New work

I need to get some work together for the MA. The NOISE project took a lot out of me but I need to get working on something else. I have a lot to write up abut NOISE, design ideas, online promotion ideas that may or may not be used for NOISE. I still need to write up the Portrait of a Nation project and what my role was in that.
That site is now officially out there and being used
www.portraitofanation.net

So I'm starting to think of where to go next. I want to get some small coded pieces of work done, either in Flex or Processing. Mainly because my coding is none existent at the moment. I'd love to be able to work as an artist with these programs and just create but I can't work that way. I need a brief or a problem to get me started. Mark mentioned this on Wed's. Would you rather be a musician or a designer? Well you could always do music as a hobby, you'd never choose to do design as a hobby. You need problems to solve.

I've decided to return to the original brief of an online MA space, using the site Graham has built as a starting point. The original idea was to create an online version of a studio space, where work can be tested and viewed by others. This is different to an online portfolio or gallery. I'm returning to the idea of the site as an interior space that people interact with and designing the site(space?) along those lines. I want this to be more abstract though, not aiming for a finished space. Rather trying to recreate the elements of a space. A simple starting point is being able to upload work to the main site and feed to a page where the images can be rearranged.

What I am aware of is, and something that has happened a lot over the course of the MA is getting stuck with coding. I need to avoid this. Working on the NOISE and PoN sites have shown me that it is possible to work with a bit of code, mock ups and text. That is what I need for this project sketches, layouts, mock-ups, text and test pieces of code. Archtecture and interior design again comes into play again. Plannning and designing for spaces that may never be built or have to be built by a team of people at a later stage. Print this post