FORMER EXHIBITION

This exhibiton was put on by three 3rd year graphic design students who were focusing architecture in Leeds. It was really great for me to see some examples of fantastic third year work: 

LIFES A PITCH FEEDBACK

LIFES A PITCH /WFINGING PRESENTATION

As Kitty and I did the research phase, developed the concept and generated ideas for this brief Meg decided she would do the presentation slides. We decided as a group to keep them simple with no writing on them so that we could all talk and the audience could focus on us when we were talking and look a the images we collected on the board. 

The end layouts of the presentation slides were a bit disorganised and confusing to the eye, however Meg had spent a lot of time on it and it did have a common theme running throughout and due to the fact there was minimal time to change the layouts so we left it as it was so it was consistent throughout. 

LIFES A PITCH GROUP TALK

We then had a discussion about where we thought we should go next and we thought our research we had at the moment was good however we only really had secondary research at the moment and thought the best thing for us to do was to go around the university and gather some primary research from students ranging from different levels and different degrees so that we could find out there opinion. We decided to only ask them one question which was :

What would you change about the university and why? 

From this we gathered some responses a lot of which were not very useful as we asked a lot of students in the morning (not very awake!) 

However we received some good asnswers that we decided we would show in our pitch :

1 due to the lack of atmoshphere it makes working in uni very undesirable and makes me not want to
2 if there were more open spcaes then i think the students from other courses would feel more connected 
3 squeezing through one small entrance makes rushed mornings even more stressful
4 the studio and general atmosphere of the college is not very inspiring which is not what you want when you are doing a creative degree
5 the interactive flow of the uni is close to non existent which is stupid. because that creates a lack of community feel throughout

LIFES A PITCH FURTHER RESEARCH

I then looked at what scent helps productivity and the brain and came up with the results above. As a group we decided lemon and lavender were most common but lemon is more a scent that gives the brain a push and is sharper than lavender which is better for the context we need it in. 

WAYFINDING / LIFES A PITCH VISUAL RESEARCH

WAYFINDING / INITIAL IDEAS