#des105

Pine Rivers Koala Crossing

A sense of immediacy as a few have been killed there recently, at the moment there are signs that indicate drivers go 40KM from 70KM (Gympie Rd near Pine Rivers High).

I was thinking an MTV Cribs intro but have since chosen a day in the life may be more appropriate. I would be writing it from the child's perspective. Will post photo of layout.

A poster for Lady Shaka, queer femme Polynesian DJ.

Inspired by the 'All Women Dance' poster, Poster for an all women’s dance held by the women of the Gay Liberation Front | c. 1970

Utilising the Design Thinking bootleg and the Double Diamond. Design Thinking bootleg: empathise, define, ideate, prototype and test.

The Double Diamond: discover, define, develop and deliver.

I've chosen an Event Poster for Task 1.

I wanted to create these posters because she is proud of her heritage and I wanted to show that off. In previous posters, she has already done so but I wanted to make it outright to the audiences that saw the posters.

I just found something great https://www.instagram.com/p/CrQ-NwkNCWJ/?img_index=1 - a Boiler Room article about Lady Shaka on re-indigenising club culture.

An article from Dazed, 'How can mainstream club culture become more inclusive?' https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/29163/1/how-can-mainstream-club-culture-become-more-inclusive

Questions

What did I DO in class?

What did I find most interesting?

What specifically is interesting to me about it?

Describe the part of class that is most relevant to my life or studies.

What question or questions do I want to ask now about something in the session? How might I find the answer?

What topic am I going to follow up on in some way and how will I do it?

I worked a tiny bit on my poster and tried to figure out how the Design Methods apply.

The Design Thinking Bootleg!

It's speaks more to me than the Double Diamond method.

The artist performing is relevant to me, I like them and they're a Pacific Islander and so I feel as though I should do their poster justice.

I don't know at the moment. I may come back with some during the week.

The Design Thinking Bootleg and how it will apply to me poster but remembering that there is no singular method to completing assignment 1.

Topic/Problem

Bees - We don't need bees format: poster campaign? Problem: Shining a light on climate change following the loneliness of a bee finding a home. Would be almost children book esque illustrations which follow a tongue-in-cheek campaign on why we don't need bees and the socio impact and consequences of losing animals in the ecosystem. Greyhounds - Catching the rabbit format: zine or poster Problem: Many ex-racing greyhounds struggle to be rehomed. This is due to misconceptions that they are very energetic and require a lot of work. This campaign would seek to dispel that myth as many greyhounds are quite and actually rather lazy and friendly, perfect for many people who would overlook these animals. Where do I really live? format: unknown

What did I DO in class? Went over learning introduction to DES105. learnt how we will keep notes by using journals for review. Completed a designer sentence on what currently fits me (I think will change as I progress) Found a space and began to write down everything I could observe as a way of breaking down my environment.

What did I find most interesting? Breaking down my environment and expressing it in written form.

What specifically is interesting to me about it? I typically try to draw my environment. Describing my environment in word form was a different experience and approach I had not thought of or experimented with. A new way to observe the world.

Describe the part of class that is most relevant to my life or studies. Exploring different design methodologies will greatly help structure an approach to finding a solutions. In the past this has felt like a shot in the dark, rather than tested and defined problems.

Created a tumblr account, conducted a observational Conscience script/journal, Saara explained and introduced our first assessment items and I was late!! .

How easy i found the observational conscience journal and how 2 simple tasks iterating created something.

the simplicity of the design methodology used. The feeling of the simple instructions just flowing and iterating instructions creating unique piece.

Too many people just assume that someone will make the right decisions for them in their time of need. But during a crisis situation or a situation when the prognosis of someones life is hanging in the balance those decision are fraught with regret, guilt, angst and overwhelming emotion.

During my time working in the Emergency Department and within the health setting what I have noticed is so many people are not aware of the poor outcomes that present with lifesaving measures. Depending on your age, comorbidities and frailty will ultimately change how well you will live after an adverse event.

The Event Poster is the third topic I’ve chosen for Task 1. This one was a bit harder to come up with an idea for but I eventually settled on a book signing event.

I decided to do an LGBT author, specifically an author that focused on a less-represented aspect of the LGBT community (asexuality). There were quite a few authors that I could chose from but eventually I settled on two final possibilities:

Claudie Arseneault

Laura Pohl

Upon researching them and their books, I chose to do Laura Pohl as my author because the style of her books looked like they would catch my eye if I saw them as a reader.

At first, I chose the event poster style based on what I thought looked nice, however I quickly found that it didn’t feel right as a poster for Pohl.

So, I wanted to match the event poster to Pohl’s book cover style. Fiddling around with the colour palette and formatting gave me this as a new iteration:

While the colour palette felt closer to what I wanted, however it felt a bit too amateur and basic, so I decided to try out a portrait-oriented poster style, and after searching this one caught my eye:

It took a lot of fiddling and messing around, eventually leaving me with only the basic formatting still used (font style, circular image, and back/foreground style).

I like this iteration more than the other ones, however I don’t consider it quite done yet, so I will develop it a bit further and then use that as the last iteration in my assignment. The posters were developed on Canva, using their templates (1, 2) as a base, and the author photos were used from Pohl’s website.