Make It Work: Archive

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Aug 9th

So, progress.

I have just uploaded some screen shots of some of our output material. As mentioned earlier in the blog postings we wanted to really echo Artstation’s creative mentality that art is life. This became the backbone for the ‘mantra’ eat art sleep. It also became the idea behind out aesthetic for the design - hand made. Taking everything back to hand done - as this is where creation...

Aug 5th

Hi, Hello.

Since the workshop last Wednesday we haven’t posted anything because we have been really busy working on the changes we realised needed to happen. The main thing that has changed is we are putting the video on hold/removing it from our brief. This is not because we wouldn’t have been able to complete it in time but we discussed it with Keren and Helen from The Common Room and felt...

Aug 4th

OMG huge strategy/epiphany/realisation change!! details to come.

Jul 28th

Jul 27th

INHOUSE

Yesterday I had made a meeting with Arch from Inhouse to talk about the logo design that they had done for Artstation a few years back. This was one of the considerations that we had initially outlined in our first video posting. I guess I felt that it was important to understand the direction they had chosen to take when they rebranded Artstation and if they had envisioned how other sub brands...

Jul 27th

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Had to keep it simple (1minute?? SERIOUSLY TIM!)

Jul 22nd

“He who seeks beauty will find it.”

– Bill Cunningham - New York

Jul 22nd

Veeedeo Tre

Ok.. SO we had made a video on Wednesday to get ahead as we all had work commitments . Featured Rolen as our star as he has just got back from South Africa and so now our whole team is here. About an hour after posting it and thinking sweet we’re done we got the email from Tim saying that there were 6 specific things to put in the vid!.. So we wanted to detail them here and gonna put a very...

Jul 22nd

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ROLEN’S BACKKKKKKKK. Our third and final team member finaly arrives, we are now ready to rumble!!!!! We thought it only fair to have him star as the main character for our final PROGRESS video so you can all get to know him. Lots to do but we will MAKE IT WORK. ENJOY, plum

Jul 21st

This week we have been polishing up some formal parts to our project. We have drafted a young arts committee position description, contract and schools contact info. Will be showing these tomorrow to Artstation for approval. Also working hard on the promotional poster that will accompany the email as a pdf to be printed out and the blog banner is nearly completed. We are hoping to have these...

Jul 19th

Jul 14th

““Ars longa, vita brevis” Art is long, life is short”

– Hippocrates

Jul 13th

Our Proposal

Proposal This is our understanding of the situation. What follows is our proposed solution and supporting explanations to achieve the ultimate goals discussed. Executive Summary Artstation is a community Arts Center based on Ponsonby Road in Auckland. They are part of the Auckland City Council and have been providing a broad range of art classes, exhibition space and studio hire for...

Jul 8th

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Wee little video to outline our proposal. Formal proposal will be up soon…

Jul 8th

Jul 7th

Jun 25th

Our Brief!

Ok so this may be a bit text heavy but thought that it would be worthwhile getting our refined brief up here too. What follows are the specifications we have created in order to make an achievable brief for the next 6 weeks with a broad picture of future plans in mind as well. A brief background about our organisation: Artstation is a community arts centre which provides a wide range of visual...

Jun 25th

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Our little video to introduce our brief for the challenge with Artstation. We had a really great week with meetings with Vicky and skype chats with Louise and we really managed to refine our brief into a plausible and exciting project.. More details on this soon. Enjoy our video ! (Song “Young Folk” Instrumental - Peter, Bjorn and John)

Jun 24th

Jun 22nd

Are we in charge of our decisions? →

Think Bank. Was watching a few TED talks this morning and this video was really interesting. Looks at the psychology of decision making. At the moment we are still formulating our brief so specific research hasn’t really begun but thought that this was worth documenting as a reminder of the psychology behind the power of persuasion and decision making.. Ponder ponder..!!

Jun 22nd

Jun 16th

Hello and welcome.

And so it begins..! Had a really great night the other evening at the team reveal. Rolen is away in South Africa so it was just Plum and myself who were able to make it. As team 1 we have been put with Artstation on Ponsonby Road http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/whatson/arts/artstation/default.asp, Louise Wagner as our contact person from there and Vicky Teinaki who works directly across the road....

Jun 16th