Using aspects from someones interests and applying them to an ideal gift for them. I Can link this to a real working example, using client details to produce a product or piece for their needs.

 

 

Tristian was my partner for todays session, the three facts that he gave me were;

• He is half Filipino.
• He likes skateboarding and used to do it.
• He recently got into basketball and enjoys it.

I decided to go with a skateboard as the main idea. The Philippines flag is also incorporated on the board. My random words were Eyes, Bee and Army. I decided to place eyes behind underneath the wheels as both the wheels and your eyes guide you. For the other two words I drew the patterns that most associate with the words.

My partner was interested by these things: flower doodling, cloud photography and stationary.

My initial ideas were centred around stationary sets, with a continuous theme, including  various different flower doodles, and clouds.

I then narrowed down my ideas to a journal, assisted by the random word I received which was “pocket”. This encouraged me to add multi- functional pockets into the journal.

Overall my design idea appealed to all areas of my partner’s interests, and the end result is a functional yet pleasing journal.

For my ideal gift project, my partner gave three interesting facts about herself:

1. She eats a lot of medicine
2. She likes listening to music
3. She likes writing in Chinese

Unfortunately, I could not include the third point, however,  I have used the first two facts to create a vending machine where you select a pill you want to take, then use the handle to turn the conveyor belt inside to the right pill. Whilst you are turning the handle, her favourite song will be playing through the speaker at the top. The pattern and colours of the machine have been inspired by the album cover of her favourite song, ‘Cherry Bomb’ by NCT 127.

These Tap Dance shoes are completely silent allowing the wearer to practice without disturbing anybody else. Connect to headphones to hear the sound detected by the rubber taps.

These were invented to suit someone who:

• Enjoys tap dancing
• Has a big noisy family

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During this task we were asked to discuss with a partner three interesting, unusual and extraordinary facts about ourselves. My partner Liam’s three facts were, that he loves football and that it is one of his biggest passions, secondly he was born and grew up in Malaysia and finally he has a keen interest in surfing. When thinking upon what I could design for his ideal gift there was one idea that immediately stood out, a surfboard. Developing this further to incorporate his passion for both football and surfing, I researched football in Malaysia and the design of the national teams kit. Taking this into my design I used the badges tiger for one side of the board and the stripes of the kit along with the FA Malaysia part of the badge on the other side. This design is ideal for the receiver as it explores his heritage and his passions and therefore would be a meaningful and unique gift.

The three words that I was given where Hockey, travel and chicken nuggets. During my initial designs I designed a portal that was activated when a hockey ball was hit in. I then went on to develop this idea further by including her favourite food into the design, I incorporated this by creating the shape of the portal as the food. I was able to have all three elements mixed into this design as the portal is activated when the hockey balls are hit into the bottom and the portal allows her to travel within seconds to any place she wants.

My partner was Nathalie, she said she liked to travel mostly around Europe, she liked music (rap, alt, and indie) and she liked to dance, specifically ballet. so at first, my gift idea was a gift basket filled with a travel pillow, headphones, and 2 tickets to the ballet. But I thought that was a bit vanilla. so instead I made a magic map of magnolia a county that lives inside a scroll and when you step on it you enter the world. In the world, you can manifest anything you want in that moment eg… the ballet.

My partners main facts about herself were: food, fashion and music so i thought the best present that would include all three thing could be a fashion week pass to an event. Her favorite designer brand is Dior so i thought an invitation to Dior fashion week would be fitting as all three thing (music, food, fashion) are present at those events.