Category: Unit 1: Situating Practice

  • Generative Design: Book Notes

    Processing notes: Function Function size (640, 480, JAVA20); The standard renderer; this is used if nothing else is specified size (640, 480, P2D); Processing 2D renderer; this is quicker but less accurate size (640, 480, P3D); Processing 3D renderer; this is quick and is reliable on the web size (640, 480, OPENGL); OpenGL renderer: this…

  • Assessment Feedforward

  • Notes From Brand New

    By Wally Olins, 2014

  • Notes from Who Can Afford to be Critical?

    By Afonso Matos, Silvio Larusso

  • Rotation A: Reflection

    Working on Reframing Mental Health right after PlayLab felt like a good transition because I could apply the divergent creative thinking we practiced and be over the top with my ideas.  I was also looking forward to working in groups since that was not a focus during my bachelor’s degree. However, conflicting thoughts often become…

  • Week 8 & 9: Brand Audience and Brand Strategy

    Cottage Core has been growing in popularity since the past few years. Its roots in nature are perhaps what drives people to it. This is evident through the ample flowers, mushrooms, leaves, earthen colours, and the drive to DIY that the community fosters.  As I assembled a tote bag for my cottage core audience last…

  • Week 7: Brand Integrity

    The Wellcome Collection is a free museum located in Euston, London, that explores ‘health and human experience’ (Wellcome Collection, 2024). I knew about it as a place to work since it is popular on social media, but I was unaware of the collections that they hosted. Upon my visit, I went to their Kola Nut…

  • Week 5: Brand Experience

    My group and I were to explore Westfield Stratford for the Brand Experience workshop. We were to reach the location using different means of transport. I was to start by foot, take two tubes to the Stratford station, and then walk another short walk till the mall. This was not to be. Though Chaitra, Simleen,…

  • Carbon Literacy

    Concepts to look into: Notes:

  • Week 4: Brand Narrative

    Gulps of freshly squeezed orange juice soothe me as I sit in my home office, after a heavy workout. I hear the familiar chatter get louder as the sun goes down, a typical evening in my household. But I cannot join them, for I have miles to go before I sleep, quite literally. As the…

  • Week 3: Brand Personality

    Word on the Water is an inviting and unpretentious bookstore located in a 1920’s barge on Regent’s Canal. The unusual setting of the bookstore makes finding and interacting with it mystical, like a hero finding a sage on their quest. But Word on the Water is not just a Sage, there is also an air…

  • Week 2: Brand Identity

    Penguin Books is a globally renowned publishing house. Their logo, the penguin, is instantly recognisable and when seen on a book clearly lets readers know that they are in for a quality read (How the penguin logo has evolved through the years, 2020).  Though the logo, a black and white illustration of a front facing…

  • Play Lab Reflection

    One of my biggest hopes out of this MA is that through it I would learn to love the design research process. In my previous projects, my encounters with the design research process have made me doubtful and unclear. I believe this stems from a lack of understanding of the basics of visual research. Like…