circular experimentation

I thought I'd look at a circular more fluid shape to represent Coca. I started by drawing these circles to try and get shapes of the letters I wanted, I then pulled them apart from each other.

With this one I thought I could play with the overlay of colours to highlight the letters. Could be used as you run your curser over the logo on the website, the letter you hold the mouse over lights up and is a different link?  Wasn't sure it was all that successful though.

Adding some more colour and playing within the parameters of paper, fun vs serious feel.

Advancing on last presentation

Snapshots of first computer rendered experimentations for the coca logo.

The 3 boards I had for my 1st presentation.

This was the most interesting from my presentation and the one I will work with and see what happens.

This one was looking at the idea of building the words out of cardboard cutouts which I experimented with, was much harder than anticipated. Might drop this idea?

This idea was looking at creating a font I could build shapes out of to make a 3-D object which could become the log itself. Was a bit tricky when I did attempt to build, didn't look like a word or anything at all. Could work on this one.

Taking this logo and playing with it some more to see how I can get something I like a bit more.

Examples below of how this logo can be manipulated on a page depending on what the page was for eg. The big ones appear more playful and exciting, where as when you make the logo smaller it can feel a little more serious. I think I should play with other colours and transparencies. However I do like that having 2 colours keeps it simple and clear as to what the name is. 

This idea originally stemmed from wanting to incorporate 'conversation' and quotes through the use of quotation marks. I don't think the logo represents this now, but more the overlapping of disciplines within the design field and the idea of pathways, walking up stairs (learning, growing) etc. 

Not sure about the font of the text but will work on that. Finally getting some work done (all nighter in the work office is going down at treat, NO DISTRACTIONS!! love it!).

colours and shapes

seating spaces

A space for reflection, chance to get lost in thoughts, feels like your in a never ending mystical world when its not even a very big space.

There is an apartment I walk past a lot and one day the door was open, what I saw inside was a exciting looking design office type space. One of the things I noticed was an indoor swing. This is the closes image I could find to what I saw. A swing indoors could be a place to get away and let thought mull over through moving and relaxing.

Another seat, seams thats mainly what I'm looking at for the moment, would be something like this. The idea that you have a cocoon to hide away in to get some things sorted. It would be nice to have this sort of thing incorporated into the building. Spaces to play and spaces to hide; areas in which people who like to work in different ways can enjoy.

Versatile work spaces, can utilize in lots of ways

IDEA - The Designers Playground!

The cool thing about this interactive space is that you can use it to build ideas, have it as a nice place to leave someone a message, encourage and inspire people. Or it could simply be something to play with to take your mind off things, or a way of thinking in the background while focusing on something. Design is a form of play, a play with words, fabric, materials, images etc. So why not encourage this more and have a designers playground. The place you go when you get a bit stuck. Also theres the side of design which almost is run b a spontaneous fun child like perspective, the ability to think big. Creativity is playful and fun and we need to bring more of that into the university, the residue of peoples experiments becomes an instillation reflecting what goes on in the building.

Is the playground indoors or outdoors, or both? What does a playground offer and how can we reflect these elements on a designers level?

• The x o's are on a pole so you can spin them and swap them around. 
• It's a game, its more fun for 2 people
• People moving objects

• Slide - you have to climb up something to get the rush of going down the slide
• Hard work (up), Reward when you finish (down slide)
• Object allows you to move

• Swing - You and object moving simultaneously, you control the movement
• Relaxation, going with the flow, getting some time to think things through
• Relatively effortless, gliding along

• Seesaw - Involves two people
• Give and take - Sharing ideas, expanding on each others ideas - back and forward

• Park Bench - Place to observe, note what people are doing
• Reflection, drawing on inspiration around you'
• Time out, could be social, could be alone
• You and the object still, staying in one place

• Playground surrounded by space, no boundaries
• Space to move, think, run, not boxed up

• Playground fenced in (boundaries, block, divide)
• As designers want to get past the mental/design block, make a break through, move forward with an idea

• explores a fence that can be part of the playground and not just its border

Super Machine - Interactive space UNI

Supermachine designed this space for Bancock University Creative Centre. 

Design Team: Pitupong Chaowakul with Nuntawat Tassanasangsoon, Suchart Ouypornchaisakul, Worawit Hongwiang.

This info comes from the cool hunter. "Supermachine Studio in Bangkok, Thailand, is a group of four multitasking architects that team member Pitupong “ Jack” Chaowakul describes as “small office – big projects.” “We work like guerrilla designers, everyone does everything, constantly shifting,” he told TCH.Supermachine’s latest achievement is the interior design of two floors of one of Bangkok University’s new four-storey buildings that form the new, spectacular Landmark complex, designed by Bangkok-based 49 Group. Supermachine’s work in the Bangkok University Creative Center (BUCC) - about 600 square meters in total – includes a workshop, library, exhibition space, viewing room and office.

According to Chaowakul, BUCC was set up as part of the government’s goal to transform the country’s economy from agricultural and industrial into the creative economy. To encourage creativity, communication and experimentation, the BUCC facility needed to be open, playful, expressive and flexible.One of Supermachine’s solutions was the “Lo-Fi pixel wall” at the entrance. They covered a 180 square-meter wall surface with 10,000 custom-made rotating four-sided plastic pieces. Each piece has a pink, blue, green and yellow side. Students can rotate each unite and create color patterns, write messages or just experiment with the tactile wall.In the student workshop, Supermachine enclosed the internet center in a space-ship like green pod that students can move around in the open space.

Construction at BUCC is coming to a close and the facility will open shortly for students. Supermachine is currently working on the interiors for the university's student lounge facility. - Tuija Seipell

So I had this big idea of something interactive, fun, inspiring, not messy. And this is a perfect visual example. I really really like it! Now.. to find a way to do sometime of equal awesomeness for Massey! It would be an interesting case study as they are trying to "echo Thai government’s campaign of transforming the country from a agricultural and industrial based economy into the one that relies more on “creative economy.” This is a great example of how they are using a new building as a centre for this sort of change in the economy to take place. Obviously they are doing something right and the things they have discovered to be effective would be really good to learn from and take on board when looking at our building.

IN LOVE!!

Inspiration!