REFRACTION » DesignCamp

::] Design Camp 08 ][ It’s a wrap…[::

ajrigau — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:20:54 +0000

::] Design Camp 08 ][20][ Parent's visit…[::

ajrigau — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:20:19 +0000

As conclusion to the week… a small exhibit of all student work was made for parents to see and for the students to pick up their projects to take them home.

::] Design Camp 08 ][19][ Projections [::

ajrigau — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:12:03 +0000

Some of the projections of the collaborative posters…

::] Design Camp 08 ][18][ Collaborative Posters [::

ajrigau — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:11:09 +0000

Here are all 15 posters that were designed by all the groups who attended graphic design from wednesday thru friday. Every one of these was made by 4 student groups.

::] Design Camp 08 ][17][ Airplane design [::

ajrigau — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:07:43 +0000

A little afternoon break… Since students basically worked on the poster from 12:30 – 4:00pm… around 3:00pm I had a little exercise where we sent airplanes over into the landscape architecture area. Landscape never retaliated… hehehe

::] Design Camp 08 ][16][ Working on Poster [::

ajrigau — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:59:58 +0000

As soon as the ideation session was complete, and without giving them a second to cool down, students were instantly informed of their afternoon project. As a team, they had to design a poster and they had to follow two guidelines:

• The poster had to announce a new feature of the CAM museum
• Each team member had to be traced onto the posters

I was very happy to see how this project got groups working together almost instantly. The engagement level was very high and the atmosphere just felt positive all time around.

::] Design Camp 08 ][15][ Post-Its [::

ajrigau — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:42:24 +0000

One thing that remained consistent, even in the new daily strategy, was the ideation session. Rules were the same as in the previous two days, and the results were equally outstanding.

::] Design Camp 08 ][14][ DVD Covers [::

ajrigau — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:38:53 +0000

These are some of the DVD Covers designed by the students during the last three days of camp. Half of the samples are scanned directly from their work, while the other half is photographed inside a case (you know, to give it a more realistic look). Most of the movies should be easily recognized, and those that are not, may just need a bit of a creative push… :)

::] Design Camp 08 ][13][ Working on DVD [::

ajrigau — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:17:58 +0000

In this new version of my camp session, students now designed the cover for a DVD of their choosing. It was very interesting to see the movies that this generation cited… (I felt a bit old)

::] Design Camp 08 ][12][ a small change… [::

ajrigau — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:12:56 +0000

Well, after the first two days of design camp, I decided to make a change in strategy. In retrospect, I wonder how many of my concerns were legitimate, or me just being hard on myself, but no matter the case, the end result came out for the best. During the last three days I had the students design a DVD cover in the morning, then we would break for lunch, come back, work on the ideation session, and a collaborative poster. The results were amazing…

::] Design Camp 08 ][11][ Exquisite Corpse [::

ajrigau — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:01:54 +0000

On Tuesday afternoon, about the time that I sensed that making the students work individually was not working perfectly, this particular group ended the exercise ahead of time. I had an extra hour with them, so we carried out an exquisite corpse exercise. Some of the notebooks ended up looking amazing!

::] Design Camp 08 ][10][ Projections [::

ajrigau — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:01:42 +0000

At the end of every work day, once the posters were ready, I would ask the camp counsellors to take the students out on a walk for 20 mins. During this time I would scan in all of the posters and prepare them for on-screen projection. When everyone came back, I would hold a small feedback session were each student explained what they had done. At the end of their explanation, we would have a small chat about how graphic design can be re-purposed from one media to another, and as a fun example, I would project their posters onto themselves.

Pedagogical reasons for this decision? Design lesson? More than anything, all I wanted was for the students to understand that graphic design is not only about photoshop or computer work. It is much more. With this exercise I hoped to at least introduce such idea into them.

::] Design Camp 08 ][9][ Posters [::

ajrigau — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:38:10 +0000

The idea behind this poster was art that could be interacted with by the audience.

Here some examples of the posters that various students from different groups did during the first two days of me teaching the exercise. The originals are 8.5″x11″.

Multiple styles and periods exhibited at CAM.

Teasing by recognizing the general view that others may have.

Virtual reality at CAM. (This idea came up often during the whole week).

Artificial beach at CAM.

Anti-gravity petting zoo. (I have no idea what the deal with zoos is, but the idea of having a zoo came up in every different group of camp.)

Get a massage while you view art.

Moving walkways to watch art.

Get a massage while you view art.

Japanese style… no shoes required…

Artificial beach at the CAM.

Zero gravity chamber to fly at CAM.

Moving forward with CAM.

A landscape maze at the museum.

Fashion show at CAM.

Google at the museum.

Artificial beach at CAM.

::] Design Camp 08 ][8][ CamTeen [::

ajrigau — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:25:55 +0000

As part of their office group dynamic, I asked them to design logos or marks for CAMTeen, a made up program that would address their age group.

Here some more examples.

::] Design Camp 08 ][7][ Poster work… [::

ajrigau — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:23:14 +0000

After the ideation session… (during the first two days of me teaching the exercise), I divided the groups to work on their posters. It’s a bit confusing (and it involves math… hehe) but this is how it worked:

• Every office was made up of 4 students, and all of them participated in the ideation session together. (The less engaged groups must have come up with about 20 ideas, while the more engaged ones generated over 60).
• Students where then asked to pick the 2 ideas that they liked the most from all of the post-its and which they thought would work best for the museum. (Remember, some of these were pretty wild… like anti-gravity chambers to experience modern art.)
• The 4-student groups were then divided into 2-student teams, and each of the subgroups had to work on one of these two chosen ideas. Each student made their own poster, so in the end, we had two posters on every idea.

Following are more images of the students working.