This week we started our first project. This is to design a hand-held games console. I think this project is going to test my ability to, one, think outside the box and fin solutions to the problem that haven’t been done before, which is going to be difficult as we are competing with a multi billion dollar industry. Currently I am thinking that it’s going to be very difficult to make a reason to buy a dedicated hand-held console as the mobile phone has nearly dominated this area of the industry. For this reason, I think it may be better to focus on an extension to the mobile phone to make playing games on the phone more enjoyable/easy. That ended up being the focus of my 50 sketches we were tasked on doing. Also, started learning to draw again and render by hand, finding this very frustrating as simply put, I suck at it.
This week I have also done some workshop inductions, for example the ceramic induction where I made a few random shapes and attached them together.
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