Tracy Chapman

AMAZING this website is jsut gourgeous, its Tracy Champans website completly flash based. when you dirst go on its all white vector drawn image but there is a paint pallet in the right corner and you can colour in each section, its simple AWSOME!
its also luckly related to my book of 100 project that iv jstu handed in, but its simple drawn images and colour in block colours.

OUGD102 Self-Evaluation

1. What practical skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?

At the end of this module I feel so much at ease with a camera, I was use to using photography but through my elective and now finally buying a DSLR I’m defiantly more capable, especially as we started with the 100 photographs even if they were tiny I was able to get loads of good quality images. Iv also become a lot more comfortable with the photography studios and the lighting areas which have given me more of an advantage when taking photographs for of and for my books. A
Also, the first few weeks of the module that we looked at research and how to look at different types of research that will actually help us with out work and not just bulk it up. I think iv really taken this on board and it ahs defiantly helped with the What If? Brief, and the Book of 100 brief as well. Iv also learnt how to use Indesign and expand more on photoshop which has been a big help with this Book project


2. What approaches to/methods of problem solving have you developed and how have they informed your design development process?

On the What If brief we researched thoroughly into out problem and what we could do about it, we took photographs before and after to see if any difference had been made, we also took survey results to get peoples opinions and then we gathered all that data and were able to produce resolutions that were effective.
Also documenting work on my blog, even if its just a few images and a few words iv found it really helpful because of the feedback that I get of there. The feedback sessions have been so much more useful to me this module and I think that has really helped progress my work further.


3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?

My strengths have been in computer based work, iv done a lot of handmade work aswell but iv tried to use a more professional technique to finish things of such as my book of 100.
Also in photography, its definantly something I will always be expanding on and it will always be essential to my work and me as a designer.


4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these more fully?

One of my weakest points in the module has been motivation, it could just be Christmas in between but at the beginning of projects I found hard to make my self interested.
iv also not been updating my evaluations on my blog or tagging my posts which i just don’t do.

Next time I will . . .

1. keep up with research and try and do more secondary research
2. start writing lists and timetables for myself, and set aside time for blog
3. use the college studios more than I have been
4.
5.

Tracy Chong

sock-abet

Iv been doing this ALL day and im really pleased with it! iv used the shape of 4 socks and produced a typeface, then i got 26 swatches from my sock and put the pattern behind each letter to make it more fun to give it some colour. i think they work really well but they might be a bit complicated in a childrens book, if i do use them in my 'Book of 100'.

Book of 100 . . . bags

This is a book of 100 bags. its got the profiles of 100 people and the whole contents of their bag, why would this sell? because we really are nosie, people say never go into a womans bag and so a little book like this could be very amusing.

put a sock in it

i used last weeks Digital Photography session to take some photos of odd socks on feet, i got my sister to layer on some of the odd sock i had, her feet were very toasty, but they all turned out gorgeous, all the pictures are really fun, with the bright colours, and simple, with the white background and simple poses. I'm not sure how I'm going to use them just yet but they are really nice visual aids to what I'm looking for.

After the Crit session we had my group gave me the idea of a children's book, although children's book are very simply narrative and meant to be used in a educational purpose, I'm looking at babies and infants book which is more about the feel and look of them.

i cut up some odd socks and used them for this 'swatch' samply.
However i really want to somehow encorporate some typography in this somewhere as im really interested in it, and Mr Tom Cummings gave me the great idea of doing letter forms from sock shapes.

Statment of Intent , Book of 100

I collected 100 odd socks over the Christmas break, which i have categorised them in colour, numbered randomly pulled out of a bag, how far they would go around my house layed out next to each other and things like that. I'm going to keep in categorising them as i collect them, iv also started experimenting with the concept of a sock book and what that could mean.

my research is going to be mainly looking at children's books, iv been to Waterstones and got some secondary research of the children's book they have there for children which has really helped, its clear that a lot of them focus on bright colours and different textures which I'm going to look at further in my won work. I'm also planning on looking at different binding methods which might make the book still simple for children to use but a bit more aesthetically pleasing something to make the kind pick my book over another one. they say don't judge a book by its cover but everyone dose, even if you don't mean to.

I'm going to use a variety of different methods for this book, i want each page to be different, each page to appeal to the child in a different way, photographs, different textures, drawings, interactive parts an so on.

the group crits that we have had have been very helpful, i was resistant on producing a child's book for a while but the crit has gave me new incentive for ideas and way in which the book can be a piece of design more than just an educational book for kids. i also have lots of visual aids that iv been experimenting and developing in my own work.

So far iv been looking at odd socks but i think i will start looking at pairs of socks as this could work really well in a child's book to help pair them up.

my books

This is a concertina style book that has overlapping layers and hidden flaps. its called 'The Big Book of Little Lost Socks' as my project is looking at odd socks i focused this book more on looking at loosing the 'other' sock. being a big fan of pop up books myself but never actually tried it, decided it could really help with this theme. inside the book are little pop up boxes and pull out flaps that some way contain socks that cant be seen unless u actually look and interact with the book.

I made this perfectly bound hard back book in our book binding workshop, and I'm really impressed with this, even if i did rush some of the cutting round the edges! iv done a book binding workshop before and they didn't turn out as professional looking as this. now that i know the basic skills to make a perfect book its going to be fun playing around and seeing what else i can do with it! hopefully ill have something to show soon.

one short of a pair

What is a book?

a book is . . .

a scroll, very old simple way that we use to record information, very useful, well you'll never loose your page right?

Jonathan Drucker

This is an artist book by Jakie Batey, its part of a series entitled 'running a secret society' she has used this book as a information pack on how to set up your own secret society, the manual even has its own language code.

This artist book is a compilation a poem by Elizabeth McDermitt and illustrated by Julie Chen in a tunnel like consentinared book. It works as a piece unopened but still acts perfectly as a working book.

Sue Blackwell is very famour for her sculptural books, this is one of my faviourite and there is another one with butterflys that is as gorgeous. she uses books for her sculptures i imagine for use of the term, ;its like its coming right out of the book' and it dose. the old looking pages covered with text make these sculptures even more exquisit.

I first saw the works of Brian Dettmerpt in an I-D magazine, these book sculptures are amazing i just want to pick it up and feel it and peer inside. he picks out single words and images and carves round them leaving them almost hovering in this integate piece. deffinant 10/10

Artis book by Mathew Tyson and Les Bicknell

These last three images were of Jonathan Callan, im not eve sure why i like the first one but something about is so . . . u know? But this last one, books wraped together looking like a puzzel.

What if . . . Leeds Smiled?

The problem we cam across was casicaly the people of Leeds dont smile enough, so we were going to solve this by coming up with a way of making them smile as they walk through town.

THE TEAM

Luke Hallam

Sophie Robinson

Martyn Wooley
Rebecca Liggins

we collected evidence to show out problem, we took photographs of the city ccentre on a very wet and grey day and eveyone looks very miserable, this primary source was most usefull as it was visually supportin our problem. We also did a survery and asked people to give us words that describe Leeds and most of them were negative being buisy, grey and corwded. this gave us both quantative data that we used to make qualataive data aswell.

misleading communication

said one thing and meant another, or acted completely differently than how u felt? yep we all do it. took some photographs just to experiment with this concept visually, they work in quite a sarcastic way i think and if not they are just a laugh to look at.
aswell as showing what we are secreatly thinking, ivlooked at body language, and how we can put up these barrieres subconciosly sometimes. here the girl (yes she is my twin) has her arms folded across her chest showing a physical barrier from the guy (Chris her bf)

100 photos (really really small)

out of 123 these are a few of
my faviourites!