hidden city | Becoming a Designer.

the city project; initial sketches

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Nicholas Jones PD

here are some of my initial ideas for designs, I’ve kept to making my ideas look abit futuristic, however im also trying to keep my ideas close to the present days because in my opinion the tragic state of bike storage in cities across the world needs to be sorted out now. I quite like the idea o the Red drawing because its compact, and can be made from cheap metals or plastic, however I find the design so far abit to bland and not exciting enough so I need to work out what I can do to make this more appealing and more interesting for the users of this product.

the city project; group idea

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Nicholas Jones PD

in our field groups today we came up with an direction on which we would like to take our project, firstly we all spoke about what we wanted to do and what we were already doing in our personal field project, and collaborated all our ideas into one, I wanted to do fining storage space in city centres and as you know im trying to improve the safety and quality of bike storage within the city centre, and the others in my group all had a similar idea about making miniature cities and something to do with underground cities or underground buildings which I found very fascinating to talk about, after talking about this we made a few mind maps which we could us to find common ground on which we could start building a idea, and pretty much instantly we came up with a really good and interesting idea which was to build a miniature city underground, and we threw a few ideas around to find the best was to execute this idea and we came up with using layers of mud to build the ground and we were looking at doing this in a fish tank sort of thing, so that’s our idea. also today we had to build a mini model of our idea using only the materials we were given by our tutors, if we had more time we would of executed our model more accurately and more tidier too, however we didn’t have that time to our expense so this is an image of what we managed to do with the materials we were given.

here is some images of our mind maps and ideas.

the city project

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Nicholas Jones PD

this week I got handed a new project Brief that is part of my field work this term, the project is split into two different sections, the first section I have to work on the project by myself and for the second section I have group up with people that are doing other art courses, I think this will be a good experience and im excited to see what we will come up with as a large group.

with in the brief where three sub themes, migration, power and technology and hidden city.

ive decided to choose the migration theme then use it to design a product for commuters that migrate to the city everyday, I was thinking of doing something for cyclist commuters as there are numerous problems with cycling within the city I can hopefully come up with a solution to a few of them.