Tuesday 14 December 2010

Collection 100: Research Proposal for the Next Brief.


For this afternoon's Design Practice workshop, we were asked on a piece of paper to write down lists with particular themes (e.g. 15 people whom I find interesting, 15 objects I find interesting) and then continued to do this within small groups of four.
Although unbeknowst to us at the time, this would go on to "choose the fate" of the next part of our Collection 100 project (which I shall go onto explain and develop in the next design practice post, here on my blog)...

15 people whom I find interesting:

1. Amelie Poulain
2. Oscar Wilde
3. Roald Dahl
4. Oliver Sacks
5. Stephen Fry
6. Kate Bush
7. Gregory Peck
8. Matilda Wormwood
9. David Attenborough
10. Tim Ten Yen
11. Charlie Kaufman
12. Julie Andrews
13. Dick Van Dyke
14. Bjork
15. Richard O' Brien
16. Charlie Brooker
17. Eric Carle


Fifteen objects that I find interesting:

1. Music Boxes (Jewellery)
2. Ukuleles
3. Snow Globes
4. Russian Dolls
5. Bunting
6. Cameras
7. Pufferfish
8. 1950's swing dresses
9. heart- shaped mixing bowls
10. accordians
11. roller skates
12. cheerleading pom poms
13. spirographs
14. wishing wells
15. moustaches


Fifteen places or enviroments which I find interesting:

1. Hawaii
2. Russia
3. Church Stretton
4. Icleand
5. Shropshire
6. Frejus
7. Hampshire
8. Madagascar
9. Bruges
10. New Orleans
11. Carentoire
12. The Bermuda Triangle
13. Deepest Peru/ Darkest
14. The North Pole
15. Disneyland Paris


Fifteen subject matters I find interesting:

1. Neurology
2. Hematology
3. English Literature
4. Religion
5. Bakery
6. Illustration
7. Antiques
8. Graphic Design
9. Musical Performance
10. Medicine through History
11. The Science of Dreams
12. Psychoanalysis
13. Semantics
14. Calligraphy
15. Cinematography/ Film Directing
16. Herbology(!)
17. Zoology
18. Mendleev's Periodic Table



Within Groups:
(with Baljeet Samra, Kirsty Hardingham and Claudia Griffin)


Things you associate with the number 100:

1. B.C
2. Claudia's House (#100!)
3. Monopoly Money
4. Birthday card from the Queen
5. 100 Pennies in a Pound
6. Century
7. Top Score
8. 100%
9. 100's and thousands
10. Old Age
11. Dalmations
12. 2 x 50 cents
13. The Top 100 (Charts)
14. Pie Charts
15. London exactly 100 miles from Leicester
16. Swimming
17. 100m sprint
18. Ussain Bolt
19. Selfridges added their christmas aisle exaclty 100 days before Christmas
20. 6000 seconds in 100 minutes
21. Collection 100
22. 100 cm= 1 metre
23. 25/100= one quarter
24. 100 years of snow, song by Regina Spektor
25. 100mm =1cm


Fifteen Methods of Recording

1. Dictaphone
2. Camera Phone
3. Sketching
4. Scribing
5. Criminal Profiling
6. Polaroids
7. Video Camera
8. Dreams
9. Thoughts and Memories
10. VHS
11. DVD/BLURAY
12. Casette
13. LP Player/Recorder
14. Blogging
15. 35mm film
16. Braille
17. Sign Language
18. Verbal Translatio


Fifteen Methods of Categorisation

1. Dewi Decimal
2. BMI
3. Height
4. Weight
5. Gender
6. Age
7. Nationality
8. Year Group
9. Religion
10. IQ/Intelligence
11. Accents
12. Hair Colour
13. Eye Colour
14. Sexuality
15. Wealth and Status
16. Country of Birth/Origins


Fifteen Methods of Ordering

1. Lines
2. Rows
3. Columns
4. Tallest- Smallest
5. Oldest- Youngest
6. Cleverest- Least Smart
7. Hetrosexual- BiSexual- HomoSexual
8. Shades of Hair (Colour)
9. Richest- Poorest
10. North-South (accent)
11. Alphabetical Order (Name)
12. Chronological (DOB)
13. Alphabetical Order (Country of Origin)
14. PANTONE (Shade of eye colour/Hair colour)
15. Continetal ordering (country of origin)


Fifteen methods of Collecting

1. In a jar
2. In a diary
3. Scrapbook
4. Time Capsules
5. Photo Album
6. DVD
7. Petri Dish
8. In a timeline
9. In your hands
10. In your "memory bank"
11. In your stomach
12. In a treasure chest
13. In a wardrobe
14. In a stamp collection book
15. In an envelope

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