Feline Fascination - choreographing the cat

Here's a little experimental film I made to occupy my time whilst
house-sitting. I was looking at choreographing movement with
music however, due to the subject matter the choreography was
created in reverse order. Here's what happened when I had a
visitor one afternoon........

Nasty Business

Based on the principles for the Vlog (networking, process, design) this is what came together in my mind. The clip looks at how the corporate world influences design of consumer products and the rate at which it forces technology to advance. As my main passion involves media design and looking at the old and new, it takes a journey from the 1940's/50's up to the present day, taking a reflective look at what we have achieved with regards to design and the constant push to advance consumer products' efficiency and competency. The audio used in the clip is a re-edit of Nina Simone singing 'Take Care of Business' by Pilooski.

Driving thru

This composite image represents my interpretation of a 'Real Life Network' involving human interaction, a desire and a result.

And yes, I had a Boss combo........

Have a gander....

Here are some great blogs with content that fascinates me;

Check out
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/04/21/celebration-of-vintage-and-retro-design/, a compilation of retro advertisements/posters/graphic design examples from different periods of the past. They talk about how designers often overlook simple priciples related to graphic design, and that looking back we can learn a lot and often find inspiration......

Also take a look at http://www.retroradar.com/category/feature-articles/ , a constant, somewhat nostalgic investigation into trends/fads of the past, picking out exceptionally interesting items from the realms of fashion, film, art and culture and displaying them for our appreciation. A 'whats hot' of the past.

And car design being another of my interests, visit http://www.carbodydesign.com/news.php to see all the latest trends in automotive design. Lots of images, spy shots, artistic and computer-generated impressions of planned future models as well as Design competition winners' creations and concepts from all the major international motor shows.

While browsing through other 112 blogs, I found some really interesting sites and commented on the blogs that stood out to me. It's great to have a network of people that share the same interests but can bring different perspectives to your attention.

The Chairs

Here are the three chairs, in order of the year they were produced.

Clock-wise from the left; Mackintosh's Hillhouse chair 1904, the Le Corbusier Chaise Longue 1928 and Jacobsen's 'Seven' chair 1955.

Design Regurgitation

Recently, a fellow Design student and I had the opportunity (through a university project) to make a short film stating our position on a design discipline. Our focus was on Industrial Design, and how we both felt (aesthetically) certain products that are supposedly modern, seem to be heavily influenced (in some instances appearing almost completely copied) from designs that had existed long before.

As the film could only be up to 60 seconds long, we decided to narrow down the subject matter, focussing our research on chairs. During our research we discovered many design classics had been 'regurgitated' again and again through the 'evolution' of chair design in the 20th/21st century. We decided to represent three examples of design purity that had been highly influential in later designs; the B306 Chaise Longue by Le Corbusier, Arne Jacobsen's Model 3107 or 'Seven' chair and Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Hillhouse chair.