A Group Effort...Refined

Overall, our first critique went well. I did miss the actual presentation part of it because I was sick as a dog (sinus colds/infections are THE worst!). However, I made it just as Richard, Jade, & Yau were presenting and they did an awesome job in presenting our concept. The feeback from Professor Leshinsky was pretty positive, but I think overall it reiterated the areas we already knew needed work.

As we brought our ideas to the table, Richard presented a logo and a name for our kiosk: DC Postcards! We also came up with a tagline: "Send it home!" The thought behind the tagline is that a tourist would want to send home the experience they had in DC.

We went back to work on developing a new model. The next desk crit provided feed back from Professor Anderson. It got us thinking in a different direction, but I must say, it was a little frustrating. We wanted to continue with the collapsible floor and possibly the organic materials and she pointed out how we should think about it relating to our product. Additionally, we needed to flesh out our environment and how we would display our product.

Initially, our design of the kiosk included a wood frame, collapsible floor, the wall behind the cashier would be solid, and the opposite wall would be made of an organic canvas. But then Professor Anderson suggested we think of projecting the images of our postcards as a way to display them. Agreed, but my frustration arose at the whether the need to be realistic overrode the need to be...creative, for lack of a better word. How would we power something like that? It would be difficult to project onto the canvas wall, so we would have to consider projecting the images on the solid wall - above the cashier's head? Obviously, that wouldn't work but we still needed to think through displaying the postcards, finding a different design for the roof....*sigh*