I already knew I was going to love this week - data visualization is something I admire and love. Not only for it's place in our everyday lives but also I get a weird satisfaction from looking at fascinating data inforgraphics and learning something new. It's this idea that the complexity of our lives can… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 3 : Research
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GDE720 – Week 2 : Workshop Challenge
As can be seen by the previous blog post, before starting this week I wanted to fully understand the history of my village and be able to succintly create a list of words that I feel demonstrate the history and future progression of Osbaldwick. MedievalSustainableGreenWater / bridgesLess funding - faded paintwork / wooden signs The… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 2 : Workshop Challenge
GDE720 – Week 2 : Research
This week we're taking our research and recordings from the previous week to begin creating an illustrative typography for our local area taking into account history, social context and the future of the area. For me, I wanted to initially sit down and think about the "personality" of the village from the recordings I took… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 2 : Research
GDE720 – Week 1 : Workshop Challenge
Before starting on this challenge, I wanted to go over my closest City and look into the changes it's faced over time and how this has changed it's identity. Historical changes to this medieval city have vastly changed the roads, networks and population and I wanted to look into this a bit more. Looking at… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 1 : Workshop Challenge
GDE720 Week 1 : Research
History Revealed - Interpreting typographic vernacular. We're back to it and hitting the ground running with a (yay) research heavy week. This is my kind of project and I'm in my research heaven! This module is about reflecting on the history of our local environment and respecting and understanding this past when creating for the… Continue reading GDE720 Week 1 : Research
Week 12 – Workshop Challenge & Reflection
Outcome and Ambition – How successful was my project outcome? Did my final delivery successfully reach my target audience? What could I have done differently? What did I learn through this process? Following our research into project evaluations and analysing the success or failure of a project, I've written some initial questions for my presentation which… Continue reading Week 12 – Workshop Challenge & Reflection
Week 12 – Research
This week, the designers were talking about critical evaluation of projects and how we, as designers, can utilise our own evaluations and feedback from others to inform not only our future projects, but also our own design processes. How does project evaluation help you and your client / audience measure effectiveness of your final outcome?… Continue reading Week 12 – Research
Week 11 – Research
This week we're focussing on continuing our final outsome for the Industry Set brief, this time garnering feedback and thoughts from the targetted audience. It's been really interesting going back through all we've learnt from the interviews so far and how they plan for and utilise critical feedback to improve their projects. Torsten, as with… Continue reading Week 11 – Research
Week 11 – Workshop Challenge & Reflection
This week, I've been working on finalising my design and the subscription box in the first instance. This is a main factor of the product and needs to be right. I found in trying to do mock ups and renders of the box, it just didn't show it in the best light - so I… Continue reading Week 11 – Workshop Challenge & Reflection
Week 10 – Workshop Challenge & Reflection
This week, it's my aim to really spend time working on the app that is accompanying the subscription box. I've been looking into fonts for apps - I'd initially used Lobster and Krub fonts as these were well matched in terms of aesthetic. However, upon further research I realised that Lobster was perhaps to flamboyant… Continue reading Week 10 – Workshop Challenge & Reflection