Degree Show - photos

Next event: Degree Show!

Come and visit me in the degree show this week.

20 to 25 June
(Saturday to Thursday)

Place: 'TV Studio' - D block - UWE Bower Ashton Campus.

I'll be there with the notebooks, the website, a projection showing a funny making of video, the big notebook to take part.

For more info about the event at:
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/sca/view/

Bristol Design Festival - check

Bristol Design Festival finished today.

Report:

• 95 people took part in the big notebook (more than expected);
• 3 pens are gone (it's part of it);
• all the notebooks safely back;
• lots of postcards / business cards given away;
• 5 post-its with the title of my project in the wall "what you most liked in the BDF?" (as soon as I could see);
• lot of enthusiasm earned from watching people interacting with my project;
• good direct feedback;
• my desk is back to my room;

;)

Overall: Positive!

Sound!

The website has sound now! Me and Ben Mitchell (who comes from animation/sound) stayed here the whole day yesterday recording, editing and mixing sounds made out of paper, pen, books.

I'm very pleased with the work we've done! It's amazing how sounds from tapping on paper, closing a pen, ripping paper, leave a book fall on the floor,... can become such a good resource for rhythm just by isolating and mixing together.

Thank you very much, Ben!

The record was all made with normal microphone (a Guitar-hero microphone, to be very honest) and it worked quite well for the quality I needed.

Check it out!
www.whathaveyouleftbehind.com

Get a Postcard!

I'm sending a few postcards abroad to distribute the website address and invite people for the next events.

Would you like o recieve a (free) postcard?
Give me a shout: marianamota@marianamota.com

If you're somehow involved in the project, you're already going to receive one soon.

Or get a digital post-card [clicking here]!
And help me distributing the project.

(open the jpg, click with right button and save in you computer. Ready to send image by email)

Website online - a preview

Take a first look at the website!

www.whathaveyouleftbehind.com

It's a preview as there are a few changes still to be made.

But you can enjoy the preview. ;)

Bristol Design Festival

Please, come and visit me at the Bristol Design Festival.

06 - 11 JUNE 2009
10:00 - 19:00

The Old Fire Station
Bridewell Island
Silver Street
BS1 2PY
Bristol




















You'll see: The website, the notebooks, and a big notebook where you can contribute with your story during the event.

It's been great to hear direct feedbacks and see that people are interested in the project. :)

Should this project be in a Design festival?

Something that makes me wonder from the time I submitted this project to a design festival is if this project should be exhibited in a design festival. And this fact is something I am still anxious about. What makes me a bit more relaxed is that the feedbacks I got from people so far was good, and could see people interested in the project. But I wonder how people perceives this project in this exhibition.

I wonder if when general public go to a design festival, if they expect to find beautiful, digital, shiny and sometimes "eye-candy" design. Am I underestimating the public? Do I have a wrong idea of what the public expects? Sometimes I wonder if people have in mind that design is about the process, the concept. As applied art, design have the tools to make people question, see from another perspective, get something from that. I am not speaking about commercial design which has specific commercial goals to achieve and works together with marketing. I'm speaking about design that is exhibited as "this is the design we have at the moment", "this is what designers have been doing".

Particularly, I've been quite disappointed in a few design exhibitions I've been in the last months (not in the BDF though, let me make it clear), especially because I keep seeing special effects, projects that are more concentrated in the aesthetics and keeps in a superficial level. This repeats over and over again. This project is not about the aesthetics at all, apart from the fact that I do want to question that and say "yes, this was hand-made", "Yes, it's made by human to human in the most basic level."

So, I wonder... should this project be in an art exhibition instead, or does it make any sense being in a design exhibition? What do you expect when you go to a design exhibition?

Please, help me out, let me know your opinion.