Paris - doors to other European Cities

A friend of mine posted this video to FaceBook, I watched it (obviously) and I found this video to be really refreshing and really cute.
I like how everyone interacted in the film, between the people and camera crew and even the people being filmed for this little video.
I think my favourite part was the end man who saw the drawing someone did of him.
I think that this video is a good thing, and should be done in most cities.

Pawel Nolbert has Photoshopped the world into a brighter, happier place

"Sometimes the daily walk down the same street can feel drab, the parked car you pass every day, grey, and the graffiti on that wall irritating and uninspiring - but the next morning, the exact same can appear bright, happy and uplifting. 

Multidisciplinary artist Pawel Nolbert took the human struggle to understand reality – our tendency to see our emotions reflected in our surroundings, distort reality on social media, and never remember things how they actually happened – and did the happiest thing he possibly could with it."

I saw these images online, from a FaceBook page that I follow and I really enjoyed looking at this work. I found the images to be very calming and beautiful. I also really liked that they were such bold colours in with everyday settings. Adding more life and colour to the images itself. 

Below are the images by Pawel Nolbert:

Selling myself a designer in three slides....

As you can tell I am really centred around a file system, last year my work was all on my desktop. This year it is in all in a specific file order that I understand, and I know where everything is.

With me, currently, everything has its place and should be in its place. It might mean that others have no idea where anything is, but to me, I know exactly where the specific file should be in the end.

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I believe that my true design/style is really quirky. I like things to be quite unusual, I myself am quite quirky and unusual so I suppose it works out fine. I like to use bold, bright colours in my work like as seen above, however, I also like to tone it down and use dark, deep colours also coinciding to how I am myself and also as a designer. 

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I also think that I am a very aesthetic person/designer. I like anything that just simply looks weird/wonderful/creative/unusual/strange/wacky etc. I can go on for days as to how I would describe myself and the type of work that I really like/love. 

Also, I can be really critical of my work, like all good designers, however, maybe sometimes I over criticise my work and therefore can be the only negative thing about me as designers. I know good and bad criticism is good for designers, just I sometimes take it a tad too personally.

Bullying Survey

This Bullying Survey has helped so much with my conversation brief, as it helped me on how to imagine how my infographics would look with these stats. As infographics are mostly statistics, it was nice to go ahead and find surveys online, and that people contributed too. I really like being able to find these things online, that can help you out for briefs. 

Dive Into Miyazaki’s Universe With Studio Ghibli Virtual Reality

As seen from the Spencer's Lecture on Japan post, I can vouch that I really love Studio Ghibli.

I remember reading from Konbini.com, that they were creating some interesting Virtual Reality on Studio Ghibli. I jumped up and had to read this article! 

I read the two short paragraph and then underneath this there was a video of how it looked at the moment. Even though this is just a preview I can see great things from it.

I can imagine sitting and being so immersed in the world that Hayao Miyazaki has created and being astounded by the results. 

Spencer's Lecture on Japan

I really, really enjoyed this lecture by Spencer, as I'm going to Japan in June it was nice to be able to learn more about the Japanese spectrum and how wide and versatile they are. 

I also really enjoyed knowing more about Studio Ghibli as that is one of my favourite things to come out of Japan, that and well:

Tamagotchi's, and Nintendo.

Open Works

The whole point of these tasks, in my opinion, were to get us thinking about open works and what we class as a finished design and how we determine what is the finishing point.

Even though most of these tasks seemed fun and enjoying, I sought of had a feeling that we were being challenged by our Tutor Rob. I kept looking around thinking it was like a test, however, it just to see how we get on with the tasks at hand. 

There were two challenged that I can remember. At first, we were given some instructions as to what the tasks were, however, they seemed very "open" and quite vague.

As we were in groups, it wasn't that much of a problem, however, it was to get the right balance between what rules and regulations we had to abide too.