Concept 01
Comfort Food
This idea is derived from my initial purpose to create patterns showing a series of pleasant daydream which bring happiness, joyful and having healing psychologically. Inspired by researching the memories or items that make us psychologically and physically happy, I came to the topic of comfort food. The idea is to create a pattern according to the comfort food effect so that to relieve emotional stress.
How to do that with pattern? Not only showing those comfort food but also integrate with related physical activities or memories to enhance and bring out the feeling of happiness. As by eating those foods that remind us of those times, we symbolically consume that past happiness.
References
Children and hand drawn style illustration to demonstrate the impact of comforting.
Concept 02
Back to simple life
Undoubtedly, daydream is strongly related to imagination and creativity. Creativity and imagination are being nurtured since we are kids. Looking back, what you do when you were a kid? We stared at wall and wandering. When we bored, we played things around us with imagination. We entertain ourselves with those playful imaginations. But nowadays, we stared at our tech devices, like Ipad etc. We rely on those devices to entertain us. We love it, of course, but don’t mean it is good for us.
So my idea is to create a pattern that makes us recall our imaginative minds and thoughts when we were kids.
How will my pattern do that? Turn boring life into interesting life without relying on any tools but your imagination.
References – children vintage illustration
which could evoke our imagination and creativity through the colour or basic shapes
Techniques (watercolour and crayon texture)
Concept 03
Memory Loss – distortion (Chosen)
The idea is inspired by the article “Topic of Daydreams Determine Memory Loss” and the experiments that engaged by psychological experts. It is surprising that the content of our daydreams actually affected our memory. As we normally thought that we tend to forget the memory in the more distant past compared to recent memory. This is even clearly been shown in our memory deterioration when we grow older. So I came out with the idea of expressing the distortion of space and time in memory which causes misleading and confusing.
How will the patterns do that? Express the feeling of confusing, disturbing, and quirky by creating depth, an illusion.
References
http://www.greigedesign.com/blogs/blog/18689479-rebecca-atwood-new-textiles
Anca Gray – surface texture created by realistic object
Technique
