This workshop was really useful- and also quite fun-as it pushed us to get stuck into a sketchbook and use it constantly by showing us how important and essential they are to us growing as designers. We were encouraged to break the boundaries of what a sketchbook is I thought it was really awesome to think of the wall of my bedroom, my pinboard and my blog as extensions of my sketchbook, or even sketchbooks in themselves.
To finish we did a group project which involved making up a sketchbook by going to five facility areas our course can use (Open Access room, 3D workshop, Photography, Letterpress and Screenprinting). We didn't really understand the task to begin with but when we arrived at our first area, the Screenprinting room, the first thing that struck us was the amazingly strong smell of ink. We therefore decided to base our entire sketchbook on smells and so discovered the main source of 'smell' in each facility we visited, taking an extract with us. To present our findings in the sketchbook we decided to, as we'd been encouraged, break the boundaries of a conventional sketchbook and take it apart. We folded the pages into five boxes, one for each room, and placed the smells inside. I really liked how interactive the outcome was.
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