evaluation live brief

Evaluation unit 12 live brief

For my research I did a full a4 sketchbook with some observational drawings included e.g. a bratz doll and a captain America figurine, I prefer the drawing of the doll as it is more detailed and it has colour though when colouring it in I found the hair to be tricky as I didn’t really  have the right coloured pencils. For primary research we visited Shawlands primary school, looked at our areas that we had to design for and had a mini tour of the school as well. I managed to take a few pictures of my chosen areas and asked about what the student’s favourite books were as well as some good information on what calms the children that will be using the sensory room and what triggers them. A lot of my sketchbook was primary research as I was a lot keener to get to work on looking into the library wall. I wasn’t as enthusiastic about the sensory room as I didn’t really know much of the autistic spectrum before I started this project and it has been difficult trying to cater to several different people whose triggers might have been something I had put into my design unknowing of the fact it would affect them so badly. When developing my research I looked at different artists and created mood boards for each of my chosen areas which was the library wall and the sensory room. I also created a customer board in which I dreamt up a person who was a student at Shawlands and gave them a personality which I had to centre my project around.

For my designs I extracted several things from my research for instance my space theme Idea for the sensory room and some of the illustrations by artists I had done were on my final designs like Quentin Blake he was quite a large part of this project as he is also who I looked at for my artist research. When visiting the school I had asked about some of the children’s favourite books as well as her own and I included some of them in my research. I also asked about some of the triggers the students who would use the sensory room had and she said that some were sensitive to light, some were not, as well as that some were more sensitive to smell and some weren’t so it was quite difficult trying to find even ground for the designing of the sensory room. The client set specific constraints, whatever we did it had to be age appropriate, the library wall couldn’t be entirely blue and when designing the sensory room we couldn’t take out the lights or the tent they had for the children, which overall I think was fair as it wasn’t the specific constraints I had difficulty with it was designing a room for children on the autistic spectrum.

In my sketchbook I experimented with textiles a bit for the sensory room it had different textures on it and buttons it also had a bell on it so I could say that was to look in to sounds as well, I also looked at different types of fabric for if I wanted to design something textiles based. My main issue was the costing sheets as I couldn’t find magnetic paint that could be painted on to the wall it was wood and metal but I found that the design could still work with normal paint. I think if I had to do this project again without any constraints I would have painted a mural on the wall a nice calming scene with a lot of detail as this project didn’t require the designs to have a lot of detail in them. I also would’ve liked to create something a bit more 3d like a tree for the library or a set of comfortable chairs for the sensory room. For my artists I looked at Quentin Blake who illustrated the Roald Dahl books and Jim Kay who illustrated the illustrated version of harry potter out of the two I think Quentin Blake has influenced my design more as his work is on one of my final designs Jim Kays work is very detailed and to include on my final design I think would’ve cost too much as his work is very detailed and a lot of various different paint would’ve been needed.