Contemporary Practice

Week 12: New Steps

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, & to…

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. It…

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 that…

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 very…

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 I…

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,…

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 people…

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 has…

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. Understanding…

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, as…

WEEK 2: Industry Today

LECTURE REFLECTION How did we get here? I was thinking about this a lot whilst listening to the interview in the first couple minutes, & then Maziar mentioned exactly what I was thinking about: “History is fundamental to the understanding of our practice.” – Maziar Raein. I believe it is important to be educated on…

WEEK 1: Who? What? where? Why?

LECTURE REFLECTION What is graphic design? All the case studies presented really highlighted to me that graphic design is much more than just digital. I have self taught myself for about 6 years now, & mainly focus on creating album artworks from my laptop. I never really set out ideas in front of me or…