Week 44: A Magazine For Several Senses

November 2 - Week 44

Group name: 
A magazine for several senses.

What we have done: 
This week, we have decided on a kind of logo for our project that connects with our slogan “as long as it makes sense.”












The search for people to contact has begun, first mails sent out. Quick responses from some.
An interview with Tobias Lindberg, Sveriges Tidskrifter, was held and gave us a lot of good information.

After the meeting we had this thursday we sort of decided that we should “be” a magazine and that should be published 4 times a year - one issue per season - and therefore be called Seasons.

Some experementing has started with the ambition of creating jello-paper. 

What we will do: 
Next week it’s time to analyse the answers from the interviews that will come out of the sent e-mails. Maybe we will establish contact with some of the persons that Tobias told us about, for example Mittuniversitetet in Sundsvall.

Main focus will be on building the structure for the mid-crit presentation but we will also look at the final presentation and what we could do there.

Problems encountered: 
Who will buy this kind of magazine? It’s probably not gonna be cheap so the “target group” is going to be quite small. Could we solve this with International distribution? It’s gonna be more expensive but maybe for subscribers?

Changes in the project: 
No concrete changes, but we sort of decided that the magazine should be a combination of cooking and gardening - more like a lifestyle magazine - instead of just one of them.

Other: 
Very good and creative meeting this thursday. Good feeling in the group!

Week 43: A Magazine For Several Senses

October 26 - Week 43

Group name: 
A magazine for several senses.

What we have done:
We decided to work into two directions, namely a cooking magazine and a gardening magazine. We brainstormed ideas about what we can do in the magazine (reuse pages as seasoning, having seed paper, meltable ‘paper’) and did internet research on these ideas trying to answer questions such as: how can you change the aggregate state of materials? What kind of edible paper is already out there? What materials can you use to create edible paper? In connection to this we started looking into molecular gastronomy for example and talked to a chef and a chemistry student.

We also set up a structure for interviews we want to conduct and divided the different fields of interest for further research. These include chemistry, printing technologies, printing industry, future consumers and the seed industry respectively the food industry.

What we will do:
Our next step is to conduct the interviews and also trying to get experimental with making some kind of prototype.

Problems encountered:
Talking to people made us realize that a lot of the people wonder about the hygiene issue with our product, since you can’t really give the product to someone else who might be interested in an article since you want to use/consume this page later on.

Changes in the project:
We still like the idea of the reusable cooking magazine and will continue to do research in this field but we decided to go a second way as well namely the gardening magazine. We will gather information in both fields and later on decide which would be the better option to go with. This is because of the above mentioned critique that we got from several people addressing the hygiene question and other.

Other:
Here are a few examples of what we stumbled upon when searching the internet for inspiration.

Jello Origami - 

http://designtaxi.com/news/351359/Jello-Origami-Lets-You-Eat-Your-Paper-Cranes/

Disappearing Transparent Ravioli -

http://www.molecularrecipes.com/techniques/disappearing-transparent-raviolis/ 

Hello Kitty Seaweed