Blog Assignment 2

This a small Anitque French Rococo Boudoir Clock that is from the 1900's.

I really believe that this is a result of the 'sensuous impulse' because it is ornament that is beautiful. There is no real function besides a the clock which some would say that the rest of the body has no use, the design is purely on what it looks like.  It represents the rococo era very well, with having this dramatic, over the top design that has no real function, other than being a beautiful ornament. But I suppose that this is in a way a form of art it self, because it conveys a message and there is a emotional response to the item because of how it has been designed.

In its time it showed it's audience that the owner is most likely a very well off person who has the funds to indulge in such ornaments entirely because of its beauty. This glamorized style of living is how wealth and power was portrayed, through the possessions that they owned.

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171 Design in Context

The vented umbrella has been designed to withstand strong gusts of wind, and keep it from turning inside out. I think that it is important in design to be able to take something and improve on it, without changing the whole thing completely, to me this is an important way in how we design.

Open Letter

The Poster

The Poster

For my poster I wanted to show how Maori TV was adding value to Te Reo Maori by being one of the many things that help to keep it going. I wanted to keep it simple and not too busy, and so the audience would see it and then straight away know what it is about. I used the red, white and black colours, because these colours are used a lot to represent Maori like how they are used in the Tino Rangatiratanga flag.  I also used a tree to represent the language and how we need to keep it nourished in order for it grow.  The sayings in the tree are Maori sayings about the language and how we should care for it and how it is apart of us so we need to look after it.

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The reason why I place the poster on an empty street is because this is what it is actually like at the moment, and although Maori TV are trying to promote the language and the culture, there's no point in doing it if people are not interested.  One thing I feel that is holding the language back is the lack of passion from all New Zealanders, not wanting the language is what will see it gone. Its is a juxtaposition that although it's wonderful what Maori TV are doing, the majority of the nation don't really care, its like its in the backstreets trying to survive.

The Word

Revive
I placed this word in an environment that relates to my topic of language revitalization. I specifically chose a dying plant that represent the Maori Language and threaded my word with Harakeke (flax) which in this case represents what Maori Television is doing to revive and revitalize the language. (Also using harekeke symbolizes the strength we have when all is working together, makes the job a lot stronger as one.)

This is the original photo, unedited.

Milk Audio : Advertisment

For this ad we wanted to show how infections milk audio is and we did this by having a guy walking down the road hear the base of the music and going into the shop where this speaker is, as he approaches the speaker it turns into our logo.

This one was the concept and we played around with different music an endings.

The Real & The Fake

The Real

The Fake