Initial Ideas and Research

Our first impressions of the V&A seem to be very similar: A maze full of interesting artifacts.

things we liked:

• Interactive Pieces - We were all impressed at a replica of a chain-mail mitt. We like the interactive quality, we could pick it up and see how it worked. We were trying to think of ways to make it relevant to a modern audience. The mitt looks like an oven mitt and thought about having a picture of someone wearing it taking a pie out of an oven. 
• History - As we looked at all the pieces we realized that at some point they belonged to people and were used frequently. So we thought about an image of a ghost playing a piano or shooting a gun.
• Layout - We found the layout of the V&A baffling. but quite liked the almost randomness of it. for instance the Iron workings were just up form the  the fashion section. We started to think about the variety of people that come to the V&A; a huge cross section of ages and classes.