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...
by Kelly | 02 Apr 2011 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, 5AD008: Critical and Contextual Issues in Art and Design, Research
Have been getting on with my presentation today with Holly Harkin. We are motivating one another and very slowly but surely getting somewhere with it. I have been adding to the presentation slides I had put together previously, by just adding names of the artists work...
by Kelly | 27 Mar 2011 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Creating in the Workshops, Exploring Different Materials, Initial Ideas
I have finally had a burst of enthusiasm for my Design Discourse module! I was really enjoying it by the end of last semester but this semester I was distracted with my Student Associate Scheme placement at secondary school with teaching. This weekend however after...