Trains project cont.

This is my faveourite so far today...get this printed at home

Fun Theory

I think this really relates to what i'm trying to do... This is incedental excersise. People are more likely to take the stairs when they are novel and fun. An attitude I think can be taken into other things

( taken from the dundee university design school blog http://design-cultures.blogspot.com/)

RSA Working Late - Serious Play

The topic of the brief I have chosen is increasing physical activity in the workplace for all throughout their lives.

I'm a big kid at heart and really believe that your never really need to grow up and loose the inquisitive, free, fearless feeling that we all have through childhood. I have lost count of the number of times I've been told that I'm daft for just having fun and not giving a damn what people think of me.

Playing in a park is just as fun at 2 years old as it is at 22. Who says when your too old to still go out partying or too old to splash in puddles.

Not only is it great fun and a release from the seriousness of adult life but there is evidence that play has emotional, physical and psychological benefits to adults as well as children.

Stuart Brown in the above Ted talk SOME OF MY NOTES

Notes social play/rough and tumble play/spectator ritual play/imaginative solo play/ story telling/

rats- play creates survivors.
homer simpson- play deprivation - couch potatoes- don't develop brains properly

The opposite of play is not work its depression
Play signals- facial, gestural

NEOTENY- humans are the most playful of all creatures into adult life

From play to innovation - d.school stanford - crazy suit thing that you can take your meeting back to your iffice..boiler suit that is written on

x marks the spot

Today im working on my railway project. Supposed to be developing a design for kids. no colour as of yet so it may look a bit more kiddy when i do. hmmm or maybe not!? kinda like it though. photoshop isn't liking this design for some reason. lost of freezing and not responding. I'll see if i can get a picture up

RSA

Onto the next prject of this year. I'm hoping blogging this will help me figure out some ideas...I hear it helps.

So Digitex is supposeably the future of the textile industry in Eurpoe. Were being asked to develop a textile that uses a set of specific textile coatings to make intelegent materials that respond to the environment that they are part of. Work wear seems to be focused on heavily but were free to explore any other applications as we see fit.

I don't think I'm too fussed about the workwear idea. Firstly because the brief hints at it so heavily I get the impression lots of people will go for that . Secondly I'm finding it difficult to think of any that aren't obvious applications.

temperature/acid alcaline/ light reactive dyes- people who cannot percieve heat correctly? uv light dangers- sunbathers?

chemical dispersion through the textile- pain relief? heat? burn victims? what can be absorbed by the skin? sports injuries? perfume? oils?

antistatic/antibacterial- hospitals? people working in labs? working with animals?working in computer industry-static. People not wanting to get struck my lightning.

hydrophillic/hydrophobic- getting moisture away from a surface through absorbtion and propelling on other side?Not quite understanding the difference between this and other breathable fabrics apart form you can have it with natural fibers.

Sunday time

I love sunday mornings....It really is my favourite time of the week. The time where I take a few hours just to chill out and not feel guilty about it. To sit for two hours with the paper and my cup of tea is just bliss. This morning it's just me and the pup. I think I've exhausted her since she hasn't moved from under the bed since we've come back from up the law! I seem to have made friends with a dog called Jamie who would rather have cuddles than continue on his walk. Dana is getting much better with other dogs and being less of a snappy bitch...hmm hopefully owners can be like their dogs too. I could maybe learn a thing or two!