Exhibition Design.

Exhibition Design for Studio 6.

One of the units we are working is to design an exhibition space for our own exhibits. 

Every Year Students at HND2 and degree have the opportunity to not just exhibit there work throughout the HND course but also to design it. 

The whole class had to Present a proposal so that the public watching the presentation could chose the design of their liking. 

After this Presentation was set 1 project for the terrace ( Veronique Azzoppardi ) was chosen and 3 for the interior. (Steve Vella, Christian Fenech and I. )

Although these were the chosen Designs all the class has to find a way of how these designs could develop and change to a better one. Every Student has to give his or her own opinion. 

The Exhibition is not far from us therefor we had to start immediately by meeting with the whole group and discussing how we could make the 3 interior projects holistic to each other. 

It was our second meeting when we decided that this weekend we should work on sketches and that Monday ( Tomorrow ) we will all sort them out on a table and see what could be relevant to our idea generation. 

While we were all together discussing it wasn't easy putting the 3 projects together. There were many factors which had to be arranged in the 3 projects and apart from that there is a mixture in organic and geometric shapes in the 3 designs. 

First thing we did was look at the positive aspcts and negative aspects of the 3 designs and we saw what we should incorporate to a final design and what we shouldn't. 

Steve's Design is made out or mainly cardboard. Therefor we all agreed that it is a very strong material which is relevant and which we could use with a low cost budget. 

Christian's Design looks exteriorly beautiful and contemporary, therefor we decided to incorporate the flowing organic shapes of his design throughout the entrance and side of the room which will flow to Steve's design which leads to a geometric form. 

As for mine, the main goal for my design was to create something interactive which will help students get a large amount of exposure throughout the whole exhibition experience. This included having a large book installed with all the students information and random facts about them. This will help the viewers gain an illusion relationship with the Designers. 

This was mainly an overall brief explanation of what we liked and what we decided to keep from the 3 of them. 

We then spoke about how we could now put them together together with other ideas of the whole team. 

Though the meeting soon started going out of hand when we all had different ideas and different opinions. Which, in reality is not a bad thing ! 

It shows that most of us are intrigued to start this project and to create something different ! 

Tomorrow we are all meeting again and discussing our sketches we drew throughout the weekend. This will now help us define the different perespectives we all have so that we can deliver a final design which we are all happy about. 

I will be happy to post the sketches and our development this week. 

As for the project I'm very confident that we are a good team.

Time management and design development is what our goals should be ! 

An example of the book Layout. 

Good luck to everyone,

Tamara =) 

Flip it !

On a previous blog I explained on the design I was going to make for Toly Products. 

I continued to develop my ideas further, till I had to stop working on that design concept. 

We all had to show our chosen design to the head school teachers together with the company representatives. 

Before we showed anything the Company wanted to show us their latest works which were exhibited in China. 

To my disbelief ! . . . One of their products had the exact same concept as mine. 

I Spoke to the Representatives about the choices I had and the different designs I came up with so I could immediately start working on another concept. 

Although it was a shock at that time, I actually took it as a lesson at the end.

That i had no reason to look back ! I immediately looked at the possibilities and stepped forward into a new design ! 

From the designs I had I chose to continue on ' Flip it '. 

This concept all came to me before I went out one day. 

I was applying my eyeshadow and noticed how dirty my palette always gets.  

Apart from it being dirty I hated the way it mixes up the colors which makes the application uncomfortable for the user. 

So from then on I wanted to design a palette which could have the shadow bases separate from each other , and also find a way how to keep the palette clean ! 

After sketching on paper and thinking of how I might do it i came up with using the 'Flip and turn' technique. 

Basically having each shadow rotating from the midpoint. 

Experimenting on the flipping technique on midpoint. 

For application you basically pull the magnet plate down, turn the shadows you want to use and put the plate back up so the shadows wont rotate unconsciously. 

For color indication I chose to design a set of varieties for the costumers to chose from. The colors help indicate clearly what the color on the other side is. 

               Varyations of how the indicators may be.       

As materials i've chosen pvc plastic with a glossy finish. As I thought there's no way normal eye shadow palette could make the packaging white because of the mess they create. 

With this technique when the shadows are flipped/rotated back to place, one can easily clean the surface of the box. 

Also. . one could also pull out the plastic plate with the magnets and clean that too for maximum cleanliness ! 

I also thought about hand cleanliness ! I didn't want that the person using this product dirty's their fingers to flip them back down. . . so I attached a piece of plastic shaped and calculated from a womans

finger so that the person using it could flip it resting on that plastic panel. 

As for computer Renderings I tried to assign Glossy plastic though had some difficulties ! 

I will try again later on tomorrow. 


Also I wanted to say that as design aesthetics I wanted it to be very minimal as to give the client the liberty of wanting their own shape . . with this new easy application and cleanliness system. 
It could practically be created and manufactured in any shape so I wanted the focus to be on the Function. 

Good Luck Everyone ! 

TamZ. 

The Millipede in Valletta.

While brainstorming a couple of months ago on what Morphogenesis is, I immediately thought that I wanted to do something which shows a certain movement or flow.

Part of our task was to design something which is modular, a shape or a form we can repeat for all the bus shelters throughout the valletta terminus. 

I first Began researching on Morphogenesis. 

I went trough cells, the human body , wind , sea , rain , water, sound . . .

I thought of what thing reminded me of interesting movements ( flowing, form ) , and I somehow thought about Millipedes. 

I started looking trough insects with an elongated shape and the Millipedes was the one which most attracted me to look further into. 

A few weeks ago Ms Louise Agius together with Mrs Rice showed us a documentary about two artists which presented a two week long installation in New York. 

Apart from the installation being very interesting, one thing which caught my eye was the final result. 

Basically big orange rectangular drapes where hung throughout the whole park in New York. 

At the end of the Documentary people who somehow saw how this installation looked from above, said that they looked like blood veins across the whole park. 

This is an example of how I would like the response of my final result to be. 

I want to create an effect of a creature moving in the Bus terminus of Valletta. Not in the obvious kind. Though in portraying the forms of the Millipede. 

I divided the insect in its natural segments and altered them for an interesting design to serve a bus shelter purpose as well as my idea of a moving creature. 

Therefor ! After all this, 

I began experimenting on 3D Studio Max. 

Before showing Just my final design or where I got to, i wanted to show also how I did it  by putting up images of my step by step path to how I got there. 

Creating arcs to form my desired shape. 

Cross section & Surface Technique

Section - Creating Shapes

Deleting Surface and leaving the shape created. 

Making the segments thicker. 

The final result of this drawing. I was mostly experimenting on how I was going to manage to portray the shape I desired. Though the next step was to create two different sections for two different shapes as i would like to fit in perspex in between each segment. 

On each layer of perspex I would enhance the insect wing texture with wood. 

Second Outcome. 

 

Alternating shape for a different outcome. 

Created two surfaces for Wood and Perspex segments. 

Side View. 

Showing how I separated the two segments so that I could create the texture of the insect wings on the perspex. 

I am currently working on the overall shape and how I could create a form which will look more interesting visually when the bus shelters are combined. I want them all to have a different form but at the same time I want to make them connect together to form the ' Millipede.' 

Will post up images when it's finished. 

Till then . . . Good Luck to Everyone ! 

Cosmetic Packaging Unit 12.

Sometimes inspiration comes when you least expect it. 

A few months ago my sister was given a pandora bracelet as a gift before she went to work abroad. 

Its amazing how much this bracelet meant to her when she left. 

Basically the idea of having a pandora bracelet is to decorate it with charms depending on ones likings. ( Or they could also be given as a gift. ) 

You could insert many charms or else change and insert the ones you want before you go out. 

For one of my concepts of Toly Cosmetic Packaging I wanted to create something easily portable as a Pandora bracelet which gives the user the liberty of choosing which ones

to buy , which ones to use and which ones to choose for that specific day or event. 

How the Concept works. 

1. You buy one of the circular rings depending on your liking.  ( Size, material, color ) . I was thinking of ranging it to at least 4 options. 

2. You will have 3 collections from where to choose from.  A colorful one which changes every year depending on fashion change - Teenage market. A gold one which ranges to the mid 40's and elderly market or those with a higher budget. And also a sleek simple one which everyone could opt for.  

Now Consumers could chose which products to buy to add to their Ring. 

                                                        Make it  board during Presentation. 

Nowadays women compete with other woman on everyday bases, including what bag they have , what make up they use , what clothes they buy and much more. 

With this product women could also compare there rings to each other on which product they bought and how its looking.

The idea of creating such a design was also to eliminate the use of the make up bag. 

Personally, I carry my make up bag around everyday, though I barely use 4 products in all. 

With this concept i could just insert the ones i would use on that day and put it in my hand bag, hang it or clip it inside with a zipper or anything of the sort. 

The way the product is used is like how we use our keys from a key ring. Actually, its just like having a set of keys, but this way your having a set of cosmetics. 

                                                            Another inspiring factor. 

( The compact cosmetics could also be bought as gifts from another person just like the Pandora concept. ) 

Lomography.

This, is a product and technique which I love. So I wanted to share it with you guys. 


Lomography is a type of photography which is more focused on emphasizing the casual and ' snapshot ' style of photography. 


The results when using a Lomography camera are extremely unpredictable , though most of the time its unpredictable in a good way. 


One of the trademarks is lomography is its motto of '' not thinking and just shooting ''. It gives spontaneity to the photographer as well as '' happy mistakes '' as results. 


Lomo cameras come in many different styles. Some of which are able to shoot fisheye and distorted photographs using the wide angle lens. 
There are also cameras which allow multiple exposures in single frame of film which accounts for the different lenses that a lomo-cam has. These types of cameras come in rainbow colored flashes or maybe even allow light leaks in some places of the frame. 


This is what Lomography cameras looked like back in the day - 

                           Simple , textured , metal cased.



Though, 


Yet ! ' BEHOLD ! ' The Diana Lomography Range ! 
This is what we find today ! 

The Diana Lomo cameras come in different colors and lens styles. They range between 80 euros and 250 euros - ( affordable ! phew ! ) 


They gave a new look to the cameras while leaving the traditional unique form. 
Changing the material into plastic made the product much lighter and extremely comfortable to carry around. 


These are examples of some outcomes - 

As for printing, Lomographers normally have their own dark room at home because although some companies still print 35mm films, the different effects caused by the lenses of the Diana cameras are difficult to predict. 


www.youtube.com/watch?v=87tTa168GRM - This guy tells us how ! =) 






microsites.lomography.com/dianamini/  






'' I want one !! ''