Triangle project- Manifesto

INTRODUCTION

7th Nov - 11th Nov

The purpose of this project is to produce a Manifesto, which establishes the rule of new models of cultural production.

One of the central aims of this project is to bring 3 courses together to share ideas and processes to form a creative union through discussion, debate and production.

KEY WORDS- group conflict / compromise / teamwork

THE GROUP

4 fine art students

Minwook An / Claire / James / Sang

4 graphic design students

Ying Zhang / Jingxian Gao  / Samya Rajar / Xiaofei Wang

At the beginning, our group discussed the concept of 'Manifesto' for a long time, because I do not know how to do 'Manifesto' in design area. In my mind, I have to make a very beautiful and format artwork in outcome.

During the process, I found fine art students are full of idea but do not think about the final outcome, But GDC students directly think about the final product. They convinced us not to consider the consequences, make sure the idea first.

So after group discussion and research, we decided to change the restaurant menu and made food, because Chelsea College has a lot of international students.

So we started to do the questionnaire about the satisfaction of canteen's menu to students and staffs in school. Questionnaires showed that students satisfaction with the canteen's food is very low.

So we tried to communicate to the canteen's manager to change the menu. But we failed.

IDEA 2

So we tried to do food, combined with the different culture background in the group, each one gave out own's countries' ingredients to make a big pot of soup.

But before we started to do that 'soup', one member of the group Clair suddenly heard a group was also to do this idea and they had begun to do it. We thought that group stolen our idea during we discussed our group's idea in the restaurant. We felt a little angry about that, then another idea is generated.

Since that group is doing the 'soup' idea, why not to do 'napkin' to tell people must be polite to do anything?

THE CONCEPT

The Slogan came out, 'Please use the napkin to wipe your mouth from left to right'.

Here, 'Napkin' itself in the Western table manners has the concept of 'politeness',  the meaning of 'from left to right' is to remind people to do anything to maintain this ritual.

We picked a triangle napkin to do the triangle space project. Then chose an elegant font and black colour to print words on the napkin.

During the operation, we have encountered many difficulties.

First, select the silk printing or spray printing?

We were rejected to print silk printing in school. Spray printing was too damp to print.

So we tried to do with oil printing and engraved paper. Each sentence carved spent us one hour, because the word is too small, oil paints are easy to stick the paper, and plugged the gap of the word.

We need a clear and beautiful fonts to show our manifesto, so each one carved paper can only be used 15-20 times to print. We print a total of over 200.

On the show, we gave everyone ‘Manifesto Napkin’ when they had soup on the show party, meanwhile  we communicated them our idea.

THE OUTPUT

Our manifesto is to use the form ‘napkin’ to communicate to others ‘to be polite’ to do everything.

The Slogan

‘Please use the napkin to wipe your mouth from left to right.’

THE KEYWORDS

Teamwork / share ideas / union  / debate / manifesto

WHAT I HAVE LEARNT

After finished this small project, I talked with other group students, and found that students from curation major want to grasp the overall situation, and always disagree with each other’s opinion. Then GDC students in that group tried to be coordinators between them.Our group is so harmony compared with other quarreled  group.

From this one week project, I realized that the way of thinking of different people from different background and major are so various.

This project expend my way of thinking, meanwhile debate with different country people is so hard, especially I used Chinese way to think about things and then translated to English to argue something.

It is also awesome for teamwork to share knowledge with different major students.