Last development for my design

  Due to the fact that someone said some of my pictograms look a bit confused. Therefore I drew it again.

  I drew the pictograms of mobile and notes again with a better and clean design so that people can understand it easier.

                                                 

  I think it would be great if I can make it in different colours. Therefore, I made the same design in different colours.

last crit for studio brief

  This was the last crit for the studio brief four, unfortunately because of the time, I couldn't get that much feedback, basically, people said my idea was funny because most of them felt sleepy as well during the COP lecture, they suggested me could think about objects relating to staying awake so I may put some energy drink into the box. Someone suggested me could placing the design (pictograms) on the coffee cup, I know it would be really interesting but just wondered if I can do screen printing on to a coffee cup or not because it isn't a paper so it would be very uncomfortable to print on it, also if I do spray painting on to it, it may be quite dangerous because it is a coffee cup so people may drink the ink as well (The spray ink is really easy to be removed). Moreover, some people said some of my pictograms look a bit unclear so I need to redraw them.

Studio brief 4 evaluation

  In this project, we were asked to make a graphic work that makes a statement, comment, observation or gives advice about our experience on your first year of this course. As this is my first year studying in LCA so I found a lot of difficulties at the beginning such as the environment is totally different with my foundation course or the school in Hong Kong, also the structure of the lecture is different compare with my foundation course. Therefore, I have a lot of things wanted to give advice to the first year student. But the one I like the most was "Stay awake in COP lecture".  To be honest, I think it is the most boring lecture over the course as it mainly talked about art history or theory. Therefore, I usually couldn't be concentrate during the COP lecture. Hence, I wanted to tell the new student be aware with that. I quite like the theme of this project, it was quite interesting. However, because it is the last project of this module so we just have about two weeks to finish it which is quite rush. When I made my outcomes, I really enjoyed the process of spray painting because it was my first time to do that, I remembered that when I started to spray in a close distance to the thing that I wanted to paint on it painted with too many ink so I just painted again in a far distance and it worked much better. Therefore, I understood that we can't do the spray painting too close with the paper. Overall, I really enjoyed the project even I worked individual, I learned some skills which I don't always do such as spray painting, however, I think I should start to read more books such as some designer books to get inspiration from them, as a result, it helps me to get more ideas for my designs.

Final outcomes

  I wanted to print them digital because there will be a lot of first year students so digital print would be much better.

Design development

  At the first stage, I designed some pictograms according to the survey that I asked people what they usually did during the Cop lecture. Basically, most people usually slept or played with their mobile while the lecture. Hence, I wanted to make the advice by a simple design, mainly visualisation so that students won’t feel boring to read the advice. For example, it’s just suggesting students to wake up and back to uni early or be concentrate, etc. For the series of poster, I designed three set of poster in two different versions as I didn’t know which is the best, however, when I showed to some people in a crit, they suggested me to keep both version so I just leave with two versions for every set of posters. For the glasses, I just used the same pictogram that I used for the advice and then just sticked on the glasses so when the student really want to sleep but feel uncomfortable they should wear it so that it shows more respect to the lecturer. I found a pink box because the pink is the LCA logo’s colour which is really meaningful and I did the design with spray paint because I wanted to make some design on the box, as it is for Cop lecture so I cut the word “COP” from a card in helvetica. I worried if I use serif font with spray paint, it may looks very messy, therefore I just used a clean typeface to do the spray paint.

  I want to do the spray painting because it looks really cool and attractive. Due to the fact that most students found Cop is a boring lecture so I wanted to make something to get their attraction so that I can give advice to them to stay awake in Cop lecture. To do this, spray painting is the greatest choice. I looked at some graffiti and I found that the pattern are usually not in order which mean can draw randomly.

                                     

                                              

                                    

  I quite enjoyed the process of doing spray paint because it was fun and the outcome was really cool especially the effect of "O" and "P" look really attractive.

                                                         

  As I wasn't sure which one is better so I asked some people from the class and most of them asked me to keep both so that I can have two version for every single poster.

                                      

  At the beginning, I designed some pictograms because I wanted to use in some of my poster so that students can read easily. Basically, I just wanted to keep the design simple so I just made those pictograms mainly in two colours or just black.

                                                  

Initial ideas development

  After the first crit, people agreed that the idea that asking student stay awake is the most interesting and effective so I decided to develop with it. I want to design a series of small poster (may be smaller than A5, it depends on the size of my box so that I can put the poster inside). For the glasses, I think I may just use some toy glasses and then print my pictogram of eyes and then stick on it, it would be really fun. Moreover, I want to design an advice just like the flight advice and then put under the chair in the lecture theatre so it helps to keep reminding students.

                                                      

Survey for what people usually did during Cop lecture

   I did a small survey and asked some people from my class asked them about their feeling about the Cop lecture and what would they do during the lecture most answers I have got were saying Cop is boring and they usually using mobile or sleep during the lecture, some people even said they were dreaming during the lecture. I also asked them how to stay awake, most people said drink a cup of coffee and listening to music helps them to stay awake.

COP lecture

  Cop represents the module OUGD401 Context of practice. This module provides an introduction to the contextual and historical background of art, design and media, alongside considering relationships between theory and practice. Students enhance their contextual knowledge and understanding, together with their own critical awareness and develop the ability to situate their practice within a global context. Through seminars, lectures and tutorials, students investigate their own discipline and also the broader cultural and contextual frameworks that are influential to the fields of art, design and media. 
  Basically, students need to do critical writings in this module, unlike other modules, this module mainly focusing on theory so most students it may be quite boring during the lecture so most students usually sleep during the lecture. To be honest, I think it is the hardest module for me because I am an oversea student, English isn't my first language so during the lecture, I didn't understand all theory because of the language barrier. Therefore, I used my phone sometimes during the lecture, not focusing. Hence, it is an important thing for me that I should improve. 

  As you can see the environment of the lecture theatre is really dark so most students couldn't really concentrate during the lecture.

inspiration for my design

  Basically, I want to make my design similar to the DIGIN welcome box, it is a welcome box in most of the student accommodations, basically, inside the box just have something saying "Welcome" to the student. Therefore, I want to make something similar to this which give a guide for the level 4 student about the Cop lecture. Probably I may make some postcards or small posters, stickers and a glasses with the fake eyes so that it can for those students who sleep during the Cop lecture and wearing it which look like their eyes are open.

                                

This is the thing that I want to make with my glasses, it is really rude that sleeping in front of the lecturer, to show the respect, it would be better to wear the fake eyes glasses so that the lecturer may think your eyes are open.

Studio brief 4rationale

  Basically, I want to tell the first year students stay awake and be concentrate during the Cop lecture at the lecture theatre even the environment in there is really dark and like a cinema but if people don't be concentrate, they may get loss with the Cop project which can affect their result. Therefore, I want to make something like the DIGIN Box which can give to students on the first day. It included some small poster that saying "DON'T SLEEP" in the Cop lecture. I want to give the box to the freshers when they have the first COP lecture in the lecture theatre.

Initial ideas for studio brief4

-Stay awake during the Cop lecture in the lecture theatre even the environment is really dark
-You need to keep the blogs update every weeks, otherwise when the works building up, you won't have time to complete it.
-Make your mind easier which mean don't think the design too complex
-Speak to more western people that you don't know if you are asian so that you can improve your english.
-Sit in the first row in the classroom so that you can be more concentrate.