Daniel Samson

During the research session we were asked to come up with a way of collecting information from the others in the group, preferably not involving numbers. We were asked to do this in pairs. We originally came up with height & weight, but this transformed into the shape of the person. The first method we used was to draw around people in the group, this was visually quite interesting but we wanted it to be more accurate. So then we used the light from a projector to cast peoples shadow onto the wall, then we took photos. This was the research part over.

I then decided to take the photos from the session and convert them into a more visually compelling form. So I corrected their perspective in Photoshop, then to get a clean black silhouette I used the threshold tool along with some blurring to take away the harshness.  This was then taken into Illustrator where I used the auto-trace facility to speed up the process.