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Clients’ Tasks
Tasks as the Clients amended on 27 September 2014 You are required to commission designers to provide you with a design concept of an item, which either promotes and/or celebrates a local Folklore. The item is aimed for children in your country. It will be your responsibility to research and identify specific local practices associated with Folklores and to provide your collaborators (designers) with a design brief. This brief will be informed by your research. When Week
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describing for example a folklore, you should touch on the following points: how is it ‘regulated’; how and by whom it is ‘consumed’; how and by whom it is ‘produced’; how is it ‘represented’ and ‘circulated’ in for example in media. You will be responsible for constructing a physical model/prototype that will be based on the design proposal developed by your designers
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30 September > 9.30–10.30 LDS003 Intro to the online project websites http://vleblog.lboro.ac.uk/gs14/
Wednesday From the Week 2 weekly 11.00–13.00 scheduled classes at Loughborough JJ017 (Ann Packer) 1 October
and guided by your brief and weekly feedback. Therefore, throughout the process as clients you will need to provide careful feedback and guidance to your designers. You will also be required to produce: a maximum 60-second promotional video for the item including an advertising spread for a magazine or a newspaper and 2 boards (A2 size) providing a feedback for your design collaborators.
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9 October > by 23.00 GMT – First draft of the Design Brief Upload the brief onto your project sites and negotiate with your collaborators’ deliverables and what criteria will be used by you as clients to assess these project deliverables. Clarify any issues concerning the chosen topic. 16 October > by 23.00 GMT – Upload the agreed design brief including deliverables onto project site
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Upload the agreed design brief including visuals/photos/videos you’re your Designers’ project site
23 October > by 23.00 GMT – Provide feedback to collaborators on their initial concepts
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Provide feedback to your designers
30 October > by 23.00 GMT – Provide feedback to collaborators on their refined concepts 6 November > by 23.00 GMT – Provide feedback to collaborators on their refined concepts 13 November > Check the uploaded patterns and instructions on how to construct and assemble the proposed objects from the collaborators
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Provide feedback to your designers
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Check that you have received all necessary information from the designers for you to construct the model and produce promotional video to shoot. Start constructing a model/prototype Complete the Mid-Project Evaluation
20 November > Construct proposed objects (video this process and take notes in order to provide a critique to design collaborators)
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Construct a model/prototype and shoot video
27 November > Evaluate the design collaborators’ concept validity. Organise a photo shoot of the constructed object. Develop a maximum 60 second promotional movie of the product used by its intended users, and provide feedback to collaborators through 2 boards. Upload 2 boards which will outline how the proposed design outputs have / have NOT addressed your Client’s Project Brief. This feedback will provide your collaborators with a ‘peer review’. 4 December > Evaluation
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25 November Construct a model/prototype and shoot video Upload promotional video (max 60sec) and 2 evaluation boards
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Complete the End-of-the Project Evaluation
> Intro to local Folklore activities by Erik > Intro to Project: Aims and Objectives 10.30–11.30 JJ010 (Ann Packer)
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7 October > CAD files for exchange – Ian Campbell 9.00–10.00 LDS003
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8 October > Matt Sinclair – Design Briefs > Craig Brown – Planning for making models/prototypes 11.00–13.00 scheduled class at Loughborough JJ017 (Ann Packer) 15 October > Meaning Making – Daniel Kraszewski 11.00–13.00 scheduled classes at Loughborough JJ017 (Ann Packer) 22 October > Suzanne O’Connor – Design for Children 11.00–13.00 scheduled classes at Loughborough JJ017 (Ann Packer) 29 October
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12 November > Internal presentations of what proposals each group submitted to their counterparts > Craig Brown – review of plans to build models/prototypes (indivi) 19 November > ‘In progress’ presentations how the received ideas will be represented by the client groups
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Research potential directions for the project. > As the client you will undertake research into the theme in order to inform the project brief. Get to know your collaborators via Skype or Google Hangouts, Viber, Kakao Talk, Line or FaceTime and document your meeting via your project sites! > Create Gavatar account using https://en.gravatar.com/ you need to use the same email as you use to log onto your project site Upload the first draft of the design brief you’re your Designers’ project site
You will be asked provide maximum 5 minutes feedback to your collaborators
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Designers’ Tasks
Tasks as the Designers As designers, you will need to respond to a client design brief. You will have a chance to clarify your tasks with your clients before they finalise the briefs. You will be required to propose a design concept of an item, which either promotes, celebrates and/or create awareness about the Week
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Folklore as specified by your clients. As you will be addressing issues in a different cultural context, you should use your clients’ local expertise to provide you with information in order for you as designers to successfully address the given issues. You will need to communicate
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30 September – Creating on line profiles Erik + Richard Goodman
1 October > by 23.00 GMT – Upload your Design Teams Name and Logo
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22 October > by 23.00 GMT – Upload 3 individual initial design ideas onto your group project sites including outline how these address your collaborators’ design brief 29 October > by 23.00 GMT – Upload 2 variation of the refine group design concept addressing feedback from your Clients 5 November > by 23.00 GMT – Upload your group’s design concept which includes: technical drawings, ‘Ikea-style’ instruction on how to assemble the model , description of how the design is promoted, distributed, used and disposed or re-appropriated
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your weekly work in progress to your clients so that they are able to provide you with a feedback. Also, you will need to provide your clients with detailed information which they can use to construct a model/prototype. Friday
Weekly Activities Upload a brief profile about yourself which should cover the following points: (a) Your name (b) What are you studying? (c) Hobbies (d) Future plans (e) Your contact details (e.g. email, Skype, ooVoo, mobile number if you are using viber etc) (f) your photo Arrange to meet in week 2 with your Clients via Skype (or other online conference tools) Develop your design team’s name and logo and banner for your project site which should be 980 × 120 pixels. Review and provide a feedback on the draft Design Brief provided by your client. Download the agreed design brief and use it to guide your design development Develop 3 individual concepts addressing design brief
Develop refined group concept addressing clients’ feedback. Provide 2 potential concept variations.
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Supply to your clients with agreed deliverables
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Review promotional and evaluation boards from your Clients
Submit 1500 words individual reflective account on what strategies you as a designer have incorporated into your practice to address contemporary cultural influences. Your individual reflection is due on 20 January 2014. It will need to be submitted electronically on the module’s eLearning Portal (Learn – this only available for Loughborough based students – if you are based at other universities please speak to your Lecturer). Note for Loughborough students this is the only submission made via the Learn for this module everything else submitted via your specific online.
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