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as he ran through what seemed to be never-ending halls of the academy he pulled a medium sized wrinkled note out of the small packet in his jacket which was the schedule of the upcoming year with, in addition of the locations where which class took. Being already 15 minutes late he opend what at first seemed to be his Innocnce studies class; for his own surprise what was infront of his eyes was everything BUT innocent. there he was, standing at the door way looking at who seemed to be the teacher judging by his elegant clothes and the other one seemed to be another student; judging by him wearing the same uniform that he himself wore.

For project one of DSDN111 the main ideas that I tried to portray through my models were asymmetrical balance, contrast and a figure ground relationship. The windows that I created in my models show contrast and asymmetrical balance  through positive and negative space, I found that by opening my models up in this way they were a lot more dynamic and made a very interesting attribute. All three of my models were created with the intent of displaying shadows that capture the viewers attention, showing a visual ground figure relationship. 

I believe that having a library available at our design campus is beneficial for us as students for many reasons. The first reason and in my opinion the most important reason is intent. As students when we make the conscious decision to go to the library we go with the intention to get work completed in an environment that is constructive to our education. I know from experience that trying to get work done in halls of residence or flatting is problematic with all the distractions such as the fridge, friends and the internet. As designers we take ideas and inspiration from the work of those who have come before us. The library gives a vast and inspiring collection of works for us to take as inspiration and merge within our own work. I believe that a library will always be relevant and necessary to extend our knowledge and advance our understandings of the design world.  

To use this interactive object, first decide on which box you would like to test out or experience first. To begin the experience, put your hand under the black cloth and into the box, without looking at the contents inside (the black cloth acts as a cover to hide your sense of sight); spend as long as you desire playing around with the contents inside, making sure to not take any outside of the box so that you can see it. Take your hand out of the box and put your nose up to the six small holes in the lid; smell the material for as long as you feel needed. Now that you have a sense of the smell and touch of the object separately, put your hand in the box again, this time also smelling the contents so that you are bringing both senses together. The decision now has to be made to either choose to trust your sense of smell or your sense of touch, take your hand out of the box and your nose away from the lid and announce your guess of what the material is. Once you have made your final decision, turn the label over that is directly in front of the box that you were interacting with to find out the actual contents; at this point you are also permitted to lift up the black cloth to look into the box. Continue on with this same process for the remaining 3 boxes, making sure to never look inside the box until after you have turned over the label in front of the corresponding box. 

Progress. I have written up my 200 word explanation, finished my interactive object and now just have to take my 8 photos of the object in action. My project has all fallen into place finally, after this long process of making it. I believe my object is strong as it is very thought-provoking and is difficult for the subject to guess the contents inside.

I have made 4 different boxes filled with materials now, they have holes at the top of the box that allows you to smell the object whilst you feel it. For two of the boxes, the smell is the same as the object inside, but for the remaining two, the smell will be different from what the actual object is, this makes it even more of a challenge to guess what is inside. You still will have to decided whether you go with your nose or your touch with this interactive object. I have used materials that aren't that well known to make it more difficult, I'm unsure if i've made it too difficult though. Will have to trial it in class tomorrow to see what Zane and my group thinks.

With the stress of my first two projects for Coding and Experimenting with materials out of the way, I can finally put all of my attention on this project. I feel my project idea is strong as although it doesn't seem like the most crazy idea, I think I have executed it well so far and made the challenge of choosing either smell of touch quite difficult. 

There isn't much to note about class sessions as I have been sick so haven't attended the last 3 classes. I have kept in contact with Zane though and told him to check up on my progress on my blog so he knows I still know what I am doing. Hopefully after finding a bit of direction after the presentation tomorrow I will be able to move forward, develop my idea and produce a successful project.