Collection 100....Improved

These improvements were made after the Final crit on Monday 8th February. Am introduction page and a content page have also been added to the catalogue.

Collection 100: The catalogue

These are some of the pages from the product which is a catalogue.

The book is divided into 8 different sections which are: cushions, bedlinen, lighting, electronics, posters, others-hers, others-his and others-both

Each category is colour coded and divided by a small tab in which the reader can easily open up and find the section they would like

what if...sticker

What if...presentation board

Collection 100. Pt 3.

How to focuss the audience to the appropriate things. Some features of the bedrooms which are unnessarcy and distracting should be erased or somehow made LESS distracting.

So, I started exploring on the visual side of this project now after a careful research into the subject.

The design of the catalogue is coming more together.I am still experiementing with layout, colours and format.

collection 100 Pt3: more photographs

The photographs that were taken initially were aimed for a different product ( bedroom and personality ) but as I am now creating a catalogue that are based on bedroom furnitures and how the bedroom looks themselves. The photography techniques changed

I have tried to keep the angles of the camera uniform and the different angles will not vary that much. Obviously the bedrooms are fairly small and it is impossible to retrieve the whole of the bedroom from one angle.

I have kept the angles to 3-4 different ones and when they are put together, it gives an interesting result

collection 100: initial photographs

Collection 100 Part 3

From collecting 100 opinions, 100 facts and a 100 objects I generated ideas to progress with this project.

The main ideas in which i considered were

-matching people to their bedrooms
-bedroom Feng Shui
-Bedroom personality

After researching I was going to create a product that identifies a relationship between a person and their bedroom.

So, I started photogrpahings bedrooms and then decided to only take photogrpahs of students bedroom.

Bedrooms in halls are all very similar if not almost all the same and therefore the only difference between each bedroom is how the occupant decorates it.



eg.


However, after a careful consideration and more research, I figured that the product would be interesting but may be not relevant and therefore the product would not have a valid purpose. So, I decided to change the direction of this slightly.

The "bedroom" project will still be a book but instead of "bedroom vs. personality" I am now producing a catalogue in a form of a book. It will be a catalogue of bedroom decorations that are based on actual students bedrooms

100 bedrooms
100 owners
100 objects


Halls of residence are usually uniform and all look the same/ very similar. However the residents can decorate them however much theyd like

the audience will be new students who are moving into halls of residence and are interested in making them more personal.

Collection 100, Pt2

On the first day back at college we were asked to bring in what we have collected

We had to categorise our objects into our own chosen categories and photogrpah them


things you put on your wall:
Things that you normal use, mundane things
Sentimal things in a bedroom:
Things that you go to bed with:

On the first day back at college we were asked to bring in what we have collected

We had to categorise our objects into our own chosen categories and photogrpah them

Collection 100

After the Idea generating session before the winter holidays each student had to pick a subject matter for their 5 week long brief offt a Collection of a hundred.

My chosen subject matter is BEDROOMS

Over the holidays we had to collect

100 Opinions
100 facts
100 objects

I have categorised my facts and opinions into certain categories.


Eg.

categorising Personal Things in a person's bedroom

Personal Thing in your bedroom
Decorative
big panda canvas
Christmas tree
expensive pollow collection
Buzz-Lightyear giant cardboard cutout

Things you use
Drums
electric guitar
A big woolen rug
webcam
remotecontrol for all switch
pc
Saxophone
our(family) piano

Part of the bed room
serously OLD door
stairs

Collectables
maps
sally the doll
Old fashioned globe
memories (photos, reminders of good times with friends etc
Massive DVD collection
collection of religious figurines

Sentimetal Things
genie lamp
my cuddly toy pig
Old man's cap
stuff Santa toy
collage
photograph albums
Box with 6 years worth of notes from school

What if...ideas and work

What if....week 2

After more research,

we decided to concentrate on one aspect of homelessness and all agreed that it is impossible to try and solve homelessness eantirely.

We found that we had the most research on health of those who sleep rough.,


We managed to identify a problem and how to solve that.>>> written on the Rationale sheet

What if.....week 1

Brief: Establish a problem that affects some sector of the general public in Leeds. The solution must be resolved,designed and presented in the public domain.

Deliverables: compelling fact based evidence. Photogrpahic record of the solution

This brief is a group project and we were all put into a group of 6 accordingly to our initial themes from the previous brief: photogrpahy 100.

Each team member had similar themse to their photographs and that was our starting point.
Will Duffy, Hazel Gage, Nick Morgan, Maryem, Gemma and me.

Our themes were:
Contrasting colour
Dark, kight and things that shine bright in the night
Might-time, Close ups
Documenting Changes

After we were assigned to our groups, eacg memmer of our group went away and did our own research on what problems there are in Leeds. This was done mostly through, finding NEwspaper articles and the internet

We came up with a few main ideas that seem to be the most interesting and relevant.

Graffiti, Vandalism
Homelessness
Theft

The group decided to go with Homelessness. So, again, we all went and find our own indivual research to back up this problem.

From the group, we collected both primary and secondary research.
A questionaire was created and that can be accessed through


http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=211868771638&ref=mf

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/63HCKZK


One of our group members also spoke to a volunteer at the Crypt, a homeless centre in Leeds city centre


This is what we decided to do as the result of our research

Who? The general public
What? Informing and educating them about how to help the homeless
Why? Because there is a lack in knowledge of how to help, volunteers

How?? ....A high inpact poster??

We had a presentation on the Friday and pitched in our ideas,

The feedback suggested that there was a sufficient amount of research but a lot of people do already help and know how to ..so, intead of just informing , try to do something else?

We needed to find a niche in the market

The group went home and did more research over the weekend