Speaking from experience//Initial ideas

From the session we did with Fred We made lists of 5 things within different categories from when we first started the year. 

From the lists i wrote down the ones i liked the sound of the best/ could be used to give advice and then wrote down some other feelings that i remember feeling like at the beginning of the year. I found a lot of these were similar

I then did a bigger brainstorm incorporating the ideas from above and i just started to think about more and more problems and messages i could use.

I choose the ones i thought i could do something with the most and then wrote some reasons and idea i had from these.

This then brought me to picking the 3 messages and problems i liked the best/ thought would be best to work with

From here i wrote more detailed idea of what i could produce and a couple of sketches.

The final concept that i chose to do.

A couple of ideas for it.

I made the messages and problems into a design board just so it was easier to read and also did a concept board too.

The concept.

The idea that i want to do is based upon the idea of organisation. I want to create a calendar/ to do list which is in the form of a film book/post it not style stack. In which each day can be ripped off. Each day will have a tip either about the course or a designer or something to be with graphic design. I could also incorporate the idea of typography and different fonts used within each day, this could be identified and used as a resource too.

This could be developed into a organisation kit maybe? but i will leave this and see how it goes in the concept crit first. 

I have had a second idea which is taken from the idea of students not knowing there way around when first moving to leeds, this again was backed up by my survey.

The idea for this concept is to produce a big scale map of leeds which has main things within leeds shown on it. Split up into categories e.g. supermarkets, shops, fast food, banks etc.

The main student accommodations would be shown and then the quickest routes to LCA from these would be shown, as again this was another thing brought up in my survey. 

The idea of the map is to show walking routes as this is the best most cost efficient way for students, it also promotes exercise and being healthy another thing brought up in my survey.

Out of the two i prefer the first idea, but i think that might be a popular subject to work on, so depending on the feedback from the concept crit i will go with one of the two above.