Final Museum Poster

As today was the deadline and submission of our first brief , all was done on time and successfully mounted and presented in a professional manner. The concept of the Spitfire wing flying over the burning London skyline, I feel, was photographed well. The lighting and a little work on photoshop captured the chaotic  atmosphere hoped to achieve.

Cobwebs & Curiosities 2

After working long and hard throughout the research and investigation of the museum of flight, all has come to an end. 

Having the option to choose anything I wanted as long as it had even the slightest relation to the museum of flight, I decided to specify in the wonderful British Spitfire.

After hearing an interesting story by Jackie Malcolm, one of the Graphic Design lecturers, I learnt that throughout the World War, the public used to donate their shillings into tin cans which enabled the British to build more Spitfire planes.

The aim was then to design and make a model Spitfire wing flying over the London skyline during the World War 2 whilst contributing the element of the tin cans that would help fund new planes.

    
        Quick example made to get an idea and perception of the 3D model.

I created the model wing by cutting out the shape from a piece of wood and sanding it down to round off the edges giving it the look of a real Spitfire. The London skyline was then cut from pieces of black card and the money tin was made from an old tin of beans.

The Tipping Point and The Social Media Network

Interesting image of social 'connectors' that I found the other week

Think Big! Poster

6 degrees of separation or as some may call the 'human web', refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away from any other person on Earth, so that a chain of, 'a friend of a friend' statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps or fewer.


After investigating the concept of 6 degrees of separation from 'The Tipping Point', I tried to make a relation to a similar experience that has happened to myself. 
As I could not think of any previous encounter of someone having known me through the passing of 6 other people, an interesting concept came to mind through the idea of social networking.

As a summer holiday or any type of holiday in that matter is one of the most easiest places to socialise with one another and meet knew friends, the idea of a Facebook program came to mind.
For the public roughly aged between 18 and 30, a very high percentage will be booked up to visit the summer holiday hotspots such as Magaluf, Zante, Kavos and Malia etc. For these people who may be travelling in groups or individually, the idea of a meeting program is a perfect way to make that summer holiday that bit more exciting. 
Users can either post on the Facebook page wherever they are recently going and view posts from others or the user can use the program to identify which hotspot is going to be most popular this summer before making the wrong choice and wasting their money.
A browsing aid could possibly be created to enable the user to enter their flight details after booking to view a list of friends and others who will be attending.
The socialising begins....

Brainstorming - Lyrebird

I have chosen 'the stickiness factor' (chapter 3) as an area to focus on from the book, 'The Tipping Point' by Malcolm Gladwell. I tried several techniques of brainstorming alone and with others to test methods previously learnt in class. Some of my first ideas were related to certain examples in the book such as exerts from kids television programmes like 'Sesame Street' and 'Blues Clues'.

Taking those ideas aside, I felt that I wanted to focus on something that I was more 'stuck' to.

I found the idea of educating children using 'the stickiness factor' really interesting and tried to relate this technique to educational programmes for older generations.

''There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.''


A good example of this is consistent throughout the work of Sir David Attenborough and his many series of nature programmes.
Attenborough's aim is to educate people of all ages about the world we live in and the creates we share it with. He succeeds in doing this by using unique and interesting content as well as simple and easy to understand language.
A perfect example of this is the fascinating lyrebird shown in the video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y

The lyrebird is an example of this use of unique content. He is not educating us about any bird, like your everyday blackbird or magpie, but cleverly choses one that is sure to hold the viewers attention. The fact that the lyrebird can not only replicate the sounds of other birds, but can replicate man made noises that no other bird can make, is like Attenborough's way of using pritt stick to grasp the audiences attention and then using superglue to seal their interest and successfully educate them.

''All suggestions, are good suggestions''

At the most recent seminar with Jonathan Baldwin, I experienced several useful ways to brainstorm collectively in a group. These brainstorming techniques gave an insight to some easier and more successful ways of collecting ideas. 

Although you might generate good and creative ideas alone, balancing ideas with the ideas of others can make better ones. From previous experience and from what Jonathan said, we learnt that for those of the group who may hold back their ideas or may think that their idea might sound stupid...... 

"all suggestions, are good suggestions"