The more it makes sense to not do a conventional light fitting, but an illuminated lifestyle accessory for outdoor use.
That means a larger item, only needing to make one of them vs a range of products, and the ability to do more in use analysis to get a concept. Things like the tasklighting or the accessway lighting would be a better bet then accent lighting for something that can stand on its own as a display piece rather then relying on other surfaces to shine onto or similar.
That would also open up more avenues for me to play with the light, rather then have the light played with by exterior forces that I would have no control over.
Something I have to worry about that others doing 5th semester do not is the display of the item I am doing in the final end of year show. For that reason display of it there is much more important then display of it in the shac09 context.
On another note, I really have to fix my headphones so I can drown out some of these obnoxious noises in the studio space...
http://richms.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/slide-1.swf (click that because vox wont let me resize the column wide enough to fit it in)
Just got the email from them...
They want twenty bucks this year.
Screw that! Its a recession, they should be pulling all the stops to get people into their shops, not charging! And its only 9 stores this time, I cant recall the list from last time but eon is the first that comes to mind for obvious reasons.
I just cant believe that they would charge for what really is a retail tiki-tour.
edit:
Heres the link if you are brave enough and have $20 burning a hole in your pocket.
www.urbismagazine.com/designday/registration/For those that are still in my neighborhood from last year, you are probably wondering a few things.
Yes I fucked up the resubmission thru a stupid scheduling error.
Yes I am doing the major project this semester
Yes I am still waiting on the winner health system of NZ, but things seem to be getting better on their own so perhaps that's the new treatment strategy thats a relic from the previous 9 years of neglect on the health system among other things.
I will put up some details of this project shortly so that those from last year who are still following will be able get the general idea about what is going on and where things are going with my project and the context that it has to fit into.
For those that I am just adding to the neighborhood this year for this project I am sure you will have some questions about what happened last year etc and I am more then happy to answer them.
Ah well. was good while it lasted but all good things must end.
Even if I do replace it I have to decide if its worth paying as much as I pay for my home connection almost again for just one gig on the phone since I wont have Thom repaying the bills.
Speaking of which, MY GOD VODAFONE SUCK.
I don't think I will be getting another phone till Telecom have their UMTS network operational, so who knows where I will get a phone from since there aren't many places doing umts850 and 2100. Will see what happens to the price of handsets when telecom get a less crap selection tho.
These are the files from survey money with just the question of the email addresses removed from it.
survey-1-about-your-dining-at-home-no-emails
survey-2-about-your-lighting-at-home-no-emails
survey-3-lighting-requirements-and-pricing-no-emails
I will follow up with the analysis of it. Still trying to get a random way of choosing the winners. I will do a hat-draw at tech on the first day back with someone else doing the draw.
Closed it for new responses
Unfortunately I will have to upgrade the account to export the responses so I will do that on Friday and get the winner and the stats here over the weekend.
It seems that 6 people only answered the first part so will not be eligible for the drive and that may distort the results somewhat.
Here is the survey I am collecting data on for the Final project at unitec.
Since this is the only other post visible to everybody, I will outline the project.
I am designing a light fitting designed for the eating area of a household. It is topical because of the previous possibility of power shortages over winter which promoted the use of energy saving lighting, and the other issue of people having health and safety concerns over the proposed alternative in the form of a compact fluorescent lamp.
Mercury and poor light output aside, there was the problem that a large portion of light fittings are not suitable for the CFL replacements, either they are enclosed so overheat the CFLs, or they have a cover that will not fit with a CFL present due to the greater size, or the lamp requires a reflector or other type of lamp that is not available in a CFL of sufficiant brightness. After looking at the LED replacements that currently exist I saw nothing suitable.
I saw a oppotunity gap in that area as a result
Since the last attempt didnt get many responses at all, I have decided to sweeten the offer with a prize. Plus I have thought more about the questions this time so should get some usable data from this.
So,
1st prize is an 8GB USB flashdrive
2nd prize is a 4GB USB flashdrive
3rd price (only if I decide there is enough responses) will be a 2 gig flashdrive
Due to limitations on the free surveymonkey site I can only put 10 questions per survey.
This means there are 3 separate surveys.
All must be completed with the same email address as the final question in order to be in to win,
- 1 entry per person.
- People in 3rd year product design at Unitec won't win it.
- Lecturers wont win it.
- I will sort the responses and choose one at random on the 1st of October.
- Entry is open to anyone else, even if you're not in NZ, so long as I can dropship the prize to you from deal extreme.
Please answer the surveys in order they are here. Each link will open in a new window or tab, when you complete it, you will go to the surveymonkey homepage, just close that window or tab to come back here and click onto the next one.
I will email the winner of the flashdrive at the end and put a post up when the survey is over.
If I dont get an answer back in 48 hours I will pick another winner, so if your with xtra or yahoo you may want to check your spam folders since thats where most of my emails end up. No responsibility for your spam filtering if you miss out, you chose the ISP ;)
Stupid answers will invalidate your entry, so don't just go clicking on anything. And I know its one entry per email address, but that really means one per person.
If you have any feedback or anything on the survey, please email me at survey@richms.com or put a comment on here.
I will only use the email addresses to contact the winner, and to email everyone to let them know there is a winner, I will not be using them for anything other then that. When I email to let everyone know about the winner I will hopefully have a mailing list related to the blog that I can give people the opportunity to subscribe to, and if you want to see more details of the project then add me as a friend on here and I will reciprocate the request so you can see more of the posts on here relating to the design process.
Thanks :)
Since I dont want to share my tech blogging with the world, All the posts are friend and/or family for privacy.
So if you feel you should be seeing them then please drop me a note to add you as one or the other so you can see all that I have laid bare on the brief.
