stop motion practice

Stop Motion: Update

I have decided on the final color co-ordination for the UI. I have decided on blue and orange as they are contrasting colors, this will make them easier to see while on the wearers field of view.

Stop Motion: Group brainstorm

Stop Motion in progress

My main idea for my stop motion project involves the idea of augmented reality, put into place through a pair of glasses. This will allow the wearer to interact with and use technology and media on an extremely intimate, fluid and accessible manner, interacting with and using several different devices at once such as a stereo, a phone and a tablet PC. This is how I intend to implement the theme of media design, the course I am specializing in.

The challenge with this is that i have to create a completely new product that doesn't exist (atleast in popular culture) and make it look like a believably popular device for a possible future, something that is absorbed into popular culture like the iPhone. To do this I am going to have to make the device look professional and the overlay of the augmented reality look intuitive.

I have searched the internet for ideas and came across some firefighters masks in the sates that impose augmented reality on the vision for the firefighters, so that they always know where their colleges are in a blaze, thermal imaging of where the blaze is the strongest. It can be found here.

I have also found other images that i can use for inspiration.

This one shows how you can put alot of detail on the screen and alot of information, but it looks very cluttered and inconsistent as far as coloring goes. I will need to make one that isn't as cluttered, alot more accessible and intuitive to use. Also a design aesthetic that is consistent across the UI.

This one shows how the hand can be used as a tool for imposing and using the augmented realities UI, very similar to the firefighters'.

Blog 3: Curatorial

Curatorial

Coaster

“Flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.” Said by D. H. Lawrence, this sums up the idea of fluidity. That there is a natural order and flow to life no matter how many boundaries and frames are put in and around it, which is shown through perfectly in this piece. Inspired heavily by Cecil Balmonds “Danzer” originally, the sharp geometric lines inspired a wire form that was made only of squares and triangles, which was then abstracted into a similar form made of only one piece of wire. This was extremely reminiscent of the frames of roller coasters (which inspired the name), and so using curved flat panes of polypropylene similar in shape to those in some of the bent wood furniture made by the Korean designer Bae Sehwa, plastic was bent around what would become the face of the object. This gave the object a sense of direction (generally from bottom to top) and was then stitched together with black thread. The thread was kept black (as opposed to white which would have blended in easier) so that the stitching itself could become a feature, this is a concept known as honesty to construction which goes as far back as the late 1800s to the gothic revival era. The objects overall shape gives off a feeling of being alive, as the flowing surface moves around the frame like the rollercoasters that inspired it and has a sense of direction that flows around and up to seem as if it is actually moving and alive. 

Coaster:

 

 

Cecil Balmonds’ “Danzer” retrieved from http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/9211/cecil-balmond-element-exhibition.html
 

Bent wood furniture by Korean Designer Bae Sehwa http://michellekaufmann.com/2010/06/2058

Refences:

Danzer: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/9211/cecil-balmond-element-exhibition.html
Bent wood furniture by Bae Sehwa: http://michellekaufmann.com/2010/06/2058
Sagar K. M. (1982) A. D. H. Lawrence Handbook. Manchester University Press