AAD012 Social Eating Contextual Research

Contextual Research I chose these designers because of their interest in sustainable practise and biophilic design. Phillippe Starck Phillippe Starck is a French-Canadian designer known for his sustainable approach to design. An early pioneer of plastic furniture he has made it his responsibility to commute…

AAD012 Comfort Contextual Research

Contextual research for ‘Comfort’. I chose these designers because of their beautiful style of furniture and their core fundamental principles. Karim Rashid. Karim Rashid can be considered one of the biggest and most influential names in furniture design today. Rashid is well known mostly as…

AAD012 Social Eating

Firstly, I made a spider diagram to explore social eating and what that means to me. I automatically think of making new friends and the new culture of social media and dating apps etc. and how that could tie into eating or the eating world….

AAD012 Comfort

Firstly I made a spider diagram to explore comfort and get some ideas. As I am quite interested in furniture anyway and appreciate the comfort of a good armchair I decided to go with this idea for my design. I used a mood board as…

AAD012 – Fine art, Sculpture.

For my sculptures, I decided to replicate a wooden clothes peg in 4 different materials. They are enlarged to the scale factor of 4.7:1(+/-) but still have the same proportions as the original. I wanted to experiment, more with materials than with the shape, scale…

AAD012 – Fine art, Lens project

Chosen 8: The following is my series of photographs containing at least one red item in each. I have a mixture of natural, man made, interior and exterior images, mostly paying attention to contrasts or similarities in the scale of two or more similar features…

Product Design – Foutaises product

Originally, I had developed my product the ‘Fire-Bag’ which was aimed at warming/drying clothes in a rucksack style bag, that as well as having an adaptor to charge its battery, was covered in solar panels for a secondary source of power. I practised 2 point…

Contextual research and understanding

Sustainability: (being edited but shared verbally in class) Identity: Our identity is our unheard voice. It is where our inner self meets the real world and it is through this meeting that we communicate every inner part of our being through how we look, sound…

Interaction design

Digital product: For this task we were asked to design a product that took us away from our screens to interact with the world around us. Due to the current social circumstances, as a result of Covid-19 and the resultant curfew, I designed a product…