I did Julie Liu's project

Julie Liu's project is about “personal story in London”. When she studied in London, she often feels lost in London, because of the culture shock or any other reason. She found some way to solve this problem. Meanwhile she did some research, and she found an interesting thing is that 80% of people did not satisfy with their lives. But there was not any question about this reason on her questionnaire survey. However, I think this reason is very important for us. People can help themselves, and they don’t need that designers told them what they should do. As a designer, we can collect this reason and use design method to express it, which will give people more inspiration to solve their own problem. For example, people can use tool kit to repair their furniture.

I took an example about her story in London to show my idea. I used toolbar of the Photoshop which is design software to show the reason how to help themselves by people when they are in trouble.

https://vimeo.com/59775733

Practice 2

1. Raindrop & Move/ Sad ( emotion)

Raindrop gives people soft and moist haptic feel. I tried to use special materials and methods to express the haptic feel in paper.

However, when we read a move article, we also leave trail of tears. If we applied it in book design, readers can understand authors’ emotion in their book quickly.

2. Anxious (emotion)

Feeling anxious likes these dense woolen yarns which tangle easily, it gives people heavy pressure and add to people’s confusion.

3. Hubble-bubble

I continued to collect something on the paper through special media.

Media:     detergent+water (4:1)

Material:  art paper

Experience Color Through Touch (research)

This project uses variety of shape to helps visually impaired people to distinguish between colors. Because it is difficult to understand color for visually impaired people.

This project did by Melissa Kelly, Allen Aliangan, and Chhunpora Rith. Use tactile cards and posters, as well as an audio-app smart phones, will be able to color in conjunction with the touch to convey to the user. Tactile labels on clothing and other items, while the color information is tactile.

As you can imagine, the concept of understanding color can be incredibly challenging for visually impaired individuals. The Reveal project aims to bring a tactile system of simple shapes that can be easily learned by anyone for application in everyday life. Using tactile flashcards and posters as well as an audio-app for smartphones, colors are associated with touch and relayed to the user. Tactile tags on clothing and other objects then provide color information simply be feeling.

“Every Image has a Sound” (research)

“Every Image has a Sound”

Designers use different materials to enable people to got different sensory experiences. People can interact with these posters, and they can hear some sounds, like thunder, typewriter and bonfire. Because each material have unique sound and texture.  And participation also can attract people to experience them, such as: touch, hearing and so on.

Thunder   

Typewriter

Bonfire

Step 2: Plan

Visual and haptic design will make people perceive things effectively and receive the information quickly. It not only plays role in linking up the sense organ with mind, but manifests the need in its' interactive and the emotion factor. This kind of complete tactus and emotion experience will strengthen the exchange between the graphic design and the person and leaving the unforgettable happiness and memory with spectator.

In last step, I explored visual feeling and the mood conditions of different texture in people's daily life. I found patterns of the natural texture in that process, which also are applied in graphic design, such as, layout design, book design and so on.

In this step, I continued to collect the haptic presentation of object which comes from people’s daily life. And then, I try to use haptic design to express people’s emotion.

Inspiration: I did some practice to express raindrop: water, oil and wax left the trace on the different paper. However, when people read a move or sad poetry, they would be tearing up. The words of the poetry would become blurred, and the tear would appear on the paper like raindrop. This visual effect not only tells people the content about the book, but also could show types of the article, such as: comedy or tragedy.

In addition, I read a dissertation which called “About the tactile presentation in the package design” last week. This dissertation explores the tactile presentation in package design, including Comfortable package design, Interaction package design and Emotion package design. Meanwhile, it analyses tactile presentation with package materials and package craft, which give me an inspiration to begin to explore my project.

Xiangfeng Lee (2005) About the tactile presentation in the package design [WWW] Available from: http://www.docin.com/p-53766954.html [Accessed 10/02/13].