Brainstorming

Very Initial Brainstorming..

This is how we start with any project.Imagine to sart a project with
as brief a brief as "anything new media".
hmm.. I spent the whole of my week thinking about what all things I
have ever thought of..
all my concepts which I have had throughout my life as a student here,
and try to pick up anything which interests me, which I would love to
carry forward as a classroom project.

So here is a list of some of my ideas:

An electronic newspaper, which you purchase once and keep with you forever, it gets wireless feeds of news from the news service you want to subscribe to , and hence you dont have to pay for a newspaper everyday.Make it interactive and you can choose what you want.A single page can serve as a complete paper.BUT.. ahem.. you cant wrap your chappals in it!

A New Media dustbin, which becomes aware of the people around it and tells them to throw the waste in it, hence stopping them to litter.

Or have plates and bottles ( use and throw kinds ) which remind the user to throw them into the dust bin.

Next was immersive theatres, whatever the scene on the screen is, the side walls , and the ceiling of the theater also turn to that form and colour, so that it gives the user a totally immersive feeling,may be even the temperature can be generated according to the colours on the screen..

An experiential design for the people who are over-age for swings in parks, creating a feeling of sitting in a merry go round, or see-saw, or swing etc.

Still thinking on what to do..

I think I need to think more...

Why this blog..

Well, To introduce myself, I am a student of NID, India and am pursuing a PG in New Media Design.Today I am starting with the documentation of my major project.

As the discipline name goes, which is New Media, the course brief was to make something which is New..
New Media is perceived as a medium which is anticipated to come next.We as New Media Designers are supposed to have a foresight of what is going to come next in any field.

Usually at any design school of the world , the design disciplines are usually categorised as ID (industrial design) and VC ( visual communication ), but NEW MEDIA is an interesting mix of both the tangibles and the intangibles.. it also has a major component of technology (which is more of computers and information technology now-a-days).

So, that gives a brief idea of what the discipline is about and what is expected from the students.

As the design project of the third semester we have to come up with a concept and prototype it.. ( also implement it ) of possible.

as per the time-table, the project which is apparently of a total course duration of 9 weeks started in the 7th week of the semester , which is the first week of august

AND TODAY IS THE DAY WHEN I AM STARTING TO DOCUMENT ALL WHAT I HAVE DONE TILL NOW AND I THINK THAT THIS BLOG CAN HELP ME DOCUMENT IT PROPERLY AND WITHOUT CLUTTER.