Category: First Year Subjects
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Developing Perfectly Imperfect
Over the course of this semester, our team has been working on ‘Perfectly Imperfect Co’. The first product line consisted of makeup bags with inspirational quotes that encouraged body positivity. After the launch of these products, I discovered that our audience was using our bags in a different way than we anticipated. This led us…
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Perfectly Imperfect Co.
Over the past few weeks, our group has been working on our project ‘Perfectly Imperfect Co’. Perfectly Imperfect Co designs makeup pouches that encourage body positivity. As a group, we chose this idea because we all have an interest in beauty products and have a collective mindset that all bodies are beautiful bodies. Our aim is…
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Getting Our News From Facebook – Is It Reliable?
Like most others born in generation Z, I gain most of my news from new media, specifically social media, such as Facebook. This is because it is the source that is most accessible to me and therefore the source I utilise the most. I also find other sources of news to be depressing, whereas social…
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How Representation Influences Our Interpretation
Image of Schlitz Advertisement (Tom, 2014) Image via BoredPanda For my complex image I chose an old advertisement that many people may have heard of. This particular advertisement was created for an audience in the 1950’s. The sign is an image of a poster which includes a woman holding a pan with burnt food and…
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Rapid Prototyping – Attempt #1
My idea for a rapid prototype was to use the digital embroidery machine to embroider cute environmental images with encouraging quotes to promote being eco-conscious. I loved this idea as I think embroidery is beautiful and I also believe that looking after our planet is very important, so I decided to combine them. By utilising…
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Media Audiences – My Experience With Media
As I started thinking about all the times when I have been a part of an audience, one particular recent memory came to mind. Over the summer I worked at an ice cream shop and one evening as I was serving customers, I heard the strum of a guitar and then the voice of a…
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Jay’s Contextual Report
For my digital artefact, my friend Janae Thomson and I decided to collaborate and create a bead decor business. This idea was generated from her desire to learn a new skill of making beads decorations and my love of small businesses and social media. Our small business became Jay’s bead decor through the combination of…
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Jay’s Project Development
In the last blog post, I explained what Jay’s bead decor is and how we started this project from scratch. I also outlined the steps we took in relation to the design thinking process. Our initial design thinking process helped us create a solid idea for our small business, However, we are not achieving many…
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Jay’s use of Human Centered Design Thinking
For my digital artifact, Janae and I decided to start a small business on Etsy where we sell cute and funky handmade hanging bead decorations. We called it ‘Jay’s Bead Decor’. In order to start this business, we had to come up with designs for our products and produce them. We then created an Etsy…
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Presenting Self Through Social Media
The modern innovation of social media has changed the way individuals conduct and present themselves. It has become a part of our daily routine for many, from posting content regularly or checking social media as soon as you wake up to the moment before you go to bed. Social media platforms have become a space…
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