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.

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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.