What i've learned through Happiness Project

The Failure in Finding the Right Design Solution

When we going to print out the wall stickers, we found that there's only A3size stickers available in the printing shop. Then we tried to print it out in different sizes to test the effect of the sizes of stickers.

The Struggles that We have Faced

We were feeling quite struggles when we found out the idea of urban gardening was not suitable for our project. Futhermore, due to all of the group members are from different hostels and everyone is busy for our own activities and events, it's difficult to meet up and do the project together.

The Teamwork Communication Breakdown

We definitely had arguments as all of us have different opinions and ideas. However, we tried to tolerate and understanding each others by giving some guiding and combination of our different ideas. Finally, we came up with a successful outcome.

The Management of The Team

We have separated our works into different parts. See Enn is good in planning and managing throughout the whole process of our project. She always reminds us when there's any procrastination occurred.

Michelle and PeiJun did their parts as well by designing for the post, logo, stickers and name card.

I had giving some ideas and suggestions when doing the prototype and mock up. And so, we did the prototype and other works together.

The Testing Process and The Choice of Prototype

We have tried to stick the stickers on different types of walls and we choose the orange wall which is almost the same with the wall found at our research area. We spotted to use orange wall as the background of our stickers' prototype.

The Turning Point of The Project

Firstly, our idea is Urban Gardening. We found out the idea couldn't work due to there's no people willing to help us for take care of the plants. Lastly, we changed our idea to redecorate the spotted area with wall stickers and wind chimes.

The Most Memorable in This Project

There are full of memorable things from the preparation for prototype, testing to the exhibition. This is our first time to using machine to punch the wood. And so, doing the wind chimes together with team members make me felt happy since there was full of joys and laughs. We even went to McDonalds to do prototype together! Furthermore, lots of failure when printed out the stickers since found that some stickers spoiled. We reprint and reprint the stickers again, and it's damn tired for us went to the printing shop for a lot of times. Even tired, but we enjoyed the process of produce this project because we gained a lot.

What's Fun About This Project and Most Importantly

We have chance to go around Georgetown city and have fun at there. Happiness project's not like other lecture class that make us feel boring and sleepy because we are able to learn new things through outdoor activities. What's most importantly is we get to understand more about the design process. Design is not merely expressing our ideas and concepts but we have to test it whether it's practical or not and i learnt that  mock up plays important roles in every design. And so, we feel exciting when set up for the exhibition and it's like showing our new born baby to public.

The Reason We Think Our Project Can Give Happiness to Georgetown

Wind chime will produce nice sound and it can relax our mind when we chilling at the research area. The wall stickers will bring happiness to public especially for the kids as it makes the wall looks fun and joyful. It will brings the kids to their imagination world too.

Lastly, i would like to say thank you to all my team members for this Georgetown Happiness Project. I learnt lots through this project since you all are always guiding me, giving me ideas and suggestions and so, i learnt that team work is very important to complete a work. Without your coopereation, our works doesn't complete successfully. And so, i would like to say sorry to all of you too due to some arguments of our own different ideas. But luckily, it doesn't spoil our relationship but increase our believing on each others.
Thank you so much. :) 

Happiness Project Exhibition

Had been worked together for a long journey and it's almost sem break, Finally, we completed our Happiness Project and today's the exhibition day!!
Feel happy when set up for our exhibition booth :)

Setting up our exhibition booth

Blue and white paper plane and it's free for the public :)

Poster

Wall Stickers

We drew some dandelions with various colors

  

And finally... this is how our booth look like! 

We'd put some paper on the table to let public write their wishes and hang between the line of paper plane.

My wishes!

Exhibition table look

 We had cut out some icon to let public capture photos with its.

 Team members!! Well done :)

Presentation Day

Today is a small presentation day for all of visual communications class' students.
We were present about the project status and ways we plan to exhibit our project (booth) on the exhibition day.

Slideshow has been prepared.

Click the link below:

Presentation of Happiness Project

Mock-up, Stickers and Respray

This's the second mock up process for us.
Since we changed our style of wall stickers, means that we had been thrown the 1st stickers idea away.

 Also a day to respray the stick wood

Consequence of respray the wood stick with poor skill

Cutting out the original size of stickers

and Here's our stickers! 

We have tried to stick it on the walls.

 And so, we also designed a name card that represent to our project.
Here's the mock up and the name card design.

Final mock up look

Logo

We was trying different style of logo design to match our theme- Dreams
And we named our project as: Fly your dreams. It brings out the meaning of encourage people to chasing their dreams and make their wishes fly with dandelion represent to hopes.

We chosen the dandelion style of logo as our project's logo.

Wind Chime Process

After we collected the materials, we have gathered and did the wind chime together.

This blue color has been chosen to spray on our aluminium can

Working in progress...

After the wind chime completed, we were trying to hang it at different area:

Idea of Wind-Chime

Other than working on the stickers of mouse characters and the dandelion, we also decided to make wind-chime. We found that the research area was quite silent. Furthermore, if we add on some wind-chime, it can make unique sounds when the wind blows.

We decided to make wind-chime by using recycle materials.
wood stick had been chosen and we are going to paint the wood stick with white color so that people can write their wishes on the wood stick and are able to see the wishes obviously.

Besides that, recycled materials such as aluminium can has been chosen. We will paint the can with blue color to match with our theme: Dreams.
Blue color brings out the meaning of fresh and soft effects.

Little bell will hang under the wood stick to make soft sounds.