Sunday 25th February 2024
All 21guided drawing meditations of the pad have been produced to test out.
LINK: https://elva.myblog.arts.ac.uk/meditations/
MAGCD Elva Tag: Work
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MAGCD 3 | 1 • 07 Audience Trial
Thursday 22nd February – CSM 3PM
Gathered with a few classmates to test out the first three Guided Drawing Meditations.
☞ Thoughts + Feedback:
• Natural voice better than Ai – Participants would have preferred if I had narrated the guided meditations
• Talking first and then music to start meditation
• They preferred more organic and random than modular and strict grids
• Modular grid: Less opacity and larger space between dots
Concept
• Experience is nicer colouring in with pencils or markers
• No all design works for everybody – each person had a different preference
• The activity reminded them of conditional design manifesto
Potential
• This could become a calendar desk pad to make one activity a day, one prompt a day with a inspiring quote
• Emphasise this calms you – if you are stressed designer this could be good
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MAGCD 03 | 06 • Test 2 AI Voice
This voice over version is a brief generic description of how to use the booklet.
Music: Crystal Bowl Royalty Free Music | Royalty Free Meditation Music | Singing Bowls from Youtube
This booklet version has a variety of experimental grids.
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MAGCD 3 | 1 • 05 ► Test
Paper Manipulation Experiments inspired me to experiment creating grids.
Guided meditation test with grid:
Narration: Elva
Free Copyright Music: Equilibrium by Sanchii from Uppbeat.
Transcript of narration:
“We all have an inner world to explore,
The intention of this colouring in guided meditation is for you to explore embodying your meditation practice one breath and colour pencil at the time.
Sit comfortably, close your eyes and take 3 deep breaths, breathe in through your nose filling your belly and your lungs and exhale through your mouth.
Using a range of colouring pens or pencils, colour in each rhombus with a different colour, ideally no rhombus with the same colour should be next to each other.
As you colour the shapes, breathe in and breathe out, focus on your breath and the colour each shape.”
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Guided meditation style inspiration taken from Moment Space App. I found the 3D motions and branding created for the app to be very similar to the mindful paper exercises I am testing for this project.
☞ FEEDBACK & TUTORIAL NOTES:
• Less “woo-woo” – red herring.
• Look at “Present & Correct” graph/grid paper.
• Ask feedback to your audience.
To this tutorial I brought in this table and prompts created from it.
“Get out of your head” 49 graphic design meditations – which I realised 7 of them for the tutorial.
☞ Feedback & Tutorial Notes:
• Consider adding an element of voice over guiding the audience through the meditations
• The Musical Note is confusing
• Realise all 49 of them to see what works and what not.
⭐︎ Peer review feedback:
A student from MAGCD tested the above prompts at the library after class and gave the following feedback:
“I think the exercise helped me in two ways. First, by thinking about repetation and rhythm I started to notice how my thoughts became clearer. For example, when I was drawing the icosaedro, it started as a very frustrating process which eventually turned into something more enjoyable as I mastered the shape. Second, the exercise helped me to take my mind off the things that were frustrating me and the confusion that my creative project was causing. By concentrating on a single, unrelated thing, I felt freer to narrow down my thoughts.” – Evy Prentice
E. Prentice, 2024
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MAGCD 3 | 1 • 03 ✐ Class practice
☞ Feedback:
• Confusing and unhelpful
• Gives more anxiety than eases it
☞ Tutorial notes:
• Too rigid.
• More iterations
• Leave room for surprises