Week 8 Origination

Today,

We Looked at John Maeda’s “The Laws of Simplicity” Law 7 – Emotion.

Answer the following questions as succinctly as possible in your own words:

1. When Maeda uses the “Feel, and feel for” principle, he is drawing on peoples

connection to a very personal experience: feelings. List 3 ways that would make

use of this principle to visitors of your exhibition.

1: Emotion – Show a Connection

2: Atmosphere

3: Passion

Other People said: Show emotion, communication, make sure they feel comfortably lost not completely lost, ambience- music, lighting, food&drink. Passion.

2. What is animism? Why do you think the “Tamagocchi” craze of the ‘90s became such a craze? How can you apply this to your exhibition?

Reference:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Tamagotchi_0124_ubt.jpeg/220px-Tamagotchi_0124_ubt.jpeg

It was a popular ‘Pet’ (a term I use lightly) because it gave people (mostly children) the ability to look after something for entertainment. It taught you the basic nurturing skills and the constant effort required to care for another living thing/ virtual thing.

Applying to the exhibition:

1: Incorporate some form of interaction.

2: Allow the viewers to take something home with them.

3: Display and discuss.

Other People said: Animism – the belief that a living object has a soul. Selling into a market, and there are things missing in the market which led to those things that were missing to be compiled into one marketable object. Interacting, investing time into this. Put our art works on walls with projectors to gain interest.

3. Name 2 products that you have purchased that gave you that feeling of “Aichaku”. What feelings did those products evoke? Was it the feeling that sold the product to you?

Aichaku is “Japanese term for the sense of attachment one can feel for an artifact”

1: My First Laptop

2: My Ipod

Feelings –

Laptop: My First Laptop was something that I loved dearly. I was finally able to have a portable computer which is something that I had wanted for a while. The thing that sold me was the black and silver glossy finish. Additionally what was under the hood. When I was given it for Christmas and when It started making the slow dying noises and shutting down repeatedly for no reason, I cried. Even now I have a new laptop 3X the price and I love it but I doubt ill ever love it as much as my first laptop.

Ipod: I saved up for weeks using my $14 and hour wage and when I finally got my ipod, I felt some sort of accomplishment, for disciplining myself to save for something that I genuinely wanted. My Gameboy died and my old Iriver Mp3 player was lagging so I thought if I got an ipod touch then I would be incorporating both of the things I was now missing. Playing with my friends ones also made me want one but the ‘thing’ that sold me was the simplicity and the easy functions. Emotions for the ipod have changed over the years but initially it was comfortability and fulfillment of the things I was missing. 

Other People said: necklace- personal attatchment, phones -  a sense of security and comfort. Ipad – fills the gap between phones and computers. Toys- centemental value

4. How do the references to emotion relate to the simplicity/complexity relationship discussed in Law 5 – Differences

Complexity cannot exist without Simplicity and it is the same with emotions.

Someone in the class mentioned the Ipod and how cold and simple it is, then people personalize this with their own backrounds and such.

Other People Said : Simplicity/ complexity – emotions change. The ipod – personalize something so simple its ‘cold’ . See someone or something that’s happy you label them as happy.

After John Maedas Questions we discussed the music for the exhibition:

Music for exhibition – its going to be hard to decide what genre of music we should use for our exhibition because music needs a variety over the floor. Obviously we would not use death metal music but in my opinion we should use slow rock bands like the fray, snow patrol and coldplay very quiet in the backround and outside where people will be gathering, we should have the radio or a large range of music genres.

Music:

I found this Funny Video about mood Music Starring George Lopez and Justin Bieber..

Although the music in this video is not what we will be using in the exhibition, it does have some good points how Music does set the mood. With the right music a certain atmosphere a be created and I think that the right mood NEEDS to be created in order for people to feel something at the exhibition.  

OVER AND OUT!