Perspectives – Week 2: Industry Today

Wow, what a week, migraines, a whole lot of research, and a lot to think about… RESEARCH & REFLECTION: HOW DID WE GET HERE?I spent ages looking at all the different resources for research this week. I ended up going off on tangents and looking in depth at designers who’s work I really enjoyed, or

Perspectives – Week 1: Workshop Challenge Part 2

WORKSHOP TASKI went to the Ideas Wall in a bit of a panic looking at everybody else’s designs to see if I’d gone in the right direction, whether I was doing the right thing. I realised pretty quickly that everybody’s design was very different and everyone was approaching it from a different standpoint. I realise

Perspectives – Week 1: Workshop Challenge Part 1

WORKSHOP CHALLENGE:WHO, WHAT, WHERE AND WHY?They seem like 4 easy questions… My first thought was to write down my thoughts on them (see earlier blog post). Then I started thinking about how to actually execute this… My initial ideas involved 4 different images, but with text on all of them, that in some way led

Perspectives – Week 1: Reflection on research

RESEARCH AND REFLECTIONI made so many notes on these resources, which then led me off on tangents – so I will try and make these coherent…! The first interview really made me think about what a graphic designer does. For a few years now I have becoming disillusioned, as many of my jobs required me

Perspectives – Week 1: Initial Thoughts

I thought the best way to approach this task would be to get down my initial thoughts and ideas on the 4 questions, in the hope I can then develop the ideas for the quadriptych. I seem to have a lot to say on all of these…! WHO AM I?Initially, my thoughts on this were