Creative Process Journal

Guest Speaker

The guest speaker is Matthew, our graduated senior in 2022. He explains about his FYP project, how he develop his ideas from introduction, summary of readings, research objective, approach and methods.

Some interesting questions:

•  How difficult to find the title?
He mentioned that every week, he came back to the lecturer with different title. The topic is ever changing and also organic progress.

•  How written/research come together?
They only make sense together until i tried it out practically.Everything is theoretical until it became practical.

He also emphasize the importance of drawing minmap to link everything together.

Introduction

How you went about writting it? Introduction grow with each readings. Intro is about explaining what is effective readings. For example: Emotions > how to measure emotions etc. Very brief about each things to show what you are looking for.

Summary of readings

What is it about and go deeper with the readings. For example: Facial expression - these emotions/feelings. Cite & quote Light version of literature reviews.

Research objective

Link up all the summary readings. What you want to get out of the research. For example: How to use open source research and link them together.

Approach/methods

Some examples will be, Interview - someone else experience, Case study - back up with exisitng, Critical journal- use your own work to reflect over time such as prototyping/reflective journal.

Mindmapping

After the talk, we have to draw mind map for our topic and lay it out on the table. We have to look at each other topic and paste the stickers on areas that we find it interesting! It is a fun exercise to know how my peers feel about which part of my topic is interesting and where I can further focus on.

Insights

Before the session, I talked to Andreas about how my compendium research include 3 focus, “Nature of design” , “Interact with Design” and “Ownership had changed” and I’m not sure which one to focus on. After this exercise, I realise most of my peers find “Nature of design” interesting especially “Blending traditional & digital art together” has the most stickers as you can see in the photo.

Paper to Pixel

My topic is Paper to Pixel: How the art industry has shifted from traditional to digital art. It is further developed from my research compendium. The aim of the project looks at how the art industry have shifted from traditional to digital art.

Link for presentation slides
(https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZZU22A738FEr-S03NdqWHQOQZQFo9F8L0LrTHLeLu54/edit?usp=sharing)

Why this topic?

In my research, I have learned more about how the art industry had shifted from traditional to digital art. The difference between them and also the impacts of NFTs in design, interactions and ownership.

I chose this topic because I’m interested in technological advances and the future possibilities that NFTs could bring to the digital world and how it could change design. Having some experience designing NFTs, this is atopic highly relevant to me. Given that NFT design is becoming increasingly prevalent, I feel that it shouldn’t be avoided. As designers we can be more open minded and explore new ways of conveying design.

Feedback

Continue to research into “Blending of traditional and digital art”. Try to find out the focus for this direction. NFTs in artform is good but branding/advertising not as good to dive in. Think of going into practical work & research.

Soundwalk

By Ariel
Ai generated soudscape to use google map. The Ai will match with the map location andmatch the soundscape to upload images. Also looking at memories study.

Ai Generated Art

By Farhan
It works by putting specific key words into the machine and generate images because of the description or key words that put inside. It is a creative AI uses new media and media art.

Metaverse For Fitbits

By Sanghee
Using metaverse for fitbits. We need to exercise for our mental well being. This is a Interactive installation by amy jorgensen. Two interesting book that she will also look into book such as “Designing for behaviour change” by amy bucher and also “changing people behaviour through Design for the mind” by victor.