Design Principles / Project 2: Sense of Place
12.10.2021 - 29.10.2021 (Week 8 - Week 10)
Lulu Luisa Linardi / 0349358 / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative
Media
Design Principles
Project 2: Sense of Place
LECTURES
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Week 8: Sense of Place
A designer's role is to solve problems with effective visual communication.
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| Fig 1.1: Design inspiration from nature |
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| Fig 1.2: Design inspiration from social media platform |
8 Ways to Improve Your Powers of Observation
- Know your subject
- Slow down and look outward
- Try something new
- Improve your concentration by cutting out distractions
- Challenge yourself to a mental workout
- Test your observation by playing a memory game
- Record and consider your observations
- Stay inquisitive
Observing is an active of acquiring information, through the senses of a subject matter in its natural setting. Our senses are important for us to know, feel, understand, analyze, and even plan what to do. Observation is important to designers as it enables them to see "problems", as well as getting ideas for solutions to those problems.
Sense of Place
Notice on how: cropping, proportioned composition, and emphasis are used to bring attention to each picture to enhance the sense of place.
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| Fig 1.3: Enhancing Sense of Place |
Think about the place you're in now, or a place you had spent some time at previously, or a place that had created a lasting memory in you. How do you express your sense of that place? Start documenting the observations (photographs, diary, talking to relevant people, etc.) and create the ideas in a mindmap.
INSTRUCTIONS
Project 2: Sense of Place
Each person has their own kind of story. It is the same as me. And their story can either be a good or bad memory to themselves. I have a specific place that came to my mind after receiving this task. It is a place that can't be described by words because I have a lot of stories when spending there for about 3 months, right before the uni days started. This place is a hotel and also an apartment building located in South Jakarta (I'm sorry I can't mention the name). I spent my school holidays in that apartment while waiting for my parent to finish the medical treatment. It was the very first time I left my home for a looong time. There's nothing really special happened there, all I did every day was like everyone's doing (wake up, eat, watch TV, sleep, and repeat), except for some particular days (I went out to the hospital). This is the building picture that I took from the hospital.
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| Fig 2.1.1: An apartment building in South Jakarta, 08.07.2021 |
However, it was really strange that I need to check out from that place after 3 months. I felt like I'm leaving my comfort place I'd been for the past months although it is not even my real house. I missed seeing the scenery from the 39th-floor balcony every day. It wasn't that great tho, but I really couldn't move on from it for several weeks. I'll share some photos that I took from the balcony.
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| Fig 2.1.2: A beautiful sunset view from 39th floor balcony, 25.07.2021 |
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| Fig 2.1.3: My very last view from 39th floor before leaving, 05.08.2021 |
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| Fig 2.1.4: Blurry night view from 7th floor, 24.10.2021 |
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| Fig 2.1.5: A beautiful scenery view with tall buildings behind it, 18.10.2021 |
That's how the long short story ended. Now, I'll proceed to do my project 2. I won't make it 100% the same as Fig 2.1.5, I'll go out with my new ideas .
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| Fig 2.2.1: Rough Sketch, 29.10.2021 |
After finishing the rough sketch, I then started doing the drawing.
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| Fig 2.2.2: Making process #1, 29.10.2021 |
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| Fig 2.2.3: Making process #2, 29.10.2021 |
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| Fig 2.2.4: Making process #3, 29.10.2021 |
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| Fig 2.2.5: Making process #4, 29.10.2021 |
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| Fig 2.2.7: Animating process, 30.10.2021 |
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| Fig 2.2.8: Adding music, 30.10.2021 |
Final Outcome
So, these are the final outcome of my project 2. I put additional Fig 2.3.2 because it looks really nice (it's actually made for the animation part).
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| Fig 2.3.1: Final Outcome in .jpg, 29.10.2021 |
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| Fig 2.3.2: Final Outcome in .jpg (BONUS), 29.10.2021 |
Fig 2.3.3: Final Outcome in .pdf, 29.10.2021
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Fig 2.3.4: Final Outcome of Animation in .gif, 30.10.2021 |
Fig 2.3.5: Final Outcome of Animation with Sound in .mp4, 30.10.2021
FEEDBACK
REFLECTIONS
While people are saying Project 1 is their favorite task, I will say that this Project 2 is selected to be my favorite Design Principles task. I think I learnt many things while I was in that place. A lot of things that happened there have changed my life (my habits, paradigm, etc). And through this task, it's somehow being recalled again, all the things I've been through for past months (both good and bad things), and how my life changed at present.
FURTHER READING