Disposition is a habit, a preparation, a state of readiness, a tendency to act in a specified way. Dispositional belief, a belief held in the mind but not currently being considered. Evoking different emotions through ambience sounds not thought of by the mind. 

In the busy world we live in, life doesn’t slow down. Tranquility and calmness are feelings we aim to have amidst our busy lives, but are often forgotten.

Wellington is surrounded by the ocean, where the rolling and splashing of water can be a comforting sound, but often is overthought. Urbanisation changes society, with more work and busier schedules, life can be overwhelming. Nature can make us feel differently and change our focus and perception, if only we were to take a moment.

Sometimes all we need is to stop and listen to whats around us, and envelope ourselves in what we can hear in order to obtain the calm and tranquil feelings we so often desire.

Disposition aims to bring feelings of tranquility and calmness, even if that is not what is being considered in the mind of the listener. The repetition of our busy lives can distort what we feel and think, but Disposition aims to provide a channel to access these natural and desired feelings with the unification of nature and city.







"For this project, you will explore the multiple new inputs available to a new generation of smart phones and tablet computers by building interactive experiments that re-imagine children’s picture books and updates them for this new medium."

"Conduct research into the existing interaction paradigms, and determine which tools are available to you. Try to imagine alternative methods of navigating content, generating user feedback loops, and eliciting delight in small interactions."

For project 2, I will be creating an e-book of Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch and published by Gecko Press. The story revolves around the characters of Duck and Death, where Duck meets the character Death, who helps her to prepare for the process of death itself. The two become friends and the story is quite intimate between the two characters.

Below are the slides from my interim presentation and the beginning stages of what I plan to create for this e-book. I don't want to include to many interactions, as I want to focus on the narrative drive of the story. I become emotionally investigate in the narrative, and I want the user to also become invested in the emotional narrative, with a focus on several intimate scenes between the two characters.












MDDN352: Mobile Media Project 1 - Boutique

 The goal of this project was to create a unique website that can be used on desktop, tablet and mobile devices. We had to choose a theme from food, shelter or clothing and tailer the topic to suit our interests. 

 I chose the topic of clothing and decided to create a website that was an informative guide to the second hand boutique stores in Wellington central. I began with four stores as a starting point, with the potential to add more stores later on and build up a good level of information for users interested in the scene. The chosen stores that gave me permission to use their content and include them in this project were: Missy's Room, Emporium, Paper Bag Princess and Honour.

 Boutique can be accessed through the page http://boutique.divshot.io  and can be used on mobile, tablet and desktop devices. Each of the viewing platforms are slightly different, as they are catered to how users use each of the devices. The desktop version is mainly static, but has a good level of detail and all the information and pictures can be viewed easily. The tablet and mobile version integrate touch and device tilting interactions. These use a tilt scroll to view the information as these are long form webpages. The tilt scroll acts to make the scrolling easier, but swiping the page can also be used as well.

 The design of the website has been tailored to incorporate the vintage style that many of the Boutique stores of the Vintage Quarter on Cuba St feature. Background images and fonts use vintage style patterns and typography. The layout of the content also uses a centered style which is quite a common feature of vintage styled designs.

After the interim presentation this morning where I received feedback on my work so far, I have made some decisions about the direction this project is going.

My wish for this site is to create an informative guide to the second hand boutique stores around Wellington, with particular focus on the Cuba Street area. I would like to creative a narrative about the history of fashion in Wellington and also mention some of the fashion events held annually.

 I want to focus on four stores in particular, some of them are well known, others are fairly new. The four I would like to focus on are Missy's Room, Paper Bag Princess, Emporium Vintage Boutique and Honour. I have been emailing these stores and have gained permission from each of them to include them in this website.

 I have also gotten quite a bit of information directly from them, but I am hoping to get more in order to create a content-rich site. I also emailed several other stores to see if I could use them too, just in case some of them declined or didn't respond to my messages.

 My aim is to go into each of these stores and take images of their products and their setups. I want to portray the feeling of each store in their own section of my website with the use of images and rich content.

 My aim for the future of this website is to include more stores as vintage and second hand boutiques are becoming increasingly popular. I am looking forward to seeing the end result come together.

Presentation slides for Project One interim









Artist: Jenny Holzer, American conceptual artist.

 Biography: 
"For more than thirty years, Jenny Holzer has presented her astringent ideas, arguments, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including 7 World Trade Centre, the Reichstag, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, and the Whitney Museum of American Art."

 "Her medium, where formulated as a T-shirt, as a plaque, or as an LED sign, is writing, and the public dimension is integral to the delivery of her work."

 "Starting in the 1970's with the New York City posters, and up to her recent light projections on landscape and architecture, her practice has rivalled ignorance and violence with humour, kindness, and moral courage."

 "Holler received the Leone door at the Venice Biennale in 1990 and the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum in 1996. She holds honorary degrees from Ohio University, Williams College, the Rhode Island School of Design, The New School, and Smith College. She received the Barnard Medal of Distinction in 2011. Holler lives and works in New York."

 http://projects.jennyholzer.com

 Working in partnership with Keely Meechan.

 The 'truisms' that Jenny Holzer uses in her protectoral work are very inspiring. Not only what they say, but what she means and how she has gone about designing these truism projections.
Florence, 1996

Buenos Aires, 2000

Today was a practical exercise where we worked together with people from the Networking faculty to load an HTML file onto a mobile emulator system. Therefore website would show up as what it looks like on a mobile platform.

 This was my first contact with creating websites/apps for mobile before. I was nervous and unsure of what to expect, but it worked out well and I've got a great partner to work with.

 I don't really know how to explain what we did. So I'm not going to.

 But this is the end result of the mobile site we made today. It looks awful, and is basically made from a template, but we got it on a mobile size screen, which is all that really matters.



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I am a designer, currently studying Design Innovation at Victoria University of Wellington. My focus areas are website and mobile media development, interaction design, 3D modelling and animation and audio-visual space. My blog shows my journey through each project as well as my learning experience through university. What do I want to be when I grow up? I have no idea. But I love what I'm learning. Although there have been many bumps along the road in this journey and despite the fact that there are going to be many more, I wouldn't have it any other way.

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