Notes from Post Office visit

• Restaurant/bar/ conference facility/full functional offerings.
• first floor -  restaurant 200 seats available, hoping to offer European style menu, Spanish,french,German,Italian.
• Ground floor  - cafe area(during day) and a separate bar area open in the evening.
• modern style cafe selling Penni's, croissants etc.

Target Audience and purposes:

• Bar - young people 18-24
• Restaurant - families, special occasions, wont to create a nice and friendly environment.
• Conference area - for business, weddings and other big event, capable to hold 120 people

The Post Office

• The building was used as a Post Office for 60 years, calling the entertainment venue "the post office"  would be ideal as people in the town and surrounding area know it originally as "The Post Office"
• good location within the town centre.
• Originally it was, what is know today as a Stately Home.
• Then owned by the Chatwynd Family formally Chetwynd House.

The client wont the new entertainment venue to thrive for years to come, to move with trends and time, this needs to be in mind when branding "the post office".

Colours:

• bright red for bar with white round table.
• a more toned down contemporary style approach for the restaurant, he wants to create an environment that fit everyone needs. 
• For the conference and wedding facility there will be a more business and formal approach with natural colours being used for weddings and special occasions

Have all of this in mind when designing. 

The front left of the building on the inside is grade 2 listed as well as the main front gates. 

Notes on Russian Constructivism 1919 - 1924 Tuesday 28 September 10

• Russian Constructivism was an art movement connected with what was happening in Russia at that time, after the revolution made art that had never been done before, they wanted to leave the past behind.
• Russia was under a Autocratic leadership.
• In the late 1800 most people in Russia were Serfs who were owned by the Tsar and factory workers, as Russia was mainly a underdeveloped agricultural state.
• In 1905 there was a mini revolution which formed the Emancipation of the Serfs and they became lower class citizens.

• The First World War.
• Russia left the war in 1917 because they lacked in technology.
• 1917 was the Russian Revolution, the revolution happened because the country was left flattened after the war and it was time for a new leader.
• New leader of Russia in 1917 was Vladamir Lenin (1870-1924)

• Russian Civil War 1917, between the Bolsheviks and the White movement form by soldiers from the West.

My Journey Monday 27th

To begin with I was confused with the "Journey" brief, as the idea of the journey could be the concept of the Journey as a metaphor or literal. Here are some of the ideas I came up with:

1. Journey of the seasons.
2. The process of product design.
3. The process of a Designers career.
4. The process of everyday life, from this point I researched into the work of Tom Judd, a lot of his painting are of everyday life and scenes.
5. Journey on a train to a unplanned place, that you have never been to before.
6. A train journey to a friend or family member that you have taken before.

I think I may take the approach of a train journey that I have taken before and implement everyday life, scenes that I see whilst on the train, maps, posters, conversations overheard on the train and artifacts collected throughout the journey.

The work of Tom Judd may influence me in my future work. His work will help me use other techniques in my design work. He still uses traditional methods like oil and collage, but incorporates modern methods like Photoshop and Illustrator.

Refinery, Oil on collage with Digital Photo
Judd, T. Tom Judd Art[online], Available
from http://www.tomjuddart.com
[Accessed Monday 27th September 2010] 

Crane, Oil on collage
Judd, T. Tom Judd Art[online], Available
from http://www.tomjuddart.com
[accessed Monday 27th September 2010 

IRE Tuesday 21st September

My initial reaction to the Harvard Reference system and the Learning Journal was that I felt confused, but once reading and re-reading the idea of them both I understood. I completed some brief research into the Italian Futurists to help me start a short essay outlining there key aims and who they were, these are the references I used:



I was given this essay to enable me to familiarise myself with the concept of the Harvard Referencing System. When I was given the brief for this essay, I already had a understanding of the Italian Futurists from a brief I was given whilst studying on the national diploma. The brief was to design a poster for cafe depero in the style of the Futurist painter Depero. I like the style that the futurist work in and i think there were may influence me in my future studies. I have attached a copy of my short essay on the future at the bottom of this blog.

Conclusion