Spot the Difference 2

User 1 - Piscine
Favourite Book – Braveheart
Postcode - 3056
Visit Time – 2:26pm

Remark
In 2001 l was overseas in the UK, and happened upon a copy of BRAVEHEART in the Lyme Regis op shop, a haunting seaside town in the south of England. I ended up reading it as we travelled to Scotland on the train and explored the spectacular highlands. It really brought the history and mystery to life, and Scotland was thus a highlight of my holiday.

Thoughts
I see Pisicine as a 45 year old woman living in Brunswick, married once but divorced with one teenage girl. From the post it is clear that she loves traveling and nature so much she is willing to do what it takes to protect it. The issue of global warming will allow nature and the preservation of it to take a bigger role in her life.

User 2 - wolfhound
Favourite Book – Narnia Chronicles
Postcode - 2470
Visit Time – 5:42 AM

Remark
Great to see other bookloverscomments! we could have a deep & meanigful conventioni am sure.please give lots of advance notice when the t.v.show is on.it was so hard to pick! my childhood influences won out. c.s.lewis”narnia chronicles”by the last one i knew what he was on about at a deeper level.i grew froma child to woman in those years,as if it was time for me to indeed have to leave narnia.i am pleased to report
the real action movie of the L,theWitch&theW is being made!”power of one” and “dune” and “sarum” were very potent for me .i must mention the australian classic “poor fella,my county”by Xavier Herbert.as a migrant from mother england ,this taught me more about australia in a months reading than the then 7yrs of living here.

Thoughts
To be blunt, i don’t think wolfhound gets out much. I see him as a 27 year old that still lives with his parents. His main source of communication is via the internet (msn) . I don’t believe sustainability concerns wolfhound at all, as he stuck in his own fantasy world inside his head. He is more concerned with dungeons and dragons than global warming.

User 3 - Peter
Favourite Book – The Power of One 
Postcode - 4000
Visit Time – 11.49pm

Remark
Although I voted for a warm favourite – (Hugo award winner “Diamond Age” by Neal Stephenson) – I read Bryce Courtenay’s “The
Power of One” when I was 12 and loved it. After reading it I knew how *stupid* racism was/is and that no one is born racist, just raised. (I sure it had the same affect on me as Jane Elliot’s “Blue Eyed” exercises still have).

Interesting that Israel – a country of people oppressed by racism – collaborated with the South African apartheid regime to research and build nuclear weapons.

This book will always be with me.

Thoughts
Peter sounds educated and well off financially. He works hard for his wealth possibly in medicine. Peter takes interest in what is happening in the world and in the future i believe will happy to donate money to charity’s that wish to protect the earth. However i don’t think he would be willing to trade his bmw for a bike or downgrade his mansion in a leafy Brisbane suburb anytime soon.

Lecture 4 Visualisations

This week we watched a documentary on how Cuba became sustainable during the ’special period’. My visulisations center around peak oil as well as having a look at how cuba survived during this potentially dark time.

Lecture 3 Visualisations

the ‘Designing for the hunter-gatherer brain’ lecture by Professor Allan Whitfield was the third lecture off the rank. I decided to have some fun exploring a few of the themes that Allan touched on with these visualisations.

Lecture 2 Visualisations

The second lecture consisted of a panel discussion on ‘ethos’. Stephen Huxley raised an interesting point that large web sites such as google and face book have large server setups that require alot of power to run. I had a look at this for my first visualization. I also had a look at how advertising firms are telling us to consume more, when this is clearly not sustainable along with the misconception the we need our objects to be ‘bigger, stronger and faster’.

Spot the Difference 1

Being a Multimedia Designer, the issue of sustainability is not as pressing in day-to-day operations as it may be in other design fields. That said, I do realise that the time will come where it will affect me on a daily basis.
The before image displays my ignorance on the issue, despite being lectured and being bombarded by the media. This is perhaps why I decided to ignore the issue and just keep working in my little bubble.
As a shampoo commercial once stated ‘it won’t happen over night, but it will happen”, so will my attitude to the issue. It starts with little things like shorter showers, and turning lights off. Ten years from now I still might still be in my bubble, however it will be a much greener bubble.

Lecture 1 Visualisations

The faculty’s new Dean, Ken Friedman took the opening lecture to inform all about the uni’s newly formed partnership with the ‘Designers Accord’. Although i thought this was a great idea, i had trouble figuring what a multimedia designer like myself can do for sustainability. The following visualizations focus on this and Swinburne’s initiative on the issue.

G’day

Hi Guys,

Welcome to my blog.

A bit about myself,
I’m a 22-year-old Multimedia Designer, originally from Geelong. I really enjoy the marketing side of design and hope to pursue a career in that field (for some strange reason i really want to be sitting around a boardroom table eating Chinese food at 1 in the morning generating ideas).

Last year I was working as a web designer at the Age online. My job consisted of producing web graphics, both static and interactive as well as producing Flash packages that consisted of video, audio, animation and interactivity.