This was my first project for Stefan Sagmeister's class, "Can Design Touch the Heart?". We were asked to find an audience of 1-24 people, our choice, and design something that would emotionally effect them. It could shock them, make them happy,sad or angry... whatever. I decided to do something for my friend.
My friend had written an entry on a blog that she felt time was passing her by and that she wasn't accomplishing anything... she truly felt that she wasn't successful. She was concerned that her career was going no where and felt out of place because she isn't married like many of her peers. It upset me that she didn't see herself the way I and the rest of her friends do.
I wanted to let her know all of the reasons she IS successful and do it in way that would remind her constantly...
I asked her friends from the blog to write me about her and why they felt she was a successful person-no reasons could include anything about career or a significant other.
I found a flipclock on ebay and decided to make her a living resume of qualities that matter. For every minute there is a phrase listed by a friend and for every hour there is a portrait of her. How did I get the photos you ask?
I had to tell her a little white lie... I told her my husband, Wes, need to model real faces with expressive and subtle emotions for his 3D computer animation class and that he has modeled my face one too many times.. She was happy to help us out by posing for him- like a good friend! We asked her to make different faces and made her laugh a lot in the process too.
Later we (friends who supplied material) installed this clock in her apartment and surprised her with it.
This project is being considered for a design article by SVA publicity along with a couple others from my class. I loved helping my friend realize she is a successful person for all of the right reasons and to help her remember it every minute...
