Hours - 8a.m. - 10p.m. (Sunday - Tuesday)
10a.m. - 3p.m. (Wednesday)
Job - Designer
On the Sunday me and another student met and sat and talked through some questions surrounding the project, such as materials, and the reasoning for our design.
Reasoning -
Our job was to create a link and identity for the pop up
festival, one that would make a statement and show that a performance would
happen in a certain space. We came up with the idea to use colour. We took our
colour palette from the colour already found in the university and so used the
five colours found in the Quad, one of the spaces being used for the festival,
these colours are; red, blue, green, purple, and yellow. One of the
specifications for our design was that it had to be sustainable, and so we
decided to use items that could have a second life after the festival was over,
instead of using recycled materials we instead used materials we felt could be
used again. We chose to use plant pots as these could easily be taken and used
to plant flowers around the university or even given to primary schools to use
in vegetable gardens. We chose pinwheels as these are eye catching and help to
give movement to the space, and these could again be given to a primary school
or taken home and put into gardens, and we chose to use ribbons to give a sense
of movement, these could then be given to fine art students or kept to use
again in the future.
I put together a rough budget that was actually as thorough as I could make it, including items that we possible wouldn't need depending on whether on not the Uni has them in stock or not.
After the other group member left, I started to draw up some design ideas working over the photographs on my computer, I worked on these images on the Sunday and the Monday
On the Tuesday I worked on preparing the ideas for the presentation, I printed out images and developed a smaller mood board, containing the ideas we had used from the bigger board.
I went over all the points that needed to be made. Although the work has been done, I do not feel at this time comfortable with this project, due to struggles with health issues and no longer having the support of a group, I was feeling under a lot of stress and pressure due to this project.
Wednesday -
Due to health issues I had to make a choice to no longer continue personally with this project, after this point.
After talking through the ideas in the morning, I prepared to share the ideas with the Farnham students in the afternoon, When they arrived we spoke through the ideas and they seemed happy with what we had to show. We spoke through how these ideas would work with their personal projects, I then explained that they aren't supposed to link directly to the performances but were more to show that the festival was happening there, they seemed happy with this however, there was talk of in some way showing the performance happening in that space in some way. Though I feel that it is better to keep them separate.
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