I have found it quite hard to narrow my research areas down into 3 chosen areas, so thought that a quick brainstorm/list would be needed!!
HOBBY/INTEREST
- Interest: Signage - In the form of hand rendered/painted signs. For example:
Signage has always been an interest of mine, and I always really appreciate typography that has been rendered well. I love stopping and looking at signage that looks like it has history behind it, or was created hundreds of years ago.
- Hobby: Playing guitar - I'm in an acoustic contemporary band with a friend of mine. This is something that I really enjoy, and we've played at gigs and festivals over the past few years.
- Hobby: Photography - I used to want to pursue photography as a future career, but since discovering Graphic Design, I have always kept it close to my heart and something that I do whenever I have the spare time.
- Interest: Illustration/Type Design - Both areas are something that I really appreciate and love to look at. I could spend hours flipping through books filled with images of hand rendered type, or pretty illustrations.
- Interest: Festivals - Particularly the less mainstream and smaller festivals. There have been plenty of festivals in my local area, and it's interesting to see how they differ.
- Interest: Favourite Colour - I thought that it could be really interesting researching into a particular colour used in various forms of design. My favourite colour is very similar to Pantone 337 C, but any colour similar to this is just as nice.
Interest: Editorial Design - Fashion and editorial design has always been an interest of mine, and an area of design that I may like to pursue when I'm older.
INVENTION/DISCOVERY
- Editorial Design - After studying rules into grids and columns, I have found out a lot behind the way magazines and publications are designed. I have also discovered that Editorial Design is one of my strengths, and I can come up with publications after publications that look good.
- Martin Lewis Design - I have recently gained a contact into the design world. Martin Lewis is a designer in London in a small creative studio in Shoreditch, who I have been in regular contact with over the past year. I visited the studio in the summer and found out lots of little tricks of the trade whilst chatting to him in his studio. Although Martin's design style isn't similar to what I'm interested in, he is a really knowledgable designer and extremely useful to talk to.
PERSON/PLACE
- Place: Leeds - A brand new place to me. Having moved to a city (even if it's a small one) from a tiny little village in The Cotswolds, it has been a huge learning curve. I really enjoy living in Leeds, and love how I can escape back to the country whenever I wish. It's really nice to be able to experience the best of both worlds.
- Person: Jessica Hische - I really love the design style of Hische's work, and it relates to my keen interest in hand-rendered typography and signage.
- Person: David Smith - Smith is a traditional ornamental glass artist, and there are really interesting videos of how he creates his work on vice and youtube. This relates again to my interest in signage and traditional design methods.
FINAL CHOICES:
Hand-rendered signage and typography
Favourite Colour
Editorial Design
I need to know everything about my chosen subject:
- Facts
- History
- Why is it interesting?
- What other target audiences exist?
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The Brief
Good design begins with a good understanding of a subject. With that in mind, you will prepare a body of research over the summer that you will present to the class in a workshop at the start of the academic year. You will also need to show your research on your blog.
Initially, you will research into three things that interest you that are appropriate to graphic design – a hobby/interest, an invention/discovery and a person/place. You may choose to research into three ideas from one of these categories (for example, three hobbies), or you may choose to research into an idea from each category. This initial list of three will then focus your research down into one thing that really interests you, and that one thing will be what your presentation is about.
Whatever you choose to focus on, we want to know everything about it – facts, history, why you think your subject is interesting and what other target audiences exist for it. Make your presentation interesting visually; if it helps to bring in physical examples or items to help your presentation, please make sure you do so.
In addition to this presentation, you need to write a “To Do” list for the forthcoming year. What skills and processes do you want to try? What would you like to improve upon? What interests you as a graphic designer that you want to learn? This is an opportunity to take control of your future and put strategies in place that will help you to establish and achieve your goals – whatever they are.
Studio Deadline
Tuesday, 1st October 2013
Mandatory Deliverables
A 3-5 minute Powerpoint (or similar) presentation.
A “To Do” list of skills and processes you want to learn or improve upon in the coming year, posted to your blog.
Entries on a new summer research blog that document your research into your chosen subject matter over the summer break.
This blog should be named in the same way as your level 04 blog, but using the tag SB. So, for example, it would look like the following URL:
a-student1215-SB.blogspot.co.uk
Please label your blog as “Summer Brief”.
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