Alpahbet Code

In our last math and art session we looked at how possible it would be to swap letters in words that have similar sounds so we could take out letters that were not necessarily needed. I was thinking that a lot of this can be seen within text language and how it is common for a lot of teenagers to communicate to each other this way nowadays. Taking out the vowels seems to be the most common way of doing this but may make the word not sound the same. Examples would be words like 'but' or 'and' and taking out the vowels making them 'bt' and 'nd'. Another substitute alphabet would be the leet code. I do not think it has any more or less amount of symbols in the letters compared to the letters in the normal English alphabet, but some of the letters do use the same symbols. It seems to be more of a good way to code a message or swear without others knowing like saying '8!7(|-|' which others might think is just a censored word.

I think I judge people by the way they text me sometimes.
http://samanthadehart.blogspot.com/2011/04/do-you-know-how-to-text-txt-talk-if-not.html

 It would seem that the more we develop into technology the more we are changing our language. I think a reason for this is because of our laziness to type more letters, making us send a quick message rather than a literate one. We have even converted into using numbers and other common symbols to make it faster such as '2day' or 'm@'. I think this means we are moving into a world where we are able to recognise words by the way it sounds rather then the way they are spelt. I don't think i even know the proper English spelling or pronunciation and wonder if future generations will either.


Semester Thoughts

Well I have found this paper and the classes to be quite different to some of the other ways of learning. It seemed to focus on a lot of 'why' certain things are the way they are. I would say that from my work on both assessments I have been able to look more into the meaning behind features, whether it be little bumps on a bottle or the type of positioning of a mirror in a restaurant. Although I have to say that it has been hard to focus in the class sessions. This is because it has been hard to relate what is being discussed to what relevance it might have with our current work. I felt that sometimes the work in the classes we were given was there just because we could do it rather then how it could be put into our practices. I think that a lot of it was to give us examples of what we could use for our assessments but as we had to choose what we did for these assessments early on it made it difficult to find motivation to continue with the current tasks.

Bottle Labels

One of our discussions and activities was about how we package things, not just objects like food or boxes but also things like people in rooms or words on paper. To me this linked back to my literature review and how I studied the appropriate amount of people to fit within a restaurant to bring across the right atmosphere and theme for the customers. I think this could be brought across to designing logos for products as well. Depending on what it is the designer and the company are wanting to portray in their product may change how well it sells. It may be to attract the customer to their product or to visually describe how the product tastes. Although for the latter I do not think it is true for some of the most famous labels. When looking at the Coca-Cola label it is dominated with mostly red, yet when I think of red it does not remind me of coke.

Very red. As a drink label I would recognise red as being coke, but red by itself reminds me of other more vivid items.
http://www.picgifs.com/wallpapers/wallpapers/coca-cola/Coca_Cola03.jpg

When looking at these wine bottle labels it would seem that they were made to look unique above the rest of the other bottles and stand out as to exaggerate the finesse of the bottles wine quality. By having a wine label with a creative approach it might change the way the customers look at the taste of the wine. Personally when I am to chose a product, I do not want something that I would be embarrassed to be around. If it could be deemed offensive or it looks vastly out of taste with my traits then I would most likely avoid it altogether. I think some of the more simpler designs can have a better effect because it creates a sense of the products price being cheaper and from a students point of view, attracts me to this product first.

This label would envision me drinking bulls blood, something I don't really want to do. 
http://www.winelabels.org/labels10.htm

When looking at what information would be displayed I would like for it to be kept to a bare minimum unless their is some sort of cleaver and creative feature involved. Something like how the beer 'Speights' has questions involving New Zealand and sports underneath the bottle caps. If the label has adjectives describing the product that is anything other then the flavour then for me it creates this unnerving pressure for the product to live up to its quote/slogan.