Here's an idea I had for a title which I suppose could turn into a project brief...
Significant Objects
It all seems to be about tale telling and stories tonight- this was a project featured on Design Observer, which caught my attention as it reminded me of one of my fav projects of late- that collaboration between Onkar Kular, Noam Toran, and Keith Jones: The MacGuffin Library. The idea of creating fake stories around real objects and therefore increasing their value is (too me) interesting-design-tastic. Link: here, oh god it feels good.
100 Post-its
I guess I'm kinda behind the times with these next few posts- not been hanging at my computer as much as normal i guess. As part of identifying what we want to do for our final project we began by writing 100 hundred ideas on 100 post-its, easier said than done i found. After that we put them on the walls of the studio in categories which we found common ground on and approximately 24 headings developed containing in total approx 5000 post-its (54 people in the class). Every heading was assigned two people- and then these guys split the post-its in their heading into categories based on similarities or whatever. Then 3 brief ideas were presented and voted on for the 2 to be carried on a be written up- From these resulting 48 briefs we individually picked 2 to run with for 8 days- after which we presented what we had done and what we aimed to do in the next couple of weeks.
These are my 100 post-its:
clocks,
shaving/ coffee ritual,
goosebumps/ hair raising,
opposites,
anesthetic/ numb,
stair politics,
echoes,
game theory,
stale/ stagnation,
breathing in sync/ walking in sync,
repetition,
collect & accumulate (validated through it's peers),
collector as subversive and transgressive,
collector as organiser + criteria,
collecting trophies/ memorials,
raymears total canoe,
labyrinth,
insurance,
fortification,
dead photos/ slides,
piano tune/ roll,
house numbers,
keats and the imagined,
palimpsest,
advertising through artifacts,
valid/ invalid,
polarity,
locke and temporal flux,
multi valued logic,
moths,
using existing forms/ structures,
volume (sound etc),
pattern,
type in real,
fade/ decay/ texture,
tidal swimming pool,
numerals/ counting,
self contained things- crabs & mussels,
guilt,
hand written notes,
excess materials,
accumulation,
choice as a limiter,
constraints as liberating,
light as a material,
exhibition touching,
swarms,
sacrifice, hornets/ holey ice,
end grain, end cardboard,
symmetry,
stencils,
mushrooms,
prosaic,
implication, pragmatic linguistics,
mnemonics,
sticky tape,
immediacy of use/ feedback,
pain- ache - desire,
prioritising,
the act of staring something,
guild,
compromise,
joints/ fixings,
power in consistency,
metal type,
trains/ tracks,
tickets,
toilet door signs,
habits,
tautology,
spectacle,
slow design,
sleep in a book, sheets of a book, bed time story,
where you are = how you are,
non- action,
las vegas hooker cads,
facile,
irrational,
complete,
loneliness,
gray(-)scale,
inevitability,
mutant,
entropy,
segment,
gargoyle,
scythe,
some chemists mean contrivance,
mittens on string,
compassion fatigue,
canal locks, woman on phone "are you here?",
drawing machines,
originate,
tattoo fonts,
peg type boards,
cathartic (sis),
copy,
perennial/ ephemeral.