Grid Project

Grid 1
The group decided to keep our game a simple more "old fashioned" type boardgame.
Taking inspiration from each of the grids of Huddersfield we were given we wanted to create something that would be able to portray each one in some literal fashion, the idea, that each of us can create a different playing board, but play the same game with the same rules and playing pieces.
The basic gameplay is to build up as large a group of blocks (or buildings) on your gameboard, each one being a different shaped geometric shape before your opponent, while also trying to hinder your opposition doing the same.
I recreated my grid as a usable gameboard, playing cards and set about designing the pieces in a way that would make them usable but still show some connection with my area of Huddersfield.
Finally I made the official rules up and collected it all in it’s own box.
And of course got it stocked on the selves of a major high street store!

Grid 2
The first step was to explore the area of Huddersfield on the grid that I had been given to look at.
It followed New Street, the main shopping high street in Huddersfield, and is an area primarily given to pedestrian transit and high street stores.
I visited the area on several occasions, mainly sketching or taking photographs and started building a profile of the area.
As it is quite a straight forwards area with no traffic and very similar buildings on either side I began experimenting with different ways that I could gather information about the square.
Eventually I began taking notes on the passage of people through the High Street, and made sheets that would allow me to make a form of chart allowing me to display the comings and goings of the different kinds of passing visitor.
This led to me creating an animated map of my grid, plotting this passage of people and an animation of their journey without the map.
This in turn led me to think of star charts and constellations, giving me my final scene and name.

Grid 3
My third project led me to want to expand on the idea of the grid, and with the idea of charts and navigation by the stars from my previous project I began to look at a much larger idea of grids and maps.
This led me in turn to look at atlas’s, charts and globes and I began to experiment with making one of these flat 2D maps into a 3D object.
Beginning with as simple ideas as possible I began with origami shapes, this also meant manipulating the maps on the sheets so that they would still resemble an accurate globe.
Finally I found a way of creating an entire, and quite accurate globe out of separate detailed flat pieces, making 2D, 3D.
This was then stop-motion animated and edited in flash. Eventually to become a spinning globe logo for my website.