This project includes developing skills of InDesign, image editing and selection
Keynote – easy way to make presentations and add in videos
Indesign – tool for bringing together content -Publication for print
Task: Experiment with these softwares. How and why to use them.
I watched this video entitled Figma UI Design Tutorial: Get Started in Just 24 Minutes! (2021)
AJ&Smart (2020) Figma UI Design Tutorial: Get Started in Just 24 Minutes! (2021). 8 Dec 2020. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTFaQWZBqQ8 (Accessed: 11/10/21).
bleed: the amount an image bleeds off the edge of the paper
Set up:
Essentials- typography
Tips:
Shift and command, keep in proportion
Eye drop- take a swatch of different type design
Text edit – make plain text (to remove colour and settings from text)
Link text columns: click red square (when there is overset text) and then put into into a different text column
In response to this workshop I created these 4 pages using a grid. I used place holder text and used different layouts to see the possibilities when making a document with InDesign.
What did you learn in year 1 that helps inform your practice?
In year 1 I was introduced to the design progress and got to know how I myself work at each stage. I learnt the importance of the beginning stages of a project as researching and experimenting can help shape a project. I also discovered my interest in moving type as my favourite project last year was making kinetic type in After Effects.
Peter talked about the importance of ‘progress not perfection’. This resonated with me so I decided to play around with typography, colour and shape to create this.
Questions:
What sort of designer do you aspire to be?
Where do you want to work?
Who do you want to collaborate with?
Malcolm Galdwell 10,000 hours
Can be completed with 20 hours a week over 10 years
MISTAKES
ARE
GOOD
Questions to ask myself:
What sort of designer do you aspire to be?
Where do you want to work?
Who do you want to collaborate with?
What am I doing here? (think about the year ahead)
Aspire to integrate what you do away from college into the work you are making at Chelsea.
Your work, interests and personal work can all be part of the same practice, your practice.
London is your resource
No matter what project you do, it’s important to find something you care about in it
The submitted outcomes should be representative of you,
your work and developing design practice.
Mirror – look at yourself, what you do and what you want to do?
What do you like? What are you (not) interested in?
What inspires you? What do you want to do?
Reflect on you
A manifesto for yourself – This is me
What are my ambitions for this year?
I want to spend more hours developing my practice and skills and to dedicate more of my time to surrounding myself with design. I agree with Malcolm Galdwell’s 10,000 hours and how it takes time, hard work and dedication to become an expert in a chosen field. I have chosen to study graphic design and therefore I would like to become an ‘expert’ and immerse myself in the space.
Achievement is talent plus preparation.
The New Yorker (2012) Complexity and the Ten-Thousand-Hour Rule. Available at: https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/complexity-and-the-ten-thousand-hour-rule(Accessed: 11/10/21).
Design is like a game of musical chairs.
Make your own chair.
Find your community.
Find your agency.
What does your colourful story look like?
What are your values?
How to serve using graphic design and also good communication.
Communication : enables us to develop relationships with others
Artists to look at:
Sue Webster (sculptures which make shadows of faces)
Tim Noble and Sue Webster. (1998) Dirty White Trash (With Gulls). Available at: https://www.artworksforchange.org/portfolio/tim-noble-and-sue-webster/ (Accessed: 13/10/21).
The National Wedding Show. (2021) The National Wedding Show [Poster]. Exhibited in London Underground, no date.
I was on the tube and noticed this advertisement for The National Wedding Show. Just as the tube doors closed I took this picture to remind myself of one thing not to do when making large scale posters (especially those intended to be read far away). The one problem I have with the poster is that the words ‘The’ and ‘Show’ are outlined as opposed to filled in which the words ‘National Wedding’ are. This use of typeface means that the reader who reads from far away can only make out half of the information.
I drew this commission (for me) after having practiced all week drawing portraits again. It took me a while to find the style I was going to use. I found that leaving more white space on the face meant that the faces looked more life-like as the features would then be filled in by the viewers as opposed to more trying to shade them in, getting the lighting wrong and looking the likeness.
On Saturday I went to the British Museum. It was the second time I have been. After going with my younger brothers visiting London and having a quick scan of everything and then leaving to do something more ‘interesting’, I wanted to go back and read the information more purposefully. I decided to go to the section dedicated to Ancient Mesopotamia from 1500 to 600 BC.
I was really interested in the writing on the tablets, which I saw in a display of the first library of the King Ashurbanipal. The language (The University of Cambridge, no date) has ‘come down to us in the “cuneiform” (i.e. wedge-shaped) script’ which was written onto predominantly clay tablets.
For me it reminded me that communication, in a written and picture form, has been an integral part of civilization and community in order to get across a message or information. This links to what I’m studying as it grants me a wider historical context of the ‘communication’ part of ‘graphic design communication’.
I also noticed that the murals designed to go on walls of palaces were designed to communicate a narrative to the audience, which is similar to some of the work I do.
