OUGD505 - SB01 - Using the sound of New Age music to create Images

So to create images to use in my responsive designs for this project, I will be using the song which I mentioned in my last bog lEnya - Only Time.

As I listen to the song I will begin to draw various images on paper different emotions.. using the sound of Enya and the feelings her song produces should allow me to create expressed images in which I will be able to use as researched inspiration.

Whilst listening to the music multiple times, I took a 4H pencil and began to draw various emotions, I then went over these drawing with a fine liner which would help in transfering these images digitally.

Below you will see the drawings that I produced whislt listening to the music

The designs are very different depending on what mood they belong to.

The designs that I will create on my T-shirt prints will not neccerseally look like these designs above. However the designs that I do end up creating will be loosly based on the shapes and layouts of my drawing based from enya - only time.

OUGD505 - SB02 - How will I respond?

I have been thinking about how I am going to respond to this project based in the research which I have already collected.

I think that when it comes to the general human diet and regarding the positives and the negatives when altering it to alternative food sources, there becomes a lot of different facts and opinions. 

However based from personal experience and based on the research which I have 
(and have not) included into my blog posts, I can confirm that my project will safely favour on the side of plant based diets, and how this promotes the reservation of both human and non human lives, including the reservation of our National Health service and our planet.


I believe that one of the biggest factors when it comes to consumerism and food, is not only how food tastes.. but how it looks

and not necessarily the look of food itself..  but the packaging it comes in.

To support this statement I will create a questionnaire which will contain a series of questions to which will provide me with qualitative primary research, Along with this I plan to collect extracts of secondary research from various trustworthy sources to build up extra evidence to support the above statement.


How exactly do I want to respond to this project?

I would like to create packaging design as my response, this packaging design will be a for a product that most people would consume every day. Which could be anything from a cereal box, to a jam jar or maybe a milk carton.

My plan will be to design something which promotes the idea of 'Alternative eating' or 'Alternative food'. The design would need to stand out enough that it becomes more visually successful compared to other similar consumable products.
I believe that the best place to start will be to take a look at other Vegan products or any other products that are consumable foods which have not been made at the expense of another animal. By comparing and contrasting the different designs of products I will build up an idea of what designs work best and which ones do not work as well. 

OUGD505 - SB02 - Further discussion into animal products and human health

How long would you last in the gym compared to someone who's diet was devoid of animal based products?

The answer.. is that you wouldn't stand much of a chance

Why? - High levels of consuming meat has a damaging impact on the cardiovascular system. Which means you would feel tired a lot more often. The body would quickly become out of breath compared to someone who eats less or no amounts of animal meat.

A general meat based diet will mean that your body fat percentage will be fairly higher and if you care about your diet more than the average person then, it leave very little leeway for other non meat indulgences. Meat and fish consumption has a much higher chance of making you sick, the natural and non natural elements/chemicals in meat leads to a higher chance of food poisoning and internal infection, resulting in more trips to the doctors and more medical treatment including the need for antibiotics.

eliminating the consumption of an animal based diet means that there will be a much less exposure to carriers of bacteria.

Antibiotics

Animals that are grown to be killed and eaten given a lot of antibiotics to keep the alive and growing to large sizes. Animal antibiotics are different to human antibiotics.. 

however there are similar chemicals that are in animal medicine which 'supergerms' become resistant to, that are also in human medicine. 
The typical human antibiotic contains 44% penicillin, which is also present in animal antibiotics at 6% along with other similar chemicals. The irresponsible use of antibiotics has resulted in humans with higher meat based diets building up a stronger antibiotic resistance

Some extracts above - courtesy of bustle.com

OUGD505 - SB02 - The consumption of Animal based foods and how this relates to health

I will begin to discuss how the consumption of food derived from animals (mainly meats) has an negative impact on the body compared to that of a diet where most substitutes are derived from plants. 

The world Health organisation declared that processed meat is a carcinogen, which means consuming it greatly increases the risk colon and rectum cancer.. (not a pleasant thought). But should we be surprised? processed meats are practically created by machines from the bits and pieces of animals that no one wants..

Now I believe that in this day and age, people in general are a lot more informed about the risks of consuming processed foods, however people still eat it regardless of the harm the un-natural food does to the body, but why? - I guess food that tingles the taste buds will always mean more to people than their own health... but that's humans for you.

Eating even smaller amounts of meat may seem like a good idea (and it is) but the consumption of meat will absolutely have long term impacts on you're health.

Cancer Research UK

The evidence of meat increasing the risk of cancer is as strong as ever. Cancer Research UK posted about this subject and even provided a chart to show the threat level that meat has on the body.

(CRUK) have been in the battle to fight cancer for many years, I believe that the information they produce that relates to physical health holds a lot of truth, and should have somewhat of an impact on anyone who takes in the information.

 Meat is devoid of fibre and nutrients which are needed to fight against so many bacterial and viral infections. When you are ill, your body should be able to fight off anything, even without the use antibiotics. Animal protein comes with a large amount of saturated fats and carcinogenic compounds. So.. if you eat a lot of meat on a daily basis then it is guaranteed that you will be consuming well over the limit of un-natural fat. (which is the kind of fat your body has difficulty getting rid of - Hence the name).

OUGD505 - SB02 - Ideas and discussion of the human diet/health and food alternatives

My project for SB02 will consist of a concentrration on the subject of food alternatives. I would like top create a visual which represents the idea of 'aalternative food' or 'alternative eating'. 

I will begin the project by researching into how the consumption of meat and sumialr products negatively impacts the planet. 

When animals are raised to be eaten by humans, a lot of land is needed and this means precious water and soil are lost in the process, Trees are destroyed to create land for grazing animals and factories. 

The untreated animal waste then goes onto polluting the earth, rivers, and streams.

The union of concerned scientists has listed meat eating as the second biggest environmental hazard facing the earth (the first being fossil fuel vehicles).

According to a report published by the Worldwatch insitute, 51% of greenhouse gas emissions are caused by animal agriculture. 

Cows are an excellent example to use..

 To produce 1 lb of flesh, a cow needs to consume 16 lbs of vegetation. 2,500 gallons of water is needed to produce 1 lb of meat, however only 25 gallons of water is needed to produce a lb of wheat. One burger (the kind you would probably order at McDonald's) uses enough fossil fuel to provide a small car with 20 miles of fuel. 

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Just over 80% of the planets corn and 95% of oats are fed to livestock. The worlds cattle alone today consumes a mass amount of food. The same mass of food is equal to the same caloric needs of 8.7 billion people, which is more than the entire human population. (so It is funny to think that in some countries people are starving to death.)

If were were to stop this kind of usage then this would free up masses of grain and would massively reduce pressure on land. 

(Above information provided by peta.com)

During my research I came across a website called GreenAge

It discussed issues with meat based dietes and how the production and usage of animals creates long term impacts to so amny diffetent aspects of the planet, comapred to that of a plant based diet. Information which links meat based idets to CO2 emmisions on the planet was quite interesting. 

A meat-based diet is responsible for 7.2kg of CO2 emissions, vegetarian diets are responsible for about 3.8 of CO2 per day and vegan diets are 2.9kg per day. The difference between the 3 main diets and their impact on CO2 is staggering. It shows that many people on the planet could well be very unaware of how their diet can lead to long term impacts. 

DEFORISTATION

Deforistation is a concern becasue a lot of flat land is needed to grow animals for eating. When land is changed so much certain species of plants and animals can no longer survive in the same spaces. It also means less trees which then impacts the ability to absorb toxins from our air. 

The damage that is being done to the planet now will have a massive impact on future generations.

OUGD505 - SB02 - Intro

My project for SB02 will be based on an globally effecting issue which I myself find relevant. You will se below a snapshot of the brief.

The goal of this project will be choose and carry out extensive research into a globally effecting subject of my choice. At the same time as understanding why this certain issue, the subject must also be to some extent interesting to myself, which will enable me to produce a quiality level of repsonsive designs.

I have already has some difficulty in choosing a subject for this project, as there are many different issues that are currently happening in the world and a lot of those issues I persoanlly have strong opionions about.

NHS?

The NHS has recently lost marginally to a winter crisis and the NHS is still to some extent continuing to suffer due to lack of staff and funding, as well as an increase in sick patients. During winter, I found myself clicking on BBC news and other relevant sources much more than usual, which was due to my interest in the subject of the NHS and it's status. 

The NHS crippled unter the pressure this winter and I find that not just a national interest regarding it'splace in the UK.. but as many individuals from all over the world visit the country to access out NHS service, I believe that the issue is a global one.

The Consumption of Meat?

The modern day diet is something that I think has threatened the health of many people on our planet. The consumption of meat and other animal dervied products not only negatively imopacts the health of people, but also negatively imopacts our agriculture and our plannet. 

Over a year ago, I changed my diet from a very high animal based food consumption to a very low animal based food consumption, after several months, both my mental and ohysucal health improved greatly. I believe that there is a lot of information and stigma regarding the use and consumption of animal based products. The fact is that food and products that are dervided from animal agriculture cause so much more harm compared to the benefits they offer. Which means that I consider the subject of diet and veganism a very relevent and globally effecting subject. 

I believe that the two subject matters above are most relevent against other possibly subject matters.

OUGD505 - Research - Transforming the sound of New Age Music to visual images

After some extensive research into NAM, I realised that I needed to know how exacxtly I would create visual images based from the sound of NAM. 

I figured from my research that these visuals would need to be created by the emotions/feelings that the sounds they produce. 

So to take an example, the first feeling I get when I listen to NAM is happiness, and I would imagine happiness to look like circles, lots of them, some bursting some not, some with color and some just outlines of circles, maybe the circles would be moving around also, bumping into each other.

Another feeling is calmness and I imagine calmess to look like soft flowing lines, some of the lines may bend slightly or curve off into very loose spirals, some lines may the thicker than other, but all of these different lines would be moving in the same direction.

after listening to many different songs from within the New Age Genre, I decided to base my reponsive designs on one song. 

Only Time - By Enya

This song is my favourite because of how it makes me feel. It makes me feel happy and calm, especially in times of stress or when im a little flustered, this song seems to have the ability to reverse those negative feelings on a much stronger scale comapred to a different song within the same genre.

Enya herself has made many albums which are filled with songs that produce the same effects, I have taken some time to listen to most of her work from the earliest to the latest.

Below I have posyted files of more research and development.

As you can see I have collected images and shapes which are relevent to the only time by enya. 

As you can see after researching some relevent shapes I then moved onto finding these shapes which have been printed onto t-shirs (which is the medium I will be using for this proejct) In the photos above you can see that I have created some of my own T-shirt designs and used the researched images to create designs which express the style of Enya's music.

I plan to continue working on these designs and I will contimue to refer back to my reserach images for reference.