Week 17

23 01 2008

This week is still about organisational theory, but the project is progressing well. The business type and style has been chosen, along with their working style and possible branding. The formative presentation is on Monday, and it’s only five minutes but those five minutes are crucial to gaining feedback to put towards the final presentation. The final is worth 40% of one module. A scary amount on something so small.

The D&AD brief has recently been started. The chosen brief is top of the page, Sanpros sponsored by *burst. It was the most attention grabbing although the design I was going to do has already been done although it is only available in Australia. It’s a good and bad thing, good because somebody has already tackled this problem and bad because now another idea has to be thought up! That’s not true, the challenge is relished.

We are off to poledancing tonight which is very exciting. Would absolutely love to do it twice a week but Sam doesn’t have the time. I may start to go by myself though simply because it is so much fun, and something to train for. In other news, Caz and I have been getting to the gym for 9am every day this week and it really helps with the work focus. The obsession with exercise is ongoing it seems.

I have a meeting on Friday with the Bulb people to maybe do some design work on top of my degree. It’s a little bit daunting because I don’t have much faith in my skills. As I said to the poledancing tutor, it’s my own grip I don’t trust.





The joys of workplace organisational theory

23 01 2008

Today I have been mostly sticking research into my sketchbook to show Brian on Friday (he demands an update every friday which is fair enough) and reading about workplace organisational theory. It’s a bit hard going but easy to see how it can be applied to our project (designing an effective work environment). Am going to buy revision cards tomorrow to write all these on so I remember them! My brain learns words by repetition unfortunately. Damn the people with photographic memories.

Favourite theories so far:

McGregor’s X and Y theory – because most likely everyone has gone quietly mad in an environment based on the X assumption before, and a Y assumption sounds wonderful but desperately unachievable. Herzberg and hygiene theory is also lovely, but in all honesty merely reading and learning about all this is enlightening to say the least. However, it has highlighted quite a few management techniques that are instantly recognizable because they were used on me. I wonder, were they doing it intentionally?