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Week 4 Presentation part 2

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Week 4 Presentation

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Week 3 Presentation

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Smells can now also be packaged in a myriad of formats allowing it to then be released in the form of a tester for various products on shelves, this technique could be utilised in my idea for curating a care package for the purpose of smells creating a familiar, safe feeling for recipients. (see other smell research)

Source: https://www.interpack.com/en/TIGHTLY_PACKED/SECTORS/COSMETICS_PACKAGING/News/Packaging_with_Scents

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With the idea of creating a experience that makes you feel safe, I first needed to make sure my own experience with smell and eliciting memories and associations was not unfounded by other sources.

Take this excerpt from the Fifth Sense website as evidence I’m not mad.

 https://www.fifthsense.org.uk/psychology-and-smell/#:~:text=Smell%20and%20Memory,a%20childhood%20picnic%2C%20for%20example.

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Week 2 Presentation

Narrowing down and more experiments for FMP on Hands and re-connecting with others.

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Hands project random ideas and thoughts up to this point

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Week 1 Presentation of experiments:

Research, finger print map trail, and hand simplification and shrouding test.

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Studying hand expressions in comics

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Day in Hand pt 2

The objective was to take photos of my hands as I went about my day to create a time-lapse after wards. The hands are instrumental throughout the day, I hoped this experiment would show that.

Sadly, I just didn’t have enough photos.

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Day in Hands pt 1

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Concepts in reach and ideas in that vein

Palmistry and life lines- seeing our future mapped out on our hands, the tool we use to then interact with it

Sleight of hand and Magicians- deception of events for entertainment

Fictional magic- contortion of hands/ waving/ gesticulating to cast spells (see CAOS, Dr Strange, HP)

‘Out damned spot’- guilt from a persons actions 

Hands covered in blood, helping or hurting? - Doctors can heal with their hands, people can kill with just their hands

Joining hands in marriage

Hand of Glory- severed hand of a hanged man used by burglars as a protective device.

Hand of Fatima- the hand is commonly seen as a symbol of charity, (hand-outs). The Hand of Fatima proclaims that charity is one of the fundamental virtues.

Joined palms- union 

Raised hands as protection/ to defend the body (martial arts)

The hand is an image of power to direct events, protect, harm, or heal

A raised, clenched fist has been the logo of the Black Lives Matter movement since 2014, following the murder of Michael Brown by white police officers despite being unarmed. It is used to represent the “hands up, don’t shoot” pose.

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FMP possible routes of interest Presentation

The Band documentation was a project I’ve been wanting to undertake for a while.

I was interested by the idea for the lying project from listening to a number of news reports on the statements and conflicting actions of members of the Government during the pandemic.

Through the same random word finder used at the start of D&AD, I was given the words: ‘Need’ and ‘Hands’. This got me thinking about the tools we overlook constantly but act as our primary method of interaction with the world.

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ISTD Evaluation

This project was very different at the outset, it was only through my fascination with chaos theory did the project delivered start to take shape. A lot of the design decisions in style for the book were inspired by the small paperbacks of the 70s and 80s like ‘Medium is the Massage’, at least for the interiors, as well as the poetry books I have been exposed to through education. At the mid-point of this project I lost some faith in my idea (more on this on my blog) and almost allowed it to change drastically from what I was working on before and the final product. Each time the subjects being changed within the book leant a fairly drastic tonal change to the project as well. I spent a long time uncertain of where I would end up in this project, time didn’t feel like a concern until the end when nearing deadline. The developments in the project came when they needed to, with progress fluctuating a long the way. Feedback drove the best and worst parts of this project, though it pushed the project away from bad directions, it also left me feeling lost in the water and not really knowing what to do each week ready for the next one. Whenever I came back to work on it, I always looked at the feedback as my starting point and how I could adapt my current project with the new directions posed in tutorials. Type handling could be more delicate and subtle, I tend to lean towards big statements with my type, when that doesn’t always benefit the subject of the text. That and keeping presentation documents simple are where my process are currently weakest. I think my main take away from this project is that it is alright to flip a brief on its head, I enjoyed being able to look for ways things are put out of order rather than the original in order, because out of order is still a form of order. Though the project was rocky at times, the one thing I have no doubts about is my final mock-up book, it looks really good beside other books on a shelf and just seeing it with its cover attached properly is very satisfying. The only thing I want to do now is make more books, whether as more explorations of poems out of order or something totally different.

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Front and Back cover of final deliverable, printed and bound.

Have the front cover as well

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Final Deliverables, Printed and Bound (Part 2)

Cause of Tumblr’s 10 image limit, back cover will be in separate post woo tumblr!

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Final Deliverable, Printed and Bound. (Part 1)

Its really cool to finally see it all together, working and reading as an actual book.