$100 by Friday, March 13th

NOTICE: Your $100 deposit MUST be paid by Friday, March 13th if you want to display your work in this year's Grad Show. No one is going to chase you down, it's your responsibility. If you don't pay, you won't be able to show your work in the show. Late deposits won't be accepted.

Please contact the Finance Committee (Managers: Heidi, Chun-Lam or Mark) with any questions.
~Laura

ENTIRE DESIGN COMMITTEE MEETING FEB.10

Head Meeting open to all Design Committee Members on Tuesday, February 10 @ 11:30 in Room 627.

Things that need to get hashed out:

• the overall umbrella concept,
  
• the look/feel of this concept and
  
• how that will be articulated through the various sub-committees.

Thanks, see you all there. Please, heads, encourage your committee members to come and participate.

Laura

not at all! I was just posting it in case anyone was considering it either for the design team or for their own displays. Nothing can ever be 100% accessible (in regards to physical disabilities) but it never hurts to consider it right?

Accessability

Hi Sean,

For some reason it won't let me comment on your post...

So, are you suggesting that we have all of our descriptions imprinted in brail as well?

Any idea on where we can have that done or the cost on that?

You guys can just email me the contacts/sponsors/professionals information.
Remember, the email should include name of contact/company/organization plus a personal contact in that company/organization.
My email is kaverijoseph@gmail.com.

Some more stuff ....
In case anyone was interested or needed, there is a good link to the braille alphabet.
I will add a link
http://dbs.myflorida.com/braille/images/jpg005.jpg

sean

Hey everyone,

I have compiled the Accessibility Guidelines necessary for our show.
Laura is in possession of a hard copy, but if you would like one for yourself
I'd ask that you email me at my school account (sw05fp@student.ocad.ca)
and request one (I cannot manage to add it to the blog)

Sean

GUEST LIST

Everyone,
I really really REALLY need to know who it is that you want to invite, in order to make a master list.
I also need to make a sponsor list, so everyone tell me the sponsors that you might be needing.
I will need the name of the company/organization as well as a personal contact from that company.

Please feel free to contact people( as in sponsors and industry professionals) yourselves, but let me know who they are. Just so that I can put it on the master list.

We will be printing out invitations for the professionals, so let me know if you want invitations, how many you want, and how specific you want them to be.

I would like to know all of this by the end of reading week, so when school begins I can start printing and mailing. So don't forget, and try sending it to me sooner rather than later. Remember, these could be your future employees, so get on it!

-Kaveri

Update, Update, Read All About It! (think Newsboy) WK 5

Hey All,

1. Pay UP
Please remember to give your committee team lead $100 by Thursday, Feb 5th. If you have dire circumstances (aka $2 in your account), please speak to Heidi for financial planning.

2. Fundraising Sign-Ups
Sign up for the Feb 23-25 Fundraisers.
Monday, Feb 23 - Arcade Day1
Tuesday, Feb 24 - Arcade Day2
Wednesday, Feb 25 - Bake Sale
Every event (Arcade/Bake Sale) you participate in deducts $20 from your contribution and you'll be refunded the difference at the end of the semester.

3. Head Meeting
The February Head Meetings are as scheduled:
Thursday, Feb 5 - Room 284 (across hall from Auditorium's balcony seating)
Thursday, Feb 12 - Room 284
Thursday, Feb 26 - Room 627

4. Our First Sponsor...
We've been very lucky and the SU has granted us $1800 towards the production of our ID09 Grad Book. Yay!

5. Impressive
So, we're doing awesome and are WAY ahead of the other departments. The first Faculty of Design Committee Meeting was yesterday and I think we can really work with the committee to make our show work, set some precedents and set a pace that will allow things to work in our favor if we're prepared. So keep at it! Great work everyone!

Laura

Whats in a name

Hey Everyone,

If you missed the name vote today and haven't heard yet, what was voted on and chosen as the name was:

"I Need To See Some ID"

Now that we have a name it really feels like we're off and running, so good luck to everyone and lets really turn this out and make it a great show.

Dylan

Hey all,

Is there a proper way to invite guests from the Ministry of Research and Innovation?
Check out this link about the Digital Futures Initiative. I think they could be a stakeholder in our exhibit.. They would be interested in our work.

Maybe they could get an online/PDF or a book of our show, not sure what ocad administration that takes, but it would be cool to network with them

http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/OCAD033108.asp

Evan
(finance)

Class minutes from last week

here are some of the ideas from the last class we had.
sorry about the delay.

sean
____________________________________________________________________

Jake
Holocaust museums, amazing stories can be told.

Nancy
Everything into context- might see where our things live
Sketch bubbles, makes you want to read it.
Danger of being too serious
Come up to my room

Joel
Think outside of the box, push the boundaries a little bit
Almost like a maze idea… once you get in, you have to visit all the rooms

Laura

Wayfinding as visual clues, passport, more out of it, an interactive game of wayfinding
Fork in the road, Iris’ visual clues towards separation
Using the windows could help as well
Tags from Matt’s submission
Collection of individuals, not a separate environment for each person

Sean

Story of design off the elevator

Carrie

Likes the idea of using dead space as interactive space (lockers)

Marcel
Had a lounge area with stuff donated or on loan from sponsors
Using a method of guiding people
We always know we’re on the fifth floor of OCAD, can we not change this at all?

Vince C.
Using the shop
Make sure our name is unique

Matt

Drawings on the wall as visual clues for guiding? Info? Mapping?

Carl

Telling the story
Who are we
Processes
Interactive wayfinding
His question is; define what it is we want to achieve through the use of these spaces
Here there is a principal that I would like to have come through my idea
There are no wild ideas (critique)
What are the metaphors or experiences that we want to emulate?
Is this an exhibit for a child? Or a museum?
How do we make this a story about ‘us’ rather than about ‘me’.
Think about how we want to make the bait
Bring people into the blockbuster to blockbuster kind of thing, how do we or do we even try to humanize the projects

Paul
Making sure that everything is dynamic and enticing
The interaction between public and private
Lack of established colour guide
Lighting is going to be key
Curiosity about the person/project.
We should think of Scale as well

General
The story of the process is important (from rough to polished?)
Think about vertical space
We need to figure out how much space we really need? Layout is primary!
Come see me, then check out my buddies project…
Zoo metaphor, flow and show

Sabs
Maybe make is so that it’s a “please touch” kind of thing

Takes/Tags/Theme’s

Through the looking glass
Commonwealth
Un-bound-ID
Something old something new
Lifestyle
We all want…
Designers at work
Brainwaves in design
Re: ID (THE RE:)
You are on the right track
Transition
Small space/big idea(s)
Design a story
Design for life
Move Over
Design Equals (=)
Design for Change
There is no ‘I’ in Design
Design is four-letter word
Just Done
Its not about me, its about us

What do we want the tags to achieve/say/teach

MANAGER MEETING JAN 29 @ 3:00 Rm 670

Remember, we need 1 Team Lead from each committee there. Thanks,

Laura

GRAD SHOW NAMES

As a follow up to the last post I made.....

The names that will be voted on at 11:30am on Tuesday the 3rd of February are as follows:

"unbound-ID"

"Re-ID 09"

"Design is not a five letter word"

"There is no ' i ' in Design"

If you do not like any of these then when we vote for the name you can suggest alternatives if you are there at that meeting, not before or after, and they will be included within the vote. Each person only gets one vote and it will be an in person vote so at the end of that meeting on Tuesday we will have a name.

See you there.

-Dylan

Design Committee Reminder

Hey guys,

Just a reminder to anyone in the design committee, we have a general meeting Tuesday Feb 3rd at 11:30 am for all people in the committee where we will be discussing tasks and various other business. After that we will be breaking off into our various subgroups to discuss the timeline and assign work. If you haven't already, please check out and sign up for the subgroup you want to be apart of if you're in the design committee, in thesis studio on the 5th floor, the descriptions for what each subgroup will be responsible for are in the email that was sent out today.

Its important to note that the design group will be associated with alot of the front end work so most of what we produce will be due by the end of february / start of march so its important that you attend all group meetings otherwise you will be largely out of the loop, which isn't good as we are getting marked on this.

For everyone in thesis, we will be voting on a name for the show around 11:30ish on tuesday in the 5th floor space if you want to stop by, this is by no means necessary, just if you want to.

The names we'll be voting on for our exhibit are as follows:

"unbound-ID"

"Design is not a five letter word"

"Re-ID 09"

"There is no ' i ' in Design"

Thats it, have a good one.

-Dylan

Welcome... Start Posting!

Hey Everyone,

Welcome to Blogger (rather than Wordpress). I hope this will help keep everyone up to speed and help facilitate everything! Post updates on what your committees are doing and any help you might need!

Laura