alyanna 23.04.2020
- Ask about images
- Ask about app
- Ask about text
- Don’t know what it’s for, not for recycling
- Telling the visual story, for snacks? Show what it’s for, person putting something inside
- Learn abut the practicality, using the app, pain in the ass sometimes, how is the app easy? NUDGE me towards the app
- Info graphic, her’s your recycling MAKE A DIAGRAM, recycling goes in, bin has it, connects to app, EXPERIENCE project, new way to encourage,
- Gamification, turn something shitty to something is a game
- When buy gin, plant tree, with map reference of where tree was planted,
- Buy the bins we fund your company, you recycle, sponsorship, company wants to do foodstuff, well done !!! Show on phone, company buy bin liners out of ocean plastic
- Household, kids would love this, visual reward, fish go onto screen, new fish in fish tank, coral, virtual reef, how children would understand it, o sustainable decisions yet for her kids, we could get points, new fish for this, music changes when sims are happy, changing, create a community, if I zoom out - London reef city of the community, when I went into shop/coffee = what if I saw their screen, would show me how much they recycle, give people stickers to put on bins in front garden, different colours for different levels of recycling
- Don’t make It about 1 person , WHAT IF EVERYBODY DID THIS? A community feeling, love the idea of looking about her bit of the ocean
- If app opens, updating to a profile, sharing through other social media, making things normal, good feeling, community part of the group
- What do I need to buy the bin or just buy the clever scales, to adapt to each bins, household, buy very specific containers,
- A message to explain people, taking part in a public challenge, a research project, what if we all reduced our waste by… we can’t leave it to government, if we all do our bit to help fish, YOU are the the tiny fish doing your recycling, all fish together are much bigger than the whale, ocean analogies, working for the ocean is positive, what if you could cultivate the ocean, don’t fuck it up that’s it
- Timeline and text
- For catalogue, explain to get them to join in? How can you make a difference to help your product, monitor your good work using a digital system, we can make a difference, sales pitch, how do we make a difference? Here’s a smattered bin, rewards you, system that shows we’re all working together
This email is from Georgia giving me some ideas for the app
I was thinking about the fish and I remembered this. If you google animal names some have 3D imagery. On your phone google octopus, then when the definition comes up in the responses list there is an option, looks like a 3D cube icon, click this to ‘meet the animal up close’ your phone camera cones on to provide the background but the animal is there and you can zoom, move about etc. Here is an octopus above my desk! What if this technology was available through the app rewards system? For real visuals could your service have a relationship with an ocean charity? Conservation scientists could provide live feeds to dive cams... aquariums could provide footage....
Below is the photo of Georgia's octopus ↓
• 28.04.2020 •
LAST Meeting with everyone 28.04.2020
- Something coming from Karla today
- Next Monday is last day of the course, hand-in day !!
- Making sure everything is on workflow and visible
- No info from government, how trades will be determined
- Get everything on workflow, make it public, checking everything
- They will give feedback, to know how to grade everything
- Not worry about the assessment
- It’s okay if I haven’t finished
- Writing evaluation isn’t about the final thing, bout how the thinking changed, what I set out to do, how I coped with virus
- Looking at the issues had to face, congratulate what I did well, taking issues on board, what I learnt from that
- Teachers might have a big say in our grading, according to our previous work too
- Yes, I can make a movie with other apps to create movie, iMovie ?
- Can be more than 2 minutes
- Maybe create another section for uploading U4 evaluation
- CAN email my evaluation, to all the tutors
- Can send new catalogue, upload to Moodle - VERSION 2, email Tom as well
- U4 EVALUATION - what the evaluation is, not a description, a balanced view of the project, see what I’ve achieved, human view of how I’m working rn - not too negative - how I’ve been resourceful, how I faced the challenge, what I’ve been through, been in quarantine for… - talk about project in detail - HATS workshop - the aim of my project, how they changed, during cover, during research… - how making the brief changed me, my process, how I developed ideas, which tasks helped, workshops, model making, key moments, breakthroughs, evaluate outcomes, share ideas I would do next if I could - challenges , how important ginghams to work was, working at home is difficult, what did I learn from all the research, how much / what I learnt - how I’m feeling going to BA, a challenge? Or ready for anything? Worth reflecting on. Even with offers, think of next stage, how I’m preparing, the cover 19 project, put them in different sections, adapted idea to the virus, edit down expectations,
- How will design think differently with this experience? Terms of hygiene changes? Social distancing design? Insta = https:/www.instagram.com/tape_measures/
- https://www.instagram.com/paulcocksedge/
- DO BIBLIOGRAPHY AND UPLOAD IT ON WORKFLOW ON RESEARCH PAGE
- Were different things more or less important? Reset button? Go back and think about environment
- Choosing imagery, sketchbook work, highlight parts of proposal, enlarge text, show our workspace, final images of outcome, how to step-by-step
- Friendly fun movie like a very formal
- Not a big deal but do something for final assessment
- Step-by-step how to add things on workflow from Georgia
• 30.04.2020 •
Meeting with Tom, Megha and Luigi - 30.04.2020
- Hero images in the catalogue, text makes me sound intellectual
- What are we supposed to put on workflow?
- Looking through catalogue
- Self motivated work
- Make workflow easy to see and logical
- Send files that are too big directly by email
- Check email even after submission
- Join the linked group : https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13716906/
- Wish list for this summer, what I wanna do, what I’ve always wanted to see, do…
workshops
personal reflections
feedbacks
• 12.02.2020 •
Making a mind map about what interested me, my discipline and my critical aim as a designer really helped me to focus on certain elements to choose my themes. I therefore took what I found most interesting and wrote words that define my design philosophy most.
The two themes I chose are very relevant to me and to 2020 crisis because not only can I relate to them thanks to life experiences but they are also topics that NEED to be discussed and resolved : educating girls/children with disabilities and plastic pollution.
• research week •
During the research week, I travelled across London and did primary as well as secondary research wherever I could, a lot in books from the library.
I managed to put in place the experiment of keeping all my waste for an entire week, from 17.02.2020 to 24.02.2020. It was then that I realised how much I wasted due to the packaging of bought items and when cutting photos to paste as research into my sketchbook.
materials workshop • creating sounds
These videos show how I wanted people to interact with my made objects, creating sounds, music for relaxation and fun. I also wanted to mix materials together thus, changing the way people perceive some of them.
• 01.03.2020 •
• Unit 4 Proposal n°2 •
• 09.03.2020 •
• Unit 4 FINAL PROPOSAL n°3 •
• 10.03.2020 •
Progress Tutorial with Georgia
• 10.03.2020 to 13.03.2020 •
During tutorial week, I did further online research (I was locked in my room due to the virus) and made sure my workflow was up to date. I took all of Georgia's advice, and saw how I could adapt my work to what she said, to improve the way I reflect in my sketchbook and write on workflow.
• 21.03.2020 •
Progress Tutorial with Georgia
• 26.03.2020 •
Progress Tutorial with Georgia
Text for catalogue - 19.04.2020
Name and pathway: Eva Xiste - Product Design & Ceramics
Name of product:
- e.Cobin 19
- ecobin 19
- evecobin
- Cobin 19
- The 8th Continent : recycling home
- homecyling
- mybin
- evabin
- oceanbin
- O bin
- carebin
- bincycle
- ibava
- ibhacovin
- designing
- binaday
- recyclocean
- binocean
- futurebin
Summary of your submitted project:
Do you care about oceans but don't know how to help? This product can be a simple and homy solution.
This bin is designed to help households recycle, learn about waste management and to be aware of the amount and type of waste they produce. This bin
This bin is also adapted to the virus with a no-touching system
It has a sensory motion opening and a side sliding opening to take the full bin bag out.
It also contains a flat base that's a weighing machine linked to an app on the user's phone.
IMAGES
Please upload up to 5 x high-resolution jpeg images (100MB maximum image size). Re-name image files with your name and number them in terms of importance/preference (e.g. David Smith 1.jpg is the most important image). You may include primary research and process images as well as final design work/visualisations (please ensure all the images are your own work).
TEXT
Please upload 1 x text or docx file (e.g. David Smith.txt or David Smith.docx) containing:
- Your name (as you want it to appear)
- Your pathway (ASD, JFFA or PDC)
- Your project title
- Up to 100 words (absolute maximum) summary of your submitted project
Summary of your submitted project 2 DRAFT
20.04.2020
According to The Ocean Cleanup, “more than 5 trillion pieces of plastic are already floating in our oceans forming garbage patches”.
We need to change our behaviour towards the production and consumption of plastic, paper, glass and metal as it’s invasive and harmful to sea life, our climate and our well-being.
This bin is designed to help households recycle, learn about waste management and to be aware of the amount and type of waste they produce.
Taking into account the breakout of the Covid 19, it has a sensory motion opening system and a side sliding opening to take the full bin bag out. This limits the share of bacteria, also making it easier to throw away waste and fun for kids to do it too.
Its base is a weighing machine linked to an app on the user's phone. This app will show how much waste the bin contains thus, ensure that the user is aware and thoughtful of their actions. Not only will this raise awareness towards other consumers’ waste behaviours, but it will have a positive impact on the environment. Once the user has collected a certain amount of recycling waste, they can receive rewards through the app. This system will encourage them to keep recycling for a long term and see where their waste goes and transforms into.
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human behaviour
sustainability
6 ‘R’s : reuse, reduce, recycle, rethink, refuse, repair.
change human behaviour
educate people about sustainability and make them aware of their environmental impact.
be friendly to marine life and our well-being or change human waste behaviour.
user is aware and thoughtful of their actions, which they will later teach to the people around them.
not only will this raise awareness towards other consumers’ waste behaviours, but it will have a positive impact on the environment.
Shortened text for submission
Last and final text for catalogue
Choosing the photos for my final catalogue photos
I believed these four kitchens would show different angles, colours, and types of recycling bins a person can buy.
I also need to make a step-by-step process of how the bin must be used by the person and another photo of the actual cardboard model I made. Maybe the fourth photo could be me while making the bin or a photo of the app in usage.
Friendly FAD calls
Calling my friend and talking about our projects and life in general. We also love to give each other help, opinion, advice. Estair really helped me with my project in terms of the making the bin a 3D outcome, which I'm really bad at and the app doesn't work on my computer, of course.
The photoshop space and tests
• 30.04.2020 •
PhotoBooth
To make an okay photo studio, me and my mom installed a big white sheet that we had to iron beforehand. This was a fun experience as I got to take lots of photos, from outside, to get the best lighting.
The part I was most excited for in Part 3 was the photoshoot by a professional... but because of the quarantine and al, I had to find a way to get an outcome that wasn't too bad. I'm pretty happy with the photos and it was fun to feel like a photographer.
Preparing the photobooth
This is my mom helping me iron the cloth to make the Photo Booth in the lounge room. I had to open the windows on the right to then go outside and take the photos. I was super happy with the outcome of the background which is pretty important in a photo.
Contextual Photoshoot
This is my kitchen and where I took photos and videos of my sister interacting with the bin. With these images, I wanted to make a visual step-by-step guide to show others how one is meant to use the bin. This was really fun as Magalie is shy and a little clumsy. She was scared to use the bin at first, afraid it would fall on the floor as it was only stuck on the kitchen counter with big tape. From the photos, I want to create a big one that takes every step in it. From the videos, I wish to show in my Evaluation every step of the way. This product is not easy to show how it can be used through text so I hope this will do the trick.
Photo testing of product in my kitchen
These three photos show how I tried to place the product where it would be most suited once bought my other people. Due to the corona virus, I haven't been able to have certain materials or tools to make my product. I therefore wasn't able to make the actual design of the attachment from bin to wall.
Also, I wasn't prepared for the kitchen counter to be so low and the bin so big. That's why I have made available different sized bins in the 'shop' in the ECOBIN app. The place where you place your bin is also supposed to be higher or a wall. This lets the bin be a lot more functional and caring of our well-being and health.
My work space
This is where I put all my stuff, sketchbooks, stencils, materials.... while working on my project. It's a mess and my family is always telling me how I should clean up. I don't know why, but being messy for me is okay, it actually helps, and strongly I'm really organised in my head.
During my time at home in France, I worked mostly in the dining room, on the main eating table near my sister. I'm working a lot on my computer and being there helps as my sister's also working and keeps me motivated to do the same. Otherwise, I work on the couch, in my bed or outside on my patio. Being away from Archway has been challenging and really different but I have to admit I actually liked this quarantine. Being at home with my family has been fun and i loved to experience this unique situation.
As a young designer, I'm proud of what I've accomplished during this lockdown. Although very restraining, it has been an amazing experience that I won't forget. Motivating myself to keep going with this project has been tough but I learnt that my passion for design, creating, experimenting is beyond a 'design facility'.
Spray Painting
To give my cardboard model a final touch, I wanted to spray paint it, but didn't know what I had left in my home. I got really lucky finding the black shiny spray paint, somehow and I'm glad I used it. I did this in my basement with my sister watching and it was really fun. I hadn't done any 'hand making' work for a while and it felt empowering to do it.
From this and my entire project, I learnt that I'm a designer that needs to create models and work with her hands to advance in a project.
Evaluation Text
This is the first draft of my evaluation text that will go inside of my movie. I answered the questions form the evaluation document and tried to give some information that was critical throughout the project. It was nice to re-live some moments, mostly the ones where I was still in London working at Archway with everyone.
Bin Workshop
This photo shows my absolute favourite workshop I did with my sister and friends who were on the phone. It was so fun and creative and different from any I had done. Magalie and I were just painting with watercolours on the bins I had printed to text out the colours and how some matched with others to create colour patterns for my brochure. I wanted to embrace the fact that my bin didn't need to be black or grey. It could be any colour the consumer wants it to be and that makes it more attractive.
Mom taking the bins out
This video is the process in which my mom takes the bins out to then put a new bin liner inside the empty bin. She often told me how painful it was for hr to do that because of the smalls and the weight of carrying the heavy and full bin bag. How can I help her to make this chore easier and less of a pain?
Evaluation Text n°2
Evaluation Text n°3
Final Evaluation Text