Contributors:
Julia Arska, Paul Cooper, Ben Hackland, Matthew Hynam, Matthew Ryall, Quadri Shogunle, Haolin Wang, Harry Westwood
Past and present UWE students united together under the title of the Creative Leap! Collective to take part in an international competition for the poet W.B Yeats’s 150th birthday. The response to the competition by the students was to design an intervention which altered the perception of the Isle whilst traveling to it from the jetty. Travelling from the jetty causes a shift back through time. The step down onto the small boat forces the viewer to see the island in the memory state that Yeats wrote his poem the Lake Isle Innisfree. The entry was Highly Commended by the judging panel for its creative response to the brief.
Design Process
During the competition design process the team threw a dice and performed one of the following random actions when faced with a creative block:
1 Pixelate
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Lower the resolution until the pixels are large and clearly visible. Print out and work with the image as you see fit to continue with the project.
2 Zoom
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Increase the magnification of the drawing by 200%. Pan across the drawing to find a view you are happy with. Increase the magnification of the drawing by a further 200%. Pan again and print out the image. Use the image as you see fit to continue with the project
3 Cut-up
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Print the image out and manually cut it into vertical strips. Rearrange the strips and scan the image back into Photoshop. Print out again and work with the image as you see fit to continue with the project.
4 Rotate
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Rotate the drawing by 180 degrees. You may then continue to adjust the rotation until you are happy with the on screen result. Print out and work with the image as you see fit to continue with the project.
5 Colour adjust
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Change the colour of any lines to white and fill the white areas with a bright colour. Print out and work with the image as you see fit to continue with the project.
6 Introduce a new view
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Capture an image of the model from another axis and merge the views. Print out and work with the image as you see fit to continue with the project.
This seemingly random process was crucial to the final form of the competition proposal as it made us consider placing the intervention along a path leading out to the island rather than placing it on the island as stipulated by the brief. This departure from the brief became obvious after we pixelated an early sketch section of the proposal as part of a Leap! action and then used the interpretation dice to investigate it as a plan. The initial image was a section showing a series of concave structures which when pixelated and viewed as a plan suddenly transformed into a curved path that stretched out towards the island. In this instance the process of pixilation was carried out by photographing the screen and then re-photographing the resulting image until the image became suitably pixelated. Between the initial image and the final image the user had made a jump in scale within their head and started imagining the island at the end of the path.
Contributors:
Julia Arska, Paul Cooper, Ben Hackland, Matthew Hynam, Matthew Ryall, Quadri Shogunle, Haolin Wang, Harry Westwood
Past and present UWE students united together under the title of the Creative Leap! Collective to take part in an international competition for the poet W.B Yeats’s 150th birthday. The response to the competition by the students was to design an intervention which altered the perception of the Isle whilst traveling to it from the jetty. Travelling from the jetty causes a shift back through time. The step down onto the small boat forces the viewer to see the island in the memory state that Yeats wrote his poem the Lake Isle Innisfree. The entry was Highly Commended by the judging panel for its creative response to the brief.
Design Process
During the competition design process the team threw a dice and performed one of the following random actions when faced with a creative block:
1 Pixelate
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Lower the resolution until the pixels are large and clearly visible. Print out and work with the image as you see fit to continue with the project.
2 Zoom
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Increase the magnification of the drawing by 200%. Pan across the drawing to find a view you are happy with. Increase the magnification of the drawing by a further 200%. Pan again and print out the image. Use the image as you see fit to continue with the project
3 Cut-up
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Print the image out and manually cut it into vertical strips. Rearrange the strips and scan the image back into Photoshop. Print out again and work with the image as you see fit to continue with the project.
4 Rotate
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Rotate the drawing by 180 degrees. You may then continue to adjust the rotation until you are happy with the on screen result. Print out and work with the image as you see fit to continue with the project.
5 Colour adjust
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Change the colour of any lines to white and fill the white areas with a bright colour. Print out and work with the image as you see fit to continue with the project.
6 Introduce a new view
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Capture an image of the model from another axis and merge the views. Print out and work with the image as you see fit to continue with the project.
This seemingly random process was crucial to the final form of the competition proposal as it made us consider placing the intervention along a path leading out to the island rather than placing it on the island as stipulated by the brief. This departure from the brief became obvious after we pixelated an early sketch section of the proposal as part of a Leap! action and then used the interpretation dice to investigate it as a plan. The initial image was a section showing a series of concave structures which when pixelated and viewed as a plan suddenly transformed into a curved path that stretched out towards the island. In this instance the process of pixilation was carried out by photographing the screen and then re-photographing the resulting image until the image became suitably pixelated. Between the initial image and the final image the user had made a jump in scale within their head and started imagining the island at the end of the path.
Contributors:
Julia Arska, Paul Cooper, Ben Hackland, Matthew Hynam, Matthew Ryall, Quadri Shogunle, Haolin Wang, Harry Westwood
Past and present UWE students united together under the title of the Creative Leap! Collective to take part in an international competition for the poet W.B Yeats’s 150th birthday. The response to the competition by the students was to design an intervention which altered the perception of the Isle whilst traveling to it from the jetty. Travelling from the jetty causes a shift back through time. The step down onto the small boat forces the viewer to see the island in the memory state that Yeats wrote his poem the Lake Isle Innisfree. The entry was Highly Commended by the judging panel for its creative response to the brief.
Design Process
During the competition design process the team threw a dice and performed one of the following random actions when faced with a creative block:
1 Pixelate
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Lower the resolution until the pixels are large and clearly visible. Print out and work with the image as you see fit to continue with the project.
2 Zoom
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Increase the magnification of the drawing by 200%. Pan across the drawing to find a view you are happy with. Increase the magnification of the drawing by a further 200%. Pan again and print out the image. Use the image as you see fit to continue with the project
3 Cut-up
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Print the image out and manually cut it into vertical strips. Rearrange the strips and scan the image back into Photoshop. Print out again and work with the image as you see fit to continue with the project.
4 Rotate
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Rotate the drawing by 180 degrees. You may then continue to adjust the rotation until you are happy with the on screen result. Print out and work with the image as you see fit to continue with the project.
5 Colour adjust
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Change the colour of any lines to white and fill the white areas with a bright colour. Print out and work with the image as you see fit to continue with the project.
6 Introduce a new view
Perform a screen grab and paste the image into Photoshop. Capture an image of the model from another axis and merge the views. Print out and work with the image as you see fit to continue with the project.
This seemingly random process was crucial to the final form of the competition proposal as it made us consider placing the intervention along a path leading out to the island rather than placing it on the island as stipulated by the brief. This departure from the brief became obvious after we pixelated an early sketch section of the proposal as part of a Leap! action and then used the interpretation dice to investigate it as a plan. The initial image was a section showing a series of concave structures which when pixelated and viewed as a plan suddenly transformed into a curved path that stretched out towards the island. In this instance the process of pixilation was carried out by photographing the screen and then re-photographing the resulting image until the image became suitably pixelated. Between the initial image and the final image the user had made a jump in scale within their head and started imagining the island at the end of the path.