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A colour story: How designers use colour as a visual storytelling tool in sneaker design
Get PDFThis study aims to unpack foundational colour design practices to discuss how colour designers leverage colour as a visual storytelling device. Analysing how colour designers use colour might open up more significant opportunities for cross-disciplinary research between designers and the disciplines of colour psychology, chemistry, and art while enabling more experimentation surrounding studying colour preference in context. This study focuses on the practices of Colour Designers in the athletic footwear industry, specifically the processes of visual storytelling on sneakers using colour. Knowledge of what a colour designer in the athletic footwear industry does and how designers use colour as a visual storytelling device is primarily learned and held by those practising colour design, creating a gap in aspects of the design process in academia. While there is a lack of academic research, there is a wealth of qualitative data shared within sneaker culture surrounding the significance of colour in sneaker design and the impact of colour on sneaker culture, potentially making them a fitting artefact to discuss how colour designers leverage colour in visual storytelling. This study utilises the lead author's ten years of experience as a practising colour designer working with brands such as Nike to expose the potential colour design practices used in creating the AJ1 through autoethnographic writing and design artefact creation. These aim to shine the light on foundational colour design practices to create a window into the colour design process. The results of this study suggest an intentional relationship between designers, the sneaker industry and colour as a visual communication tool. Through creating design artefacts, including blocking exercises and an extracted colour palette, the lead author illustrates the influences on the colour design process that help define aesthetically pleasing blocks and how designers use blocking and colour to create cohesive visual storytelling
Always coming home
No full textThe first iteration of Always Coming Home took place at Iklectik, London and was supported by the RKEI Research Costs Fund in 2023. This was the starting point for ambient sensorial experimentation, as a threshold for furthering the ideas of immersion, speculative world and conscious listening. Considered as a small A—-Z festival, this all day event revolves around speculative landscapes from the synthetic to the sensual and otherworldly. Mainly V Sets and live performances will explore embodied practices through sound and visual sensories, the acts will expand on affective elements shared together. *Always Coming Home is a “title-hommage” to the 1985 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. Its written style alternate a narration, pseudo-textbook and pseudo-anthropologist’s record. It describes the life and society of the Kesh people, a cultural group who live in the distant future long after modern society has collapsed
Three paintings by Caravaggio
No full textThis poem is part of an ongoing series of work entitled Skewings. ‘Skewing’ is the process of removing excess gold leaf from a prepared surface, and skewings are these small pieces which are removed, left over, but probably saved and made into something else. This is how I think of these poems, while the process somewhat describes their process of making. (Skewing also has the sense of something made oblique.) For these I take the technical conservation reports published by the National Gallery, London, and use these as source material from — and through — which I write the poems. Certain phrases are removed and gathered together, and then placed in new relations to one another. This cutting across in some ways echoes the conservation techniques being described, as samples are removed, sectioned, and considered attentively. The conservation reports also contain curious disjunctions, with representations and the represented being conflated and confused: a crack opens up along Christ’s body, for example, or a saint’s face has flaked and become unrecognisable
My bodily remains: Art Night Dundee
No full textMy Bodily Remains, Your Bodily Remains, And All The Bodily Remains That Ever Were, And Ever Will Be is a fantastical series of filmic tableaux drawing from various genres ranging from horror to technicolour cinematic dreams. The work features four protagonists: two characters called ‘Them who Love’, whose relationship is unclear, and who speak of love in a profound, epic, almost spiritual way; ‘The Ghost for Revolution’, who recounts somatic histories of fascism, and ‘The Reader of The Book of Love’ who reads historical quotes from individuals or groups that were involved in non non-violent action. The film is a poetic meditation on various historical resistance movements and groups, the spiritual dimensions of anti-supremacism, intersectional queer feminism, communism and revolutionary thinking to recognise the emancipatory power of love and pleasure as a catalyst for radical change. My Bodily Remains… features an original score composed by Maxwell Sterling and Richard Fearless (Death in Vegas) alongside digital animations by Adam Sinclair. A Co-Commission for Art Night, CAC Cincinnati, KM21 and POR:TA. With additional support from Luminous Foundation. Developed in collaboration with The Southbank Centre, London. Supported using public funding by Creative Scotland, the Henry Moore Foundation, and Museum of London with support from Arts Council England
Evaluating social impact of smart city technologies and services: Methods, challenges, future directions
Get PDFThis study examines motivations, definitions, methods and challenges of evaluating the social impacts of smart city technologies and services. It outlines concepts of social impact assessment and discusses how social impact has been included in smart city evaluation frameworks. Thematic analysis is used to investigate how social impact is addressed in eight smart city projects that prioritise human-centred design across a variety of contexts and development phases, from design research and prototyping to completed and speculative projects. These projects are notable for their emphasis on human, organisational and natural stakeholders; inclusion, participation and empowerment; new methods of citizen engagement; and relationships between sustainability and social impact. At the same time, there are gaps in the evaluation of social impact in both the smart city indexes and the eight projects. Based on our analysis, we contend that more coherent, consistent and analytical approaches are needed to build narratives of change and to comprehend impacts before, during and after smart city projects. We propose criteria for social impact evaluation in smart cities and identify new directions for research. This is of interest for smart city developers, researchers, funders and policymakers establishing protocols and frameworks for evaluation, particularly as smart city concepts and complex technologies evolve in the context of equitable and sustainable development
INTER/her: An immersive journey inside the female body - creative processes, reflections and revelations
Get PDFINTER/her: Intimate Journey inside the Female Body is an immersive installation and Virtual Reality artwork focussing on reproductive diseases that for women can often experience, including: endometriosis, fibroids, polyps, ovarian and other cysts, as well as more serious cervical, ovarian, uterine and endometrial cancers. The project is an intimate immersive exploration of the inner world of women’s bodies and the reproductive diseases they can suffer. The focus of INTER/her is on female health is intended as a personal exploration, conversation starter, and community builder. This article discusses the creative methods, design process,and tools for making the multimodal interaction used in INTER/her,exploring their nature, value, and significance within the project, and what they implicate for future work in this area of art, design and research. It will discuss the making, expression and narrative elements used to represent,explore, and understand the emotional and bodily/sensorial experience designed for visitors, as well as the meaning making through metaphors used to represent different organs and ailments. It will cover the collaborative development of the team using various technologies and storytelling approaches guiding the making and communication during the 2nd lockdown of the COVID pandemic in the UK
Additive manufacture of polymeric organometallic ferroelectric diodes (POMFeDs) for structural neuromorphic hardware
Get PDFHardware design and implementation for online machine learning applications is complicated by a number of facets of conventional artificial neural networks (ANN), e.g. deep neural networks (DNNs), such as reliance on atemporal locality, offline learning using large datasets, potential difficulties in transfer from model to substrates, and issues with processing of noisy sensory data using energy-efficient and asynchronous information processing modalities. Analog or mixed-signal spiking neural networks (SNNs) have promise for lower power, temporally localised, and stimuli selective sensing and inference but are difficult fabricate at low cost. Investigation of beyond-CMOS alternative organic substrates may be worthwhile for development of unconventional neuromorphic hardware with pseudo-spiking dynamics for structural electronics integration in bio-signal processing and robotics. Here, polymeric organometallic ferroelectric diodes (POMFeDs) are introduced for development of printable ferroelectric in-sensor SNNs
Story/no story: A narrative design exercise for shared ways of seeing
Get PDFA case example is presented of an innovative teaching and learning experience, devised somewhat emergently for a mixed class of 30 undergraduate design students in Beijing, China. It shares the benefits of a mash-up approach drawing on fundamentals of design practice translated into an intensive five-day observation-to-animation exercise, with unexpected learning value to students of three different design-related disciplines. This paper outlines the instructions given, the process followed, the resulting designed outcomes, and student feedback gathered some three and a half years later. These testimonies evidence the lasting impact of this activity on the students despite its short duration, and specifically the value of observation, creative experiment, facilitating peer relationships, collaboration, and peer learning across the three disciplines. All of these elements were explicitly absent from other learning modules in their curriculum. The scenario provides a framework to inspire and guide similar collaborative activities across design disciplines
Prix Bob Calle du livre d’artiste
Get PDFTim O’Riley’s Endlessness—an artist's book from 2020 that centres on a pair of skis used on Scott’s ill-fated 1910 Antarctic expedition—was included in the Prix Bob Calle du livre d’artiste, 2023. It was kindly nominated by Elizabeth James, Senior Collections Librarian at the National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Each year, the Prix Bob Calle “rewards an artist's book selected by experts from different European countries. It is awarded by a jury composed of different recognized actors for their contribution to the artist's book.
Echoes & Callings: A Hannya Manifesto
Get PDFWOMAN: protagonist Part One in human appearance. Repressed voices of different ages and backgrounds; persons who have been insulted and silenced; recipients of hurt, assault and violation; victims of hate, rape, and abuse; surviving dependents; betrayed or discarded lovers; assumed hags, wise-women, and witches. DEMONESS: protagonist Part Two in demonic appearance; woman’s living ghost. Released voices; agents of change; phantoms from the past; avengers, she-devils and furies. Echoes & Callings is an encounter with angry spirits from Japanese Noh drama and storytelling; women characters, referred to as deranged or jealous, unable to speak for themselves during their human lives. They transform into demons, forced from their bodies; furious ghosts, broken by grief or transfigured by rage, pain, or betrayal. They are encountered through their transformative states, their images returning as ghosts, apparitions, and echoes, seeking revenge and release. Their imaginary genealogy is followed, re-embodied, contradictory, intertextual—speaking of silence and manifestation, distress and embodiment, stillness, and fury; building the crescendo of a single expression, from figuration to abstraction. They conjure another self from their liminal existence as they reveal themselves as terrifying images. They have existed throughout times and cultures. Today, more than ever, their images are recognised as released and untamed. And finally, speaking out. ‘“Listen your way in / with your mouth,” wrote Paul Celan, in his poem, Die Posaunenstelle. This is what we must do, enter through the screaming mouth. Now chisel is put away; mask is silent. Woman abandoned, pain compressed. Silent scream. Attuned, we might hear this sound through auralisation, hearing an absent presence—thin, high—above the muted, stylised voice of the shite. In Seiobo There Below, László Krasznahorkai writes of a Noh mask maker creating a shiro hannya mask, thought never occuring that “what his hands have brought into the world is a demon, and that it will do harm”. Echoes and Callings offers us startling insights into that fractured world.’ –> David Toop Wiebke Leister is a German artist and researcher living in London. Her works challenge the limitations of visual representation, often addressing the human face as canvas, medium, or agent. Seeking transformative and performative conditions of portraiture, the image becomes a catalyst for exploring human boundaries and how one encounters oneself in others