Project2_Catalogue_Sketches/a

Chosen lifestyles after analyzing the flickr group photos:
1-Truck Driver
2-Secretary (Office user)
3-Athlete
4-Housewife
5-Adventurer

Sketches:
Done in details, focusing in color, size, material, function, size, priority and importance.

NOTE: these are only screen shots, for details...come by our studio class, it's pinned on the wall!

Design Event Article.

Sunday's design event at VCUQ was mentioned in the Gulf-Times:

Fa6oom...you're in that article too! :D click here

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All hundred photos are uploaded to my flickr and to our flickr group.
NOTICE: all uploaded images are in .jpeg NOT .tiff due to the limited space flickr provides.
All orginal images will be available in our classroom's mac by next sunday!

enjoy the rest of the weekend (;

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thumbnail sheet will be distributed to you this sunday! if you don't get a copy please let me know or come by my little corner!

I can't upload all of my pictures to flickr, I used all of the space already. I will have them on our classroom's mac just as Reem suggested. I might resize them and make them a bit smaller for my flickr account.

Have a great weekend!

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First we decided that all of our images are related to people in general. So our main category was people. From there, we divided it into four main categories, which are=house, technology, clothing and food. Our criteria for these categories was that they are the essentials for living. 

Categories in details:

1-House

-Bathroom:

Tissues

Toothbrush

-Lights

-Furniture

Couches

-Kitchen

Mugs

Dustbins

-Facade

-Doors

-Office

Stationary

Boxes

Pens/Pencils

2-Food

-Sweets

-Italian

3-Clothing

-Shirts

-Shoes

-Uniforms

-Accessories

Jewelry

Watches

Glasses

Handbags

4-Technology

-Transportation

Cars

Car keys

Accessories

Trucks

One Bicycle

- Phones

-IPods

-Laptops

Project2_Catalogue_InClassNotes/a

In-Class notes:

-Experimentation leads to final products
-Subtle differences make a difference
-IT'S ALL ABOUT THE DETAILS, what make each different (brand, function, size, color...etc)
-Have a category (cars) and a subcategory (sports car) and maybe you can have a sub-sub category of that!

Next Class goals:-Create diversity.
-Analyze.
-Image Quality (reshoot some photographs if not satisfied, or replace)
-COMPLETE and organized.
One last note: PAY ATTENTION to INDIVIDUALITY and LIFESTYLES.

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04.02.09_wednesday

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Duration_five to four weeks

end product is = catalogue (DO NOT THINK OF THE LAYOUT, SIZE and THE FINAL PRODUCT yet_this will be developed as you do your research)

People have different lifestyles and different needs-clothes, food, transportation...etc, our mission as designers is to observe all that by taking as many photographs as we can of what we see around us. We should also think of the possibilities and the choices that are offered and seen around us.

Mission: take photographs of 10 different categories_five are provided by the instructors and the other five is up to your imagination_go as crazy and wild as you can.

ARTIFACTS:

01.clothes

02.cars

03.food

04.furniture

05.phones

06.your choice

07.your choice

08.your choice

09.your choice

10. your choice

tips: think of VRIETY, think of CHOICES, think of OPTIONS, think of AUDIENCE, you will develop a concept as soon as you observe and collect the things around you.

DO NOT take pictures of people or things that are easy for you to reach (your friends, your car...etc) be as open as you can.

when printing the photographs: make sure it's 300 dpi, CMYK and .tiff format.

have fun and good luck to you all.

due this monday_images cut of each category 8cm x 8cm at 8.00 am exactly, NO DELAYS!

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Critique 02.02.09

-don't be stuck with a straight grid.

- it's overwhelming

- a little too tiny

-play around with the size, make it a poster size or something that can be hanged on the wall and kept as a memory (which i did before, but turned out to be gigantic)

-not re-doing my work. but I will keep in mind these comments for the upcoming projects!

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Comprehensive Sketches brief:

breaking down main information (year, months, weeks, days, date, hour and minutes) > product is big (wall calendar) > product waste too much paper > calendar turned into a box > idea rejected (busy people = no time to build boxes) > tried to make it small > but still too much paper to waste > got rid of the comments area where people write down appointment details > final.

My calendar aim: make it as clear as possible, neat, legible, easy and quick to use.

click here to view digital sketches.

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YAY! I just finished making my calendar...process, sketches and pictures will be uploaded tommorow! :D