Paula Scher on Creativity and Play

Iain McGilchrist on Play, Originality and Purpose

We feel fine

We Feel Fine is an online project by Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar that collects human feelings. Their software searches blog entries for phrases such as “I feel” and “I am feeling”, and records the full sentence, classifies it and enters it into a database. The information is then presented as infographics or visuals which can be searched and sorted.

http://wefeelfine.org

Where Good Ideas come from

The Divided Brain

Catvertising

Perhaps I should rethink ditching my cat idea:

Re-considering my Manifesto

I thought re-working on my manifesto to reflect what I am about now would be relatively straightforward but it was actually incredibly hard. After much deliberation, below are some statements that I feel are part of my Manifesto. I will re-visit this throughout my final year to update as and when it seems appropriate.

Manifesto thoughts:

I want my audience to share in the process of my design through interactive and playful elements.

I want to explore individual elements of design, combine them in new and exciting ways and explore their relationships.

I want my audience to experience feelings of enchantment through my design.

I want to explore how present time-based media can evoke a sense of magic

In terms of the presentation of my manifesto, I think it would be nice to combine this with the QR code idea (scrapping the cat idea). I think I will create a poster of myself, speaking my manifesto - though the magic of the QR window. I can also add some humorous comments so it isn't too dull!