week06 Sarah Modoh: Collaboration_25.08.2012 ~

Week 06 – Collaboration Sarah Modoh 

Group exercise Acknowledging differences:
Thoughts on what happened; how I felt. How other people felt.

R001 - Acknowledging differences. (here group of people of different races but they're all happy and getting along)

How I felt: At the start I felt nervous, but then when the things that were getting said out I thought that this was ok, but then some of the stuff got pretty deep and reminded me of thoughts that were nice, unpleasant, and weird. Some of them made me giggle a lot and then some just made want to leave the room.
When I was walking to the end of the room especially walking alone I felt like I told someone something about me that they never knew.
How other people felt: When I saw one person go up there I was like “awww so that’s happened to you”. But some questions were funny. I thought that some people were looking at others like do you want to walk together to the end.
How it helped me understand and except other peoples feelings: It was good how one of the rules were not to talk and laugh because I know a lot of us would’ve been laughing and that’s pretty mean if only one of us were walking to the end, and someone laughed I’d think that was disrespectful.
I think everyone was connected in a way even though we weren’t talking to anyone, and this exercise has helped me to understand everyone by not judging so quickly and except other people’s feelings by just listening.
Professional Discretion: Within the business, when you know to keep quiet. You judge when to share information and to who, to different personality types. Knowing when to do things.
Code of behavior.
Blog Exercise
Professional discretion and judgment may relate to:
• Assessing when to keep quiet
• Being aware of and responding to different personality types
• Knowing when it is appropriate or inappropriate to share information
• Knowing with whom information should be shared
* Being aware if other colleagues are gossiping too much.
* Knowing not to bring personal issues into work not unless it’s affecting your performance.

1. Add 2 items to the list above
2. Give a REAL example from your own experience to illustrate all 6 points
When one of my friends boyfriends was cheating on my friend, then I had assess when to keep quiet, how to respond to her when she found out. Knowing when was the right time to tell her and how I should’ve told her, and who else to tell about this situation. It was pretty devastating but it was just puppy love and its all in the past now.
3. What is the difference between “discretion” and “judgment” in your own words?
Discretion: The ability or power to decide responsibly.
Judgment: Judgment is where your opinion rates what your looking at or doing. Similar to the word Opinion.

r002 - Discretion, getting at a mature age so people need to learn "discretion" and when to use it on there own.
4. Why do you use these two things in a professional setting?
(Explain by using examples)
So you can become more responsible and aware of what and who’s going on around you. A bad example of discretion and judgment would be in a high school scenario at lunch time, so many people are aware or discretion and judgment but sometimes don’t take into mind of doing it in a professional manner.



R003 - a bad example of judgment and discretion.

week05 Sarah Modoh: Collaboration_18.08.2012 ~

Week 05 Collaboration Sarah Modoh

Some meaningful definitions:
Behaving ethically – means balancing emotions. E.g. someone gets angry and your response shouldn’t be you getting angry.
Ethical behaviour – being honest, not hiding things.
Showing respect – Give everyone a go.
Understanding consequences – being thoughtful. Thinking of others.

Blog Exercise:
Sorting
Essential Group
acknowledging discomfort or anger
honouring commitments
sensitivity to social, cultural, personal situations and dynamics
showing respect
understanding of the consequences of actions
communicating in an open way
- Hygiene (Because if someone really smells I wouldn’t want to collaborate with them)
Secondary List
honesty
- eye contact

R001 - "serious eye contact"

R002 - "Lucky we didnt have to do these trust exercises, because i wouldn't trust anyone if this happened to me!"
Trust & creative partnerships - GROUP EXERCISE
PART 1: Who’s Got a Dollar?
• Demo
• Silent Reflection
1. Would you volunteer your money - that is, take risk? No
2. How did you feel? I felt robbed! And wanted my money back.
3. Did you feel a little sheepish? Yes, but mainly awkward.
4. What about when the ante was upped to ten dollars? I thought it was going to get crazy, but luckily there weren’t that many people.
5. Twenty? I was like damn it.. I should’ve gone first.
6. Did you think the volunteers were foolish? No because they had a feeling they were going to get their money back. Though I felt foolish because I was the one holding back the most and had to give the most.

R003 - "Jarrods dollar :P"

R004 - "Week05 Visual Diary"

week05 Sarah Modoh: Origination_18.08.2012 ~

Origination Sarah Modoh

week 05 questionaire: Law 4

1) Describe the relationship between teaching and learning according to Maeda?
John Maeda says it’s easier to teach because all you have to do is act like you know all the answers than learn, because when you learn from a professor you not only have to take it in but you have to translate it to your understandings.

There’s a difference between good teachers and bad teachers. Good teachers know how to explain what they’re saying and bad teachers don’t now what they’re doing.

Different exciting ways to repeat information so its not boring.
2) Describe the importance of the use of metaphors in learning, why would you use
them, how, give an example?
Why: It’s important to use metaphors in learning to ‘Inspire’ your students so they get a better understanding. Vice versa for students.

How: You would use metaphors when someone doesn’t understand something and your trying to explain it to them, because when you explain something when they can relate to it or know something of it, its easier to understand and absorb.

Example: Love is a lemon - either bitter of sweet
When you’re teaching you have to know how to motivate and inspire your students to absorb the information.
What makes a good student is to wanting to learn, and to want to be there and want that knowledge.
3) BRAIN - what does the acronym stand for – why is it important?
Basics: Are the beginning
Repeat: Yourself often
Avoid: creating desperation
Inspire: With example
Never: forget to repeat yourself
4) Describe a situation where you have been required to teach someone a skill.
How could you apply the BRAIN principle to it?
Cooking:
Basics: where I get all the ingredients.
Repeat: constantly read the steps so I get it right.
Avoid: avoid asking my mum so it looks like I know what I’m doing.
Inspire: maybe call someone that knows how to cook so they can give me direction and inspire me.
Never: keep repeating myself and checking up on the food.

Also what happened in class is that we changed the name of the Exhibition from "Blox" to "Blossom", that was a epic fail. Jarrod and I came up with a good concept of climbing filigree curvilinear looking shapes for the poster because there was a lot of opinions about the smoke effect that Jarrod put on his poster. I thought it was really great and had a nice clean look so I still want to incorporate that into the new poster design. The new name we were thinking of is "Burst" and i really think its has a contemporary, new energy feel to the name. I also would share this all in Google docs but for some reason Jarrod and my docs wont share and i can't even attach an image to my doc.



R001 - The burst concept layout. This is what I've come up with.

Well I couldn't find the original video of what inspired me to like the word Burst. But I'll just try to describe it to you. So there's these crystal shaped flowers and there blooming. while they're blooming there creeping and growing downwards and all of a sudden some lady is walking down on the crystal blossoms as if they were stairs and shes holding a pad box. Because this ad is about pads. But I can't find it anywhere so I can't show you but heres something about change and I guess burst. It's a beer ad for Boag's Draught. From the Pure waters of Tasmania.

R002 - Boag's Draught: From the pure waters of Tasmania. This ad always makes me giggle and somewhat makes my head a bit clearer.

week04 Sarah Modoh: Origination_11.08.2012 ~

Origination Sarah Modoh

QUESTIONAIRE

1. What is the major benefit of saving time?
The benefit of saving time is so you can spend time on something else. Multitasking.
2. How do designers integrate time into their products?
- The IPod shuffle is a good example. It makes the decisions for you so you’re not wasting time in picking your music because it’s not as important to you of what song you pick. So the machine does the work for you.
- Casino, they hide the clocks and no windows so you don’t know what the time is, and so you stay there.
- Music on the telephone makes waiting more tolerable.
3. Explain the relationship between making waiting shorter with making waiting more
tolerable.
Making waiting shorter is where you actually shorten the length of the process of the activity.
Making waiting tolerable is where you put a distraction to take your mind of time so you can bear the wait.
4. How can you use your timeline to increase your own efficiency as a designer?
Label your jobs, and then organize your priorities to the most important to the least important. Organize. You get the best ideas on the toilet, because your sub-conscience mind is sorting it out. When your in the toilet or the shower the spaces are smaller and nothings there to distract your except for the one thing which is the water.
5. Briefly outline an event or activity in which you are adept at time saving?
An activity that saves time for me is that I use 2 hands on a Mac when I’m designing, and change the layout of the area to my comfort. On Photoshop two tools that save time is the batch tool and action tool.
6. What part of your design process do you need to improve at, in terms of saving
time?
Be more organized, and Shrink a couple of processes in the making of my designs so they seem more achievable.

Notes from class:
What is a brand:
- corporate identity
- represents
- philosophy
Collection of images
- name
- logo/symbols
- slogan / claim
- design scheme
Collection of ideas
- product
-philosophy
- lifestyle
- service
Example: service, customer service for Coca-Cola when you drink it you think of having fun, no worries. The target market at everyone any age.

Brand recognition: Direct experience with product or service. So do you think the advertising changes your opinion/ experience about the product? To me the advertising definitely influences me with the product. For instance when I watch a iPod ad I instantly want one and want to play with one, even though my experience with them is that I don’t need one and I think they’re a waste of time and money.
Branding is not:
- logo
- description of what a company sells/ offers
- advertising
- in store collateral
- singage staff uniform.

What makes a strong brand?
- grows over time
- brand, timeless
- positioning
- packaging
- promotion
- persistence
- persuasion
- performance (e.g. Coca-Cola taste the same every time you drink it)
Top 10 Brands:
1) Google
2) Microsoft
3) Coca-Cola
4) IBM
5) China Mobile
6) MacDonald’s
7) Apple
8) Vodafone
9) Marlboro
10) General ?

Thinking game – analyzing patterns/ branding
1. The name “point” – meaning / effectiveness
The name “point” means the tip of something.
The effectiveness of the name seems to me that point is saying look this way.
2. The graphic pattern – inferred meaning / effectiveness
The graphic pattern which is a bunch of ordered dots that is warped and distorted to different perspective, leads the eyes to a certain point then fades out in the distance. If there weren’t so many effects done to the dots it would looks plain and meaningless. I think the whole meaning behind this graphic pattern is to show that the exhibition is going in a direction hence the “point” which is the name, where it is pointing in a direction. So the art students are going somewhere in life.

R001 - Point! this is Last years exhibition poster. It's simple and and creative. I like how theres a point made of of circles, it also has a nice dynamic sort of view which ascends and shows that theres a point to this which will bring us up. That's what I've interpreted from this poster.

EXERCISE: Part 2 = Develop 3 words or phrases for a NEW logo for this year’s exhibition
Challenge conventional thought patterns - Think crazy – outside the tetrahedron.
- Out of the box
- Thinking in the square
- Over the line
- Expansion
- Express
- CDU
- Cubism
- Future Designers
- Charles and the creation of the first
- Alpha
- Exapnd
- Thunder
- 0.11

Reflection/ Opinion.
For me, I've thought of only two words or phrases that really interested me, they were; Burst and Progress. As from looking at last years poster I really liked the word Progress but thought it could be a challenging word to play with when it comes to typography.
                  As we were speaking in class before what makes a strong brand and a logo last long and keep to memory. One I'd like to bring forward isn't exactly a brand but more of a branding for humans, where the hierarchy of people and there place is taken to another level, where only so few can join and the logo for it's group is not just everywhere but subliminally everywhere too. mainly in america and now spread over the world the name is known, I am talking about the Illuminati. The Youtube video below explains how subliminal messages work effectively and can have positive or negative outcomes. In this case negative. I'm linking this video because I think this whole conspiracy  has spread viral in the last years particularly in the music industry and they've made a good use of branding, logos, promotion, and persuassion.

R002 - Illuminati conspiracy. in regards to branding, logos, promotion, and persuassion.

week03 Sarah Modoh: Origination_04.08.2012 ~

Origination Sarah Modoh


R001 = This is the picture of a man will documents all over his face. This is how I feel, I'm not sure where to start or look but I know I have the idea on me.

I wasn't here for week 3, but by going through the sideshow and working out what everyone did i can still contribute my work. (I wasn't here so if i get some of the group work understandings wrong don't get mad!!!)

Week 03 - Origination
03/08/2010 – Sarah Modoh
Reading quiz
1. What does the acronym SLIP mean according to Maeda?
Sort, Label, Integrate and Prioritize.
2. Define each character of the acronym, S L I P in one sentence
Sort: sorting out the tasks/objects into similar groups
Label: labeling those groups with relevant names to the tasks/objects
Integrate: integrate groups that appear significantly like each other.
Prioritize: sort or the groups that need the most attention. So prioritize your groups from the most important to the least important.
3. What does Maeda say is only a pinkie away?
The tab key is a pinkie away. The tab key brings order to words that look like chaos.
4. Why is this important to us as designers?
Because designers have to be organized and efficient. The tab key helps your work layout look much neater and readable.
5. What are the principles of gestalt psychological theory?
The principles of Gestalt to seek the most appropriate conceptual “fit” are important not only for survival, but lie at the very heart of the discipline of design.
6. Where might one find the aesthetics of blur?
The aesthetics of blur are common in the history of art, ranging from the impressionist paintings by Monet and his hazy clouds of tiny brushstrokes.
7. Why is blur important in interactive design?
Blurred groupings are powerful because they can appear even simpler.
8. Why do good designers squint when they look at something?
‘They squint to see the trees, not the Forrest', When you Squint your vision actually gets sharper.
Thinking Games

1. A person nods his/her head up and down
- saying yes
- Agreeing
- checking someone out
- pretending to listen but really there not
2 A person’s lower lip trembles slightly
- someone scared
- cold
- trying stop a fart coming out
- sad

3. A person smiles slightly 
- happy thoughts
- someone thinking you’re a weirdo
- kind of happy
- being sarcastic
4. A person yawns
- maybe there tired
- body needs oxygen
- being sarcastic
- maybe there happy
5. A person shrugs his/her shoulders
- they don’t know the answer
- undecided
- they don’t care
- being sarcastic
6. A person inhales quickly
- because you just found out really interesting gossip
- being sarcastic
- because your happy
- because your crying
Google Docs
3 Pros & cons about using Google docs:
Pros:
- Everyone can communicate and collaborate with each other.
- Information can be updated and checked anytime of the day and night.
- Images, videos and links can be shared with everyone, or to a direct person
Cons:
- not everyone has Internet at home, so some people are restricted to just sharing and checking information during uni time.
- Your email may be spammed with all the updates
- The internet/Google may not always send out information to other or may not be able to save your information on the web because it’s crashing.



R002 - This is a video explaining how Google Docs works. very informative and helpful because I've never used Google Docs before.