http://andrewthong.com Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:53:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This presentation poster was part of the SIAT showcase at the Simon Fraser University’s Open House in spring 2008. I was tasked with designing a poster to present our project and ideas to the open house guests. I decided to go with try out a playful and innocent style for the graphics, a play on [...]]]> http://andrewthong.com/graphic-design/octobox-open-house-presentation-poster/ This is a followup poster for the IAT333 Interaction Design Praxis course where we now look at our intended user group and attempt to create personas of them. Simply put, personas are fictitious characters that represent different user types within a target demographic. This is my largest poster (as of February 2007), three posters that [...]]]> http://andrewthong.com/graphic-design/university-staff-personas-poster/ A cultural probe is an inexpensive technique used to learn more about your intended user group. Most typical setups involve handing some sort of diary to volunteers (of the intended user group) to log their activities and thoughts In the IAT333 Interaction Design Praxis course, we were instructed to conduct cultural probes with our intended [...]]]> http://andrewthong.com/graphic-design/cultural-probe-analysis-report/ Tangible Letters are letters that fold into different forms to deliver additional meaning and value. It is an idea that recognizes the qualities of the slow movement and intends to re-shift purposes to create new meanings. This idea incorporates many aspects of the slow movement like enhancing the experience, taking time to enjoy and resisting [...]]]> http://andrewthong.com/prototyping/tangible-letters/ This was the final project for IAT230: Design for Digital Environments. Working in teams, our task was to refresh an icon of modern design by Enzo Mari. Mari defined his work as an “elaborated or constructed in a way that corresponds entirely to the purpose or function“. The Timor Calendar, a perpetual desk calendar would [...]]]> http://andrewthong.com/projects/the-timor-project/ SECRETSERVICE is a field agent who protects both the user and the drink. He was designed in response to an invitation to participate in the PaperJoes project, which aimed to sell coffee and let its customers choose their own packaging. The project was originally inspired by the designer toys produced by KidRobot, StrangeCo and the [...]]]> http://andrewthong.com/graphic-design/paperjoes-secret-service/ This is the first project for the newly formed IAT338 Interactive Objects and Environments course. Our task was to create an information model regarding the article found in the August issue of Fast Company. An online version of that article can be found here. Our approach was simple. Condense the article into a couple of [...]]]> http://andrewthong.com/projects/drinkup/ This project is an experiment to enable myself as a designer to experiment with different styles and techniques rapidly by creating signature blocks for forum use for different people. With each personality, there would be a need to develop a solution to produce a signature that they can identify with. Each signature would require experimentation [...]]]> http://andrewthong.com/web-design/fa-signature-project/