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Credo mockup

ryanpeel — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:04:19 +0000

Here are some images from my mockup

After completing the mock up. Ive have decided to simplify the jacket. Something a bit more like this.

Credo Layout

ryanpeel — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:47:16 +0000

Here is a proposed story board/ layout for the accompanying booklet

Credo

ryanpeel — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:21:38 +0000

The ‘Credo’ task involves authoring and publishing a document that communicates a targeted statement that best describes your best practice in relation to new technologies.

I have chosen ‘Fuse’ as a keyword to work with in this project.

I believe the task of a multimedia designer is to join or “ fuse ” together a variety of design methods and mediums to entertain and enhance the end users experience.

The word ‘fuse’ also works on several different levels. I plan to make the different meanings and connotations on this word become basis of my publication

Fuse
noun
a safety device consisting of a strip of wire that melts and breaks an electric circuit if the current exceeds a safe level.
verb
1 [ trans. ] join or blend to form a single entity : intermarriage had fused the families into a large unit.

PHRASES
blow a fuse use too much power in an electrical circuit, causing a fuse to melt. • informal lose one’s temper : it was only a suggestion—there’s no need to blow a fuse.

fuse 2 (also fuze)
noun
a length of material along which a small flame moves to explode a bomb or firework, meanwhile allowing time for those who light it to move to a safe distance.

light the (or a) fuse set something tense or exciting in motion : the event lit the fuse for the revolution.

a short fuse a tendency to lose one’s temper quickly : watch your tongue—he’s got a very short fuse. • ( on a short fuse) likely to lose one’s temper or explode.

verb
1 a band that fuses rap with rock combine, amalgamate, put together, join, unite, marry, blend, merge, meld, mingle, integrate, intermix, intermingle, synthesize; coalesce, compound, alloy; technical admix; literary commingle. antonym separate.

This will be a promotional tool, intended for industry. It will showcase five of my favorite outcomes in further detail than what is represented on my website.

I want to display 5 different projects to display a variety of design methods working together to create an outcome. These will include a website, short movie, 3D and an interactive kiosk application.

Crave

ryanpeel — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:30:02 +0000

Together with Danielle O’Shea and Pandelis Plousi our major group
project was Crave.

The marketing and advertising industry is a multi-billion-dollar
industry that has the power to change the world, but is it changing
the world for the better? Australia recently ranked number two in
the world for overweight concerns among children, which proves
that the messages that food advertisers are communicating, in
many instances, are misleading, or are not necessarily in the publics
best interest and are being misinterpreted. Studies conducted by
the American Psychological Association in 2004, concluded that
most children younger than 8 years old do not have the critical
thinking skills to understand the persuasive intent of TV. A large
percentage of food advertisements are promoting products that can
best be described as fatty, salty, sugary and fast (Australian Council
on Children and the Media, April 2008). The problem is that much
more money is spent on advertising ‘unhealthy’ food than what is
spent on fixing the health problems that this food is causing.

Crave endeavours to:
+ Make people aware of the affect
advertising has on us as individual consumers.
+ Decrease the negative impacts that consumerism
has on society – particularly health aspects.
+ Educate society of how advertising strategies are
created to manipulate ones ethos.
+ Help consumers discover the knowledge to decipher
between advertising and information.
+ Help parents to find ways around advertising and the power
it has in particularly when it come to food and their children.

Click here to visit the crave blog

1.C Sustainable media networks

ryanpeel — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:17:50 +0000

Lecture 8 – Shit Design

ryanpeel — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:10:20 +0000

To conclude the lecture series, Keith gave his ‘Shit Design’ Lecture. The Lecture looked at two extremes in the design world, ‘Vouge living” and “That’s Life” Magazine.

Lecture 7 Visualisations

ryanpeel — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:57:57 +0000

Following on from the movie watched in an earlier lecture on the way Cuba was force to deal with ‘peak oil’ crisis, this week was a panel discussion on ‘Community’.

Lecture 6 Visualisations

ryanpeel — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:41:37 +0000

This week Keith had a lecture on two of the great theorists in Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu.

Lecture 5 Visualisations

ryanpeel — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:33:46 +0000

Edward deBono’s Lateral thinking was the topic of discussion for week 5. Craig Austin took us through some of Edward deBono’s work as well displaying how he his furthering the work of deBono. My visualisations explore some of the concepts Craig talked about. These include how the brain thinks laterally as well as the 6 hats of thinking.

Spot the Difference 2

ryanpeel — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:08:55 +0000

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.