Healthy Eating

In our world today we can find a large range of advertisements for designer products which express a political or ideological message. These advertisements seem to collate with ideas of individuals making a positive difference to the world and to themselves, ideas such as purchasing eco friendly products and eating healthy foods.

Diseases and infections affect all of us in the world. However experts believe that you can lower your chances of being inflicted by having a healthier diet. An example of this is the healthy eating option that is now provided at some fast food restaurants such as McDonalds. Most people today are conscious of what they buy and what they eat due to the increasing number of deaths which are related to eating unhealthy. It is a belief that people should treat their bodies with respect and eating healthy is one step towards that goal. Although the issue may not be as important as stopping global warming or solving world hunger it is one of the first steps in awareness towards these. In order to clean up the world we must first clean up ourselves.

Memory

While I was growing up my brother, sister and I would often relive moments of our favourite games or movies, shaping our own imaginary worlds that only we could see. This was a place where we could explore ideas of our own, solve puzzles, fight monsters whatever it was we no longer needed to be interacting with the game or movie to be experiencing and feeling what was, and what could happen next. It was as if creativity and ideas flowed from the spring that the game designer or director had created.

This is my influence as a designer and what informs my approach for future design. I do not believe that different culture or views have affected the way I view my work in any way.

As a media designer I only wish to create for enjoyment, so that others may explore their imagination, to pass on my childhood experiences and to give others the same emotions and structure to sprout ideas and worlds of their own.

Modern Design

The Bauhaus began operating in 1919 and since then it has become the inspiration and cornerstone for design institutions around the world. Today we can see similarities between the philosophy and methods that were used at the Bauhaus being applied to our current design education system.

Walter Gropius the school’s first director entered the school with an idea for artistic freedom and individuality where students could choose their preferred areas of specialization. Lessons stimulated student’s interests in materials, drawing techniques and forms. Gropius believed that there was to be an equality and collaboration between the artist and the craftsman. He taught that, “A foundation of handicraft is essential for every artist. It is there that the primary source of creativity lies.”

Today we can find the same principles and methods that were applied to the Bauhaus to our student life. Victoria offers an extensive design course which enables the students to engage in a huge spectrum of different exercises and assignments which integrate aspects of the Bauhaus principles and methods, such as creating compositions of different kinds of drawing styles, exploring geometric shapes and qualities of good design through the creating of 3d models either through handcraft or digital design. Students are encouraged to experiment and to use a range of different materials to achieve similar outcomes to those expressed by the Bauhaus, “educating new designers to reinvigorate the production of useful goods.”