Done!

& this was our 3week project and how we manage to do it, experience new things and learn about design and team work during the process!
For me it was a very good opportunity to learn about Norway and Norwegian culture.

Final Presentation

After 3 class presentations and good feed backs from friends we were supposed to have an exhibition of what we did for our project. We did this:)
Using a typographic ceiling with a poem about wind, we made the room dark, played the sound of the wind and projecting our sketches and prototypes on the map of the wind road we represented the atmosphere of our project.

Uncle Windmill !!!

.......... the cartoon character of a windmill for children that I designed for this project and the other one is a sample of a poster for children.

Posters for the wind Festival in "Vind Veien" (The Wind Road)

Two posters for the wind Festival that can be held for children to let them "see the wind" by making their own windmill. The white triangle on the posters is the character that I designed for this project.

Logo

We had different ideas about the Logo.
One logo was designed with the idea of lights produced by windmills.(the black background pictures)
And one with the infinity sign which included the wind movement and the meaning of sustainable natural energy.one the left is the main logo and the other picture is the possibilities for using it in different forms.

Other rest stations

pictures in the previous post and this post are related to the rest stations that can be built along the road for people to rest there and see the power of the wind in light! Also we decided to give information to people with lighting texts on the rest stations walls.

What we did

we started with making sketches, then made our prototypes and edited and lighted them in Adobe Photoshop.

our tutors

During our joint project we were guided step by step and encouraged by our tutors Bente Irminger and Linda Lien.

A test for moving text

Hi :)
this is a TEST for moving the TEXT

on our presentation day
VIND VEIEN is the name of our project

We have worked on it for almost 3 weeks
& it looks really cool
So you should come & see it!
Friday 28th of October 2011. Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen, No.62 Kong Oscar gaten. Bergen. Norway

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what we found

we started searching these key words:
Windmills,wind, Nature,landscape,Change,Educate,Meet the nature,Recreation and ...
and we found so many exciting websites on light design and motion design:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/colored_shadows/index.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28402310@N06/3937659476/in/set-72157622457412112/
http://www.antivj.com/
http://www.body-pixel.com/2009/08/16/glowing-book-by-bruketa-zinic-designers/
and we also thought that there will be lots of possibilities for children to play with the wind;
http://www.gardenoutfitters.com/whirligigs/
http://sonnetsstudios.blogs.com/my_weblog/2006/04/whirligig_of_ti.html
http://www.e-scoutcraft.com/moving/whirligig.html
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/wind-power-profile/

what we have

is the Road and the need to be lighten at night
People that may need to rest while walking in the road. Even for eating something or having a shelter to be safe in heavy sudden rains.
we also have the rocks, lakes and pure nature in the path.

So how about using special light effect for our rest staions?
and how about some lighting effects added to our winmills?
The movement can play an important role in our project and lighting the moving elements can be a good idea! why not?!

How we started?

We started our group discussions to find more facts on this project
The main question was that;
Now that the windmills are going to be built, how can we make people love them?
and in closer look;
using design,how can we make people have a new and closer relationship with nature?
Can design educate people about natural resources or wind exploiting?

our goal is:
to promote the long-term use of enviromental friendly energy and power resources.
We also talked about;
our target group:
local population, tourists,hikers,natur lovers, sport enthusiasts, recreationists, educational excursions.
Being inspired by Nature, Landscape, sedimentary rocks, wind, water, pure nature, natural materials, view, windmills, light, aura and ...
we finally decided to :
Design and build resting and educational stations on the 11kilometer road to our 23 windmills.
Lighting the area using the windpower,simulating the power that windmills produce.
using the:
Special Design and Visual communication
in the first part, we are planning to
call our project "The Wind Road"
we chose it among different suggested names like; wind park, windmill park, wind farm & ...
We also had lots of ideas about our slogan like; meet the nature, feel the nature, I can see the wind, give the chance to the wind, wind of change, meet the wind, colors of the wind and finally "See the wind" "Sjaa vinden"!
We agreed with the last one after group discussion and talking our tuitors.

Here we are

This is our team in alphabetic order;
Elham Mahootchi
Karoline Løken Helland
Kathrine Aasbø
Nevena Djokic

and we work very hard to promote and support building windmills at the area of Stord island (in south of Bergen)municipality of Fitjar.

We have chosed this project because we read in the newspapers that a windmill park is going to be built in the mentioned area. Also there will be a road built throught the mountains for these windmills which can be later on used by local people and even tourists for walking, running and enjoying the nature.