IDES 322: A Day In The Life
March 19th, 2009 by Rick 10 CommentsWith everyone well-rested after the break, we will be reviewing your instructables and gathering feedback about your experiences putting work out in the world. Our hope is to have the presence of an audience motivate the work and create a larger conversation about Industrial Design, getting you interacting with the community outside school. This theme will continue to the end of the semester (and hopefully beyond). We love to see your work getting in the spotlight, Wes, Jesse, and Elissa were featured on the Instructables homepage. These things work.
After wrapping up with Instructables we will discuss the assigned readings regarding Personal Identity. We are all constantly broadcasting information on a number of wavelengths. What you say, how you say it, to whom it’s said, what you wear, how you wear it, how you spend your free time—these things aggregate to become your social persona. When you all become famous that social persona will become a personal brand.
We would like everyone to pay a bit of attention to what they are putting out in the world beyond their design work. For next week you will be creating “Day in the life” videos that shed some light on the men and women behind the work. Document the things you communicate to the world, how does that communication relate to who you strive to be? Essentially, the videos should communicate a “How to be me” thesis. All videos will be edited to one minute in length and uploaded to your video accounts. Embed the videos in your blogs and share a few reflections on the experience.
Week 7
CHECK OUT:
- Cargo Collective: a new portfolio site platform. You will need to apply for a beta account, but you might like this better than Coroflot.
CREATE:
- A one minute “Day In The Life” video documenting your daily experience as a member of a community, and a designer. Upload it to your video service account.
COMMENT:
- Embed your video in your blog, write a short post providing some context for your video and reflect on the experience. Feel self-conscious.
March 24th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Cargo Collective is neat
The design and layout is very straightforward and presents content concisely and clearly. Also, it allows type to be modified in a variety of ways, including attaching hyperlinks, which is something that I always thought Coroflot lacked
http://cargocollective.com/westhomas/
March 25th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
[...] A 1:00 Glimpse of My Day 2009 March 25 by wes Although it took me a while to get my hands on something to record video with, creating this 1:00 long video taught me a lot. In terms of technique, I learned Final Cut Pro, mostly thanks to Chris and Tom. I also now understand the process of editing videos better, and I have a better respect for the amount of time it takes to create a seamless sequence of video. I had fun in the process, check out the rest of our class and their videos here [...]
March 26th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Wes, glad to see you were able to get a Cargo account. The site says only “select applications” will be accepted – was there any sort of review process? You gotta put the rest of your work in there for sure now, it looks great.
March 26th, 2009 at 10:06 am
http://jackiestarker.blogspot.com/2009/03/day-in-life-of-jackie-starker.html
March 26th, 2009 at 11:01 am
[...] we will be reviewing and critiquing videos from last week’s assignment. Looking forward to seeing some good [...]
March 26th, 2009 at 11:12 am
[...] Punk Ave. [...]
March 26th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
This is a short film that takes a peek into what goes on in my day to day life. See what goes on from home to school and back and everything in between. To view the film, visit http://vimeo.com/3861745.
March 26th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
http://elissameyers.wordpress.com/
My Day in the Life Book
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:11 am
Video + Blog post:
http://jhgdesign.blogspot.com/2009/03/waking-up-to-industrial-design.html
May 18th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
[...] had fun in the process, check out the rest of our class and their videos here [...]