This particular work is based on a story told to me by my friend Niamh McCartney, who received this offer from an intoxicated older man, whilst working in a clothes shop on the Irish Border.

Subsequently Niamh did not take him up on his offer.

They speak in a caring, loving, surreal and overall positive way, but in the colors of the authority. Although at child height (mostly) they are also for the parents who may notice that their children are being targeted, hopefully sparking a mixed emotion.

The signs attempt to plant a seed in peoples’ minds, that might grow with the other thoughts throughout the day. Design for every day life. The most personal design in the most plublic of ways.

The events chosen address issues surrounding representations of violence within contemporary society. I am interested with the banality of the everyday and how watching the news and reading the newspaper has become an almost mundane activity for an apathetic audience.

The objects don’t aim to document or provide facts about these events but to visually and conceptually question the harshness of these materials when taken out of their intended context and environment.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), unhealthy diet is amongst one of the leading causes of the major non-communicable diseases. Can design encourage people to rethink their relationship with healthy food to gain a balanced diet?

Works like this are simple without being empty, playful without being cheap, and internally coherent whilst still referring to a world outside of itself. Decisions about things such as form, colour or placement in art are not confined only to a kind of formalism but are in fact deeply ingrained into the way we navigate the world of objects around us. It is Art like Elizabeth Graham’s, which reminds us of this fact.

[Written by Peter Simpson.]

U-view explores the way that we (as viewers) gain a personal understanding from our surroundings. By focusing on this these 12 masks each alter how we view our surroundings and therefore may change our experience of a space/place.

The stereo viewing format, with a vintage charm of its own, emphasises the magical, preserving (and voyeuristic) qualities of photography, while offering the viewer a momentary disconnection from their own immediate reality.

When someone has an possession that they wish to become an heirloom they attach an RFID tag to it, then giving that object a unique identity. The device acts as an RFID scanner and when an object is scanned people can record onto the device the stories and memories associated with that object, where they are stored and preserved. Then, as the device and object are passed to the next generation they can play back the recorded messages about the object and its previous owners. New recordings can be made as the possessions are passed to different people, updating the narrative.

The project explores potential uses for RFID, how we can catalogue, track and preserve information about our family history that can live on after we die and strongly relates to the ideas of oral history and memory preservation.

There is a traditional shaped fish bowl in the Poor Little Fish basin, through using, the level of water in the bowl will fall gradually; it will go back to the same level once the water stops. Hence the consumer needs to consider about the fish while using. By using separated pipelines, the water comes from the tap will still be the pure tap water. Water in the bowl is not actually changed, so no more water has been wasted in this process.