Gender and ecology notes

This week in Luisa’s lecture we explored the theme of gender within the context of ecology, and discussed various questions concerning gender and design. We were highly encouraged to share our ideas and views on gender, as well as answer questions that Luisa had put in place for us and take part in interesting tasks.…More

Layout in use further reading

A key function of layout is to let the elements perform the task they’ve been selected for. Images of drama and emotion but how they communicate with the recipient depends upon how they are presented. Scale Scale applies to the size of the images and text it defines the importance we attach to an image.…More

Elements on a page further reading

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine De Saint-Exupery Text and images make up the key components of a layout and they must be presented to the reader in a way is as to communicate effectively and efficiently. The intensity of…More

Graphic Design School: Theories of image and text further reading

As part of my design process module (and in fact all of my modules) we are highly encouraged to do further reading related to our tasks and projects, to help inspire and influence our working process. This week I decided to look at the importance of text and image and see how I could take…More

Anna Jones Greenpeace campaign brief notes

Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs sustainability. It needs kindness. It needs us. Founded in 1971, Greenpeace is a movement of people who are passionate about defending the natural world from destruction. Communication is everything in order to raise awareness and bring about change.…More

Paragraph images task

This blog post visualises the paragraph descriptions we generated in our second lesson of GDES4004. 1. ‘Covering the problem of nature vs culture’ 2. ‘Dominated by waste’ 3. ‘Illusion of dematerialisation’ 4. ‘Anthropocene’ 5. ‘From need to desire’ 6. ‘Planned obsolescence’More

Intro to ecology within graphic design notes

Today we looked at the theories and connections between nature, race, gender and class, this practice is also known as ecology. We theorised on the idea that you can’t have one without the other. Nature is very prevalent within race and class. Think about climate change, a lot of poorer countries are struggling due to…More

Uncreative writing

Throughout our GDES4006 module we will be exploring the affiliations between writing and type – between what words and text say and what they do – and how the context of language can be regarded as being subject to the same structural and compositional principles as any other medium that the designer may encounter. American…More

The Century of the Self part 1 summary

This week we were given the task of watching and summarising Adam Curtis’ documentary ‘The Century of the Self’ which focuses on and explains the theories and works of psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and his nephew Edward Bernays. It has a deep message on how Freudian theory influenced modern day society and how it still exists…More

Monoprinting workshop 1

This semester we have the opportunity to explore more print making with our print tech Caroline, to help with our upcoming project for our Tuesday module. The focus this time is around the technique of mono printing which we will use at a later date for our uncreative writing project. In the upcoming sessions we…More