WORK

FUELCYCLE

FUELCYCLE is a system that takes food waste from a household waste disposal unit, and recycles it into fuels. It will help to reduce the amount of food waste that ends up in landfills by recycling it into biogas and compost for your household. It filters your waste and sends it directly outside your home and produces fuel for when you are ready to use it. FUELCYCLE will also provide feedback on how much waste you are preventing from landfill, as well as send you updates and alerts when you need to empty your compost, or any other maintenance on your FUELCYCLE.

FLIPBOOK

Based on the statistic that "between 2010 and 2015, the world lost 3.3 million hectares of forest areas", I created this flipbook, to display this in a geometric animated way using processing.

WATERFALLZ

Following the brief "Bring Information to Life", Anneka, Lisa, Tovia and I created a piggy bank style system called Waterfallz for tracking the water usage of kids in NZ within the bathroom. The hope is that this is a fun interactive representation of the data, and will allow them to develop healthier bathroom water usage habits early on in life, to aid water shortage. 
The concept is simple. If you use water in one of the four ways, shower, tap and both full and half toilet flushing, you put a counter in the device. It will accumulate over the week, and will light up to warn you if you are close to reaching what would be the acceptable limit for the week. The size of each counter is representative of the amount of water that task uses, with shower being the largest and tap being the smallest. 
We also hoped that by allocating each individual their own device, they could compete with siblings and other kids. 

TOWARD THE EDGE

In my haiku, I interpreted that the last line “this autumn evening” was alluding towards something, an ending or a halt, maybe even death, after a lifelong journey. This led to the title of my movie “Toward the Edge”. Some inspiration for this poster came from this poster. Some techniques and visual elements I have incorporated into my poster include symmetry, elements of typography: proximity, repetition of typefaces, as well as a complementary colour scheme, with blues and various hues of oranges and reds. I have used straight line, and simple box shapes to emphasise the idea of “edge”, as lines can portray a sense of harshness. Using a series of diagonal parallel lines in the typography in the words “toward the”, can convey a feeling of movement (Getty, n.d) which I used to indicate movement towards the edge.

JOURNEY

I envisioned my haiku as a representation of a journey. I chose to use repeating horizontal bars of varying sizes and colours to depict movement upwards towards the top of the frame. I used the principles of contrast, closure as well as repetition to depict a path or staircase, to represent our journey in life, and how it is always in motion.

ISOLATION

I chose to represent the theme of isolation in this final poster. I took the opportunity to create a story about a time when a spaceship arrives suddenly, with a bunch of little viruses who come and send everyone into a panic, everyone has to stay home and isolate themselves, and the supermarket shelves are empty. But one brave person head out to the supermarket to get the last packet of toilet paper on the shelves. It tells a light-hearted story, referencing our current situation in isolation. When I envisioned my haiku as a poster I pictured a person walking down an empty path, with autumn trees all around and not a single person around, which was what I based the 12th final frame on. The first 11 frames provide the backstory as to why she is alone. I created this poster using acrylics and watercolours