British web of love.

My final university project was a mapping project. My design statement and project are as follows. The design statement appeared in a booklet that I hand sewed the binding of. This booklet displayed all 20 maps and was placed inside the envelope on the right of the presentation that is marked as the 'Legend' of the map.

Design statement
My maps explore the connections between actors within the British film industry. By limiting the selection to twenty films I was able to see the versatility of some actors, and their prolific nature. Twenty individual maps were formed, focusing on the actors that appear in at least two of the films chosen. From these, six (so as to represent the notion of six degrees of separation that supposedly exists between individuals of any walk of life) were then chosen due to the interesting shapes formed by visualising the data. The central graphic depicts the connections between all 64 actors that repeatedly appear across these twenty British films.

British web of love - presentation

British web of love - all connections

British web of love - Gosford Park

British web of love - Love Actually

British web of love - The King's Speech

British web of love - Sense and Sensibility

British web of love - Bright Young Things

British web of love - Brave

British web of love - Harry Potter (an example of the graphic maps)

Three sides to every story.

One of my final projects for university this year required us to do a site analysis of Macquarie Place, a small historical park near Sydney's Circular Quay.
From the site analysis we had to construct a 3D model, as well as a 3D component, that communicated our conceptual response to the space.
My overall concept was based around the idea of there existing three sides to every story. For Macquarie Place, it's first 'side' was its existence as the heart of colonial Sydney. To represent this I made a 3D graphic illustration of a human heart and used the red and blue colours of the heart (and that also relate to the colonial history of Australia by being the nationalist colours of England) within my 3D piece.
The second 'side' was its abandonment due to being overshadowed by towering skyscrapers and a modern city that was built up around it (and over it). This was represented in the second graphic, the symbol which is also used in the 3D piece and conveys the paths of movement around Macquarie Place. The most popular path is that on the side of the park, whilst the second most popular route people walk is one that rushes past the historical aspects of the site.
The third, and final, 'side' to the story was that there are some individuals who do see the historical monuments, albeit to use them as their own personal skatepark. This was represented in the final graphic which tracks the movement of a skateboarder that I filmed in the space, as well as the triangular monument aspect of the 3D model being spliced into sections by the blue paths, symbolising the movement of the skateboarders across the monuments.

Presentation

3D model

Macquarie Place, The heart of colonial Sydney

Macquarie Place, the abandoned heart

Macquarie Place, skating over history

Piano.

One of my university subjects is a computers subject in which I have been learning how to use Vectorworks. My most recent assignment using this 3D modelling program required me to model an object and then create a room in which to place the object. I could then also fill this room with already made objects (Plug-In Objects).
I modelled a piano.

Water Cart.

Another university project required us to come up with an innovation that altered a system within society in order to make it more sustainable (ethically, economically and/or environmentally).

My design innovation aimed to, at least in part, address the issue of society’s increasing reliance on plastic water bottles due to the ongoing, and increasing, culture of convenience.

In researching this assignment I came across some staggering statistics, as well as some brilliant awareness-increasing campaigns across the globe.

The key point, I found, that enabled plastic, disposable water bottles to continue to be sold was the fact that there is a culture of convenience present within society. This, therefore, had to be addressed and incorporated into my design for it to be successful.

The design that I came up with was for a water cart. It would be a small structure made out of plastic water bottles that sold stainless steel water bottles and that could be placed in different locations – one day it might be in a food court, the next day at a popular tourist site, and that evening at a concert.

In presenting our design we had to submit storyboards of our idea, mine are below: