Matt Jones and Jack Schulze

Hello all. Thanks so much for your efforts on today’s brief. We have a bunch of the posca/OHP drawings and the 6th floor whiteboard to still capture, but I’ve started a set here on flickr to capture them.

Tuesday: The Design Happens Here.

10am – 1pm Drawing exercises:

The Matt Ward Manoeuvre

10am -11.30am

1. Drawing and evolving.

Evolve the following products:

•  Milk carton

•  Radio

• Calculator
• Clock
• Robot arm

along the following axis:

•  Soft – hard

•  Cheap – expensive

• Civilian – military
• Private – public
• performative – functional

The purpose of this exercise is to use drawing to collectively evolve how objects might look and work. The work should stop so we can talk about the broader implications and talk over the tangents as they emerge.

11.30am – 1pm

2. Buttons and dials

Take a photograph of a primitive object. Evolve the photo with posca and OHP paper against basic functionality and new forms. This should also include behaviours and interactions.

actions include

• Twist

• Push

• Extend

• Dial

• Swipe
• Approve
• Hold

functions they act on

• Volume

• List manage

• Temperature

• Speed

• Financial payment

These are exercises in expansion, do not trouble yourself with reality or logic as constraints. Allow the nature and colour of the drawing materials to lead the material feel and scale of behaviours your drawings imply. Like you are animating with a pen.