~/reports First Year Student Report November 2001 Your first projects are of quite a high standard, you show good technical abilities and a very individual style. This style could also work against you though. It is important that you can engage peole in your work. I feel you are perhaps sticking to a previous style of work and the main point of the beginning of the course is to try to explore new ideas and new methods of realiising them. This is not meant to criticise the standard of the work you have shown but to try to get you to engage in new ways of creating work. In the probes project you should work closely with your partner to make fun, absurd, experimental but most of all engaging designs for probes. Then in the final part of the project come up with some design proposal like the many you did for the food processor which were extreme and fun and innovative. Rory Hamilton \ Dominic Robson