For this task, I had to get into a group of four with people from other courses to create an alternative tourist route for Edinburgh. The first thing our group did was brainstorm ideas for what would be the potential concept. When brainstorming we found that the one thing we all had in common was our love and appreciation of alcohol. The idea eventually developed and transformed into a quick pub crawl where there would be routes taking you along some of Edinburgh’s weirder and more unusual pubs and bars. As a group, we decided that making the crawl more interesting we would incorporate tasks and challenges that people may complete to make the whole experience more fun. After deciding on the bars and route for a trial run we headed out onto the route and invited friends along with us to make sure that the findings from the crawl were unbias and impartial. This meant that we could work on aspects of the crawl that may need improvement. After completing the route we decided that we could take the idea and refine it more and change it into a route of all Edinburgh hidden pubs and bars that even locals may never heard of or seen before. We decided that the best way for user interaction with this was an app as this would make it more accessible to more people as everyone has a phone nowadays. It also allows for a real-time map feature to help the users find the bars. this is a benefit as using a traditional map to find some of the places would be extremely difficult.

For this task, I had to create my own personal colour wheel from objects I found in the world around me. I found this task interesting as it made me stop and think about the things around me and how they’ve been designed and the colours that they’ve used and the emotions they provoke.

In this task, I had to take inspiration from Richard Hamilton’s collages. In my collage, I have taken the concept of the wast problem we have in society and the blindness and the separation we have from it due to things that take us away from it or things that make us feel better about the things we do. the figure in the photo has a virtual reality headset on showing he isn’t even wanting to live in his own reality. There are also other items that show how they may be trying to make themselves feel better for the late they create like a solar panel, electric cans and being vegan. I have also made the collage so as your eye looks across the photo you see it getting worse and worse until eventually you look out the window and see the waste and destruction this has caused the environment.

In this task I have shown my influences with my discipline of product design along the vertical and the other disciplines such as photography, graphic design and so on. This task was interesting as it forced me to look at who I was inspired by and how they have influenced the way I design today.