by Kelly | 29 Sep 2011 | 6AA003 - Creative Realisation, Initial Ideas, Tutorials
I didn’t feel very confident about what I was going to say in my tutorial today as I didn’t feel I had planned anything particularly well as it wasn’t written down. However, I had listened to what others had said about their own ideas and plans for...
by Kelly | 06 Apr 2011 | 5AA003 Creative Applications, Creating in the Workshops, Exploring Different Materials, Initial Ideas
Following my tutorial yesterday with Rebecca Gouldson, I spent this morning in the metal jewellery workshop. I took my screen printed mirrored sample and used it as a template to recreate the drawing in copper wire. Unfortunately to get the image I want, I have to...
by Kelly | 05 Apr 2011 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Assessment Deadlines, Creating in the Workshops, Exploring Different Materials, Initial Ideas
I have enlarged a section of map showing Wolverhampton City Centre for the plan of my game and printed it out at the scale required for my board. I had cut out the pieces last night (until really late!) and placed them around the printout where I had planned the...
by Kelly | 05 Apr 2011 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, 5AA003 Creative Applications, 5AA005: Specialist Practice in Applied Arts, Additional Lectures, Exploring Different Materials, Initial Ideas, Research
I attended a lecture by Rebecca Gouldson today with most of the first year applied art students and brought a fair few second year and a couple of third year students too. It was really worthwhile actually and I got a lot out of it. She described her journey from...
by Kelly | 04 Apr 2011 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Initial Ideas
I have completed my design for the board layout. I am basing it around a section of Wolverhampton’s city centre. I don’t want a board game that makes you bored moving in a predictable way around the edge. I have had to make the board bigger as i want it to...
by Kelly | 03 Apr 2011 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Creating in the Workshops, Exploring Different Materials, Initial Ideas, Research
I have been working on my ideas for my Globalisation Game this evening for a few hours. I want it to be similar to Monopoly but based around global businesses. I do not want the board layout to be around the outside of the board like Monopoly; I want it to be more...