Book Structure

I decided to create a accordion fold book. The reason why I decided to use this setup was for two reasons. One the reason why was so that I could stretch out all the images in one line and emphasize the idea of the images being in a series. The second reason is because I'm focusing on the track area of Aspire so I wanted to also in a way show this concept.



For next class I need to still work on the images that I have collected for the sequence and then I have to come up with some sort of idea of how to separate each of the problems. I either need to decide to have a fluid sequence or develop some sort of idea for chapters. I also plan to work on my title page and to connect the cover to the inside spreads. I plan to do this through the use of lines since that is my over all concept for the book.

Group Discussion

Today in our group we all discussed each  other's problems and how to solve some on them. My problem is how people fail to stand in lines in food courts' fast food restaurants. Ghada suggested one solution which is to include the same stand posts they have in airports and hotels that guide people where to stand in line. That way, customers don't really have the choice to create more unecessary lines and ques. I also suggested that she make signs for petrol stations that direct people where the entrance and exits are for these areas, because usually they are very confusing.

I also suggested that Abdullah should have signs to tell apart from the different unique spices found in souq wagif.(Abdulla, Arwa alsulaiti, Ghada Al Khater, Assil)

Class discussion

After discussing my problems with my group members, I can tell that I understand much more clearly. We all got the chance to critique each other’s work and I learned from their mistakes, which I will try to avoid in my coming steps. I wasn’t sure about my problems and I found it really hard to combine all the problems and make a scenario. I used my driver as a cast, but I think after discussing with the group I need more people and more acting.
They told me that I’ve got good problems, but Hussain said that I need to draw a storyboard so that everything becomes clear. Wafa and Aisha told me that I somehow connect everything and make it as a complete story.
- Problems of not having signs for the different sections (vegetables, fruits and Indian vegetables)
- Prices are written whether in English only or Arabic only or written wrongly.
- Sellers not wearing uniform.
- The names of the shapes are all in Arabic only!
So, what I am going to do now is draw a storyboard of two women (Arabic and English) not knowing how to act, where to ask or where to go. (Aisha Al Naama, Al Hussein Wanas, Nawar Al-Mutlaq, Wafa alsaffar)

Process a

At first I started by going to the place and taking pictures of the problems I saw. I did not have a clear understanding of what problems exactly we were seeking for. From the class I knew that we were to find problems of place+objects, place+audeince, ..etc but I did not get what they mean. I found a lot of problems; some were problems that designers cannot solve. For instance, there is place for storing the food, so it is everywhere, which also leads to another problems that the food expires. Another problem was the wet floor, people has to be careful while walking. But, these are considered more for the ministry of municipality, so I got more confused and felt that it is a little bit complicated.

PHASE 2 PROCESS

2. There is no ventilation there. Sometime is hard to breath there with the big amount of spices in very tiny space.

3. It’s hard to communicated with salesmen. I tried to explain to one of them one kind of herbs that I was looking for but the man didn’t understand me. Because he doesn’t understand any Arabic or English.

4. The tag in the spices shows the prices, but it didn’t tell is it by box or by kilo and it’s hard to tell what kind of spices each one of those because it’s untitled and some of them looks similar and it hard to tell what is it.

PHASE 2 PROCESS

I went to the souq 5 times each time I see things in different angels that’s make me to thing into problems in a different way. Each time I went there I find different problems which I wasn’t aware of.

1. I found there is steps which make it hard for a handycup people to pass it even with normal people. You have to watch out your steps. In side the shop, The place is so narrow it’s hard to walk specially if you have shopping bags. You may easily damaged the spices there by mistake.

Group discussin

In Our discussion group we talked about each one problems. For example I mentioned to Gada one of the problem that I faced a lot in petrol station. Sometime the Gas feeding machine is not working and we have to wait for along time tell someone came and say to go to another line. While that make the station lacking of over load cars. That’s lead the people to go against the line and make a mess. Arwa mentioned to me the problem of untitled spices label. Then we went into each individual problems. (Abdulla, Arwa alsulaiti, Assil Diab, Ghada Al Khater,)

Group Critque

At the group critique we took turns presenting each others signs: Sarah then Katie then I.
I told Sarah that she problems that can be fixed with a sign rather easily.
I told Katie that she had to many picture representing lack of trash cans .
For me , Sarah suggested I should illustrate my problem clearer and Katie thought I should find another problem to work but that presentation was clear. (Katie Coston, Mahmoud Abbas, Sara Al-Qatami)

Group Critique

Yesterday we were split into groups to discuss our projects to get feedback on the development of our stories and whether or not the photographs we took clearly showed our selected problems. Each of us took turns and laid out our photographs and described the different situations to the other team members. When I showed my images, my group gave me a lot of good feedback. Sara and Mahmoud both agreed that I had too many pictures for what was really needed. They gave me suggestions on how I could shorten my number of frames and they also thought that by doing this my portrayal of the problems would be clearer. Sarah also suggested that because I have two problems that I'm working with, maybe if I combined the two into one situation, this would not only shorten my number of frames but would make the story have a better flow. (Katie Coston, Mahmoud Abbas, Sara Al-Qatami)

Class Discussion

I discussed where I am with this project with Khadija and Fatma.

I told them about the scenarios that I came up with. First, is the problem of people talking and chatting in the library when other are studying. This can be very distracting and the people who want to study there end up leaving and going someplace else. The other scenario is that the students, especially the new ones, find it difficult to find books in the library. The labeling system of the books can be really confusing, and it doesn't just have one label, but many letters and numbers.

Here are a couple of pictures I took of the first scenario:


Here are a couple of pictures I took of the second scenario:


My group members told me that my scenarios are good, but when I take pictures, I must exaggerate so that my message is very clear. For scenario 1, show that the person studying is really annoyed and walks out angrily in the end. For the second scenario, I could have a very confused person, scratching their head holding a piece of paper.

They also suggested a third scenario, which is similar to the first one, only with mobile phones. There is a small sign in the library that says that the use of mobile phones in the library is prohibited, yet people still do it and also distracts those who are studying or reading. I can have a couple of people reading while being distracted by a person talking on a phone, and I'll take pictures of the small sign as well. (Fatima Buksahisha, Jo Bermejo, Khadija Safri,)