Final Story Board and 200 words

My final project proposal is to make an object that corresponds to peoples’ sight and uses touch as well to add to the visual experience the object will bring. I want to make an object as I say in my storyboard that you can manipulate and the visual aspect will change with each movement. I want to experiment with patterns and optical illusions to make something that people will want to pick up and continuously want to play with. I want to move away from the old school rubix cube style toy and create something with a beautiful visual and movement to it. I will need to experiment with different materials so that people will feel comfortable playing with it and also how the shapes will be joined. In my mock-up I used cellotape so if I make it out of wood or something sturdier I will obviously have do use something different to secure the pieces. I hope to achieve an object that is visually pleasing and fun to play with.

Mock-up

We were asked to do a rough prototype or visual test for one of out studio sessions and I decided to make the toy reminiscent of the rubix cube and to use the colours as well just to gauge peoples reactions. I made it out of flimsy materials as it was just a mock-up so people were a little hesitant when playing with it as they did not want to break it. However it did create visual through manipulation effect that I was after.

I want to push this simple toy forward and add together illusions, patterns and different movements.

Physical Object

My next thought was what sort of object I would need to create to get a visual effect, but was also an object that people wanted to pick up and play with. I thought of objects such as the rubix cube and wanted to use a similar sort of object for my prototype and to develop the shape and feel of a cube like object with an illusion.

Illusions

This optical illusion makes the parallel straight horizontal lines appear to be bent.

Street art, painted onto a flat road giving the illusion that the road has fallen away.

The Magic Eye is a 3D object hidden inside a 2D pattern, they are a highly developed form of a stereogram.

This is a good example of a physical illusion with the tap appearing to have no pipe, suspended in mid air and still gushing water.

Once I had chosen sight as my sense I immediately thought of optical illusions and other types of visual illusions. I thought it would be a good idea to see if I could combine some sort of illusion or detailed pattern onto some sort of object that could be picked up and manipulated.

There are many different kinds of illusions some are physical structures while others are drawn or 2d illusions,all which trick the eye and mind into seeing something different to the reality. They have always been of interest to me since I started to do the magic eye puzzles at a young age.

First week

During the first and second weeks we discussed different objects that we had bought from home during out studio time.  Talking about the different ways in which we interacted with them and their purposes, also how each object related to the 5 different senses. We were asked to begin thinking about which sense we might like to choose as our main sense for the object we will be creating. I immediately thought of sight as I feel something aesthetically pleasing would be the most enjoyable for me to make. We then had to draw up some sketches and ideas that were discussed in class and form our idea about what our object would become.

Project 1: Interactive Objects

In this project we are asked to provide an interactive object that is providing a unique experience for one of the 5 senses, see, hear, smell, touch and taste.