Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task

The Brief:

"COMPLETE THE BRIEF BELOW AND EMAIL TO IAN BY 6PM FRIDAY 21ST OF NOVEMBER. 

From the desk of Ian Anderson Ian.anderson@thedesignersrepublic.com :

brief —give me something i'll want to keep forever.
tip — remember this is primarily a design communication design thinking workshop.

ok

researching me to make informed decisions
lateral thinking — what is it that I (ME) would / could cherish forever

if it's made / realised then all the better.
if it needs explaining, then you should find a way to explain it in the context of the piece rather than as a note attached to it as an excuse for not putting that thinking into the work"

I looked into Ian Anderson online I read articles where he'd been interviewed to see what his inspirations may be, or things that he liked, I also looked into his work. 

I found in an article on Eye Magazines website, he had said that his aesthetic was 'futuristic' and that he liked the old Sci-Fi genre. 

From this I thought about the fact that I like some Sci-Fi and I also focussed on the idea of something physical to show that I like physical products over digital. 

I thought about creating a piece of origami, as I like this art form, and it can create very futuristic geometric shapes, and so this is what I would create.

Next I thought of Fringe a sci-fi tv series, and the series has a code of glyphs that are like secret clues to a word for each episode, 

and from this i looked at what I could create, maybe spell out the word IAN, 

however I reflected on this and I felt that this maybe too abstract,

And so I created a mock of three glyph animals to see which would work best, 

A frog, a seahorse, a butterfly.

I did this by watching tutorials on line or following diagrams people had made (online)

http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-yamaguchi-dahlia.html

http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/virtual/origami2/exploring01_06.html

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-an-Origami-Seahorse/

After this I selected the frog as this is the clearest and the frog also be pushed and it jumped, which I thought was a more interactive piece, which is more fun and therefore more cherish able.

then to tie in Ian I printed out a print of his work (Sissy) which from a talk a couple of years ago I felt that he was very fond of this character and so I used this as the paper so the frog would be in this print. 

Final Piece