Artificial Smile

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Serendipity
Artificial Smile Playing with the notion of auto-retouch, consumerism and artificial gestures portrayed as genuine emotion, Artificial Smile works like this: the camera takes a picture, and overlays a straight face (mouth) with a smile, pulling from a bank of images of smiles, to find one that best suits the person’s face. What is fake…

Recap: One for Two

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Evolution
KHiO+AHO+BI Joint Project As designers we need to work in teams. Sometimes it is with designers from another area within design, and most of the times, it is with business men, marketers, accountants, architects (or all the different types of clients we might have). At KHIO we had a joint project with BI, a Business…

Recap: Creativity Week

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Evolution
Odd Starts “If you start in the same place as everyone else, you will be more likely to tread a similar path. Navigation aids may take all on the same path. Unique design solutions come from going down the untrodden path-the path that’s fresh.” With this inspiring note, we embarked on a week with Geoff…

Rosti

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Uncategorized
Gameboysex I just had some coffee with Ross Fox. He has great talent sketching anatomy and making it into something new: creating huge wood-cut prints, printing it on fabric, creating installations and collaborating with dancers. He is a fashion designer too! We had a great talk about blending the analog and the digital. I think…

Recap: Writing as a tool

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Evolution
Writing Exercise As designers, we need to be good communicators. Even if writing isn’t something that is formally taught at Art School, using writing as a tool to communicate compliments our work. Through writing, we can create scenarios where people and things interact, and detect design issues and further develop solutions. We were asked to…

Recap: Book-binding Workshop

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Evolution
Book-binding Workshop Last semester we had the wonderful Douglas Beavans give us a workshop about book-binding. We learned how to tell the grain in paper, to work with it, to bind the pages and create book covers, and we even made a box! There is something quite special about making things with your own hands,…

Co-Experience

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Book of the week
Co-Experience: Understanding user experiences in social interaction This week I finished reading Co-Experience: Understanding user experiences in social interaction, by Katja Battarbee. This book is actually her Master’s Degree dissertation, from the University of Arts and Design in Helsinki, in 2004. The thesis here is that to study co-experience, experience prototyping should happen early in…

Universal Everything

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Motionlove, Uncategorized
*Sigh*. Matt Pyke’s studio, Universal Everything is an attic in a house in England. And through sharing, it is also a massively creative studio, that works with digital art and design. Even that is an understatement. They blend art, animation, design, user experience, interior architecture, technology, sound design… and come up with something that in…

Recap: AG Molhave

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Evolution
Digging out At KHiO we had the chance to have a workshop with Annegrete –AG– Mølhave. Her expertise in design processes, communication and research helped us find the root of what we want to explore in our MA project. We did different exercises: writing without thinking about it, mind-mapping and idea development asking ourselves what…
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Scripts

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Buenos tipos.
––– A selection of lovely typographic findings ––– The book Scripts: Elegant lettering from Design’s Golden Age (Steven Heller and Louis Fili), left me drooling at type. Beautiful swashes and ligatures, contrast and found lettering organized by place and time. Here are some of my clicks (and inspiration with colored filter paper) from this book.…