Alice & Wonderland

Alice & Wonderland is really hitting everywhere even small boutiques. I really was accurate back in November when I began to notice the fantasy fairytale trend occuring. How beautiful is this window display though, I do love Leigh-on-sea...

Personal Tagging.

So for my latest module I have to pick an interesting topic and ask my network about it. Pretty fun. So my topic is all about personal tagging, how we tag ourselves on the internet. For example we tag ourselves in photos on facebook, geo-tag ourselves on twitter and tag keywords on our blogs to higher rank ourselves in google.

Do you know of any new ways people are tagging themselves on the internet?

I have a survey for you aswell, just click on the link below. It will only take two mintues, I promise.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QVYC333

Decode: Digital Design Sensations

Today we took a field trip to the V&A to see the latest exhibition, Decode. For this exhibition the V&A has collaborated with contemporary arts organisation, onedotzero. onedotzero promote innovation across all forms of moving image and interactive art.

Decode looks at three different themes within digital design these include code, interactivity and networks. For me the interactivity was the fun part, it's what made the exhibition enjoyable and the networking maps inspired my current module, networks and connectivity. In the free little exhibition leaflet networks is described as mobile technologies, the internet, blogs we post and the messages we send. This is completely controversial to how I drew my network, I thought about my network as in the people I know and who they know, so on. Kind of like my connections not my internet connections...

My favourite part of Decode was the Videogrid by Ross Phillips, an interaction designer and creative technical director for SHOWstudio. See my cheeky little video below showing how me and the girls became apart of the digital piece of art.

Imagine...Anish Kapoor

Okay so I'm a little slow on the up take but that's the beauty of sky +...so last Monday there was a new program that started called imagine and the first program was about the sculptor Anish Kapoor. The hour covered his journey on putting together his latest exhibition at the Royal Academy of the Arts. The sculptures he was making were ginormous!! Large shapes and interesting textures using the primary colour red, Anish says that red is another black. He likes you to experience his work, its all about space. Just looking at the sculptures on television they have a concave similarity which look like tunnels you want to climb into...it's not just 3D it's almost a 4D experience.

Tom Klinkowstein Workshop

Yesterday, 12th November I attended a workshop run by Tom Klinkowstein, a very inspiring man who flew in from New York. The workshop was based on a one day project on Singularity in 2029, how do we see the future in 20 years time? There was a small group of us some fashion based students, others from a graphics background and as pair fashion and graphics bounced off one another creating products/systems for the future. I was paired with a second year graphics student, Samuel and together we came up with the future product, Gi3. Gi3's were glasses which acted as a computer screen in front of your eyes and projected to other people what you wanted them to see. Tom is a very influential person who makes you think about the future and deeper about life.

FOALE & TUFFIN

FOALE & TUFFIN were a designer partnership in the 1960's who changed the style of dress and the youth of the generation. The two designers were only a minor part of the swinging 60's which is expressed in the exhibition with only low tones of 60's music. I had mixed views of the exhibition I understand the exhibition was about the lives of FOALE & TUFFIN however the ground floor really brang together the 60's, the label and the shop layout whereas the upper floor was set out like workshop with really contraversial styles of the 60's which questions the 60's stereotype.

SHOWstudio- Fashion Revolution

SHOWstudio is a website which has changed how we experience fashion through the digital age and this exhibition I felt really communicated with the audience. It was a very interactive exhibition where you could pick up the phone and listen to what Lily Cole did last night, draw on Naomi Campbell, watch a live photoshoot and even cast yourself as a model. The part of the exhibition I enjoyed the most was sitting in the mini cinema watching fashion films. The films were so inspiring, my favourite were INSENATE and FANTASIA by Nick Knight himself and Ruth Hogben, 2008.