Intercultural Design-Projects
Instructions
Project 1-Proposal
We came up with 5 interesting Japanese cultures: 1) Japanese Calligraphy, 2) Koinobori (fish flag), 3)Kimono and Wagasa (Japanese traditional clothing and paper umbrella) 4) Hashioki (chopstick holder), 5) Tea Ceremony.
As we have 6 members in our group, we decided to work in pairs.
Then we start our part following the design system.
Draft Proposal Slide:
The part I am responsible for is the Hashioki---Chopstick Rest. I chose Hoshioki as the topic because I think it belongs to tableware and is close to our life. Everyone, including me, will be more interested. In addition, it will be easier to collect relevant data when we go to Japan. But when I started searching the information about Hashioki on the Internet, I found that there is very little information about it and the accuracy of the existing information is not high, and different websites have different opinions, so we decided to abandon this topic.
Feedback:
According to Mr Asrizal's feedback, we decided to focus on Japanese Calligraphy. Same as previously, we separate into 3 pairs to work on. Each pair came out with 1 idea about the project that we can do with Japanese Calligraphy.
Final Proposal Slide:
Feedback:
Instead of focusing on sans serif and serif fonts for the calligraphy and seeing which is more suitable to apply for different design concepts, can try to look more into freeflow calligraphy because it is more interesting. From there, it can be applied into the post card template ideas that we have.
Project 2-Data Collection
Photos that every group member collected:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14sfpQxKkzNnqc4DFSkyJMN154WNU_YmC?usp=sharing
As we decided to do greeting cards with free-flow Japanese Calligraphy, I divided my data cllection into 3 different parts. Calligraphy, Elements that can use to design the cards and Patterns that can use as the border or background.
Japanese Calligraphy: The photos are taken from shop signs, brochures, menus, souvenior, etc. with free-flow Japanese Calligraphy.
Elements: I mainly focus on representative buildings, scenes and objects of Japan.
Patterns: I found that the manhole covers on Japan streets are special and have different design for different usage.
Our group went to a calligraphy museum too. We took some pictures about free-flow calligraphy from their merchandise.
Data Collection Slide:
Feedback:
Since we have brought back some physical artifacts that we are keen on taking inspiration from, we can just make our final product physical instead of making an app. Can consider ideas like gacha or any other physical structures that can produce the calligraphy slips
Final Project
Making Gashapon Machine
To save time, we split into 3 in a group as well. I'm in charge of making that machine out.
We measure the size of the rest of the accessories according to the size of the prototype box.
After we did making and tested the prototype gashapon machine, we started our final Gashapon machine.
After many tests and improvements, our machine is finally completed and the ball comes out smoothly.
Making Fortune Slip
Our 3 members according to the size of the ball, print the size of the fortune slip.
Members design the outer part cover with different meanings.
For the inner part, we decided to write by hand at first, but after all the team members tried it, they all found it too difficult. Mainly because none of us can write Japanese.
We decided to use a font at last. We type out the sentences in AI and convert it into shapes. We tweak the path and make it more free-flow. For the border, we used the design of the manhole cover.
Here's the final gashapon machine work:
Draft Poster:
Feedback：
Can make improvements to the poster by showing more of the contents in the gacha box. The design of the outer sleeves and fortune slips should be bigger, the font size can be smaller and group members' names can be just in one line at the bottom of the poster.
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