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SHED Essay
SHED - WEEK 4When given the task to design a shed that reconnects people with nature, I challenged myself to find out what happened in the past decades. I tried to understand why people keep isolating their self from something that has been so important for humanity...
SHED- week 4
SHED - WEEK 4This weeks challenge was it to visualize my ideas in a way in which I could present and communicate them with others. I build a model, made renderings, drawings and presentation boards which I then showed at the final exhibition. The model I decided to...
SHED week 3
SHED - WEEK 3At the beginning of the week I was thinking a lot about how people could potentially use the space inside the structure and I decided to replace the ladder from my concept "Gateway to Sea" with stairs. I did that to make the design more intrigued and I...
SHED – week 2
SHED - WEEK 2This week I explored different ways to change the form of the shed by using Sketchup to visualize my ideas and simultaneously building cardboard models. I tried to remove the roof, to create new openings, to change the arrangement of the walls and I...
SHED – week 1
SHED - WEEK 1 I started the new project with a lot of sketch models, always using the shape of a traditional shed as the starting point for my designs. That way I wanted to explore the idea of inside-out and get familiar with the idea of creating a shed. I didn’t...
Page layout design
Page layout design for the Short Attention Reader For this project, we had to design a double page magazine spread, which we then had to adapt to a tablet screen. We were challenged to analyze different layouts and had to find a way in which we could make images and...
Record Sleeve Design: Music for Airports 1
Record Sleeve Design: Music for Airports 1 This project asked us to redesign the sleeve of a famous record. That challenged us to explore different ways of visual communication, and we had to find a way in which we can translate the emotions and feelings...
Picture Symbol Icon
Make some noise: Graphic Design and Space This group project challenged us to observe our own surrounding in order to get a better understanding of the signing, instructions and messaging that we walk past every day. We were asked to analyze different design aspects,...
Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing: Exploring creativity Ways of seeing was a four-week challenge that asked us students to question the way in which we look at different objects, colors, and surroundings, and encouraged us to explore new ways in which we can create visual context by...
Navigating spaces: Dundee space hopper
Navigating Spaces: Dundee Space Hopper This project challenged us to create a new and exciting navigation experience for Dundee. We were tasked getting people to interact with their surrounding area in a playful and exciting...
Making spaces: The Offline Phone
Making spaces: The Offline Phone In a society of steadily increasing urbanization, public spaces became a central element of every day life. By walking through Dundee and observing our own surrounding, we learned more about the various structures and functions of a...
Translating form
TASK 1: CREATING A REPLICA MODEL Re-creating one of Richard Sapper's masterpieces was definitely a big first challenge. Not only the technical details of this perfectly engineered lamp but also the communication between us students led to some questions at the very...