Your Task 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. This might be an opposing media or environment ( e.g from book to installation, packaging to performance) or an opposing time or fictional future (e.g. speculative design). …
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Immigration, on the Southern border of the United States. The situation on the southern border of the United States of America has been a regular item on the news-cycle for many years, oftentimes becoming the leading talking-point for the presidential nominees and taking centre-stage in the debates that follow. The topic of immigration is challenging …
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Type on the page Lecture A list of areas that I intend to research further: Moveable Type-The History of. The History of the Letter-Press. Type-setting. Lino-Type Marchine. The Anatomy of Type. Artist: Kandinsky. DADA Bauhaus. Grid-System. David Carson. Research David Carson For my research this week I have decided to focus on the work of …
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Research and Analysis The earliest records of human activity in Herefordshire dates from (c.7500-8500BC) when hunter-gatherer tribes would traverse, at that time a still predominantly wooded area, in search of food and resources. In the Neolithic period of the StoneAge (c.4000-c.2000BC) we begin to see the emergence of agriculture and wood-pasture clearance. It is at …
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Lecture Notes Message deliveries, Message and Medium, Pencil, Pixel, Performance, Packaging Weekly Learning Objectives By the end of this week, you should be able to: Analyse and reflect upon how a message can be enhanced through the medium in which it is implemented. Communicate an emotion you perceive your city or location is about. Imagine …
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Research and Analysis Lecture Notes This week, we are required to observe and reflect on the working-practices of the individuals featured in the short-films provided. I found the task to be, somewhat, enlightening and it provided an interesting insight into the thought-processes that underpin the practices found into today's creative-industries. Question 1: What would you …
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Workshop Challenge What skills do you have? What skills do you need? The Task Write a list of your skills and a list of skills / ways of working / thinking / or area of knowledge you wish to develop Create a design which summarises a process model that works for you at the moment, …
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Workshop Challenge Your Task How do you approach research methodologies for your academic journey? The aim of this week’s workshop challenge is to select and deploy appropriate research methodologies to inform a need within a project. Choose an object you feel has a story to reveal. Write a 300 word text acknowledging the texts that …
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Research and Theory. Methodologies, Management, Catalysts, Theories and Fictions. Initial Thoughts This week's lecture focused on an area of contemporary Graphic Design that was, in part, why I had chosen to pursue an MA in Graphic Design. Through my work as an advocate for Syrian refugee support groups and their affiliates, I had come to …
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Lecture: Noticing the Ignored. Last week we explored different approaches to thinking. This week we will be ‘noticing the ignored: experiential drawing, capture, writing, recording, play, photography’. In this week’s lecture we ask you: How do I use the unnoticed?How do I use recording tools to capture information? How can you really look at something …
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