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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