Climbing Rubbings

Well I just ended the course for summer and suddenly felt like drawing something.
As i am just getting started in rock climbing so i thought i would use that as the focus.

So here are a few quick rubbings of my friends and me climbing a while back.

Nothing ground breaking but its nice to keep the old pen on the paper.

Evaluation OUGD104

1. What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them? Generally my design practice has improved in all aspects, as i would expect.  But when approaching a brief i don't become confused and not know where to start.  I think i have probably found that i go about a brief with a stimulated approach. I like to think about my audience, tone of voice and context before getting any ideas down.   I have become much more productive with my time; when i get a new brief now i can see how long it will take to do at this stage of my design practice.  For example at the beginning of What is a Line i did not really have any goals, i would just do a bit of work here and there.  But now i can see what my objectives are for a week and then go about doing them.  In the last 2 weeks of the brief i have had a pan of when i was gong to do my work and what was going to be done.  So i suppose my time management has got better too. The visual language sessions with Lorenzo were enjoyable. I think my drawing of icons and symbols has improved a lot.  It was a fairly new way of drawing to me but i have tried it before.  I am much better at refining the drawings down to the minimum of what needs to be drawn to convey the message or meaning.  This also applies to the crafting sessions at the beginning of the module.  Because our constraints were to limited concerning colour, type, image and time i found that i took shortcuts in my head to simplify the meaning to the bare essentials.   Very happy with my progress this module all round.
2. What approaches to/methods of research have you developed and how have they informed your design development process? I have developed a stimulated approach to research which seems to be working for me at the moment.  I don't just straight onto the computers and start looking at images and finding out facts and figures.  Instead i like to think about my possible audience, context and tone of voice before generating any visuals.  This way i can begin to clarify where my project will go.  I find that if i just onto a computer straight away my ideas become scattered and inconsistent. After that stage however my visual thinking has become more natural.  I used to write down all my ideas and leave the drawings till the end.  But now i naturally begin by drawing out a few thumbnails and evaluating them.  In the other module OUGD103 i noticed this when working with a partner.   Also i have found that i used to research for too long. I have realised that it is not necessary. I can come to a good point of researching and designing where my idea works and in functional without having to go any further. Taking it onto the next stage of development by making some proofs is the next step to refining the idea to head for the final resolution.
3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?
My work is more focused, and has a clearer sense of audience, context and tone of voice.  That is what i have been really trying to improve on.  I have also been able to apply this to my final outcomes. They are more suitable than before and i think i have been able to make the right decisions concerning context. I am finding a few areas of design which i really like, sch as data visualisation which was my what is a line outcome and also iconography.  I like the hand draw images of icons and symbols especially.  Using tone and shading to represent depth and perspective. I will capitalise on these next term by re-using the skills i have developed this module. Hopefully this will hone my design practice and a personal style heading into he 2nd year.
4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these more fully?
I don't document my work on my blog as well as i should.  I did last term but this term i have struggled to get into it.  The blog is, for me, one of those things that if you get going on it, it becomes addictive and fun.  I will get it going next module and over the Easter holiday. Although my visualisation of ideas and rapid development of ideas has improved, i still think it needs to progress more.  I need to think more about thumb-nailing layout ideas and text and image together.  Rather than simply creating a visual and then putting it on the page after just a few variables of layout. I would like to say time management is a weakness, but compared to last term it is so much better, and i would not say it is a weakness any more. My constant evaluation would be more consistent. I tend to let my crit feedback build up over a few weeks then type it all up into my blog. I need to go away from the crits thinking about my feedback, then type it up with my new ideas and responses.
5. Identify five things that you will do differently next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these? Constant Blogging - A move evaluated approach to my work, it will help me clarify my ideas as i go along and help me engage with the current brief. Thumb-nailing Ideas - Visualising my ideas will help positive development of ideas.  It will also increase the speed it takes for me to get to the next stage of design process, to be taken onto proofs. Document my Time management and Crit feedback - At the moment i have pieces of paper floating about from crits, proposals and time management sheets.  I need to get these into an A4 folder and keep them together. Losing them would be bad, as i would have nothing to look back on. Documentation of Primary and Secondary Research - Like my crit , and time management, i have paper floating around in my room and my draw and folders from primary and secondary research.  I need to start putting this with their respective briefs in A4 or A3 folders.  Look at more books and designers - I don't look at a lot of design to inspire my work, i only refer to it when i get stuck with my own ideas. I think by looking at some other work and blogging it i can identify what i like about design and therefore how i want my work to look and progress into next year.
6.How would you grade yourself on the following areas: (please indicate using an ‘x’) 5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor
	1	2	3	4	5
Attendance					x
Punctuality					x
Motivation				x
Commitment				x
Quantity of work produced				x
Quality of work produced				x
Contribution to the group				x

What is Line - THE FINAL

Finally, the final.

I chose to go with the black background because it makes the lines stand out much more. It also makes the data more visible and the key easier to read.

I also asked a few of my friends after showing them the previous draft in white and they all said black was much more interesting to look at. The contrast is what makes it so eye catching.

I have printed this out on A2 Satin paper. ideally i wanted it to be Glossy but the college had none left! I know Glossy can look tacky sometimes, but i think this would have been a piece which it suited. The precision of the lines and the small type are in keeping with the idea of perfection and clarity and glossy paper achieves minimum bleed. But satin will do i suppose..

What is a Line - Data is in

While taking the photographs in the City Centre i realised my project didn't really have much context. So after taking photographs in the City i walked up to Hyde Park and did exactly the same thing but pointed the camera at a nice calm section of a field with a few pople running by and sitting at benches. The comparison between a City environment and a natural environment gave my work some perspective. It was now simply a look at what to expect to see in a City compared to a Park. Very simple, but thats where i ended up. I like way it is very uncomplicated in a sence of being conceptual, yet the actual final outcome completly over complicates the simplicity of the sebject.

However after going out and taking the photos, then analysing them by counting up the numbers of people, cars, buildings, dogs, birds, trees, bollards, clocks etc.. in the frames i did not have much time left to actually create the final outcome. Wonderful time management there...

So i turned to Data Flow again for some quick inspiration. I simply looked through the whole book and picked out a few of my favorites and ones which were most relevant to my data. I had a pretty clear idea in my head of what it would look like, so i began mapping it out on photoshop. "Why not illustrator??" i hear you shout. Well i am not confident at all with it, and i and very much at home with photoshop, and considering the time left it may have prooved fatal to my design if things had gone wrong.

So here it is.. a few stages of development and variables.

What is a Line - This Project Needs Rules!

Yes rules! We have been asked to write out 3 rules which our projects must obey. This is not a bad thing, of course, it just sounds bad; like a brief within a brief. But really it will be quite helpful i imagine. It will give me a chance to stop my ideas wandering off towards the end of the brief, a chance to nail down some really focused problems like type, layout, colour, stock ..etc.

My 3 rules will be;

1. Line must be used to represent or indicate data.
2. Text must be small so as not to interfere with the idea of the 'visualising data.' (in relation to size visuals however).
3. Key must be included to explain where the visuals may become confusing.

What is a Line - epiphany!

Well i say epiphany, it wasn't really my idea...again. Fred to the rescue...

I was stumbling over several design sheets wondering how i could make all this information about the flight-paths of aeroplanes interesting when Fred peered over my shoulder and simply said "why look at the sky? If you look up there all you will see is planes, why not point it at the world, that's much more interesting"... or something to that effect, and gosh darn he was right.

Pointing the camera at the world opens up hundreds of possibilities; after all a lot more goes on on the ground than in the sky. He said why not just document everything you see. I combined this with what i was previously doing with recording data within a frame and i was on to my next stage of development.

However i could not simply just sit about with a camera taking photographs of the same spot and random times. So i set up a system which would mean i got consistent and fair results. I decided i would take down information over 6 different time lengths;

1. 5 mins
2. 2 mins
3. 1 min
4. 30 secs
5. 10 secs
6. 1 sec

I would take a photograph every 10 seconds for 1. 2. 3. and every 5 secs for 4. 5. 6.

All i had to do then was decide where i would take photos from. I decided i would have it somewhere in the city centre as there would be a lot of variety of things happening. So i needed to find somewhere that wasn't so busy it would be impossible for me to record all the data but somewhere with enough happening to get the impression there was a lot going on. So i had another few words to add to my project. I was now

'recording data within a frame, at a specific location and over a specific period of time, representing the data with line.'

What is Line - the data and a few experiments

I thought about how i could represent the data i had collected. The problem was i had so much data, such as time, duration, altitude, direction, movement across the frame; all to be represented on what i hoped would be a single final graph/diagram/map.

I came up with these small ideas.

I didn't want to use CAD to begin with because i felt i could focus on how i was going to actually figure out how to represent all this data better in my head while not having to faff around with computers and the little problems you run into which halt you in your tracks.

After pretty much sorting out a few possible visuals i looked elsewhere to see if i could find some inspiration.
I sat down with a pen and paper (and Mr William Asken) and we began having a verbal brainstorm. To be honest he was having most of the ideas AN IDEA MACHINE!! But as most people have figured out it is a lot harder to have great ideas for your own work than to have great ideas for other work.

Here is the progression of the things i looked at...

Flight paths in control towers at airports. Thought the thin line point was nice. Also the bright green against the black.

This is quite interesting and relevant really. Flight paths mapped out over a specific section of New Zealand. Not to sure about the way the outline has been done though. This wasn't intend as a piece of art or design, but without the outline it could be mistaken for Pollock perhaps. Not that his work doesn't involve talent of course...

Def Con the warfare game. The arced lines represent missiles being fired at countries. Pretty cool. But it is really visual i think.

What is a Line - recording data within a frame

My previous what is a line post was looking at contrails and perhaps the idea of developing my own contrails. However after talking to a few friends on the course we came to a better idea of looking at the actual frame i was working with. For example I had create some photoshop images from photos i had taken looking straight up. The framing of them was quite interesting, looking at how the lines of the planes moved across the canvas.

I had recently got hold of the book 'Data Flow' which is full of inspiring and creative ways to represent data visually. Many of the ideas used lines to connect data together. It was fun to look at and work out what the designer had done, what the data was and how it all worked together. Some of them are virtually impossible to understand as the designer had made it so abstract.

I decided to change my approach and came up with the idea of 'recording data within a frame'.

This would involve going out 'into the field' and collecting the data myself.

So on a clear day with a lovely clear sky; a Wednesday i believe, i headed off to Hyde Park with my camera and a tripod. between the hours of 10am and 2pm i took photographs of the aeroplanes as they flew overhead on their way to Leeds airport.

Now i need to do something with the data i have collected...

A6 Photoshop Spreads OUGD102

A6 double page spreads fpr photoshop booklet

I didn't much like the old cover so i re did it with more correspondance to the content.

Final A6 spreads

100 Book Evaluation OUGD102

Right then, all done and dusted. j'ai fini, Ich habe fertig, he terminado and ho finito! I think this 100 Book brief was the most useful brief for me so far. The regular crits kept me in check and i discovered new ways to research and develope ideas. I think the turning point was when i brought in a load of random things to play with and then tried to generate new ideas from them, this was very fruitful. I am only a bit dissapointed that i did not do more of the same, instead what i did was think 'this is a good idea' and then pretty much ran with it. Ideally i wouldn't have done that but i was running short of time. This is what i have learned, instead of sitting about surrounded by design sheets for a week or two; get stuck in there straight away, rapidly developing ideas and constantly improving them.

But i am happy with the way it all turned out, i had a good body of relevant and clear research and a final outcome at the end of it all plus a few days at the end to collaborate it and make it coherent.

Module Evaluation OUGD102

This module has been one huge learning curve for me. Research was the weakest part of my work last term and I felt as though there was a gap in my ability as a designer, as the research stage is just as important, if not more important that the development of ideas for final outcomes. This is probably the most useful tool I have learned or at least got better at over this module. I have used a much wider range of research methods including approaches to research. I used to find myself thinking about one idea, and then suddenly jumping to another, with no real connection between the two. But this term I have been able to try a more linear way of researching, which is based around having an idea, then trying, testing and experimenting with materials and different techniques to take me to the next idea, then so on and so on until I have an idea that is strong enough to take to a final design stage. I think with my 100 book project I was starting to get the hang of this; however it took too long for me to reach the stage where I was rapidly generating new ideas. This is probably the most important lesson I have learned so far; to generate a number if ideas rapidly with decent experiments which lead onto new ideas.

Book binding has been a large part of this module also. I was really happy to be making my own books. There is something very satisfying about creating books, because up until now in my life, I have bought a book then drawn or written into it, but now I can dictate exactly what I want a book to look like. It would have been nice if I had given myself more time to learn new styles of book binding as I only had a go at two methods. I will certainly come back to it again though as I think it is something I am really interested in. For my final outcome I made two books with a pamphlet bind, which is very simple, but it was the most suitable; and if there is one thing I have learned from crits and looking at others work suitable and simple is usually better than complex and unsuitable.

I had a moment in the middle of the book brief when I decided to make a radical decision to go and buy a load of random things, like light-bulbs and springs and small mechanical objects. I then took this to the studio and played with them for a day to see what kind of ideas I could generate from them. This was probably the most productive day of the course so far for me, as it not only enlightened me to a great new way of researching and experimenting, but it also gave me a really good direction for my book to go in.
I also found that I could help other people in the class very effectively with their ideas just by talking to them. I realized it is hard to have ideas for yourself concerning your own project because you are so involved in it, it takes someone else to look at it who is completely open minded about where your project could go. So I regularly asked my friends around the studio what they thought of my work and asked if they could sit with me for a few minutes and analyse it with me. I found this very effective, as they can think of ten times the number of ideas I can in the same time.

I think my work is strongest when I have been able to think about it for a while and test different possibilities. However this is also a weakness because I find it quite hard to have several strong ideas and play around with them in a short amount of time. This is something which I have got a lot better at over the last module however, and I will have to really try to focus next module to keep up with the pace of the design stage. I am confident though, that after the progress I have made over this module I can do the same again next time. I think I also have strength when it comes to recognizing a good idea from a bad idea, for example I can have three or four basic ideas in a day, and after a short time experimenting them each in turn I can single out the top one or two. However I need to get better at applying this to my own work in a more convictional way. Sometimes I look at my work and inside I know it is not a strong enough idea, but I run with it anyway. It is at this point I should say, stop, look at what you have, where could you go from here instead? It is a tough thing to do as it feels like you are taking a huge step back in the design process and also like you have wasted your time; but in reality, you had to make the mistake in the first place to get yourself onto a better idea.

Overall this module has been incredibly useful for me. I came back after Christmas with a different attitude to work, not intentionally but it just felt as though I had turned a corner and was now ready to knuckle down. I think having the opportunity to make my own book completely from scratch has given me the inspiration to create more testing pieces of work, and to really push myself out of the comfort zone; which is always good.

Five things which i think i could have done better...

/ I needed to have more or a structured time management plan in the first 3 weeks of the course, however towards the end of the module after our PPD sessions my time management plan helped me put my work ad time in perspective.

/ I could have began my focused generation of ideas sooner and produced more of them, instead of having 2 or 3 towards the second half of the book brief.

/ I need to stop working until half 2 in the morning, this only makes tired for the next day and then puts my body clock into a bad routine.

/ I take notes during crits in my notebook, but i need to get these up on my blog, where i can see them and where i won't lose them.

/ I don't look at enough existing design. This would definitely help inspire me to create more work. I get so caught up in my own work i forget that there is a whole world of design out there which can fill in some of the gaps in my own ideas.

HOW WOULD YOU GRADE YOURSELF ON THE FOLLOWING AREAS (5= excellent, 4= v.good, 3= good, 2= average, 1= poor)

Attendance: 5
Punctuality: 4
Motivation: 5
Commitment: 5
Quantity of work produced: 4
Quality of work produce: 3
Contribution to the group: 5

Despite my attendance being virtualy 100% my punctuality is a little low as i missed sign in by a matter of seconds on a few occasions. Need to remember to sign in as soon as i walk in the door!!

What is a Line Statement of Intent

The feedback from my crit last week suggested that i should perhaps not stick with the idea of aeroplane contrails, and it may perhaps be more interesting to look at the more conceptual idea of abstract lines in space.

This wasn't what i really wanted to hear however, as i had found the process in which i had come to the conclusion of looking at contrails really interesting and enjoyable, and was hoping that i could finish the natural progression of my research with a final outcome.

Therefore i will stick with the idea of contrails but adopt some of the feedback i got such as possibly creating my own contrails, by experimenting with media, plotting contrails in certain areas over Leeds and seeing what interesting forms come out of this or merging the two ideas of contrails and abstract lines in space together.

To be honest i think i need another short focused crit to home the good ideas and sift out the bad ideas.

Final Crit OUGD102

My feedback for the final crit was basically to let us know what the tutors felt was lacking in our project as a whole.  For me the main problem was the lack of explanation of how i had reached my final outcome.  So now to rectify this problem i will go back through my work and make it clearer what i was thinking and experimenting with at each stage.  The tutors told us that it was very important to document all our thought in some way, as it shows the continuous though process throughout the brief. At this stage it is more important to make my research and development work more coherent that rush my final outcome and leave the research lacking.

Awesome Stop motion Vid!!

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/V-WATER-viral-animation/43975

yes its just a link, but it will make you so happy if you watch it! SO WATCH IT!!

Also This is is a really goo one to watch for people who are dealing with Light and Movement in their what is a line brief.

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Star-Wars-VS-Star-Trek/42692

What is a Line Contrail idea1

I took a few photographs of contrails and also took a few images off the Internet to generate these quick ideas in photoshop. I like them, but a more hand drawn quality would look a lot better i think. These are still image obviously and i would perhaps like to experiment with moving image.From a Photograph i took a while ago of some vapour trails. Just line, no texturing. I like the simplicity of this idea and think with development it has the potential to have some interesting resolutions.I thought about patterns contrails can come in. Obviously i thought about show planes that leave a specific identifiable pattern behind them. I think this one worked quite well. Reminds me of water.
I made this knowing that it has been done before, but i really like images like this, i find it relaxing. The idea of being on an aeroplane flying out into the open sky with no particular destination. Just out of cold England i suppose.I thought this was quite interesting, it is an image taken from London of Westminster with WW2 dogfights going on overhead. I mapped out a few of the contrails left behind. Some of the lines were quite interesting but also harrowing as you can clearly see 2 planes flying similar lines, then one of the disappears.

what to do with my line ideas.

I think after looking at these chemtrails and lines in space, i would like to do something involving contrails. Perhaps just looking up at the sky all day with a video camera filming their movement across the sky, then plotting them somehow. I think after a few days of playing around with this idea the outcome could either be quite conceptual or end up being quite an aesthetic piece. Maybe some feedback from some other students and the tutors would give me some inspiration to visualize my idea.

Possible ways to tackle my idea.

- Video

- Stop motion

- Mapping

- Time scale

- Illustrated

- Series of photographs

- Overlaying images/traces

If anyone has any idea comment please. thanks

More, What is a Line?

After my first session on google looking at "what is a line" I ended on the idea of lines in space, here is where I picked up on that today.

Kaso's last experimentation with Abstract shapes in Street Art.Lines in space manipulate our perception, attract our attention and change our behavior in everyday life.Abstract Street Art Experimentation wants observe people's reactions using traditional Street Art tools.The project has began in London.

I like what he has done here. I am not sure whether i like the image with yellow tape as much as the other one. I can imagine that if the red tape image was in full colour it would be hard to notice any lines at all. With the yellow tape it is obvious that they are out of place. I think, the yellow tape image relates more to what i was aiming to look at. The idea of abstract shapes existing in space, standing out of their surroundings.

These images where on this website, linked through google.

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.kaso.it/uploaded_images/abstract_graffiti_kaso-736479.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.kaso.it/&usg=__uoWPqizLk4H0gSfhaxNKOfX9yHk=&h=936&w=681&sz=152&hl=en&start=7&um=1&tbnid=AjTYs22Q9NdCwM:&tbnh=148&tbnw=108&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlines%2Bin%2Bspace%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

While browsing this Abstract Graffiti Blog i stumbled over something that is incredibly relevant to my previous "What is Line" post. I had been looking at the vapour trails left behind by aeroplanes, and how they left lines across the sky (lines in space). What i found was about "chemtrails." To be honest it sounds a lot like conspiracy theory speculation. But you never know, stranger things have been known. All is explained in the video below.

Chemtrails -Lines in Space

Book Binding - Perfect Bind

The book wot i did make in this workshop

I was feeling vibrant, hence the in your face colour scheme. Works well though i think.

What is a Line?

"A connected series of events, actions, or developmetns."

Well... i began by just typing 'line' into google to see what hits i got. I found myself on a strange string of thoughts which kept me sifting through google and the depths of the seemingly random things people have been doing with their time. Here it goes.

I typed 'line' into google and this was the first image that grabbed my attention. My initial reaction was hah! that's funny that someone has taken the time to do this. Then i thought about how it was interesting for the reason that the line avoided being broken.

So for my next search i typed in 'Broken Line' which go the hit Broken Line - Photographs by Olaf Otto Becker.

Written By Publisher

"Olaf Otto Becker, born in 1959, worked for almost four years and covered thousands of miles by boat creating these photographs of the Greenlandic coastline. The resulting images, made in the clear light of the midsummer night over long exposures, are worth the effort. Almost shadowless neo-romantic dreams capes, they are unrealistically beautiful. Becker sometimes waits days for the right image or condition to appear in order to produce a single image-a process that leaves him with only about 25 photographs per year. Though visually diverse, all of the pictures share the contemplative character of their creator. Becker, who was once a painter, doesn't photograph scenery: He builds compositions, using his eye and his patience to develop a work of melancholic beauty, in the powerful iconography of the nineteenth-century landscape. He has exhibited widely in Europe, and his previous monograph was short-listed for the Rencontres D'Arles Book Award."

I really like these photographs, they are very calm and glass like. Such a sharp image for such a long exposure gives an out of this world perspective on the terrain. I thought about why it was called broken line, instead of reading into it. I came up with the idea that the line was his journey around the Greenlandic coastline which was broken up into single moments in time or single images in the vast space of the bigger picture.

Also thinking about books i like the simplicity of it. I think it is the margin spacing which makes it look so neat.Another result i got from 'broken line' was these ink paintings/drawings byJulian Cox. I like the sway he has turned the complexity of the human form into a collection of very simple lines. Just using the thickness and density of the lines so convey form and shape.

Along with the hits for 'broken lines' i also found this image which was titled dissecting lines. I don't know who took this photograph unfortunately. But it reminded me of vapour trails in the sky and how they overlapped in smooth graceful curves.

So i typed it in and found these beautiful photographs of which there are many more.

I just love the way the curves are so gentle and graceful. It seems so serene in these photos. Also when you look up and see a plane high up in the sky on a clear day, you cannot hear the sound but you see the vapour trail or contrail and i find it very relaxing.. Brief wiki explanation "Contrails or vapour trails are visible trails of condensed water vapour made by the exhaust of aircraft engines. As the hot exhaust gases cool in the surrounding air they may precipitate a cloud of microscopic water droplets. If the air is cold enough, this trail will comprise tiny ice ."

This led me on to thinking about vapour trails of comets, however there were few interesting images of it, but i stumbled over this photo which is actually quite interesting to me. I cannot explain in my own words so I'll let a fella called Stuart explain what is going on here.

I had just got on my bicycle to go home from work when I saw a pretty amazing sight in the sky. Luckily I wasn't going fast, so I managed to stop before I went into a nearby hedge. There was the Moon in the east with Mars about 20 degrees or so away around to the right. Near Mars was something that looked a bit like a curved vapour trail. Looking more carefully I realised that it made a full loop of the Moon. This was no vapour trail but a Moon halo. Just as rainbows are caused when light from the Sun is refracted by raindrops, crystals of ice high up in the atmosphere can refract moonlight to create bows and dogs. Whereas rainbows require raindrops in front of you and the Sun behind your head, halos are seen in 22° arcs around a bright object such as the Sun or around the almost full Moon whenever there are hazy cirrus clouds about. As the light is refracted, different colours are bent through different angles just as in a prism. Although this happens with a Moon halo, the light is very weak so is difficult to pick up by eye. Hopefully, in the image above you can see the colours. Frankly, I am amazed that this came out on my camera.

What a lovely story.

But i did find this interesting, the idea of a perfectly spherical line in space so i used that for my next key words.

This is the only interesting result i found in pages and pages of google and blogs. All the rest were of line graphs and boring things like that. Line in Space... i thought about the implications of this image, what space was and what these lines were. An image sprung to mind of a clear perspex box with thread pulled tightly across the interior of it, creating a crazy net within the box like the image below.

I think all this will give me something to go on thinking about for a while.

I suppose what I've done, without really thinking about it is "a connected series of events, actions or developments." This could apply to any research or developmental stage of designing in a way.

Also my last idea about A line in Space ties in with "a mark indicating position, connection or boundaries" like a map a journey or a series of events.