DSDN 141: Experiment One

Contact Sheets: Experiment One

I started experimenting with several different materials to see which one showed up the most effective. I wanted to show mainly the positive attributes of the certain materials I was looking at, along with the negative outcomes that came out, showing them with high quality photos. 

DSDN 142: Creative Coding

Processing Introduction


For our first class in creative coding, we were introduced to the program that we were to use throughout this whole semester. Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions. Perfect for designers like myself, since it's free and great to use. Our first lesson we just learnt the basics of coding. We made a blank canvas, and drew some shapes and lines. We then learnt a little about variables and how to color in shapes etc. Nothing too difficult for a start but it'll get more complicated later on. 


These are a few that I have made just for practice. The first is just a basic traffic light, made of 3 ellipses all color filled and 3 rectangles which are color filled as well. Making the shapes were easy it was just finding the correct position that was hard to do, practice makes perfect I guess.


The following 4 images are just an experiment using "beginShape" an "vertex". I drew 6 vertex's in the image and made the last vertex as a "mouseY" movement, which means wherever your mouse cursor moves the art point moves. But as you can see with the first one I didn't put a background color in "void draw" which meant it didn't maintain the color it had throughout the whole interaction. The last three images show the fixed one that I made with the movement on it too.

DSDN 112: Week One

So...another semester begins! Showing up to my first class of DSDN 112 (Introduction to Interaction Design), I hadn't a clue what to expect. We chose our own groups this time round, got assigned a tutor and we got introduced to our course outline and first assignment. We have to build an object to do with one of our 5 bodily senses, that someone else can interact with. Ideas are flaring!..


Our first studio was quite a chilled out and relaxed one, we ate Oreos to discover the relationship between our senses on how we see it. I didn't see anything since I just ate it in one bite.
The next one was something that was interesting though. They prepared "shots" of milk, one was normal colored and the rest were blue, green and yellow. We all had to have one of each color and guess what flavor they were. Of course I immediately thought that it was just milk, with food coloring...was I right? Yeah. We'll leave it at that. Right, so the next one was a funny looking red liquid that looked like kool-aid. There was this funny little contraption that you put under your nose to make it smell like raspberry, but when you drink it you're hit with a very sour taste, which can only be lemon juice. Yes, very deceiving..


So nek studio...


We were asked to bring 5 objects that represent something to do with each sense.
Mine were:


Taste - Jaybees! (I bought a packet of Jaybees because the colors of each jellybean is misleading. Plus the texture changes completely once you reach the center, with the flavor changing to a bland and boring taste. Oh, and it has my name.


Smell - A box of matches was my first choice, only because when you first light a match you get a big whiff of the flame/smoke that extracts from it. My second was my cologne, simply because who doesn't like the smell of a highly rated branded scent?


Touch - Sandpaper. Black sandpaper that is. I chose this color instead of the normal "sand" colored (wow) sandpaper because it looks smoother. Yup, mislead again.The black sandpaper that I brought was actually rough as ...rough. 


Hear - I showed 2 interesting apps from my iPhone. The first was a sleep aid, where it plays soothing sounds to people who find it hard to sleep at night (certainly not me). The second was what grabbed peoples attention. It was called Hearing Test. It emits a frequency from low to high to test what age of hearing we had. Tested it, we all had a hearing of a 30year old..apparently.


See - I brought a big plastic sheet that's actually a magnifying glass. This just gave me the idea of certain materials that we look through, which changes our vision wildly depending on what we're looking through. A good example would be a pair of prescription glasses, which are solely designed for one person's eyesight. If anyone else ever looked through it, blurry/dizzy life ahead..

DSDN 142: Precedents and Research

Our first class session involved going into a website which was www.openprocessing.org. We were told to browse around through the processing sketches that other people around the world have created, using the program Processing. I was fascinated by the level of creation and sophistication that has gone through each process. I chose the following 2 examples of processes that people have done since I was interested in following something like these throughout my project.

The first one is called "harmony_web_remake" which starts off as a blank white sheet. It involves users to interact with their mouse by holding down the left-click. By doing this we can create a digital web, as I have explored below. The link to this is:

http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/8168

The second one that I found interesting was called "ink splatter" which again starts with a blank page and requires the user to interact. By clicking on the sheet, an ink splatter colored black appears on the page. What I liked about this one is that no matter how many times you click on the page, it never generates the same style brush stroke as the others. It ranges from sizes, which also includes a wet-paint style drip down the page. After awhile, the ink starts to "dry" out and turns into a grey color, similar to real black paint or indian ink. This java script can be found here:

http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/65438

This course Creative Coding (DSDN142) is completely new to me, speaking to a few students in the first class we agreed that it is almost like learning a whole new language. I myself is very inexperienced at this and will be interested to learn more.

The Clip

Stop Motion Final

"A New Way of Seeing"

Design Standpoint

My goal is to pursue Media Design as a major, therefore i chose to do my stop motion on what I think is the best explanation on what Media Design actually is, and how it is "A New Way of Seeing". After researching Media Design, I then decided on my quote for my standpoint -

"Thinking outside the box and expanding the world with Media Design".

This simply means that Media Design expands the way the world sees and looks at this type of design, by using different types of medium. If we look at what types of art forms and medium is involved in Media Design, we find that there is a lot that goes into it. For my stop motion I decided to use drawings, photography, and my laptop to show the process that basic animation goes through. I started off by first drawing my object, which in this case a legoman. This drawing then faded out into a photograph which turned into a real life animation, involving the object moving around and discovering the laptop and how it was created. By showing this in my stop motion, I wanted to get the idea out that with Media Design, you can use almost any type of medium to create an animation.

The Clip

Storyboard Final


This is my final storyboard for Project 3, it relates to my actual stop motion because I am going with a superhero/superman theme to it. This made me think of the most appropriate style to a storyboard I could do, and I found that a comic book style would work the best. So I drew it first, then put it through my computer and colored in the main parts leaving the background the same color, which looked cool in the end giving it that depth.

The Clip

Interim Presentation

Stop Motion

This is my stop motion so far for DSDN101. We had to have an interim presentation of what we've done so far with our project "The Clip" and so far I've come up with this. It's still a work in progress and I am considering starting again to change the lighting within it since it was uneven as you can see from the preview. That was one of the main feedbacks I got from the tutors Joneen, Ali and Vanessa, and also they asked me what else I was going to do. I am still planning to start off with my drawing which turns into a series of photos which then turns into a real life animation. This is my proposal for a "New Way of Seeing", with other phrases that relate to my subject matter put in there as well with as much relevance as possible.