October 2008
41 posts
WatchA short video storyboarding the use of the GPS Camera.
The camera aims to encourage exploration and promote the travelling experience through photography, rather than travel being focussed on photography.
Ticket camera...
Travel photography
Three really strong themes emerged from the questionnaires: Family, friends and travelling. The pride of a well crafted image although common did not come up as often as expected.
It occurred to me then that the event, or experience that the photo was capturing was much more important than the image itself. In other words, it is the experience that the image reminds us of that is important.
I...
A change of direction...
The more I developed the project the more I was struggling to answer important questions like, who is the camera for? Where are they using it? And why are they using it?
Not being able to answer these questions meant that there were some serious holes in the project that needed addressing, so i decided to skip back a few steps in the design process and conduct a little research.
Design a post-optimal camera
Photographs can act as powerful mnemonic representations of our personal memories, indicative of time, place and experience. However as digital photographic technologies strive for ease, convenience and instantaneity, photographs are mass–produced. The camera democratizes experience, recording differing experiences in identical ways. Often not valued as memories, photographs become mundane...
“Here memory was always associated with some utopian space and time beyond what...”
– Huyssen. 1995, p6.
“The mental interface between the individual and the product is where the...”
– Dunne + Raby. Design Noir.
Exert from Brief
“The human mind does not work that way. It operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain. It has other characteristics, of course; trails that are not frequently followed are prone to fade, items are not fully permanent,...