Changes made to my blog recently.
Changed the text sizes to suit projection. Everything needed to be a bit bigger to cater for readability and viewing from a distance.
I have removed the background image for now in order to not detract from the content of the blog - the blog is a conveyor of information.
The 'About me' section of the blog is now talking about me in terms of the bathroom throughout my life and informs the viewer that I am a spatial designer. This is a section of the thesis also so crossing over the two informative tools - text and visual. The blog becomes the tool for connecting thesis and design.
Have added in my location to the blog - this also refers to the importance of site in my design. \
The archive section of the blog has been rearranged to show oldest posts first. Shows development and progress/process. Still maintains it's slightly cryptic method.
Changed the colours of links etc to be more readable. Red for links, orange for roll-over and green for visited.
Monday, 24 October 2011
About me: first draft
My name is Lorna Smith, I grew up on the West Coast of Scotland in a small village of around 300 people, called Dalmally. Before moving to New Zealand in 2005, I had lived in the same home for my entire 17 years prior to the move. My home was a 2-story semi-detached white pebble-dashed council-house (similar to the Kiwi State house), it had a small kitchen, a small lounge, a dining-room which we later covered into a small bedroom named 'the wee room', 2 average sized bedrooms and one bathroom - containing a toilet, sink, bathtub and pressure-shower above it. Despite it being such a standard house - one size fits all - it was, and still is, the best home I have ever lived in - although this is probably due to 17 years worth of memories and friends and family that came with the house.
From an early age I always had a fascination with other peoples homes, particularly the bathroom. From the age of being toilet-trained I would tell my parents that I needed to go to the bathroom and off I'd go to inspect the new bathroom I hadn't seen before. I remember one particular time when I was with my mum visiting her family in Liverpool, we were with my Uncle David and he had to stop in to see his boss. I can't remember her house, where it was or even her name, but I remember telling my mum, Uncle David, and his boss that I needed to go to the bathroom. I walked up the staircase - it seemed very tall at the time and hooked round to the left at the bottom. I remember standing at the top of the stairs and yelling down "Muuuum!". Mum came rushing to my aide, obviously thinking I was injured or I'd done something terrible in a house belonging to someone we didn't know. When she got to the bottom of the stairs I told her to "come, quick", she bounded up the stairs and followed me into the bathroom. I turned around to face her as she walked through the doorway and said "look how cool the bathroom is!"
My fascination with the domestic bathroom obviously started from an early age - perhaps because I lived in a standard council-house, and perhaps because I have never really experienced anything more than the standard. Today, I live in a 2009 Stonewood home that my parents selected from a range of pre-drawn plans - and once again the bathroom is standard. Our plans were drawn before the sink, toilet, bathtub and shower were selected.
It is my belief that my personal experience of the bathroom have informed my design practice, specifically my desire to make interiors more fitting to the person that lives in them. This desire has seeped into this Master of Design project, using my skills as a Spatial Designer and my own experiences within the domestic bathroom to tailor a bathroom which connects the bathroom space with it's user - me.
From an early age I always had a fascination with other peoples homes, particularly the bathroom. From the age of being toilet-trained I would tell my parents that I needed to go to the bathroom and off I'd go to inspect the new bathroom I hadn't seen before. I remember one particular time when I was with my mum visiting her family in Liverpool, we were with my Uncle David and he had to stop in to see his boss. I can't remember her house, where it was or even her name, but I remember telling my mum, Uncle David, and his boss that I needed to go to the bathroom. I walked up the staircase - it seemed very tall at the time and hooked round to the left at the bottom. I remember standing at the top of the stairs and yelling down "Muuuum!". Mum came rushing to my aide, obviously thinking I was injured or I'd done something terrible in a house belonging to someone we didn't know. When she got to the bottom of the stairs I told her to "come, quick", she bounded up the stairs and followed me into the bathroom. I turned around to face her as she walked through the doorway and said "look how cool the bathroom is!"
My fascination with the domestic bathroom obviously started from an early age - perhaps because I lived in a standard council-house, and perhaps because I have never really experienced anything more than the standard. Today, I live in a 2009 Stonewood home that my parents selected from a range of pre-drawn plans - and once again the bathroom is standard. Our plans were drawn before the sink, toilet, bathtub and shower were selected.
It is my belief that my personal experience of the bathroom have informed my design practice, specifically my desire to make interiors more fitting to the person that lives in them. This desire has seeped into this Master of Design project, using my skills as a Spatial Designer and my own experiences within the domestic bathroom to tailor a bathroom which connects the bathroom space with it's user - me.
Skype w/ JP Friday 21st Oct
Rationale for what I'm doing is strong for representing design.
Makes spatial in another dimension - multiple locations.
Life-size images/projections could highlight a non-fit to other people.
Pursue projection - where do I want it to be? Location conceptually linked to design etc. Bathroom would be problematic and require ethics probably.
How is it important that there is more than one venue? Projector?
> where do I stop designing? Is it developed to the exhibition?
Sitting situation would be better = better reaction of people are comfortable. Comfortable browsing blog. Standing - graze over.
What are the merits? Interactive - what does this challenge?
Why is it different - address this. Why it's important? Tailor-made. Online is modular systems.
Benefits have to be evident. Position against/relationship to mass-production.
Some industrial processes allow for individuality.
Anticipate the questions I will be asked. How do I say what I mean?
Bespoke.
Craft - automatically reflect the person because they had to make everything themselves. What did it mean?
Self - GSA - craft - why did I do it that way? Level of detailing - compare to DIY/mass-produced.
Anonymous design eliminated the craft. Arts & Crafts. Edward Ford - books (pl). Details of Modern Architecture vol 1 & 2. Request.
(book) What is a designer? Arts and Crafts & Modernist - between.
Intimus - Norman Potter - kitchen design. Simple and careful - writing about architecture. Facile.
Doc due 8th dec. Final design needs to be in otherwise not a reflective doc.
Date - send new blog - trial. Need back up plan if it doesn't work.
If I come to Wellington early - say day before - JP might have time to test use of projector.
Makes spatial in another dimension - multiple locations.
Life-size images/projections could highlight a non-fit to other people.
Pursue projection - where do I want it to be? Location conceptually linked to design etc. Bathroom would be problematic and require ethics probably.
How is it important that there is more than one venue? Projector?
> where do I stop designing? Is it developed to the exhibition?
Sitting situation would be better = better reaction of people are comfortable. Comfortable browsing blog. Standing - graze over.
What are the merits? Interactive - what does this challenge?
Why is it different - address this. Why it's important? Tailor-made. Online is modular systems.
Benefits have to be evident. Position against/relationship to mass-production.
Some industrial processes allow for individuality.
Anticipate the questions I will be asked. How do I say what I mean?
Bespoke.
Craft - automatically reflect the person because they had to make everything themselves. What did it mean?
Self - GSA - craft - why did I do it that way? Level of detailing - compare to DIY/mass-produced.
Anonymous design eliminated the craft. Arts & Crafts. Edward Ford - books (pl). Details of Modern Architecture vol 1 & 2. Request.
(book) What is a designer? Arts and Crafts & Modernist - between.
Intimus - Norman Potter - kitchen design. Simple and careful - writing about architecture. Facile.
Doc due 8th dec. Final design needs to be in otherwise not a reflective doc.
Date - send new blog - trial. Need back up plan if it doesn't work.
If I come to Wellington early - say day before - JP might have time to test use of projector.
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