This week is a continuation from last week's socially motivated graphic design - addressing the social or political questions relating to our locality. It's about addressing and improving the way we live and identifying problems in our locality. This week we heard from Hefin Jones who discussed the ways we should go about engaging with… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 10 : Research
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GDE720 – Week 9 : Workshop Challenge
Task 1: Research three user-centred design processes or tools that can be used to discover a core need or problem e.g. customer journey maps, service safaris, a day in the life, cultural probe, double diamond.Select one process and write a short 100-word description to illustrate how it can be used to discover an insight or… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 9 : Workshop Challenge
GDE720 – Week 9 : Research
A whole new brief - I'm quite excited about this one, I love the idea of Design for good. This week, however, we're looking into Service Design and the purpose behind the design process that take place. Service Design is centred around 5 objectives: User Centred DesignCo-Creative DesignSequencingEvidencingHolistic Each of these objectives offer a view… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 9 : Research
GDE720 – Week 8 : Workshop Challenge
I've really delved into the design side of this project this week and building on last week, I'm excited to immerse myself in this experiment. I want to really utilise the characteristics of each street in what's being said, it needs to be powerful and hard hitting and it needs to be very "in your… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 8 : Workshop Challenge
GDE720 – Week 8 : Research
Wow - week 8 already?! I'm a bit ahead on my project and hadn't caught up on this week's research, so I paused my development works and I want to get my head around the idea of production, funding and creation of this book - the logistics and pitfalls. Darren Wall was so interesting to… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 8 : Research
GDE720 – Week 7 : Workshop Challenge
My initial research took me down a path of looking into York's history and the changes and developments to architecture along the way. However, the more I researched, the more I realised there are SO many books out there comparing York's past and York's old buildings. It's been done time and time again and it's… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 7 : Workshop Challenge
GDE720 – Week 7 : Research
This week, it's content review, editting and reflection - I'm always so interested in the relationship between writer, designer, editor and publisher, all working together in harmony to achieve the outcome required for the audience. I found myself intently listening to Susanna's interview and it was really a fascinating insight into the development of writing… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 7 : Research
GDE720 – Week 6 : Workshop Challenge
Create one image to represent both initial story concepts, using a variety of methods, which must be original and not sourced from the Internet or a third party.Write two short proposals with title, original image and a short 100-word synopsis (elevator pitch) about the concept of your article. Save as a PDF document and upload… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 6 : Workshop Challenge
GDE720 – Week 6 : Research
Starting this week with ethnographic research, this term predominantely relates to the anthropological studies conducted for research purposes. Living amongst the inhabitants to fully immerse oneself in a culture and environment - it's the ultimate way to really understand how a certain culture or people live. Take Richard Mosse's DRC Infra series. This borders on… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 6 : Research
GDE720 – Week 5 : Research
I'm excited for this week - we're looking at critical communication and how written communication is intertwined with design. Why so many Graphic designs are also writers. Take Adrian shaughnessy who left Intro Design Studio to begin writing and lecturing in design - It's really interesting to find out what makes an artist or graphic… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 5 : Research
