ASEAN

ASEAN BRIEF NOTES

- 4 Designs - 8th Asean Para games Singapore
- Finished product - 27 March 2015
- 'Celebrate the extraordinary'
- Upbeat, positive, poetic
- Playful, resourceful, smart solutions
- 15 sports
- "Challenge yourself as a designer"
Design 4 costumes, or parts of attire or embellishments for performers - live  min audio/visua show as they do music/structures
'witty, elegant idiomatic expressions that extend human senses
responds to the body heat produced by the wearer, indicative of emotions. lack of vision change in your design
inspired by channel 4 ad campaign
costume design w/parts concentrating on bodies -pro-aesthetics
Respond to 1 or 4 groups. How do they relate to each other? Collaborations are welcome.
22 Dec - proposal production after that incl. samples
- Theatre'esque? BIG STADIUM - seen from distance/screen - little details may not been seen as much

The Asean brief is definitely an interesting one - it gives you the opportunity to have your work seen by so many people at a huge event in person, as opposed to a competition that runs online only. It would also be amazing to see something I designed come alive and be worn by people - I have been enjoying the character/costume designs I have had the chance to do so far this year, so this sounds like it could be fun for me. I'm less into the idea of having to have sample as well, and the practical part - designing for 2, even 3D is easier in the way that I only have to really consider how a material would move/be animated rather than costs and their use on actual people/in real life.

It would give me some experience with designing practically and maybe make me think my designs through even further but I don't know if I would have the time, or maybe even the patience to make it work. Even collaborating with someone else could be a lot to handle - we already have a couple of collaborative briefs coming up at the same time, and I'm not sure that my first tries collaborating should be with three+ different people at the same time; for most of these briefs I think I would rather work alone, so with that in mind, I'm not sure that this is the best brief for me. I could design without actually submitting it for the competition, but I feel like that wouldn't be working close enough to the brief, considering the point of this module, so I will put this to the side for now.