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Design Investigation.

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:17:20 +0000

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How have New Media technologies expanded Design Practice?

Ars Electronica Futurelab

Decode

Design Computing Community Event

How have technological advances made what you do possible?

How important is it to you to be able to create the tools you need to do a certain job?

What near future developments are you excited about?

Where will technology take interactive design in the next 10 years?

What is your current project?

How do the technological and design elements work together?

How important is interactivity to you in the work you create?

What is the value of open source licensing to you?

What comes first, the space or the idea?

How large a team do you need to fully realise your ideas?

Scanners.

admin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:06:53 +0000

Magnifying glass, scanner and a light ===

Printing. Lino. Triangles.

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:36:45 +0000

Exploring image making with a fixed form and the development of the ability to draw with a shape.

Business Cards

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:13:14 +0000

I’ve got business cards! We’ve all got business cards! All fall down.

Here’s mine:

The sun…

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:01:39 +0000

Messing around with photos and sound.

Freecycle goodness.

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:30:07 +0000

Obtained today, via freecycle, this huge amount of delicious darkroom equipment. Not entirely sure what any of it does but, excited to learn!

As you can see there’s a multitude of things in there, old cameras, chemicals, papers, bulbs (including the most beautiful bulb box in the world, like an ancient multicoloured iPod box it is!) and the all important enlarger.

Looking forward to the photos, just gotta take over a suitably dark corner of the house now…

Neuf uploads.

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:15:15 +0000

Uploaded a load of photos I took to the Croissant Neuf gallery of snaps on the newly live site here so they can mingle with the ones from everyone else (although currently all but one are mine, I think.) Hopefully there’ll be lots to see soon.

P.s. Also check out the video, with the ident I gave morion to and twenty3rd’s editing and filming.

Print.

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:19:04 +0000

I started a lino print of one of the best designs and (days later) have finished.

Here’s the plate:

Overly complicated and painful to cut, the font specifically needed a bit of fudging but I think that it comes out clearly.

The first print:

I think a better inked print’ll turn out better. Like the design though (luckily otherwise I’d be hairless!)

Redesign.

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:45:35 +0000

Wanting to change the style of the site at the moment, had a little change of feeling about it a while ago, echoing thoughts I’ve had for some time that it isn’t really my style, that it doesn’t stand out as much as I would perhaps like. So I’ve begun with a logo design:

A huge range were created and these are my 9 favourites. I’m working on converting the best of these into lino prints right now so we will see if they work with that more bespoke hand-made feel.

I think they will but, hey, you never can tell.

Any preferences from anyone?

Current.

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:20:51 +0000

Just been working on this ident for the promo video for Croissant neuf, which will be put on the website (which goes live in the next 24 hours!) Good and in keeping with the style which we should be furthering for next year’s party.