Category: Research & Ideation

Toca Boca is a hair simulator game where the goal is nothing, more akin to a sandbox aimed at ages 5-12 to play around with hair styling and have fun messing with the character’s hair. Toca Boca is a franchise I have a lot of childhood memories with, and I used to play with some…

Since Week 3, I’ve established my ideas as Hair Braiding and Ball Jointed Dolls. I conducted some preliminary research two weeks ago, which you can refer back to for a basic understanding of each subject. ABOUT HAIR BRAIDING “There is such tenderness in braiding the hair of someone you love. Kindness and something more flow…

From the feedback I’d gotten, I started to lean more closely to Hair Braiding and Ball-Jointed dolls as a topic. At first I was more strongly aligned with Nightcore as a topic but when starting to think of more potential ideas, I love the combination of these two concepts. I think they work very well…

To help me better understand my ideas for this phase, I wanted to create two central moodboards that showcase the types of concepts I’d like to explore and the kind of “vibe” they’ll convey. BJDs For my BJD moodboard, I have zoomed in on certain aspects that I’d like to focus on, such as the…

Nightcore is a music phenonmenon that spawned in the early 2000s, consisting mainly of remixed tracks. The tracks are “sped up 15% to 40% and the pitch is increased” (Lunsford, C. 2018). It has its roots in Norweigen duo by the titular name, who released an album of Trance and Eurobeat songs, “edited to be…

The History of the Underground The Metropolitan was actually the world’s first underground railway (Transport for London, 2023), and construction began in the 19th century. The first set of railways was completed between 1863 and 1905.  The modern underground started in 1908, where different rail and bus companies worked together to create a coherent network…

Hair Braiding exists in many different cultures around the world, from Ghana Braids in Ghana to the Pomak Braids in Bulgaria. Braids are a culturally African export that has travelled around the world, starting with the Himba People of Namibia 5000 years ago. Braiding is something of a “social art” (Sims, 2025). It elicits bonding…

A ball-jointed doll (shortened to BJD sometimes) is any doll that is articulated with ball and socket joints and strung together. They are also “usually designed to be easily customizable by the doll owner”. (Ball-Jointed Doll Wiki, n.d.). Customisable dolls are called One-Of-A-Kind, or OOAK for short, meaning the owner has touched up or commissioned someone to paint/make the…