How is perception changed when design shifts into a new paradigm? Take a graphic design interest that you are familiar with and investigate how the idea can be improved, disrupted or retold through a shift of application. First steps For this final project I decided to really stick to something familiar & personal, & toContinue reading “Week 12: New Steps”
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Week 11: Trends and Environments
LECTURE REFLECTION Part 1: Symbolism and semiotics I find the discussion of how messages are passed on in different cultured very fascinating. As an example, translating something word for word from a language to another, will give it an entirely different meaning, depending on the country, the culture & the past events associated with it. ItContinue reading “Week 11: Trends and Environments”
Week 10: Type and Page
LECTURE REFLECTION & RESEARCH This week’s lecture was a lot of learning for me. I was never drawn by typography & had never even thought about researching it. To be honest, I was no aware that it was this big within graphic design, or even the biggest element of it. For me, finding fonts thatContinue reading “Week 10: Type and Page”
Week 9: Message Delivered
LECTURE REFLECTION The relationship between form & function: how we read, understand & engineer communication “I was learning through touch, & I think that’s a very useful way of making: moving into a physical bodied approach to something.” – Sam Winston. I really felt called out when Sam mentioned “when I did projects, it’s veryContinue reading “Week 9: Message Delivered”
Week 8: Skills and Making
LECTURE REFLECTION & RESEARCH What would you like to be doing that you are not doing in your work? I find myself often coming across things I would like to do or include in my work but don’t always just “start doing.” This might be because the right opportunity has not come yet, or IContinue reading “Week 8: Skills and Making”
Week 7: Research & Theory
LECTURE REFLECTION My definition of the word “research”: to investigate a specific area of research & come up with facts to support a certain point made, or simply to find an answer to a certain question or problem. I find research to be a very big part of my daily life. Whether it is academic,Continue reading “Week 7: Research & Theory”
Week 6: Noticing the Ignored
Lecture reflection & RESEARCH This week’s content immediately inspired me. I have based a lot of my photography work around noticing ignored, & unseen places/objects. But this does not always mean going out to the country side & finding an abandoned shack. I actually really enjoy capturing objects & angles that literally hundreds of peopleContinue reading “Week 6: Noticing the Ignored”
Week 5: Thoughts on Ideas
LECTURE REFLECTION I find the research into the design process to be very interesting. It really got me thinking about the way in which I myself come up with ideas & develop them. Last week’s topic, which was about “the self” had also gotten me thinking about this very matter, & in fact it hasContinue reading “Week 5: Thoughts on Ideas”
Week 4: The Self & Identity
LECTURE REFLECTION & RESEARCH Guest lecture: Martin Hosken – ‘the self’ The fact that everyone is wired to think, create & grow differently is always something that has fascinated me. Being a big fan of psychology, I have always spent time reading about studies & researchers, whether on the cognitive, biological or sociocultural level. UnderstandingContinue reading “Week 4: The Self & Identity”
WEEK 3: Fields of Practice
LECTURE REFLECTION Growing up surrounded by multiple cultures, I have been exposed first hand to globalisation within each of those countries. I have always found it very interesting how specifics can be very similar or even the same in 2 completely polar opposite countries. Overall, I thoroughly agree that globalisation is a good thing, asContinue reading “WEEK 3: Fields of Practice”
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