Design Exploration /

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GAN YI KIAN / 0374572
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Design Exploration


LECTURES

Week 2
Design & Playful Experiences / Visual Communication as persuasive playful medium
  • Visual are powerful persuasive medium to provide most of our information about the world.
Visual are

Everything that can be seen 
- Wide, all-inclusive including nature
Everything produced or created by humans that can be seen 
- Producrd or created by humans for the purpose of visual representations.

Design as persuasive provocative visuals
  • to disrupt the usual unconscious thought process
  • Shock, Shame, Fear and Anger are four emotions that often portrayed in provocative visuals.
Design sensitivity
  • Cultural sensitivity
  • Economic Instability
  • Polarization and Divison
  • Social Justice Movements
Playful design
  • Playfulness is often the result of increasing both engagement and fun by guiding asprects taht lead to desired actions and behaviors.

INSTRUCTIONS


Portfolio Blog Entry 1 - Potential ideas so far (Week 3)

Six realms of existence in Buddhism
At first, I didn't know what I could do, especially on topics related to mental health and psychology. So I asked Ms. Anis and Ms Eunice if topics about the six realms of existence in Buddhism would be acceptable.


Then they told me that this direction was a bit complicated because it involved religion, and that there are indeed different interpretations of this topic in different places, so I needed to switch to a simpler topic.

Perfectionism
We need to choose a topic related to mental health to expand upon, so I've chosen perfectionism as my theme. I will gather more information about perfectionism on Canva.

These are some outcomes I initially envisioned that I could actually create.

  • Gallery of not-perfect artwork website

  • A series of artworks with a completion rate of 90%

  • Website drawing platform - user draw 50%, 50% beauty by AI

  • Website drawing platform - can see people drawing work

  • Website drawing platform - people can see your work and improve it

  • Online digital collage - imperfect creator


After that, I decided to create a platform that allows users to create their own artwork. However, the more you edit or modify, the different warning messages the system will display to remind you that you're being too "perfectionist."

My theme will be created using the Wabi-Sabi style.








Portfolio Blog Entry 2 - My final, confirmed idea (Week 5)
Portfolio Blog Entry 3 - Project planning over 7 weeks (Week 7)
Portfolio Blog Entry 4 - Deliverable status so far (Week 10)
Portfolio Blog Entry 5 - Final output status (Week 12)




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