Monday, May 30, 2011

Project Three - Group 15 second clip

View the 15-second clip here

Our 15-second advertisement demonstrates our product in action. The robot is a prototype designed by Dr Hziaogokzaki. The robot enters the impure mind, cleanses it and then exits with all the secrets safely contained in its memory. The mind becoming pure is represented by the clothes changing to white, resembling purity, cleanliness and innocence. We have shot this commercial with a brick background to give an underground feeling to show that the product is still in testing stages.

Team members:

Aimee Lander
Matthew Clough
Chris Hughes

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Project Three - Studio 19

SPOT CLEANING COMPANY

‘Your secrets are safe with us’

Spot cleaning company utilises a mind cleansing robotic tool dedicated to cleaning people’s minds of impure thoughts.

Once upon a time the Church could rely on traditional methods to maintain a pure society but as society developed it became more difficult to enforce this. In a desperate attempt to maintain authority the Church began to research and discovered a mad scientist Dr Hziaogoukuzaki, and his radical new neuroscience. Dr Hziaogoukuzaki has developed a small robot that enters minds to cleanse them of impure thoughts. With the financial help of the church, Spot Cleaning Company will be launched on the 16th of May 2020.

Although frowned upon by many members of society, the ones that are devout followers have given positive feedback in order to keep their minds free of dire thoughts.

Team Members:

Aimee Lander

Matthew Clough


Wednesday, May 11, 2011

The Clip

Here is my final clip for Project Two, but it is better if you view it on Vimeo here.


'It still starts in your mind'


Design idea

My personal stance on design is that no matter how far technology advances and how many different programs are released (although they do make life easier for a designer) the first step of design, a brainstorm or an idea/concept, still comes from a person's mind. Technology doesn't generate ideas but assists designers along the way.

Quotes

"I would say my biggest pet peeve related to the industry would be people focusing on technology instead of design, standards instead of users, and validation rather than innovation. Web standards and best practices are noble goals, but all too often in our community people forget they are a means to an end, not the end itself." - Jeff Croft

"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes." - D. H. Lawrence

"It is far better to adapt the technology to the user than to force the user to adapt to the technology." - Larry Marine

"You can’t do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously." - Wim Crouwel


Technology over technique produces emotionless design. - Daniel Mall


Quotes taken from Design was here and Quotes on design.