Another One Day Project

Today we had another one day project to complete with a made up brief set by Phil. This day was to make us think of interesting ways of creating a printed artefact with 3 folds. The brief was to find out interesting facts about sea fishing areas that would make the group want to visit.


Our group's place was Portland which is an island still connected a little bit to the South of England. In the researching, I found a blog about Portland where a man had posted interesting facts about Portland that you would only find out if you had been or lived there. For instance, Portland is shrinking due to the limestone cliffs being constantly eroded. The the place is also invested with rabbits. There is much superstition around them too as years ago people working in the quarries thought they were bad luck as they built lots of warrens on the island which could cause it to collapse. Some of this superstition was used in the Wallace and Grommet film which would instantly make people interested in Portland - Well I believe so anyway!


Firstly, we were going to use origami to create rabbits and display the information on there, but after I had made several different versions we realised that the information just wasn't going to fit on. So after that, we decided to use the fact that there was a famous Lighthouse in Portland which then led us to choose a lighthouse shape that folded 3 times as the final design. I wasn't keen on this idea, or the design of the brochure because we were doing the design of the content at the very last minute and I felt very pressured to finish it on time. So I was slightly unhappy with the result, but maybe we should have managed time better during the day, maybe less time for lunch?

Origami Rabbits

We were a bit late with printing the final artefact which wouldn't be accepted in the real industry but I'm sure for peer review we were fine, and will not let it happen again. We've learned a time management lesson from this which we will apply to the next project we did. The day wasn't really a competition, but there was a prize for the group that received the most points from the other students. Our group won, after all the scores averaged out ours became on top winning us a book and some chocolates! Guess I can be wrong quite a lot of the time, just got to start trusting other people are their opinions, which will be hard but i'm sure I will manage it.

All the artefacts placed on the map where they are located

Our leaflet of Portland

The feedback sheet for our team

Another good win for the spine team, and a good opportunity for us to work together and practice our team skills. I definitely think these are improving.

The prizeeeeee