Selected submissions have now been sent to the Design Museum and we await news on any progress on this in the next few weeks.
More info will be posted here soon.
Some examples of work:
Tisha
Friday, 18 March 2011
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Final Presentations - now let's get ready to submit!
Clearly, a new batch of interesting and innovative ideas have been emerging since the last critique. Progress is evident and now the last lap... Final submissions Wednesday 9th March 2011, no later than 2pm via email to h.saarinen@herts.ac.uk PDF, A3 etc..
You know the details - to double check, please go to Studynet, where you have all the relevant details. Please don't forget the 500 word Proposal document.. Best of luck and very well done!
work in progress...
Please send me jpg images for inclusion here. Thanks.
H
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
work in progress
a few random images of early work in progress and links..
related/inspiring/useful links:
http://www.vimeo.com/album/245523/video/12795105
http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/knit/
http://www.lth-hotels.com/london_events/fourth-plinth-trafalgar-squares.htm
http://www.artinunusualspaces.co.uk/home/artspace-lifespace-artist-talk/
http://www.danacentre.org.uk/aboutus/eventdiy/performance-events
http://www.bobbybakersdailylife.com/Showtime.html
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Interim Critique 21st February 2011
On Monday, an interim crit was held - now there is a week for the finalisation of the work. Several ideas are emerging into potential events and we look forward to seeing this development through to the final presentations in a week's time. Everyone to check details on Studynet for electronic submission requirements, formats etc.
Images will be published soon.
h
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Checking progress..
---------------------On Monday 21st February we are going to have a thorough review of the PROGRESS TO DATE. Do remember the deadline is approaching fast. As this is a Design Museum competition as well as a UH assessed project/part of module, there is a lot to consider. YOU MUST HAVE NEW WORK TO SHOW AND SHOW FURTHER INTENTIONS.
1. Remember to be aware of the DESIGN FACTORY student brief and its requirements. These are also the UH 5DES0065 requirements for assessment and submission. THIS APPLIES TO SUBMISSION FORMAT - as the submission will be electronic (YOU WILL EMAIL THE WORK TO ME ON 9th March or before). PDF's, A3 - see brief!!
2. Check all documents, emails relating to this project that have been posted on Studynet or emailed to you.
3. You will present final design / events on Monday 28th February. FINAL SUBMISSION OF WORK IS WEDNESDAY 9th March (See Studynet).
Kotsubinske by Igor Giadai, archival photographic print, 290 x 95cm
"Gaidai aims to capture an atmosphere; he does not refer to mere excited clamour, or mild nervous energy, but the overwhelming experience common to every single person photographed". (Heidi: "Perhaps inspirational to the events creating..?")
What does 'event' mean..? read more..
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
issues and spaces
...focus on issues and spaces - look at the inspiration and ideas we have looked at in our sessions and in C&CS... consider a range of ideas and work out a plan to start developing this..... make it interesting and enjoyable.. Keep a track of time too, plan it well.
MONDAY 7th FEBRUARY - issue, space, plan... you need to have this in place and in development.
Friday, 28 January 2011
Site visit 19th January 2011
Site visit 19/01/2011
Shad Thames, London SE1
mats gustafson
joelle chariau
Drawing Fashion and John Pawson's Plain Space exhibitions were visited. Tasks: sketches, drawing studies, photographs and observations.
..some views on route to and from the museum..
Image creits: Heidi Saarinen and www.designmuseum.org
Tutors: Heidi Saarinen and Polly Palmer
BRIEF_DESIGN FACTORY 2010/11
SPONSORED BY BRIT INSURANCE
STUDENT BRIEF
CREATING A GREAT MOMENT: Communication in the Public Realm
“One uncle who had a lot of influence on me in the late 1930s and later, had a news stand in New York, a kiosk at 22nd Street and Broadway, which was sort of a radical centre. We’d hang out all night and have discussions and arguments. The great moments of my life in those years were when I could work at the news stand at night and listen to this.”
Noam Chomsky on early formative experiences.
This year Design Factory asks, how can designers communicate the ideas they feel passionately about in the public realm? Is it possible to re-think the traditional methods of speaking out for contemporary times?
The village green, churchyard, town square, speaker’s corner, demonstrations, placards, posters, notices, interventions, graffiti…for centuries people have found various ways to communicate their messages about important issues in public spaces. As opportunities for social critique are migrating to individual interactions within the digital world, Design Factory invites students to find new ways to engage with the everyday to communicate your messages about the world, as a designer and as a citizen.
Design Factory takes its inspiration from the multidisciplinary nominations and exhibits in the exhibition Brit Insurance Designs of the Year. This year, we have worked with kennardphillips, who were nominated in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2010 graphics category for their interventionist design the Café of Equivalent$, to create a multidisciplinary and experimental brief that encourages students to work across disciplines. For example, a graphic is combined with a product design which is then engineered into a structure for a performative intervention into the street - that might also be adapted to take on another issue at a later date.
Brief Part 1: Design Museum research
Visit the Design Museum’s Drawing Fashion exhibition. Illustration is about communication in a visual language that should be universally understood. Select 3 examples from the exhibition and identify the message, its audience and how well it has succeeded in communicating this.
(Outcome: 1 board exhibition response)
Brief Part 2: Identify and research issues and spaces
Select an issue you wish to communicate in the physical public realm. Research this issue and select the key message you wish to communicate to a chosen public audience. Identify and research this audience and select a specific public space or spaces to address.
(Outcome: 1 board R & D)
Brief Part 3: Design development
Design a platform or medium for live public communication of your selected issue. Include a proposal for a live event which could be staged at the Design Museum’s Design Overtime event/on the riverfront terrace outside the museum. Include logistical research and solutions. If possible stage an event at college and document this – include this in your submission. (Outcome: 2 boards design solutions plus written proposal 500 words.)
Submission:
Tutors will be asked to nominate an allocated proportion of student work for submission to the Design Factory judges.
Online submission from nominated students by 12 o’clock midday, Friday 11 March 2011:
4 boards in PDF & 500 words written proposal to designfactory@designmuseum.org
Following the judging, 40 students will be invited to the Design Factory one day Symposium in April 2011. Participants in the Symposium will work to a final project brief inspired by the exhibition Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2011.
Following the Symposium the selected students will devise design interventions to be staged at a Design Overtime event to mark the close of Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2011 exhibition in June 2011.
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