The project is based on Joseph Cornell whose field is
assemblage, experimental film and sculpture.
He uses objects and memorabilia to build up his designs. I have also been inspired by the work of Tom
Mosely who works with Assemblage and geometric shapes.
I will also be using one of Frida Kahlo
painting’s known as Self Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940) as a reference for
my work.
Kahlo painted the self-portrait with cropped hair shortly
after she divorced her unfaithful husband Diego Rivera. She often painted self-portraits of herself as
a traditional Mexican woman wearing traditional clothes with long flowing hair
but in this painting she painted herself wearing a man’s suit with short hair
in renunciation of Rivera with her cut hair all over the floor around her.
In my home my special place is my walk in wardrobe. I aim to reconstruct this into the form of a
3D box. It’s a place where I keep my
favourite things including my grandmother’s jewellery, my father’s medals and
some other things that remind me of Colombia.
I recreated the room within a 3D Box. In the centre of the box will be a 3D figure
of me sitting on a chair holding a mirror.
On the floor instead of hair will be some broken glass from the mirror
to represent the successes and failures that we all go through in life that
define me. In that room I feel close to
my father and grandmother.
In order to make the 3D picture of myself I hired the
university’s photo studio and dressed up like Frida Kahlo for a photo-shoot. I set up the shoot and got a friend to take
the photos. I created the other objects out of cardboard
and placed them in the box. There are
three windows in the box and as you move around the box you can see the 3D
image of me through each of the windows.
The Dictionary defines graphic design as “ the art or skill
of combining text and pictures in advertisments, magazines or books”.
Graphic is defined as “relating to visual art drawing,
engraving or lettering. Giving a vivid
picture with explicit detail. In
computing it related to denoting a visual image such as charts or diagrams.
My definition of Graphic Design is like having a formula.
It begins with having an idea, choosing which tools you are going to use to
create that idea. The result is the
materialisation of that idea. That
embraces the aesthetics of other art genres such as music, illustration and
electronic media.
These devices gather to share in the creation and the art of
the realization of an idea.
Everything comes from
an idea
My project is called “Everything comes from an Idea”. I used the word idea and designed a font Photoshop using the primary printing colours
CMYK. In inkjet colour printing, black
is the key component and it serves to cover unwanted tints in dark areas of the
printed image.
I created an image and applied the CMYK colours to represent
the main colours used in the Graphic Design printing process. In Graphic Design
everything comes from CYMK and in my definition of Graphic Design everything
comes from an Idea.
My project represents what I believe to exist at the root of
Graphic Design. I have also created a
representation of this design using photography as it is an important tool used
in Graphic Design.
My first idea was going to relate to my poor sense of
direction. I found it a little hard to demonstrate this through
visual means and so I focussed my efforts on a different Idea.
I decided to change the theme of my disaster project to one
that could well become a reality in the near future. What would happen to the world if all the
Bees died out? We would have a
“Beesaster” on our hands.
For the first time I started to work on the idea with the
visual application Photoshop. I decided
to do my sketches on the application itself.
Because the front cover must be made up of typography only I
decided to create my own font related to Bees.
The font takes on the style of a honeycomb and is made up of hexagonal
shaped letters.
I decided to use the play on words and call it
Beesaster.
My booklet tells a story of what would happen if there were
no Bee’s. It contains lots of facts that
I have found.
If we were ever to find that Honey Bee’s had died out we
would be faced with a worldwide food shortage.
Honey Bee’s are the main pollinators of fruit, nut and vegetable
crops. The only crops that bee’s do not
pollinate are grains.
There are 7000 known species of Bee’s in the world and if
they disappeared the knock on effects to local eco systems worldwide would be devastating. Many other plants and species rely on Bee’s
for pollination or as part of the food chain.
With the Bee’s gone these eco systems would decline and will die out
themselves.
The Honey Bee are a good barometer for all other bee
populations so if we lose them we will soon lose the others.
Can you imagine a world without fruit? Without nuts?
Or without vegetables? Fresh
goods will one day become more valuable than gold and eventually without proper
nutrition it could easily spell the end for us as well.
I have designed an A3 size wooden display box which I have
made out of MDF wood. I enjoy working
with wood. This box will be used to keep
my research sketch books and my design project print outs.
I designed the box to my own specifications and then went to
a DIY shop in order to get the materials to make it.
I used 6mm MDF as I wanted it to be as lightweight as
possible. The MDF was cut to size and
then I assembled it myself using the following tools:
Introduction For this project I wanted to create handbag to represent me as my business card. I have also designed and made items to fit into the handbag. The contents include a shoe that have a Phrase which mean something to me and reads “Life must be cherished with dreams and good will“ by my Father. There is also a purse inside with a photo holder of some photos of the people which mean a lot to me. And finally it has three small credit cards. Each card has an uplifting word written on . Those words are Faith, Dream and Determination. I had use the colours Yellow, Blue and Red to praise Colombian flag.
The making
The final Product
Brand New
The “T-BoardGG”
Interactive Game
Interface Coffee Table
Copyright(C) 2013 This Idea Invention may not be reproduced without permission of the author.
Introduction
The
TBoard GG Table is a unique affordable, interactive multi-touch board game
table, powered by the Raspberry Pi technology.
How it
started
I was
looking in my cupboard at Christmas time when I found some old board
games. Ludo, Monopoly, Snakes, Ladders and Chess. It brought back
to me how much fun you can have with them. But what chance do they have
against electronic devices. Young people just don’t want to play.
They need to be revamped. Then it came to me. Why not invent an
electronic table where you can play the old fashioned games and everyone can
join in.
The
T-Board GG Table
Think
of all your family sitting around after a family dinner contemplating on how to
pass the evening. Do you let your kids take over the front room with
their entertainment console or do you dust off some of the old board
games? Pass the time watching TV again?
Why not
get the whole family to do something fun together around the coffee
table? Sound dull? Boring? Well now you have the TBoard GG
Table to change how your family play together forever.
Think
about the traditional games that your family used to play happily together for
hours and hours and combine that with a Coffee Table that transforms into a
multi-touch interactive gaming centre in the wink of an eye.
Some of my Sketches
Fig.1 T-Board
Fig. 2 T-Board Pad
The T-Board GG
Interactive Game Interface Coffe Table
Fig.3 Graphic model of how the games may be viewed on the table.
Note: The Graphic is still in developing stages.
What’s
unique about the TBoard GG Table, well instead of the TV being the centre of
attention the table takes centre stage. Without realising your new table
will not be the only interactive thing in the room, your family will be
interacting with one another as well. Larger than any tablet and more
affordable than more traditional interactive tables we can thank the World’s
smallest computer.
How it
works
The
table will be powered by the World’s smallest computer called the Raspberry
Pi. Connected to a bulbless LED mini projector the internal mechanism
will use flexi-mirrors to project on to the reverse side of our interactive
multi-touch surface.
The Raspberry Pi Circuit Board
The Raspberry Pi is a low cost mini computer. The board itself retails at £23. It is the size of a credit card. It was developed by engineers from Cambridge
University as a tool for teaching kids to learn about computer programming.
Diagram of the Raspberry Pi
Image from
RaspberryPi.Org (2012)
A Mini Projector
Image from Personal
Projectors (2012)
Mini projectors such as the one above now cost around
£100. There are lots of different brands
already on the market. The LED bulb
lasts up to 10,000 hours and doesn’t overheat.
Mirrors will be used to project to the underside surface of the screen.
The table will be waterproof, scratchproof and wipe
clean. Making it hard waring and long
lasting. Research and
Development
There are other interactive tables on the market like the
Smart Table that is used in education or others that are used to control
devices in your front room, like your TV remote or to turn your lights
down. My table will be a custom built
and unique in its design.
The Smart Table
Image from TAG
Learning (2012)
The Smart Table from Smart Technologies is currently priced
at £4650. This might suit the budget of
a specialist school but what I want is to target everyday families in their
living rooms so the sale price will be much more affordable.
The Crystal Table Remote Control
Image from My Relax
Place (2009)
The Cristal Table is currently in development stages and is
due for release in 2014. Cristal stands
for Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living Spaces. The price of a Cristal table is going to be
between £7,000 and £10,000.
A prototype model of my TBoard- GG Interactive Table
People from the Italian based W3Lab working to set up the CSP Multitouch table.
I feel
very inspired by this design and I would love to take it further to see if any
companies would be interested in developing it further. My product will
be the first of its kind to use board games and multi-touch table
technology. With this table I have made use of the technology that is now
available to us and brought it together with an idea of revamping traditional
holiday fun.
The
truth is that board games will never go out of style. They provide the
basis for lots of modern games and they help children to learn. People
will be playing board games in 100 years from now regardless of what new
technologies will have taken over by then. I just hope that by then that
the TBoard GG Table has become a cult classic.
