If I sold my soul.......

......then I'd love to sell my project to big corporations so they could use it to create advertising concepts like below, but no, I must resist ;)

Our survey said....

I put together a survey this week to get a general idea of how other student designers feel about their work and also to assist with my research in the notion of public space art and how people view their 'digital' environment - I emailed all four years in product, digital and graphic design, and out of a rough potential of around 250 students I got 25 results back - that's the Gray's spirit! lol , aww well, I should count myself lucky that I got that I suppose. The results were pretty good though and to be fair the majority that were kind enough to do it took time out to fully answer their questions. Particularly liked the person who described their work as 'honest....maybe'!! Anyway, apart from that I 've been working on my thesis. Fingers crossed it goes ok, Dew Harrison had a look through the first part of it and seemed happy enough with the direction it was headed in. Just got to tackle Dave's 'Technical' element to it now too. Once that is complete then I'll be much happier about getting on with the remaining elements to my project. Speaking of which, a meeting was supposed to be set up today for all the students who volunteered to be on the 'degree show committee' from both digital and product. No-one appeared to be around for it, however. Tsk! I've said it before and I'll say it again - 'that's the spirit'......!!

Todays mood: Despair.... ;)

Graphics

Starting to pull all the graphics together and get the website finalised for the degree show interface while I wait for one of my lecturers to run the collaborative software (flash media server) from his computer to see if it's going to be ok to then install onto the University one. I've put together some material for Computer Arts too and also got an image together for the degree show catalogue. I also got my flyers printed out, badges made and balloons ready for the launch which should have happened last night but due to pesky 'flu has been postponed until the week after. Also hoping that the collaborative graffiti will be up and running by the end of next week too so that it all coincides with each other. Then the next step is to get the promotional side designed and presented for the deadline date. :(

Also spoke to another of my lecturers who suggested having a look at what some of the vis. comm classes are doing with regards to live video in flash. Sound interesting and will be good to see what other people are up to within this area.

Fundraising and Photos

Had another fundraiser last night. Think we did not too bad. Every penny gets our little group of six closer to New blood in the summer.

Also, beforehand, I went out and took tons of pics of Aberdeen and areas that have potential for projecting and also just areas that already have graffiti. Was a beautiful day so got some really nice pictures, below are a few examples. The granite city is not so bad when the sun hits it! 'Smile - you're in Aberdeen'. ;)

Inspiration

Love this video I found on youtube - bit of creative thought gone in to this one, and not just boring old graffiti tagging. Inspires me to try out some of this for my project.