Thursday, 23 April 2009

Portfolio Photos

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Thursday, 26 February 2009

group meeting celebration

Tomorrow, friday the 27th dinner at my place around 7.30pm
The adress is:
Apartment 2. Preston Point
21 Preston Street
L1 6DP




As you see in the map, Preston St is the paralel street to Crosshall St, where the National Conservation Center is, 2 minutes from Queens Sq bus station!

If you have any question, comment, problem to come or anything else contact me!

see you later -concert- or tomorrow -lecture!

photos 2




photos 01





Wednesday, 25 February 2009

uh oh

problem!
the cd covers are too small!
the cd doesn't fit!

if I should by white card tomorrow morning in the way to uni send me a text please, I don't know if it sth left!

if not see you all tomorrow 09.30!

good evening!

Tuesday, 24 February 2009

oh oh

the cards are printed wrong!
upsidedown!!!

Monday, 23 February 2009

Flat Plan new

I have added a curtain to the recording booth (don't know if it would need it if it was real?lol) and added some speakers.

Example

The fonts are not right as I don't have the din font. It will need some alterations.

monday meeting

Hi everybody!
Andrew I didn't get your e-mail with the suffle logo, so I imagine you are doing everything again yourself as you like to do! Nothing to send then...

Sophie is not in Liverpool until the afternoon and I'm going to be around with my mum because I left her alone yesterday to work for the project... Anyway I think it's not very important that we are all together printing. 3 it's more than enough! or?
-sophie and I, we haven't miss any meeting so it shouldn't be a problem not to be there!

But nobody has met!!! amazing!
Let me know when I can pass to take things for building or if it's necessary to make any decision or sth, and I will go! But organize sth please!

time doesn't stop! it keeps running!

Sunday, 22 February 2009

Floor Plan

I don't know if this is a clear enough upload. This is the plan so far, It needs some things doing to it such as the swinging doors adding in and colour and the whereabouts of the projection screen. If my sister is back tonight then I will ask her to help me but if not I will need andrews help tomorrow. Also, the labels will not be like that, I have just put them there for now to show you which is which. xx

FLAT definitions

that post it's just to remark the importance of the linking of every single part of the content with the meaning behind it:

and one important thing is the FLAT issue, so here I leave the FLAT definitions:

FLAT
-adjective: level and smooth, with no curved, high, or hollow parts
(in our project: no round edges, just in cards!)
-not active; not interesting or lacking emotion
(we're already following it: it looks boring from the outside but it's full of surprises in the inside!)
-a set of rooms for living which are part of a larger building and are usually all on one floor
-shoes: women's shoes without hill
(in our project informal, no dresscode)
-music: lower than a particular note or the correct note, (a symbol for) a note that is a semitone lower than a stated note
(???)



I think the ID should be landscape because everything is landscape!


are the pockets done sophie? could you manage to print last friday?
how is the web, animation and iso andrew?
danielle?
I'm doing the "report" and adding/changing the ID kit to it! I'll need someone to check the mistakes!
I was trying to modify the design file but I have problems with the din font! I send it to mike but it's quite busy! if he can't I'll try it later!


what are your plans for tomorrow?
It could be great if you could print and I'll pass later to pick up things to build or cut! I already left my mum alone today to be able to work!
or is there sth else to decide??

Friday, 20 February 2009

schedule

Thursday ---> deadline
Wednesday --> module + presentation preparation
Tuesday ----> making
Monday ----->Printing (morning), making (afternoon+evening)
Weekend ----> finishing designs, website, conclusions
Friday -----> share work, print sophies machine, print black card for pockets)


I would say to share the tasks, for example, for the weekend:
Sophie: pockets, buy ribbon, cut sophies machine
Danielle: plann
Andrew: animation, website, surprise F/L/A/T
Mike: modify cover/backcover, Identity kit, ideation poster
Lucia: modify all the contents, packaging earplugs+band, conclusions aka presentation main scheme, keywords search (this is a bit combine wuth the ID kit, I'll send it to you mike as soon as I have it!)

I don't know... you've to talk about it tomorrow!



money issues:do a list with all the money you spend printing, buying things and when we were finished we pay each other, ok?

things to do

TO DO (new)
-isometric event space design showing:
entrance (leave half of the ID)
dj/djs (more than one stage?)
dancing area -”put your ear plugs!” in one point
bar
projection
wall
computer/website
instalation F/L/A/T -good reading point
other instalation?
Letters board + recorder to record word pronounce to create sampler for dj: live event)
HIVE instrument card wall building hive logo
vj's? Video camera in box (recordings sampler for vj: live event)
-F/L/A/T
-ribbon label
-images to read (mouths)
-wall flyer
-web flyer


TO MODIFY
-front cover (FLAT position, date, venue)
-back cover (text alignment taking care of the meaning when we broke a line + logo aligment)
-ID (change format, pink squares in flat logo?, barcode until the edge)
-manifesto (unfinished, dimensions: A5 not fitting)
-erase folding lines in packaging
-CD cover (squares in the other half? a bit unfinished?)
-CD (squares in the other half? a bit unfinished?)
-animation
-bands earplugs (in the beggining should be a empty space to be able to read the first words)
-calendar (12 months, add another rectangle explaining what is hive, colour combination: flag??)
-web? (just design, not important if it works, right?)
-translator (shorter to fit verticaly in the pocket)


6 COPIES PROTOTYPE
18 pockets
6 front covers
6 back covers
6 ribbon labels
12 ribbon stripes to close it
6 manifesto
6 ID
6 calendars
6 CD covers
6 CD
6 design your instrument
42 letter cards (12 vocals, 30 consonants)
6 card packaging
6 translator machines
6 packaging for translator machine
6 bands for earplugs
6 packagings for ear plugs
6 flyers wall
6 flyers web


TO BUY
black card
pink ribbon (aprox 5mm) -to close
pink ribbon (aprox 1cm) -for label
white card 160gr/m2 -for packaging, cards, sophie's tranformation machine, cd cover, hive...


FOR PRESENTATION/our records
-identity kit (finished it, make shorter sentences)
-look for keywords to maybe to a ppt or pdf or jpgs... to show while we are presenting
-take photos of all the elements (and group members)
-poster with ideation process?
-A0 poster with a scheme of all the elements working together
-prepare what each one is going to talk about (just 10 minutes: look for main points)


-probably I'm forgetting things, let me know please and I will edit the post! thank you!

event big fonts? FLAT



(idea we have had, it's here in case we could need it)

F / L / A / T



I imagine to show the poster like in these photos to do the video...

black on black


not nice, but different styles... just to discuss


Typical architectonic drawing
-I think it doesn't combine with our design (not isometric, not straight lines)



Design the event in a "virtual" space
-virtual because it isn't a known space, there are no limits, we just locate in the air "walls" that define different activity spaces
-In my opinion that one would be an interesting solution (not look at the graphic style, imagine ours)



not isometric, not straight lines, but global situation, easy to read



I don't like the style, but with the black background it's possible to play better with the light!



what about building a cardboard model??

back letter cards (pattern) ?? -not very important




+ iso (mix)



no idea



no idea



"id" card -the last format we said... (not sure...??)

nature version of andrew's great idea!

Thursday, 19 February 2009

light volumes



that is what I was trying to show /explain you before!

Nice Floor Plan


I google searched this image but if I was very skilled this is how I would want it to look, obviously not this precise and it would be a line drawing but I like this view. 

Isometric Floor Plan


Using the photos I tryed to go over them in illustrator but completely failed. I just cannot get my head around how this will be done! Does anyone have any suggestions as I am completely stuck.


photos for isometric plan

sorry there a bit blurry but there just some quick shots to do the plan from
hope these help Danielle