And the final is built!
Wishing that I’d given myself more time, could have done with some vinyl stickers showing what the slices represent but I have mentioned them in the portfolio pages.
So I’ve built several practice models and have been so concentrated that I completely forgot to take photos.
And my acrylic for the pic chart has come through as well!
I built a touch sensitive light circuit to practice for the model.
The basic shape of the up coming FMP model.
Proposed materials are mainly acrylic and the centre piece will be illuminated when the switch (the egg shape at the bottom) is activated.
A great explanation of Utopia, its etymology, economics and politics. There is a certain trend to the ‘ideal world’ including how the governments work and how the people should behave, it’s a very controlled world.
I’m still aiming to build a physical representative of some of the data I’ve collected, but it’s looking more like it’s going to be a literal 3D chart of some sort.
I’m currently looking into Utopian themes in general, and a common one that pops up (especially in films and games) has been HUDs (Heads Up Display) and GUIs (Graphical User Interface).
Here are some links to some amazing examples of both:
HUDs&GUIs - website that explains HUDs and GUIs with some beautiful examples
Deus Ex Human Revolution - Art director Eric Bellefeuille shows the conclusion of work from the game UI in Deus Ex.
Enders Game - Jayse Hansen shows some of his work from the film Enders Game which depended on the visuals of the UI systems.
Pie charts showing representative data from selected parts of the excel sheet with an example of how I think the data could be shown in quite a literal manner.
From my data collected so far.
Really wish I had more time to read more books but sadly I’m a slow reader.
Animal Crossing (in the games section) is a given Utopian game as there is no real threat within the game such as violence or disease.
I’m researching the common trends of Utopian themes in fictions such as books, films and games.
I’m going to end up with a lot of information so the best way of displaying this would be through info graphics, luckily I’ve found several Pinterest sites with such examples:
Info graphics - some beautiful designs
If wifi could talk - How could your day change if your phone could talk to the other devices around your house? A nice qualitative map to help you out.
“By taking part, you’ll be forced to question your complacency and desire for a more comfortable life – in spite of the resulting consequence and cost. Your answers will reveal what they already know about you. And the repercussions.”
Based on the Utopia TV series this is a quiz inquiring about how the world could survive if you had to choose the big decisions such as how many children should be allowed per family, what we should do if there is a water shortage and how we should decide on what should happen if the obesity crisis becomes out of control.
And interesting quiz from the point of view of control.
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I love my logo, a massive thank you to liamcamp for all his help so far in this project, I don’t know what I’d do without you help!
