'HELP'box, collect notes of what makes people feel happy, upset, angry...

As my project is about introduce ways the audience about make them happy, so I thought I should know what makes they feel happy and some other opposite feelings. Then I made this box to collect the notes which others write down the things makes them feel happy, upset or angry,etc.

With those notes of things makes them have different feelings, I had draw some drafts.

Interview and drawings in the ice-cream shop

21/10/2011

 At Mohanmod's icecream shop YUMI.

Interview about why he has this shop.

Is the love of ice-cream the big reason he run this shop?

What the different of eating a ice-cream and run a ice-cream shop?

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From his answer, like ice-cream is one important aspect that he think about when he want to start a business.

The different of having ice-cream and fun a ice-cream shop is he can share with as much people with the last option.

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After the interview I stay in the shop, observe the costumers' actions when they having their ice-cream.

About half costumers are children. Then their parents, young women, young man.

All the smile on their face shows that they must enjoy their ice-cream very much.

And I noticed one girl, when she came in the shop, there's anxiety on her face, then, after she get her ice-cream, had the first one taste, it turns to a nice smile, and looks relax.

25/10/2011 interview with two football fans

Reading/watching lists

After write the leaning agreement at last Friday (20/10/2011), I start to follow my research objectives. The first step, searching informations.

I had found some articals and website, also get some suggestion of useful video to watch. 

Then I will read and watch the articals and videos in the following lists:

BrewinBurgess10 traumatic memories

Les Triplettes Des Belville(The Triplets of Belleville)

Mary and Max

Fantastic Mr.Fox

The Life Aquoaic

Les Vogage Dans La Lunt(A trip to the moon) 

City of the Lost Children

Shortbus

Little draft

As I want to draw a series of books, then I looking at some different style of illustration.
I want the set of the story for psycological treat is to attract my audience by special scene and charactor, so their look must be unnormal, wired, such as, strange eyes, nose, hand, strange shape of bodyfeagure, etc. But it won't too much, and it will be in a interesting way. After some search work, I found that this is really quirky, and attractive. Websit:  http://www.seegmillerart.com/contents.html.

Then I draw some 'wired 'style character for practice..

Reflection on own experience of the project- Journeys & Destinations Critical Report

Link to our Final Video: http://vimeo.com/30181953

Lin

In the short project proposal for application, I am thinking do research about how to use hand-painting in graphic design. So when we start to visit those places which we chose for team presentation, I collected some presswork, bills, prospectus, advertisments from the destinations.

It’s something different to what I used to do when I was studying and working before. Base on each background, history and culture, designers may have different thoughts when they doing design, use different visual factors. Traditional pattern use, for example, I noticed that in castle museum, most presswork picked from there you can feel its about UK’s history. And it’s the same in many Chinese’s mesuem. Also, in Rosy Lees Teashop, some differences to chinese’s teahouse as well. Because in China, teahouse is see as place for relax, social life (quiet different with UK, people here would have social life in pub more often), we set the whole house with traditional ways, there always furniture made with bamboo, some art works of handwriting, big and comfortable sofa with gental, soft, traditional music. And unlike of somepeople work in the Rosy Lees Teashop with laptops, its rarely happen in chinese teahosue, they may do that in the fastfood resturant. On the wall of Rosy Lees Teashop, they draw some morden city and people’s portrait, also has little chance happen in chinese’s teahouse, 

But since the developing of internet, it improved cultural globalization, mutual influence happens quiet common around the world. For instance, in the Broadway Cinema and Media Centre, the way to design the posters is similar in someway.

From the pressworks I collected from some places, it seems not very often use of hand-painting, the same in many countries I guess, So, I am thinking try do test to make some change for those presswork, see how it looks.

First post

I am Cassie, studying MA graphic design. I am mostly interesting in illustration. Draw some charactors with some psychological stories.

Wish I can connect them togeter make it works. Cause I always want to share with others of my own expirence to gain happiness, especially for people had expirenced priod of horrible time. So I want to add it into my works.

I am just hand in my first draft of proposal this afternoon, so my plan for this week may be start to collect some styles of illustration works which inspired me.