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U-view – London City Guide

Becky Lyddon — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:24:19 +0000

Exploring the way we learn through experiences I wanted to find a way of creating a personal experience for a guide. I focused on the importance perspectives have on how we learn.

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.

Creative Environments

Matt Bucknall — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:22:42 +0000

This display is a collection of images from a chapter in the second book (Disruptions, Reminders & Interventions) entitled When Did That Happen. Retracing the Forgotten Everyday. Every action we do helps us to build up an understanding of the surrounding environment – often the significance of these actions is repressed or completely forgotten.

These installations retrace the learning through interaction that occurred in our homes as we were growing up. These everyday processes help to establish some of the most fundamental actions that our bodies perform – and will carry out thousands of times throughout our lifetimes. A tangible visual record of something so critical, yet often overlooked is created, providing a constant reminder that we have the ability to physically affect our surroundings.

Perils of Urban Living

Alice Clarke — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:17:10 +0000

Whilst exploring my local area for inspiration, I happened to see a man rather unfortunately excreted on by a pigeon! He looked thoroughly embarrassed and disgusted, which prompted me to create an urban style print based onphotographs of actual bird deposits, in order to disguise this humiliation, should it be your ‘lucky’ day. I screen-printed the pattern using specialist ‘puffbinder’ink in order to create an extra realistic textured effect!

Mood Images

Will Gurley — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:03:20 +0000

1. Kalipso Steel Pan
a musical instrument / cooking pot similar to a Caribbean steel pan.

2. Curious Carpet
a rug that becomes a costume.

3. Eldwidge Castle
a playscape doorway similar to a dollhouse.

4. Spiral Slidecase
a spiral staircase with a slide.

5.Hand Rail
a new take on the handrail.

6.High Chair
a chair with built in stilts.

Urban Camouflage

Ben Oliver — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:00:16 +0000

Something that could be used almost anywhere in an urban environment: The project had begun by looking at patterns, taking images of crowds, cutting them up and printing them on fabric.

While this worked to a certain extent on busy streets, it was far from perfect. I began looking at animals that mimic as a form of camouflage, and tried to implement this into an urban situation.

The one thing that seems to dominate the streets of London, are black bin bags, they are so abundant that they have become invisible… the perfect camouflage. When the wearer crouches down, the dress can be lifted over their head, revealing the bin liners. Simple as that.

Bag stuck in a tree

Ed Vince — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:49:32 +0000

It is a common occurrence in an urban environment but one that is often overlooked and unappreciated. To see it blowing gracefully in the breeze, filled with the warm glow of the sun can be quite mesmerising.

I wanted to capture this moment in its entirety by suspending the branches in space, so it appears to float, completely detached and isolated from its surroundings.

The branches have been rendered in a stylised, almost abstract form to exaggerate the re-contextualisation of the object itself and the colour selections help to push this further.

The use of a real plastic bag as the diffuser creates a stark contrast with the finely crafted branches that display it, and enables the mood of the light to be altered by either crumpling the bag up or replacing it with one in a different colour or graphic.

Tea Handkerchief

Miho Kaneko — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:21:19 +0000

This tea handkerchief will make your usual teatime a little more delightful and elegant.

It can be used as a plate for biscuits, scones and sandwiches etc. You can take the tea handkerchief with you anywhere and we know that you will enjoy using this product everyday.

Rotate light

Norihiko Inoue — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:17:34 +0000

The internet, mobile phones and other communication devices enable people to work from home. These people are no longer worried about commuting and can work at their own convenient environments. But, that means, at the same time, they are unconsciously removed boundaries between work and home. There is no time division tells from when to when you work and spatial division where you work. You would end up with confusing home with work.

This light gives you those boundaries back. The idea is that, by changing the direction and the height, the light changes functions from a desk light to a room light and vice versa. Even if you work or spend a private time at the same room, by the changes of the light lightens, you feel different, in other words, the light gives you mental division in a time flow.