Protecting animals with CCTV's

While walking down Great Western road I saw a poster which had a big picture of CCTV camera and a text "save the animals". With some gogle searches I found that there is a on going campaign for installing surveillance for slaughter houses so that animals would get better treatment and people who don't follow the rules could be easier caught. I think this is one of the only ideas which plan to get more surveillance which  I would totally support. I assume that for the animals it doesn't matter if they get filmed and I know how cruel people can be with them. I signed the petition and I hope to see some results in the near future!

A CCTV with a light!

I found a very interesting CCTV design by a designer called BEN ROUSSEAU. As I have previously mentioned lighting up streets rises security as much as installing CCTV's this design provides both of them! I could see this as a very useful device for future.

Solar-Powered 3D Printer!

I found an article about 3D printer which uses solar energy and prints objects out of sand! Quiet unreal....

http://themindunleashed.org/2014/04/solar-powered-3d-printer-turns-desert-sand-glass-bowls-sculptures.html

Aesthetics of CCTV's

I found an interesting article about the look of CCTV's. I have previously written a lot about the function and ethics of the surveillance cameras but haven't thought much about the design and aesthetics of them. It is a sort of of object you assume to always look the same even though I as a product designer should not think so. With making the design nicer the feeling about the whole system could be different. I collected few example of different designs of the cameras below.

RNR Speakers

I wanted to learn more about laser-cutting and set up myself a task to redesign the casing for my old speakers. Here is what came out of it:

Useful webpages for designers

This semester I have learned a lot about different internet sites and I thought that it many people would gain a lot of this information!

1. The noun project.

You find logos and symbols for almost any noun which is very useful when you are doing folio work or presentation sheets

http://thenounproject.com/

2. Trello

Very good tool if you have a group project. You can manage and set up tasks and get organized in a very clear way.

https://trello.com/

3. Mural

A very good page where you can collect your online research

https://mural.ly/

Easter!

I learned new surface finish/decoration techniques by painting Easter eggs! If you want to have specific patterns on a painted surface a very precise and clean way is to use hot wax.
Wax doesn't absorb any colors so before you paint the base color you can draw the patterns to the surface.

Finished computer mouse lock

I got a better finish for my computer mouse lock idea by using the art school HP 3D-printer. The outcome looks like this:

Finished business cards

I played around with the laser cutter and got a better finish for the business cards I did design previously.

Sparetime

Holiday projects.

Since the term is over now I have had time to do few of my side projects. I have been wanting to laser cut wood for a long time and I realized that a business card could be something quiet interesting to cut. Here is a first version of it:

Next time I will not cut all the holes completely through since now some of the letters are quiet unclear.

A second project what I have been doing for a long time is a computer mouselock. It has been annoying me a lot in libraries that there are quiet a few spare computers but the mouses are stolen so you can't really use them. This is why I designed a plastic ring which is attached to the power cable and the mouse so people are much more unlikely to steal both of them. The first prototype of the device came out like this:

Reid Building opening

Project Studio is a student lead creative movement based within the Glasgow School of Art. 

We managed to get our kinetic sculpture in the Reid building opening which was a nice 

experience.

Internet advertisement

As usual as I logged in to my facebook profile the adverts on the side bar were promoting things what I have recently looked up in Google. Since I had been recently looking for watches the sidebar was full of watch adverts. First time in a long time I actually checked out what was advertised and I got surprised. The companies were very interesting! First of all there was a watch for blind people. There is an interesting article about it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26920782

A second very interesting watch was designed by a Swiss company called Slow. They do watches which only have one pointer! The idea of it is that by having one hour hand people will be less hectic on they life which I find quiet interesting. Many times have moments where every second matters and it would be good to be able to take time to do things.