Your name, your occupation, and for how long you’ve been a diabetic? ‘Raquel, Marketing / social media manager T1d for 19 years.’ When were you told you had diabetes and what was that experience like? ‘I was 5 years old. I do not remeber much except being told in the hospital that i would needContinue reading “Interview with Raquel”
Category Archives: Practice
Interview with Marnie
Similar to Ashlyn, I was able to contact Marnie through Instagram. She was very forthcoming in sharing her experience and she emailed me back these answers which go into great detail of her experience with diabetes. What I find to be a regular occurence in the three responses I have received so far is theContinue reading “Interview with Marnie”
Interview with Ashlyn
After finding it hard to get in contact with people who have diabetes by word of mouth (blaming this on COVID), I decided to use the seemingly most used platform today to see how I might be able to find people willing to talk about their experiences with diabetes. The first person who was ableContinue reading “Interview with Ashlyn”
Liquid Latex
After seeing my flatmate use liquid latex to make scar look-alikes for her uni project, I became interested in this material and how I might be able to use it for my project. For the sake of trying out the material and getting to grips with how it works, I started brushing it on toContinue reading “Liquid Latex”
Interview with Tim
Tim: ‘Hi my name’s Tim. I live in London, i’m 26 years old. I’m a type 1 diabetic and I have been for the last 9 years.’ Me: ‘Can you tell us about the time when you were first told you had diabetes? What was that experience like?’ ‘So it was in 2011 and allContinue reading “Interview with Tim”
V&A, Natural History & Science Museum inspo
Pancreas Animated
To gain an even deeper understanding of how the pancreas works, I modeled a pancreas to size on a model and took 121 photos as I moved the model pancreas bit by bit. First, you see food coming down into the esophagus and into the stomach where food gets broken down before entering the smallContinue reading “Pancreas Animated”
Pancreas Model
To gain a deeper understanding of how the pancreas works I made a model of it and it’s functions in A4 size.
Interview with Mikey
I recently spoke to a puppeteer based in South East London. I wanted to ask him questions about how motion and depicting motion can inform other areas of motion making such as prosthetic making and medical technology. ‘I started performing as a puppeteer when I was 15 in a youth theatre and loved it. IContinue reading “Interview with Mikey”
Rig Iteration III
Following my last post, I then went back to the workshops and created a third iteration of the rig, continually focusing on just one finger. This was much more successful as the parts moved much smoother and bend just like the joints of a finger, where the tip of the finger can bend all theContinue reading “Rig Iteration III”
Design Year 3 