Paradise Lost

Future Travel project sponsored by Samsonite 2008

Project Description

"The search for a place in which happiness may be found is always a metaphor for the search to recover a memory of happiness". (Travellers' Tales - Narratives of Home and Displacement, G Robertson)

This luxury collection is aimed at the Silver Surfer demographic for 2020.

By the year 2020 the number of people over 50 will out number younger generations. This demographic are aging but also active and affluent and will take numerous holidays to ever more exotic locations.

This collection has been inspired by this demographic. It is a collection that is only happy or at its most attractive when it's in an exotic location. When it's unhappy then it will look unattractive, bored and plain. Yet, when it's in an exotic location it will look beautiful, playful and naughty.

Intended Outcome

• To produce three different collections around this scenario:- (i) using (mostly) digital photographs I have taken; (ii) exploring different types of patterns; and (iii) experimenting with processing (computer programming) to create designs.

Images

Links

Books

Albers, J (1975) Interaction of Color. Yale

Albers, A&J (2007) Latin American Journeys. Hatje Cantz

Csikzentmihalyi, M (1990) Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Gershenfeld, N (2005) FAb - The Coming Revolution On Your Desk Top From Personal Computers To Personal Fabrication. Basic Books

Harmon, K (2004) You Are Here Personal Geography And Other Maps Of The Imagination. Princeton Architectural Press.

O'Shaughnessy, J O'Shaughnessy, N J (2002) Marketing Power Of Emotion. Diane Pub Co

Raimes, (J) (2006) The Digital Canvas. Ilex

Raymond, M (2003) The Tomorrow People. Future Consumers and how to read them today. Prentice Hall.

Robertson, G. (1994) Travellers' Tales - Narratives of Home and Displacement (Futures, New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis). Routledge.

Magazines/Journals

Viewpoint 17, 18, 21

Websites

http://www.btplc.com/Innovation/News/timeline/TechnologyTimeline.pdf BT Timeline Report 2005

http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/QUALITY_OF_LIFE.pdf Economist Happiness Index

http://www.foresight.gov.uk/

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/hotel_future_040623.html The Future of Travel - Aquatic To Cosmic Destinations- Leonard David.

http://www.senseofsmell.org/about/aboutus.php

http://www.innovationjournal.org - Innovation Spring 2007

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/tv/humansenses

http://www.smellandtaste.org/

http://freda.auyeung.net/5senses/touch.htm

Exhibition

John Davies - Deutsche Borse Photography Exhibition, The Photographers' Gallery

TV

Boom or Bust- BBC2 Eco Village programme.

Contact

Hazel.Hewitt@googlemail.com