Project 01: Ideas - Trouble Shooting

Trouble Shooting Guide

When I think of Mistakes, I think of solutions or ways in which you can rectify it.

This gave me the idea of researching day-to-day problems and providing solutions on how to solve them.

All the information used in the trouble shooting guide was sourced from the website http://www.toptips.com/.

I tried to set out the information in a booklet, as many trouble shooting guide (especially technology based ones) are set out in little booklets, with all the information in a table so it is easy to read.

After looking at the booklet I thought that the layout wasn't quite right, as the information was split across pages and it didn't appear to look like a typical trouble shooting guide. I have decided to recreate the booklet in a different layout to see if this works better.

Project 01: Brief

Brief - Mistakes

Error, fault, blunder, slip-up, gaffe, clanger, inaccuracy, oversight, bloomer, laps, faux par...

You are required to observe or invent a system that makes mistakes.

• Document, record, analyse and rationalise
• Focus on mistakes as a constructive starting point for a creative project
• Learn from your mistakes
• Celebrate imperfection

Project 05: Ideas - London Boundaries

These are photos of compositions of the final pieces for London Boundaries.

Project 05: Ideas - London Boundaries

From the list of outcomes i had to create i decided by starting to look at the boundaries of london.

I found a map of the boundaries of london from

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/maps/london_map.htm

From this I thought that I could trace around the outskirts to create an outline.

Afterwards I looked at the different postal areas that made up London which I found from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_postal_district

From the list I created a typographic piece.

To make this more personal I highlighted my postcode.

I quite liked this piece as I thought it portrayed the boundaries of London, but I wanted to take it one step further and print it onto letters ( as it relates to the postcodes). I also thought of printing it onto a travel card and a tube map, as this related to the boundaries of traveling.

Project 05: Expected Outcomes

Beyond the Boundaries Outcomes

• A personal interpretation of Beyond the boundaries loosely inspired by the excursions, exhibits and films (any medium possible).

At least three of the following projects:

• Take a series of photos without a camera
• Do an exhibition in an unexpected space, fro example your fridge, your coat
• Where does London start and end
• Find a place in London that doesn't look like London. Document it
• Make a documentary about outsider art
• Create a video, photo or graphic novel placed in a unknown place
• Research the subject of immigration and boarder zones
• Write a 100-word review of Ptrick Keiler's London, Davis Lamela's A study of the relationship of inner and outer space and Saint Etienneie's Finisterre
• Develop a narrative on people isolated from society, like miners trapped underground, gypsies, royalty, etc.

Project 05: Excursions - Wellcome Collection

High Society - Mind-altering drugs in history and culture

I found this exhibit to be truly fascinating, when I arrived at the exhibit I thought there would be a lot of information around drugs, but instead I found a lot of visual documentation about drugs in history in culture. This meant could really look at this exhibit from a graphic design point of view, this gave me a lot of inspiration.

This is defiantly a subject that I would like to research further.

Below are photos soured from the Wellcome Gallery.

Project 05: Excursions - White Cube

Gregory Crewdson - Sanctuary

Crewdon's work consisted of 41 black-and-white photographs, thats showed a variety of locations.

I thought that his work portrayed physical and mental boundaries, as the locations he captured seemed strange, lonely and alienated.

Here are a few photographs, sourced form the White Cube Gallery.