Self- initiated Project

This project is our final project and it's going to exhibit for our Degree show.  A little excited and worry at the same time. Course-mate and I have been figuring what are we going to do for our final project, definitely is individual project. Well, this project can be proceed from our previous semester project title. For now I am not so sure that my past project, content wise was a little board. So this time, I have to make it workable and functional. I had discuss the possibilities and guidelines with my tutor, but the most concern part is my content and context. I haven't fix them yet so there's no way I could proceed to production. It's a little struggle when it comes to this moment, which thinking what kind of possibilities that I can do with my strength. I actually gave an idea of infographics about health issue from the previous project, my tutor told me that it is challenging because I have to gather the information at the same time the visuals must be appealing. Now I'm not so sure about gathering the information within the time frame that we have is enough to produce a work. By the it's 5-6 weeks left from now, for this time I don't want to rush my work I do not chase for perfection either.

Anyways, get back to my topic I was thinking about food it's a little main stream because everybody knows about it but when it comes to illustration effect the perspective would be different. Personal main point is to bring the functionality of illustration to become a lifestyle in any kinds of way to both professional and non-specialist audiences. Why food again? well at first I thought about obesity which is part of the health issues and it's well known for my country(Malaysia). Who doesn't likes food anyway? If I just talk about health issue to the young ones some might not care, it may become preachy instead. Personally like food too but sometimes I'm not health specialist but I can see that food itself has it's own era and it has opportunity become a tool to convey message. It's not a  new thing to investigate as people started to use it in many forms such as art, music?, construction, scientific experience, engineering and son on; something edible to visual usage. I would like to try to produce any visual construction involving food, if I get the art direction right on track.

Olive Atomic Snack:
Three-dimensional tapas, in the shape 
of atomic models. (Quoted from food designing.com)

I-cakes.The pie graphic indicates the ingredients of the cake in percentages.
Decoration becomes information. Prototypes 2001 (from food designing.com)
Food designing opens the opportunity of applying creativity and interaction on food. It maybe works on solution or may not but this gave me ideas of how they put different tools and function into the food. 

http://vimeo.com/46134913 This video is about artificial food dye by Or Roizin for the graduation project. I'm not sure about the gender but he/she did a good job of creating this animation.Some times we don't have to show the exact visuals of germs and bacterial because the purpose of illustration give us ways to create our very own unique character design to share with the audience.