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I am Yin Zhang. My major is design and digital arts. I am interested in new media, graphic design, interactive design etc. When I was first come to my university in China, I made a decision to be a designer in the future. Then I came to Scotland to experience the unique western culture. I learned lots of design knowledge in Scotland.

[email protected] Edinburgh napier university

2011-2013 Zheng Zhou Light Industrial university(Media art design)

2013-2015Edinburgh Napier university(Design and digital arts)

I am good at the softwares likeAdobe photoshop, Indesign, after effect, premiere, sketch up, flash, and I used i l lustrator, 3D max, arena, VPT etc before.

TABLES OF CONTENTS:

Tables of contents 4

"Kilt Glow Book" project 6

Voyage processing project 10

happy program 12

find studyroom 14

Everyday wellbeing project 16

interface 24

drawing in Qing Dao 25

Future's workplace project 26

"Whisper to me"project 38

Lumiere Light Festival project 40

Little car project 42

"blossom"--Hidden door project 46

Brief:Design a way for people and communities to better connect and celebrate heritage.

Chanlledge and scopeThe brief asks you to think about what would encourage people to take greater interest in heritage and how it contributes to individual and collective livehoods and wellbeing, as well as place-making.

The brief asks you think about heritage in the broadest terms, from our own personal heitage - ancestry and culture - to our collective heritage as a society, including the places in which we live.

Heritage in contemporary, inclusive usage has come to mean anything created in the past that helps us, collectively or individually, to understand the present, and create a better future. It is a fluid and living concept, and always in the process of being created.

In approaching this brief, you may want to think about the following:

- What excites people about heritage and what would make people connect better with it? - How might technology help us better connect to our heritage? Think about initiatives such as Histoypin

- What role can heritage play in education, conservation and environmental issuues? - What is the role of individuals, communities, and government in preserving, celebrating and promoting our heritage?

For the purposes of illustration, the following would all be viable responses:

- a design for a new public space or public building that uses the heritage of the built environment and/or the community as its source of inspiration - a game - physical or virtual - that helps people better understand and connect to their better understand and connect to their heritage: the heritage of places, community, culture, etc. - a service or system that gives people greater access, and therefore understanding, to their heritage, such as a digital archive - an urban design solution rooted in a locality that takes best advantage of a communities' heritage assets...and many others are possible

After reading books about the heritage in United Kingdom and doing field work in Edinburgh, I designed the "kilt glow book".

Researches are on my tumblr: http://minorprojectsblog.tumblr.com/This project was done in the final year in university.

Next page is the A3 poster I designed for "kilt glow book". More research were put on my tumblr: http://minorprojectsblog.tumblr.com/

"Glow Kilt Book"

My final design effect The video of my "kilt glow book":

http://youtu.be/vhUXUVr-eac(for kids)

http://youtu.be/qsNamkmO0Qw(for adults)

Voyage processing projectFinal effect video link: http://youtu.be/HPgbxJK1LyA

Research and development were put on issuu.My issuu link: http://issuu.com/yinzhang/docs/finish (page:12)

It is a prototype interactive design game made by a software called "processing".It was designed in the third year in university.My design research, process, model, arduino code, and live test was put on my issuu link.

Happy ProgramThe final outcome of the project:http://youtu.be/x_2XM6Gl7vk

The project was done when I was in my first year in university in China. It was called "Happy Program".

Research: After doing research on the content of the program and chinese children's habit. Kids like animation vivid, colourful, interesting, and simple. As a result, I used Mario as a charater to attract kids' attention.

The brief:

Design an opening video of a Chinese entertainment television program.I choose a chinese children's entertainment programme called:"Crazy happy cartoon----动画乐翻天 ".

Technology:

Firstly, I used photoshop to adjust and draw the basic elements of the anmiation will conclude.After that , I used a software called Adobe After Effect to place the images, edit music and made a 1 mini tes animation.

The content of "Happy program" is a journey trip of Mario. In the journey trip, Mario see many beautiful scene and digital techniques. In the journey, I hope kids will be smart in the future.

Target audience: Children.

Chinesechildren kids around

the world

Parents,several designers

The opening video I designed for the CCTV Children's chanel---crazy happy cartoon. This programe plays famous cartoon at noon.

”Find studyroom“ app: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jt1wzmegud4fcdy/%E6%89%BE%E8%87%AA%E4%B9%A0%E5%AE%A4.swf?dl=0 I put the app by Adobe Flash in my dropbox, the link is above. This project was designed in the second year in university.

Brief:In China, there are 1.3 billion people in 2011. There are 9.7 million students in universities. That is a large number of students. China is a crowed country. Students have more free time in university than in high school. After class, students will go to self-studyrooms to learn more knowledge by themself.There is a phenomenon that students in university are very difficult to find self-study room after class, especially at the end of term. A student have to get up very early to take up a seat by their personal bags and books. Other students who get up late to take up seats in self-rooms will spend more time to find a seat. Sometimes, few students will give up their study because of the large amount of time they spend on finding a seat in self-study rooms. Designers are needed to find a solution to solve the probelm.

My design:I designed an app to help students easily find a seat in self-studyroom by Flash and Flash code. Students can download the app from their phone and the app will locate your university. Then students could update the information of their university.Below is the main inteface of the app. Students can open the app, the door number of classrooms that is availble will shown, like(306).

self-studyrooms with seats

searchclass

route guide

personal setting

Main interface,self-study rooms with seats

”Find studyroom“ app: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jt1wzmegud4fcdy/%E6%89%BE%E8%87%AA%E4%B9%A0%E5%AE%A4.swf?dl=0 I put the app by Adobe Flash in my dropbox, the link is above. This project was designed in the second year in university.

searchclass

route guide

personal setting

This is one of the interfaces called"search class". Students can find the class, time of class, and number of classrooms. So that students know that room is not availble for self-study, or they can go to listen to open courses.

This is one of the interfaces of "search class".

On the right is the interfaces called "route guide". After students get the door number of study rooms, the"route guide" function wii lead students the shortest way to go there.

"personal setting" functionStudents can type in their personal demand for search for classroom.The system will sort out the information users need.

Drafts of interface: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1vg5xe3rjmcvx5z/AAA04Dj_A25HwiddkRDkYGEFa?dl=0

Everyday wellbeing project

The app(dropbox): https://www.dropbox.com/s/ycr3mpaapois5v6/wellbeing%20interface.swf?dl=0wellbeing app video link of the project: http://youtu.be/w6z1r7ae3wg

This project was done in the third year in Napier university.I designed the app by Adobe Flash.

Recent trends in psychology have focused not only on treating these ‘common mental disorders’, but also on preventing them. Just as we should live healthy lifestyles even when we are physically well, so as to build up resilience and lower our chances of becoming physically unwell, similarly, psychologists say we should practice certain activities in order to lessen the chances of us developing mental illnesses. This is the brief and explores. It can be a product, campaign, app, or a solution to improve human wellbeing.

Design outcome:

The Brief:

Infographic of research for "Everyday wellbeing"A research on activities of people.

Final poster for "Destory workplace"

Main interface

red buttom

blue button

yellow buttongolden button

Interactive Design Interface project is designed by Adobe flash and code to help user use the in ter faces.There are four buttons, and if you click the buttom, it will jump to another inteface.This interface was des igned i n t he s e c o n d y e a r i n university.

Interactive Design Interface ProjectInteractive Interface video link: http://youtu.be/sjfbBKjMsqkApp(in dropbox):https://www.dropbox.com/s/6dh9ljdilp83cxb/stage%20buttons.swf?dl=0

DrawingsThere are a group of drawings I drew when I was in the first year in university.

Our faculty was organised by tutors going to a village in Qingdao for half a month. We experienced the Chinese folk culture, and learned to use drawings to express

personal feeling and understanding.

The workplace final effect video link: http://youtu.be/idXAztxlEscThis project was did in the third year in univerity. The brief is about design a future's work place. Today's workplace has may have man ways to improve. About tomorrow's workplace, it can be real place, a sketched map, product, or a campaign.

Tomorrow's workplace

Below are the boards I designed for research, user group, technology, and ideas.I designed a future's product called"where is it?". It can help people find stuff in their office. Software: Sketch up, After effect, Premiere.

"Where is it"

Below are posters designed for final outcome

Below are posters designed for final outcome

This project is a team work. Team members: Di Zheng and I. Di zheng is a product design students,who is good at making models. So Di Zheng was responsible for models making. I am responsible for make posters, Arduino circuit, codes, live test, and editing videos.

Video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fdvy8fRA7k&feature=youtu.be

My issuu link of detailed development: http://issuu.com/yinzhang/docs/finish

My research tumblr:http://zhangyin1.tumblr.com/

Lumiere Light Festival Project

The final effect video link: http://youtu.be/lHvfh8pl8QQ

Online book of research and development for the project: http://issuu.com/zhangyin3/docs/lumiere____________11223

This project was designed in the third year in Napier university.

LITTLE CAR PORJECT

The car project was a team work.Team member: Di Zheng and I.

She made the model, and I made arduino circuit and code. The headlight of the car was control by a button. So when the car encountered traffic jam, the we can

press button the light the headlight in the car.

CALL FOR CONTIRBUTORS - GUIDELINEHIDDEN DOOR FESTIVAL 2015

22 - 30 MAY 2015THE OLD STREETING DEPOT

KINGS STABLES ROADEDINBURGH

WHAT HIDDEN DOOR IS LOOKING FOR

Didden Door aims to provide a platform for work and projects that are

Experiental - breaking new ground for the practitionerAmbitious but deliverable with economic use of resources

Aiming for excellenceCollaborative

Striking, engaging and accessible to the public

Team work:The hidden door festival project is team work. Team members: Lei Zong and I. After receiving the project, I am so excited, because I am interested in this kind of design concept. However, this project is still uncomplete and we still try to do effort on the project. We did research togather, Lei is responsible for drwaing draft. I am responsible for live test and digital techniques. We designed posters togather. It is a greate experience to work together, and we both learn a lot skills about effective cooperation.

Initial idea:Our initial idea is design a public place in hidden door by light digital design. Final effect will be a beautifully visual exhibition.

Investigation:We designed posters to show our proposal for this project, and we got our tutor's feedback. After discussing with our tutor, we decide to make a space that full of flower models. When audiences come to the space, the models of flower will bloom and there will be different kind of light be put on the petals to give people a feeling of four seasons.

At this stage:At this stage I made a rough card model of flower, and test the effect by arduino, laptop, model, and projector. What I need to do is making sure the circuit will work.Then My partner and I will work togather to make models and final filmic outcome must be more refined and polished.

This is the video link: http://youtu.be/sH0WLSBV1CQ (not final filmic outcome)

Continue:Finally we will upload more investigation and our finally outcome to our tumblr: http://hiddendoorppp.tumblr.com/

More research is put on our tmblr: http://hiddendoorppp.tumblr.com/

A LIVE TEST ON "BLOSSOM"

----AN INTERACTIVE DIGITAL LIGHT INSTALLATION COMBINED WITH ARDUINO AND PROJECTOR

Test on one model

cut out the petals build the model of flower

This is the video link: http://youtu.be/sH0WLSBV1CQ (not final filmic outcome)

See more at our tumblr: http://hiddendoorppp.tumblr.com/

A LIVE TEST ON "BLOSSOM"

----AN INTERACTIVE DIGITAL LIGHT INSTALLATION COMBINED WITH ARDUINO AND PROJECTOR

This is the video link: http://youtu.be/sH0WLSBV1CQ (not final filmic outcome)

See more at our tumblr: http://hiddendoorppp.tumblr.com/

Model connected to servo motor

Arduino circuit and code

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