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I am Yin Zhang. My major is design and digital arts. I am interested in new media, graphic design, interactive design etc. When I was first come to my university in China, I made a decision to be a designer in the future. Then I came to Scotland to experience the unique western culture. I learned lots of design knowledge in Scotland.
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2011-2013 Zheng Zhou Light Industrial university (Media art design) 2013-2015 Edinburgh Napier university (Design and digital arts)
Edinburgh napier university
I am good at the softwares like Adobe photoshop, Indesign, After effect, Premiere, Sketch up, Processing ,Arduino, Flash, and I used Illustrator, Arena, VPT etc before.
TABLES OF CONTENTS:
Tables of contents
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"Kilt Glow Book" project
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"Destory Workplace" project
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"Voyage" processing project
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Lumiere Light Festival project
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"Whisper to me"project
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"Blossom"--Hidden door project
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The end
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Brief: Design a way for people and communities to better connect and celebrate heritage. Chanlledge and scope The brief asks you to think about what would encourage people to take greater interest in heritage and how it contributes to individual and collective livehoods and wellbeing, as well as place-making. The brief asks you think about heritage in the broadest terms, from our own personal heitage - ancestry and culture - to our collective heritage as a society, including the places in which we live. Heritage in contemporary, inclusive usage has come to mean anything created in the past that helps us, collectively or individually, to understand the present, and create a better future. It is a fluid and living concept, and always in the process of being created. In approaching this brief, you may want to think about the following: - What excites people about heritage and what would make people connect better with it? - How might technology help us better connect to our heritage? Think about initiatives such as Histoypin
- What role can heritage play in education, conservation and environmental issuues? - What is the role of individuals, communities, and government in preserving, celebrating and promoting our heritage? For the purposes of illustration, the following would all be viable responses: - a design for a new public space or public building that uses the heritage of the built environment and/or the community as its source of inspiration - a game - physical or virtual - that helps people better understand and connect to their better understand and connect to their heritage: the heritage of places, community, culture, etc. - a service or system that gives people greater access, and therefore understanding, to their heritage, such as a digital archive - an urban design solution rooted in a locality that takes best advantage of a communities' heritage assets ...and many others are possible
"Glow Kilt Book" After reading books about the heritage in United Kingdom and doing field work in Edinburgh, I designed the "kilt glow book". Researches are on my tumblr: http://minorprojectsblog.tumblr.com/ This project was done in the final year in university.
My final design effect The video of my "kilt glow book": http://youtu.be/vhUXUVr-eac (for kids)
http://youtu.be/qsNamkmO0Qw (for adults) Next page is the A3 poster I designed for "kilt glow book". More research were put on my tumblr: http://minorprojectsblog.tumblr.com/
Everyday wellbeing project Design outcome: The app(dropbox):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ycr3mpaapois5v6/wellbeing%20interface.swf?dl=0
wellbeing app video link of the project: http://youtu.be/w6z1r7ae3wg
This project was done in the third year in Napier university. I designed the app by Adobe Flash.
The Brief: Recent trends in psychology have focused not only on treating these ‘common mental disorders’, but also on preventing them. Just as we should live healthy lifestyles even when we are physically well, so as to build up resilience and lower our chances of becoming physically unwell, similarly, psychologists say we should practice certain activities in order to lessen the chances of us developing mental illnesses. This is the brief and explores. It can be a product, campaign, app, or a solution to improve human wellbeing.
Infographic of research for "Everyday wellbeing" A research on activities of people.
Final poster for the design---"Destory Workplace"
Voyage processing project Final effect video link: http://youtu.be/HPgbxJK1LyA Research and development were put on issuu.
My issuu link:
http://issuu.com/yinzhang/docs/finish (page:12)
It is a prototype interactive design game made by a software called "processing". It was designed in the third year in university. My design research, process, model, arduino code, and live test was put on my issuu link.
Lumiere Light Festival Project The final effect video link: http://youtu.be/lHvfh8pl8QQ
Online book of research and development for the project: http://issuu.com/zhangyin3/docs/lumiere____________11223
This project was designed in the third year in Napier university.
Video link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fdvy8fRA7k&feature=youtu.be
My issuu link of detailed development: http://issuu.com/yinzhang/docs/finish
This project is a team work. Team members: Di Zheng and I. Di zheng is a product design students,who is good at making models. So Di Zheng was responsible for models making. I am responsible for make posters, Arduino circuit, codes, live test, and editing videos.
My research tumblr: http://zhangyin1.tumblr.com/
CALL FOR CONTIRBUTORS - GUIDELINE HIDDEN DOOR FESTIVAL 2015 22 - 30 MAY 2015 THE OLD STREETING DEPOT KINGS STABLES ROAD EDINBURGH WHAT HIDDEN DOOR IS LOOKING FOR Didden Door aims to provide a platform for work and projects that are Experiental - breaking new ground for the practitioner Ambitious but deliverable with economic use of resources Aiming for excellence Collaborative Striking, engaging and accessible to the public
Team work:
The hidden door festival project is team work. Team members: Lei Zong and I. After receiving the project, I am so excited, because I am interested in this kind of design concept. However, this project is still uncomplete and we still try to do effort on the project. We did research togather, Lei is responsible for drwaing draft. I am responsible for live test and digital techniques. We designed posters togather. It is a greate experience to work together, and we both learn a lot skills about effective cooperation.
Initial idea:
Our initial idea is design a public place in hidden door by light digital design. Final effect will be a beautifully visual exhibition.
Investigation:
We designed posters to show our proposal for this project, and we got our tutor's feedback. After discussing with our tutor, we decide to make a space that full of flower models. When audiences come to the space, the models of flower will bloom and there will be different kind of light be put on the petals to give people a feeling of four seasons.
At this stage:
At this stage I made a rough card model of flower, and test the effect by arduino, laptop, model, and projector. What I need to do is making sure the circuit will work.Then My partner and I will work togather to make models and final filmic outcome must be more refined and polished.
This is the video link: http://youtu.be/sH0WLSBV1CQ (not final filmic outcome)
Continue:
Finally we will upload more investigation and our finally outcome to our tumblr: http:// hiddendoorppp.tumblr.com/
Research is on: http://hiddendoorppp.tumblr.com/
Arduino Then we got feed back for this project. We decide to turn this installation to a interactive object after we disscussing with our tutor, I am responsible for techniques. I buit the arduino circuit.It was made of breadboard, Arduino uno, servo motor, ping ultrasonic sensor, Led light, jumper cables. The circuit is shown in the picture on the left. When people move around the flower model, the ping ultrasonic sensor will be awared of people's coming. The servo motor will work to make the flower model blossoming. When people go away, the sensor will give a sign to make the motor servor stop. Below is code for this project: /* HC-SR04 Sensor https://www.dealextreme.com/p/hc-sr04ultrasonic-sensor-distance-measuringmodule-133696 This sketch reads a HC-SR04 ultrasonic rangefinder and returns the distance to the closest object in range. To do this, it sends a pulse to the sensor to initiate a reading, then listens for a pulse to return. The length of the returning pulse is proportional to the distance of the object from the sensor. The circuit: * VCC connection of the sensor attached to +5V * GND connection of the sensor attached to ground * TRIG connection of the sensor attached to digital pin 2 * ECHO connection of the sensor attached to digital pin 4 Original code for Ping))) example was created by David A. Mellis Adapted for HC-SR04 by Tautvidas Sipavicius This example code is in the public domain. */ #include <Servo.h> Servo myservo; // create servo object to control a servo // a maximum of eight servo objects can be created
Serial.begin(9600); digitalWrite(13, HIGH); digitalWrite(12, LOW); myservo.attach(9); // attaches the servo on pin 9 to the servo object pinMode(led, OUTPUT); } void loop() { // establish variables for duration of the ping, // and the distance result in inches and centimeters: long duration, inches, cm; // The sensor is triggered by a HIGH pulse of 10 or more microseconds. // Give a short LOW pulse beforehand to ensure a clean HIGH pulse: pinMode(trigPin, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(trigPin, LOW); delayMicroseconds(2); digitalWrite(trigPin, HIGH); delayMicroseconds(10); digitalWrite(trigPin, LOW); // Read the signal from the sensor: a HIGH pulse whose // duration is the time (in microseconds) from the sending // of the ping to the reception of its echo off of an object. pinMode(echoPin, INPUT); duration = pulseIn(echoPin, HIGH); // convert the time into a distance inches = microsecondsToInches(duration); cm = microsecondsToCentimeters(duration);
int pos = 0; // variable to store the servo position int led = 7; // led pin const int trigPin = 2; const int echoPin = 4; void setup() { // initialize serial communication:Serial.print(inches); Serial.print("in, "); Serial.print(cm); Serial.print("cm"); Serial.println(); delay(100); if (cm < 30) { digitalWrite(13, HIGH); digitalWrite(12, LOW); digitalWrite(led, HIGH); // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level) pos = 180; myservo.write(pos); // tell servo to go to position in variable 'pos' delay(15); // waits 15ms for the servo to reach the position } else { digitalWrite(led, LOW); // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW pos = 0; myservo.write(pos); // tell servo to go to position in variable 'pos' delay(15); // waits 15ms for the servo to reach the position } }
long microsecondsToInches(long microseconds) { // According to Parallax's datasheet for the PING))), there are // 73.746 microseconds per inch (i.e. sound travels at 1130 feet per // second). This gives the distance travelled by the ping, outbound // and return, so we divide by 2 to get the distance of the obstacle. // See: http://www.parallax.com/dl/docs/prod/acc/28015-PING-v1.3.pdf return microseconds / 74 / 2; }
long microsecondsToCentimeters(long microseconds) { // The speed of sound is 340 m/s or 29 microseconds per centimeter. // The ping travels out and back, so to find the distance of the // object we take half of the distance travelled. return microseconds / 29 / 2; }
PING SENSOR
Circuit
A LIVE TEST ON "BLOSSOM
----AN INTERACTIVE DIGITAL INSTALLATION COMBINED AND PROJECTOR This is the video link: http://youtu.be/sH0WLSBV1CQ
(not final filmic outcome) We will do a better film later, and upload on tumblr. See more at our tumblr: http://hiddendoorppp.tumblr.com/
Test on one model cut out the petals
build the model of flower
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visual effect by projector
L LIGHT D WITH ARDUINO
Model connected to servo motor
Arduino circuit and code